CGI Wins a Three-Year Contract With Telekomunikacja Polska Group
By Cgi Group Inc., PRNEMonday, April 5, 2010
WARSAW, Poland, April 6, 2010 -
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CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE:GIB), one of the major providers of
information technology and business process services, today announced a
3-year agreement with Telekomunikacja Polska Group (TP Group), Poland's
leading telecommunications provider, for application support and services.
CGI frameworks will be deployed to help TP Group consolidate its current
multi application, multi vendor environment to improve overall time to market
and total cost of ownership.
TP Group is the leading telecom provider in Poland for fixed line and
mobile, and is partly owned by the France Telecom group.
CGI will provide application maintenance and development, on a number of
technology platforms. Services will be delivered via CGI's Warsaw Development
Center with additional support teams located at TP Group sites throughout
Poland.
"At CGI, we know the telecom business. TP Group was looking for deep
subject matter expertise in telecom and CGI's solutions and service
capabilities were a good fit," said Michael E. Roach, President and CEO of
CGI. "This partnership with one of the leading IT users in Poland will expand
our local and European presence in application outsourcing services and our
global telecom practice."
"TP Group is going through a major re-engineering of its IT services and
is looking to the strategic CGI partnership for the leadership, skills,
resources, experience as well as the delivery framework to improve
productivity and quality in our products and services in the Polish market,"
said Piotr Muszynski, COO of TP Group.
CGI provides the full-service capabilities and focused expertise required
to design, implement and operate highly effective environments for
communications service providers. With 30+ years of extensive telecom
experience, CGI has supported the transformation of 7 of the 10 largest
global telecom service providers.
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 26,000 professionals. CGI
provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide
from offices in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific as well
as from centers of excellence in North America, Europe and India. As at
December 31, 2009, CGI's order backlog was CDN $11.4 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.
For further information: Lorne Gorber, Vice-President, Global
Communications and Investor Relations, +1-(514)-841-3355,
lorne.gorber@cgi.com
For further information: Lorne Gorber, Vice-President, Global Communications and Investor Relations, +1-(514)-841-3355, lorne.gorber at cgi.com
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