Letter from Pat Colacicco,
Vice President, AMS Advantage Program

It is the New Year, and it is time to reflect on the past year and celebrate our accomplishments. In 2008, we were proud to welcome three new clients to the AMS Advantage community: the City of Cleveland, Ohio, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), the largest Department of Transportation in the U.S., and the California Department of Social Services Division of In-Home Services. We are excited to add them to our list of new clients and look forward to a long partnership with each of them.

In addition, this year Wake County, NC and the Center for Digital Government honored us with a Best Fit Integrator Award. We are thrilled to have received this client-nominated award for the second year in a row!

Of course, the New Year is also the time we look forward to new beginnings and the changes we resolve to for the coming year. Here is a short list of resolutions for 2009 that I would like to share with you.

1. Share more. We are devoting more space in Insights for sharing your stories with the client community, for example, this month you can learn how the Commonwealth of Kentucky has streamlined their recruiting process and how Cobb County, GA improved performance with Release 3.7
2. Promote networking. The Discussion Gateway is your online community, where you and your peers gather to share information and solve problems. We encourage you to get online and then share your experiences with us.
3. Learn something new. Please join me in welcoming Lori McClannahan from the State of Iowa as your Steering Committee Chairman. This month Lori outlines her goals for the coming year.
4. Connect with potential clients. New clients strengthen the community and help enhance AMS Advantage. We are on the road again this year connecting with potential clients, sharing the capabilities and benefits of our built-for-government products and services at many of the top national and local tradeshows.
5. Get organized. It is not too early to start planning for CGI Forum 2009 in San Antonio, TX, in fact, planning kicked-off in January with the winter Steering Committee Meeting.
6. Build the program. Just as new clients expand the community, new experts bring fresh perspectives and direction to the Program. Please join me in welcoming Scott Dulman, Senior Director of Product Management to the team.
7. Expand our service to you. In these trying economic times, we continue to look for ways to work with our clients to help them find economies in their business. One such opportunity exists with our Spend Management Solution (SMS). Find out how AMS Advantage Financial and SMS can help your organization save money on purchases by exploring the SMS Newsletter.

Thank you for your business in 2008. It has been a pleasure helping you reach your goals. We are grateful for good clients like you, who make our work satisfying and enjoyable. We look forward to working with you in 2009 and contributing to your success. We wish you a happy and health New Year!

Have a question? Contact Pat today at Patrick.Colaccico@cgi.com.