19 Facts About Logica

Logica plc was a multinational IT and management consultancy company headquartered in London and later Reading, United Kingdom.

Logica was acquired by Canada-based CGI Group in 2012 and the Logica brand name ceased being used in 2013.

Logica was started as a systems integration business in 1969.

Logica was premised on the idea that there was tremendous promise in communications technology and that an international approach was warranted.

Logica produced a whole new production, transmission and management system for the BBC in the late 1970s.

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Logica left Logica in 1977 and ended up in a successful career as a novelist and a writer for BBC dramas.

Logica set up operating subsidiaries in the Sweden and the United States in 1977.

In 1975, Logica developed the first electronic typing pool – Unicom – for Unilever.

In connection with office automation, Logica VTS engaged in product work related to local area networking, putting out a product called Polynet in 1981 which was based upon the Cambridge Ring idea rather than Ethernet.

However, Logica staged a foray into the wider software products world in the early-mid 1980s, creating the Software Products Group.

Logica Rapport was an early relational database management system that was developed internally in 1977 and began selling as a general product in 1979, with another release in 1980.

Logica stated that it had over 300 clients for its Xenix product, including other computer manufacturers such as Acorn Computers, Plessey Microsystems, SAGEM, Regnecentralen, and Triumph Adler, indirect sales through resellers, and direct sales to end customers such as Chemical Bank, West Midlands County Council, and Natural Environment Research Council.

Logica's positioning of Xenix included features making it easier to use.

However, during 1986, Logica decided to, as it said in its annual review, "withdraw from Xenix operations".

Logica pioneered the automated ticketing system for London Underground in 1987 and a new version of the system which randomly generates Premium Bond numbers in 1988.

Logica set up joint ventures in Hong Kong with Jardine Matheson to undertake the real time trading system for the new integrated Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1984, in Italy with Finsiel in 1993, and in the UK with British Airways in 1990 to undertake the development of computer systems for the airline and then sell them to other airlines.

Logica gained a reputation for emphasizing the creation of technically difficult, bespoke solutions, but ones that did not always maximise customer or shareholder value.

Logica was a pioneer in the development of Text messageing systems for Mobiles making their first sale to Vodafone.

Logica was a management consultancy, outsourcing and IT services and solutions company.