Apr. 28, 2011 (Canada NewsWire Group) --
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MONTREAL, April 28 /CNW Telbec/ - CGI Group, Inc. (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB) a leading provider of information technology and business process services and TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced their intent to increase collaboration — supporting the transformation of Fortune 2000 companies.
Current market research shows a mounting need to provide fast, secure, reliable access to the right information and at the right time to improve decision-making.
As such, TIBCO and CGI aim to expand their successful customer ecosystems in North America and Europe, and to help improve the reliability and quality of connecting, automating, optimizing and scaling processes, applications and data in real-time. Clients will enjoy increased flexibility on how they deploy TIBCO software when leveraging CGI's various managed service offerings.
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"For over 35 years, CGI has operated upon the principles of sharing in
clients' challenges and delivering high quality services supported by
the best technology," commented Michael E. Roach, President and Chief
Executive Officer, CGI. "In working with a leader like TIBCO, we are
deepening our commitment to putting clients and their results first by
enhancing the tools and services they need to achieve superior
performance and gain a competitive advantage. We look forward to
winning and growing together."
"We are in an excellent position to benefit from three key trends in enterprise IT this year: mobility, cloud computing and real-time information," said Vivek Ranadivé, Chairman and CEO, TIBCO Software Inc. "By partnering with an industry leader such as CGI, we can broaden our business model and help customers globally leverage our event-driven solutions to transform their enterprise and build 21st century applications."
About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) is a provider of infrastructure
software for companies to use on-premise or as part of cloud computing
environments. Whether it's efficient claims or trade processing,
cross-selling products based on real-time customer behavior, or
averting a crisis before it happens, TIBCO provides companies the
two-second advantage™ - the ability to capture the right information,
at the right time, and act on it preemptively for a competitive
advantage. More than 4,000 customers worldwide rely on TIBCO to manage
information, decisions, processes, and applications in real time. Learn
more at www.tibco.com.
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 31,000
professionals. CGI provides end-to-end IT and business process services
to clients worldwide from offices and centres of excellence in the
United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. As at March
31, CGI's annualized revenue was approximately C$4.5 billion and its
order backlog was approximately C$12.6 billion. CGI shares are listed
on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB) and are included in both the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Website: www.cgi.com.
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CGI
Lorne Gorber
Senior Vice-President, Global Communications and Investor Relations
lorne.gorber@cgi.com
514 841-3355
TIBCO
Tiffany Anderson
Senior PR Manager
tanderso@tibco.com
650 846-1000
