Solutions for tough economic times

A suite of proven offerings that quickly reduce costs and create operational efficiencies

The world's economy faces one of its most difficult periods in close to a century. As a result, business and IT leaders are taking an even sharper focus on how to tighten spending and improve productivity. To help our government and commercial clients, CGI's Solutions for Tough Economic Times produce the quick ROI clients need to deal immediately and directly with budget reductions or deficits, increased expenses and workforce reductions.

The solutions are based on CGI's end-to-end service offering and quality standards. In tougher times, growth in outsourcing will increase, and clients are increasingly turning to CGI's outsourcing model, which is based upon a certified quality system that provides for consistency of service delivery at the best value. CGI also offers global delivery options and flexible contractual arrangements to adapt to and support each client's needs and business objectives.

The initial set of CGI's solutions for tough economic times all represent proven services from CGI, which focus on:

  • Application hosting – provides for predictable costs and performance, allowing clients to defer needed capital to value-added initiatives and to achieve better business outcomes
  • Application portfolio rationalization – through a six-week assessment clients receive a personalized roadmap to free up maintenance dollars to support strategic development needs
  • Claims auditing and fraud detection services – for commercial and government healthcare organizations, CGI audits, identifies and implements programs that detect fraudulent claims and improve recoveries
  • Debt collections management – an assessment of the entire collections environment, from core business processes to treatment strategies to technology platforms, provides for new bottom-line savings and revenues in as little as 3-5 months
  • Energy management – through an eight-week savings assessment, CGI provides recommendations for how to reduce energy consumption costs and waste
  • Enterprise content management (ECM) – helps clients decrease the costs of labor, storage space and paper handling, and provides for information efficiency gains
  • IT governance – offers an individualized roadmap to cost reductions, user satisfaction improvements, improved decision-making and standardized processes to ensure IT serves as a business enabler
  • Spend management solutions: private sector and public sector  – CGI's proprietary RAPID study helps clients identify and address areas of improvement throughout the procurement lifecycle
  • Unified communications – with typical savings of 15-20%, CGI's UC offering helps clients achieve significant savings on their communications expenses

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