CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A, NYSE: GIB) is a Canadian multinational information technology (IT) consulting, systems integration, outsourcing and solutions company. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, CGI employs approximately 31,000 professionals in over 125 offices across 16 countries. As of September 2011, CGI had an annual revenue of CAD$ 4.3 billion with an order backlog of CAD$13.5 billion. CGI is part of the Forbes Global 2000, an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world.^[2]

CGI has a primary listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Name[link]

CGI stands for "Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique" in French, or "Information Systems and Management Consultants," in English. However, the official English meaning is "Consultants to Government and Industry."^[3]

History[link]

CGI was founded by Serge Godin in 1976 in Montreal, Canada. In 2004, CGI purchased the majority of American Management Systems (AMS), acquiring the commercial business and all government business not related to national defense. In May 2010, CGI announced the acquisition of Stanley, Inc., for an enterprise value of approximately $1.07 billion.^[4] In August 2010, CGI finalized the acquisition of Stanley.^[5]

CGI is one of four primary Recovery Audit Contractors, established by the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, responsible for auditing region B.^[6]

In May 2012 CGI agreed to acquire the United Kingdom-based computer services company Logica for £1.7 billion in cash.^[7][8]

Services[link]

CGI provides services including:

• Application Management;
• Business Process Services;
• Infrastructure Management;
• Systems integration and consulting; and
• Cloud computing.

Awards and recognition[link]

• CGI listed #14 within Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Tech Hot Growth Companies 2010"^[9]
• Contractor award winners announced – CGI Named 2010 Greater Washington U.S. Government Contractor of the Year^[10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• CGI Group

Look up group in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A group is a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Mathematics[link]

• Group (mathematics), a set together with a binary operation satisfying certain algebraic conditions
  • Group theory, the study of groups
  • Group action, a way of describing the symmetries of objects using groups
  • Group isomorphism, a one-to-one correspondence (function) between two groups which respects the given group operations
  • Group object, a kind of generalization of a group which is built on more complicated structures than sets

Science[link]

Chemistry

• Functional group, a functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule
• Group (periodic table), a column in the periodic table of chemical elements

Biology

• Cultivar group, a formal classification category in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP)
• Group selection, in evolutionary biology, the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow upon groups of organisms

Cosmology

• Galaxy groups and clusters, a small number of galaxies near each other
  • Local Group, the group containing the Milky Way Galaxy

Other

• Group delay and phase delay
• a set of lenses stacked together
• Group (stratigraphy), in geology, a lithostratigraphical unit; a group consists of formations, or rock strata.

Business[link]

• Business group, a legal entity comprising several companies

Sociology[link]

• Social groups, a description of various human groups
  • Peer group
  • Working group
  • Interest group
• Group action (sociology)
• Group affective tone
• Group aggression
• Group attribution error
• Group behaviour
• Group cohesiveness
• Group conflict
• Group development
• Group dynamics
• Group guilt
• Group narcissism
• Group polarization
• Group psychological abuse
• Group scapegoating
• Group-serving bias

Computing and the internet[link]

• Group (computing), a collection of users or other objects
  • Group identifier (Unix)
• Group editor, a program that allows many people to edit a shared document over a computer network
• Usenet newsgroup

Military[link]

• Army group
• Group (air force), an air force formation
• Group Captain

Other uses[link]

• Breed Groups (dog), the group or category to which breeds of dogs are assigned by kennel clubs
• Group (auto racing), a category of car allowed to compete in auto racing.
• Group insurance covering people with common characteristics
• A musical ensemble:
  • Boy band
  • Girl group
  • Groupies

See also[link]

• Grouping (disambiguation)
• The Group (disambiguation)
• Functional group (disambiguation)

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