59 Facts About CGI Inc

CGI Inc, known as CGI Global Inc is a Canadian multinational information technology consulting and systems integration company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

CGI Inc went public in 1986 with a primary listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

CGI Inc has customers in a wide array of industries and markets, with many in financial services.

CGI Inc secured a number of government contracts, and the UK Ministry of Defence brought in CGI around 1980 to act as a systems integrator, among other roles.

CGI Inc went public with an initial public offering to fund the acquisitions, and by the late 1980s CGI Inc was expanding further, acquiring several business processes services companies and expanding beyond Canada.

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In 1995 CGI Inc entered into a commercial alliance with the large telecommunications company Bell Canada, with Bell Canada purchasing CGI Inc shares then valued at $18.

In 1998 CGI Inc acquired the Canadian company Bell Sygma, a Bell Canada subsidiary, which almost doubled CGI Inc's size.

CGI Inc acquired the company IMRGlobal in 2001 for $438 million, which added "global delivery options" for CGI Inc.

In May 2004, CGI Inc purchased the majority of American Management Systems for $858 million, acquiring the commercial divisions and all government business not related to national defense.

That same year, CGI became one of four primary Recovery Audit Contractors in the US, with responsibilities to audit region B At the end of 2007, CGI had a backlog worth $12.

Several years earlier, CGI had been legally unable to acquire AMS's defense division because of a lack of U S Department of Defense-required infrastructure.

In September 2012, CGI Inc Federal won a $143 million contract to provide operational support for the Army's training elements, the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, and the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command.

In doing so, CGI Inc Federal became the tenth company in the United States to receive the Level 5 rating for CMMI Development.

At this point CGI Inc was working on a number of successful health-related projects, largely in North America.

The work that CGI Inc did would later be declared obsolete, and it was overtaken by more recent technology developed by other contractors.

In 2013, CGI Inc won a significant contract to provide cloud computing services to the UK government, and that April, CGI Inc began working with CIFAS on a modernized platform to visualize and analyse data from the National Fraud Database.

In 2011 CGI Inc Federal was one of several dozen contractors selected by the United States Department of Health and Human Services to establish a new federal health insurance marketplace.

CGI Inc continued to work with state governments, for example signing a $399 million contract to work on the California Enterprise Data to Revenue Project for the California Franchise Tax Board.

CGI Inc had created the Constellation Control Facility that control's the Galileo Commercial Service's 30 satellites, and software for the first satellite in the world with e-sail .

In November 2014, CGI Inc was awarded a $2 billion IT contract extension from BCE, which is the parent company of Bell Canada, to continue operating Bell's IT network.

November 2014, CGI Inc Federal was recognized by the Coalition for Government Procurement for its veteran hiring program.

In March 2015 CGI Inc was awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide support for the MOD's Fire Control Battlefield Information System Application and the Fire Control Application systems.

Less than a week later, CGI won a contract with the U S Navy to work on their NAVSUP Business Systems Center.

In May 2016, CGI Inc signed an agreement with Sears Canada for a 10-year modernization.

About a week later, CGI Inc launched an initiative with the Canadian Securities Administration to help with IT modernization.

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CGI Inc aided in the implementation of a California Franchise Tax Board IT modernization project that has generated $2.

In September 2016, CGI Inc was selected by 139 of Maine's State agencies to strengthen cloud security and workflow with a $39 million contract.

About a week after this news, CGI Inc was selected by Solvay to modernize its IT applications and to support operations.

In November 2016, CGI Inc acquired Collaborative Consulting, agreed to work with GAO Financial Management, and signed a 10-year contract with Yellow Pages.

In January 2017, CGI Inc was selected by a UK Environment Agency to develop a cloud-based flood forecasting platform and selected by Veteran Affairs Community Care to work on a care recovery audit.

Additionally, in 2017, CGI acquired Greenwood Village-based IT firm, ECS Team, along with CTS Inc, a large technology company based in Birmingham.

CGI Inc secured a contract with the National Police of the Netherlands in March 2017 to create a digital platform for community policing.

In May 2017, CGI Inc secured a $43 million contract from the city of Los Angeles and a multi-state cooperative contract to offer an enterprise resource planning SaaS platform.

The next month, CGI Inc secured a $68 million contract from the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

In October 2017, CGI was awarded another contract with the U S Army for $37.

In February 2018, CGI Inc renewed and expanded its IT outsourcing contract with Bombardier Aerospace, and extended its contract with Airbus Group to support its global HR system.

Mid-2018, CGI Inc was selected by Fingrid Data Hub to develop and run core DataHub for electricity information exchange and was awarded a $530M DHS CDM contract to support the cyber security of federal agencies.

In November 2018, CGI Inc partnered with the Swedish Migration Agency to improve its immigration services.

In May 2018, CGI Inc signed two strategic application management contracts with SNCF.

In February 2019, CGI Inc entered into an agreement with YIT, a Finnish construction company.

In late 2019, The Wall Street Journal indicated CGI Inc was part of the Chinese APT10 group's Operation Cloud Hopper hack, which exposed companies' data from 2013 to 2017.

CGI Inc originally stood for "Conseillers en gestion et informatique".

CGI Inc has an international client base, with large institutional clients in a wide array of industries and markets.

In 2018, CGI Inc Federal opened an Innovation Center in Arlington, Virginia, to provide a dedicated collaboration space for agency and CGI Inc experts to jointly explore the potential of new technologies.

Originally CGI Inc focused its products and services on IT consulting, and the company later branched into outsourcing, software development, and systems integration, among other industries.

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In relation to business process services, CGI Inc offers customer service and billing, payment services, enterprise services, collections, engineering and logistics, document and data services, and a BPS service launch.

CGI Inc develops products and services for markets such as telecommunications, health, manufacturing, oil and gas, posts and logistics, retail and consumer services, transportation, and utilities.

CGI Inc has received the Defense Information Systems Agency's cloud security accreditation.

DECC selected CGI Inc to work on the DCC User Gateway, which is a network for businesses and utilities to access a central network on smart meters.

CGI Inc has long been involved in the asset management market, developing a number of related software projects such as the PragmaCAD.

CGI Inc began working with CIFAS in April 2013 on a modernized version of the fraud detection CaseLink platform, which was released in September 2014 in the UK.

CGI Inc worked with the Commonwealth of Virginia to develop eVA, which is Virginia's electronic purchasing software.

In March 2015, CGI Inc won a contract with the North Wales Police for close to $27.

CGI Inc is one of 34 members of MOBiNET, a European consortium that aims to introduce mobile transport services across Europe.

CGI Inc branched into the electric car market early in the industry's growth cycle, and by 2010 CGI Inc's Charge-Point Interactive Management System was in use by car companies such as Foundation ElaadNL, which was using the open communication protocol to deploy electric car charging stations throughout the Netherlands.

In July 2014, CGI Inc began working with Volvo to provide "authentication certificate services" for each new Volvo car.

In July 2014, CGI Inc's Space, Defence and National Security division in the UK was awarded a contract by the European Commission Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry to build the "core infrastructure" for the first demonstrator of the Galileo Commercial Service, which is a new service to be created as part of the European Global Navigation Satellite System .

CGI Inc Federal is ranked 26th on the 2018 Washington Technology Top 100, and 72nd on the 2019 Bloomberg Government 200 .

CGI Inc was a finalist for the 2018 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards, Contractor of the Year, and a 2017 ACT-IACT Igniting Innovation Award.