CGI Secures IT Partnership Agreement With Countrywide

CGI Group Inc.

has entered into a seven year IT partnership agreement with Countrywide, the UK's largest property services group. Over the next seven years, CGI will provide IT services to Countrywide's 10,000 employees across the UK and deliver a series of major transformational improvements to upgrade and improve Countrywide's technology and telephony platforms to ensure it leads the way in providing high quality service to its clients. The strategic partnership agreement will see CGI consolidating and upgrading Countrywide's existing IT systems to improve technology service delivery. The transformed IT services will support Countrywide's client-focussed business strategy and ensure that it is able to increase its rate of innovation and rapidly develop and roll-out world class IT solutions. Over the next two years end users' personal productivity tools will be transformed; desktops will be virtualised and voice over IP (VoIP) will be delivered to all 1,300 offices and 10,000 employees across the UK.