CGI Group Inc. (NYSE: GIB; TSE: GIB.A) (CGI) today announced that it was recently presented with two prestigious awards from industry partner Hummingbird at the Hummingbird Summit 2002 conference in Florida. To recognize CGI’s extensive work in document management solutions, Hummingbird honoured CGI with its top recognition, the Worldwide Partner of the Year Award, as well as the Most Productive Partner for the Enterprise Portal Solutions Award for North America.
“This is a great accomplishment, not only for the Ottawa office,” says Gord Briscoe, Vice-President, Consulting Services at CGI’s Ottawa office, “but also for CGI as a global IT services company. We are very proud to have been recognized by our partners as a worldwide leader in the industry.” The awards establish CGI as a leader in the implementation document management solutions and an expert in custom solutions for clients around the world. The decision was based on CGI’s ability to strive for customer value and satisfaction, to successfully manage multiple document management engagements that have a broad scope and high complexity, and to make business development and branding investments that grow the market
According to Elias Diamantopoulos, Vice President & General Manager Asian-Pacific, Canadian, Latin American Operations, the criteria for the award is based on a “win-win-win” philosophy. “All three stakeholders – the customer, CGI and Hummingbird gain value through the partnership,” he said. In this case, CGI demonstrated a willingness and ability to execute a driving value for all three stakeholders through the Records, Document, Information Management System (RDIMS), a Government of Canada shared-system initiative.
What is RDIMS?
RDIMS provides the functionality to capture, manage, store, preserve, protect and retrieve document-based information. Among many benefits, RDIMS is considered a key part of the infrastructure necessary for the Canadian government to go on-line, allowing departments to move towards an electronic-based document management system. RDIMS also shortens the government’s business cycle dramatically and enables departments to meet information-related obligations in a more efficient manner, dramatically saving time and resources searching for relevant material. Since CGI won the contract to implement RDIMS in 1998, over 35,000 seats have been implemented in 33 Canadian government departments.
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is the fourth largest independent information technology services firm in North America, based on its headcount of more than 13,000 professionals. CGI’s annualized revenue run-rate totals CDN$2.1 billion (US$1.3 billion). CGI’s order backlog currently totals CDN$9.2 billion (US$5.75 billion). CGI provides end-to-end IT services and business solutions to more than 3,000 clients worldwide from more than 60 offices. CGI supports clients in a number of specialized sectors through a strong regional presence. The firm has more than 800 employees in Ottawa and over 9,000 employees across Canada. Website: www.cgi.ca.
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