CGI Group, Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a global leader in information technology and business process services, today announced outstanding Ratabase<SUP>®</SUP> Implementation achievement awards at its 15th Annual Alliance Ratabase Technology Forum & Educational Conference, held in Tucson, AZ. The Excellence in Ratabase Awards Program recognizes the superior efforts of clients that have demonstrated excellence in their commitment to Ratabase and its deployment within their organizations and solutions. CGI Group, Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a global leader in information technology and business process services, today announced outstanding Ratabase® Implementation achievement awards at its 15th Annual Alliance Ratabase Technology Forum & Educational Conference, held in Tucson, AZ. The Excellence in Ratabase Awards Program recognizes the superior efforts of clients that have demonstrated excellence in their commitment to Ratabase and its deployment within their organizations and solutions.
The following carriers and individuals were recognized as the 2008 leaders in excellence:
Business Impact:
Harford Mutual Insurance Company
Process Improvement:
aigdirect.com
Travelers
Technical Deployment:
Erie Insurance Group
Business Automation:
USAA
Ratabase Advocate:
Patrick Steuber, Shelter Insurance
Brenda Dorogi, Farmers Insurance Group
Robert Lewandowski, Liberty Mutual Agency Markets
David Squibb, Vice President CGI Ratabase Practice, addressed the conference audience with highlights of each achievement in five different categories and emphasized the strategic benefits that the Ratabase solution has delivered to the winning organizations. "The Ratabase Excellence Awards are a fantastic example of how carriers are sharing their success using Ratabase, while being recognized within the industry for outstanding achievement and innovation" said David Squibb.
"Each year we see more award submissions offering exciting and creative implementations of the Ratabase product suite. It is thrilling to see how leading carriers leverage CGI's expert rating solution beyond straight rate management. Sharing successes spurs great discussion among our user community and increases collaboration within the carrier community. We congratulate all the 2008 Excellence Award recipients for the great efforts and thank them for making Ratabase the #1 implemented rating solution in the industry," added Squibb.
About Ratabase
CGI's Ratabase is a comprehensive set of tools that empowers business professionals to build, design, and deploy insurance products in the fastest possible time and manner. Ratabase is successfully implemented in over 100 insurance organizations worldwide to allow them to create different and unique product plans. Since business users maintain the business logic, the dependency on IT resources is eliminated thus increasing the speed with which organizations can respond to market needs. Because it is not line of business specific, Ratabase is successfully implemented by many insurance organizations to create different and unique product plans. It can be deployed on a variety of platforms, facilitating integration into virtually any systems with broad processing requirements and distributed architectures, while ensuring consistent results across platforms.
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world. CGI and its affiliated companies employ approximately 27,000 professionals. CGI provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide from offices in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific as well as from centers of excellence in North America, Europe and India. CGI's annual revenue run rate stands at $3.8 billion and at March 31st, 2008, CGI's order backlog was $12.04 billion. CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB) and are included in the S&P/TSX Composite Index as well as the S&P/TSX Capped Information Technology and MidCap Indices. Website: www.cgi.com.
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For more information:
Business Development
David Squibb
Vice-President
978-946-3343
david.squibb@cgi.com
Media
Linda Odorisio
Vice-President, US Communications
703-227-6161
linda.odorisio@cgi.com
