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Technology viewpoints
CGI's Technology Viewpoints look at the latest trends in the ever-evolving technology industry. Developed around key themes, each viewpoint ponders the effects that technology innovation has on business. They are intended to open a discussion or spark a debate. We welcome you to send your thoughts on how these technology issues apply to your organization—and your questions on what should be done to prepare. Contact us.
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| Unified Communications: The power to transform |
Unified Communications (UC) offers the ability to significantly improve how individuals, groups and organizations interact and collaborate. This paper discusses UC’s adoption and benefits and offers advice on how to build an effective UC roadmap. | White paper (pdf) |
| Seven steps to improved business intelligence through data discovery | This paper discusses how two large enterprises optimized their BI performance through data discovery and outlines seven steps for effectively pursuing and implementing a data discovery approach to BI. | White paper (pdf) |
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Addressing the challenges of cloud order orchestration and provisioning |
Cloud provisioning is an often overlooked challenge. This paper provides advice on how to automate highly complex tasks, as well as provide up and down provisioning. | White paper (pdf) |
| Virtual Desktop infrastructure: Essential steps to a long-term ROI |
By offering anytime, anywhere access to end-user workspaces, VDI promises to significantly boost business agility, security and compliance while reducing end-user computing costs. This paper discusses issues around the successful adoption of VDI and generating a long-term ROI, and how CGI works with organizations to ensure both. |
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Open source 2.0 for content management systems: Embracing open source technologies to increase savings and achieve other advantages | This paper explores the rise in open source content management systems, along with the main arguments for and against their adoption. It also summarizes how one financial institution—Scotiabank—has benefited from its transition to an open source CMS. | White paper (pdf) |
| Composite applications: Where have all the mashups gone? | This paper discusses the three pillars of a successful composite application platform: solid IT governance, service-enabled enterprise, and productive mashup development platform. | White Paper (pdf) |
Application Portfolio Rationalization | This viewpoint takes a look at application portfolio rationalization (APR), discussing how APR is both an immediate and long-term strategy for reducing costs and maintaining profitability. | White Paper (pdf) |
Decreasing Energy Consumption through Energy Management | This viewpoint takes a look at the topic of energy management, discussing the social and economic drivers behind energy data management solutions to reduce costs and respond to environmental operating best practices. | White Paper (pdf) |
Effective Use of Identity in Today's Networked World | This paper looks at the evolution of identity and its role in business today, and discusses the changing definitions and uses of identity and solutions that serve as catalysts for strategic growth | White Paper (pdf) |
Perspectives for Evolving and Adapting Enterprises | An examination of the emerging technologies and practices that will allow organizations to be more responsive to customer needs. | White Paper (pdf) |
CGI's collaborative technologies | CGI's perspective of what Web 2.0 is and the benefits it brings to organizations-both inside and outside of the enterprise. | |
Helping organizations achieve the promises of Web 2.0 | CGI's perspective of what Web 2.0 is and the benefits it brings to organizations-both inside and outside of the enterprise. | White Paper (pdf) |
IT Governance | CGI's approach and experience in using governance to drive business value within managed services engagements | White Paper (pdf) |
Open source software: How to successfully integrate it into your infrastructure. | Adoption is widespread but many organizations struggle with how to increase the benefits and mitigate the risks. Learn how open tools can deliver on their promises. | White Paper (pdf) |
Service oriented architecture: How SOA is evolving and what organizations can do to prepare | Discusses planning SOA strategies and implementations within a governance framework and provides advice on how organizations should guide the adoption of SOA. |
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Informal learning: How Internet technology enables organizations to enhance collaboration and performance |
Discusses CGI's experience
and provides tips on the technologies that are available to help organizations
improve collaboration and, more importantly, the tangible business benefits
that this collaboration brings. |
White Paper (pdf) |
