CGI Receives U.S. Patent for its End-to-End Trade & Supply Chain Solution CGI Trade360

CGI Group Inc.

today announced it was issued a patent in the United States for CGI Trade360. This is the second patent CGI has obtained for its trade services technology. The first patent was granted in 2004 for Object Tradeline, now part of CGI Trade360. The patent protects CGI's exclusive rights to the object-oriented trade finance system designed to support clients with global, large-scale transactional workflow. "CGI has proved itself to be ahead of the curve in trade finance, delivering Trade360 as a Software as a Service in a highly-secure, community cloud for over 10 years," said Steven Starace, Vice-President, CGI. "This patent underscores our commitment to driving innovation in the trade services market and delivering solutions that meet our clients' evolving business needs, so they can stay up-to-date with technological and functional advances at significantly reduced total cost of ownership."