Effective cloud solutions offer a wide range of benefits, including lower IT cost, increased flexibility and scalability, faster time-to-market, and greater resilience.

According to CGI Voice of Our Clients research, CXOs and their direct reports plan to increase cloud migration over the next two years. For these organizations, mitigating risk along the cloud journey requires a proper framework. For those who’ve already adopted cloud, CGI offers AI-powered accelerators to help them realize greater cost savings and faster time to market.

CGI’s Cloud Adoption Framework

Helping organizations at all stages of their cloud modernization journey

CGI’s Cloud Adoption Framework is cloud agnostic and supports all major cloud vendors. Since organizations are at varying stages of cloud maturity, our framework is not an “all-or-nothing” concept but a “pick-and-choose” model adapted to our client’s specific needs. It addresses organizational considerations, technology selection, and managing security, operations, and costs, guiding clients across three phases of the cloud transformation journey:

Plan the cloud journey, including strategic direction, governance, architecture, technology, security, risk documentation, and business case.

Key services
  • Adoption & strategy
  • Compliance
  • Platform, technology, architecture & security
  • Application portfolio assessment
  • Cloud center of excellence & governance

Transform portfolios to hybrid or multi-cloud environments by implementing infrastructure for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS, with agreed controls and culture change management.

Key services
  • Infrastructure
  • Migration
  • Cloud-native
  • Cloud security
  • DevOps & agile
  • Disaster recovery on cloud
  • Chaos engineering
  • VMWare migration

Manage the hybrid cloud environment to enable speed and agility for both infrastructure and applications adapted to client needs.

Key services
  • Managed services
  • Application managed services
  • Optimization & automation
  • Security operations
  • Cost management & FinOps

Accelerators for maturing your cloud environment

For more than two decades, CGI has delivered cloud solutions as part of our end-to-end offerings, applying lessons learned and continuously investing in technology and expertise. We draw upon proven use cases and pre-built solutions to help clients make best-return investments. This includes our own intelligent solutions and those from our third-party alliances, including:

  • CGI Portfolio Assessment Café - An AI-powered platform that accelerates cloud adoption using automation-driven insights. It leverages accelerators to streamline the development of a sound business case and roadmap for smarter IT modernization decisions.
  • CGI IntelliMigrate360 - A modern document migration platform to reduce delivery risk and rapidly realize business value.
  • CGI's Mainframe Modernization Framework - A holistic framework to guide decisions for successful mainframe migrations.
  • CGI SiteReliability360 - A hybrid IT management platform, deeply integrated with AI capabilities, that increases operational reliability, innovation, efficiency and agility, and optimizes costs.
  • CGI Cloud Transformation Factory - End-to-end cloud adoption, migration, modernization and transformation services to streamline and accelerate the cloud.

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  • Full-service cloud solution provider with proven experience migrating, managing and governing hybrid cloud services globally, we help you answer the what, why and how of cloud and hybrid IT.
  • Expertise to support any cloud requirement, whether assessing cloud implementation strategies commensurate with an organization’s risk posture, assisting in cloud adoption and “lift and shift” migrations, modernizing with cloud-native and DevSecOps methods, or ultimately managing and securing hybrid, multi-cloud environments.
  • Balanced approach to address clients’ obligations to protect critical personal or commercial data, protect privacy, comply with regulations and mitigate commercial risk.
  • Focus on helping organizations become adaptive, resilient and sustainable enterprises.
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