California Employment Development Department (EDD)

Challenge and Response: Understanding and incorporating legal requirements into a contract can be complex, and keeping up with changes in laws and regulations is daunting.

Strategic Innovations: EDD’s goals are tremendous and essential. Dubbed EDD Next, the effort replaces legacy systems – some nearly 20 years old – with a modern, cloud-based, serviceoriented architecture. 

• Leveraging Authorium technology:- The 12 identified projects resulted in 15 individual procurements, which were created and tracked using Authorium’s platform for Document Process Automation™(DPA) in record time, by finding the data hidden in documents and making it available everywhere EDD needs it. 
• Building RFIs in record-time:- Authorium consultants helped develop the necessary template to meet their specific business logic and workflow.
• Creating a business-friendly environment for potential vendors:- The approach prioritizes solutions over a laundry list of requirements, and enables vendors to begin developing knowledge of EDD’s needs, constraints and processes immediately, which pays off in efficient development down the road.

Impact and Advancements: Authorium is continuing to provide training and hands-on guidance to EDD’s hardworking team as they move forward on this mammoth undertaking. As EDD Next progresses, the department will be able to leverage Authorium’s technology, including an updated Evaluation Builder module – which runs as part of its advanced platform for Document Process Automation – to compare and evaluate vendor submissions strategically and efficiently, far surpassing the status quo of a procurement specialist comparing Excel spreadsheets.

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