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MONTRÉAL, July 24,
2023 /CNW/ - CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) today
announced the planned investment of $1
billion over the next three years to support the continued
expansion of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) services and
solutions in partnership with clients seeking to responsibly move
from experimentation to implementation while accelerating
time-to-value from new AI technologies.
"Over the last two decades, CGI has delivered intelligent
automation and AI technologies as part of our services and
solutions, notably in our IP where we can test and train new models
with speed and security—and then apply the learnings across our
end-to-end offerings portfolio," said George D. Schindler, President and CEO. "Today,
our consultants can draw upon proven AI use cases and pre-built,
industry-focused solutions powered by trusted domain data sets to
help clients navigate the hype and make the best-return
investments."
"As the next generation of AI evolves and client demand rises,
we are committed to expanding our talent base and capabilities in
line with our Build and Buy profitable growth strategy. We believe
that we are at the beginning of a new wave of innovation and that
the business value of AI will be achieved through the combination
of human expertise and ethical use of technology," added
Schindler.
CGI's investment plans will include expansion of the company's
AI-related consulting services, responsible and ethical-use
delivery platforms and accelerators, intellectual property
AI-enablement, global employee hiring and training, and operational
excellence efficiencies.
CGI's "Responsible Use of AI" methodology and consulting
framework addresses a wide range of potential risks and
opportunities, supporting CGI's business and strategic IT
consultants as they partner with clients to design and build a
solid foundation for the deployment of AI within their enterprises.
The framework complements CGI's AI Design Sprint Workshops which
were recently cited as a key strength by clients who participated
in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence
Services 2023 Vendor Assessment*: "According to customers,
CGI's strengths are the company's ability to conduct workshops that
improve their awareness of AI and its value for their business;
apply functional- or industry-specific methodologies and assets to
solve their issues; create quality, trusted data sets and
pipelines for AI model training; and provide knowledge transfer and
training to internal IT and development teams."
The company also is accelerating its investments in CGI PulseAI,
a hyper-automation, conversational AI, and decision engine platform
that enables clients to drive growth and efficiency by unlocking
the value of enterprise data and business processes. The
platform—already in use within CGI's own operations—is a
proprietary platform built to integrate seamlessly with any
third-party partner tooling. Importantly, PulseAI already includes
over 35 AI models that are pre-trained to deliver results with an
over 90% accuracy rate.
"Our industry-focused IP solutions are an ideal vehicle to
deploy advanced AI capabilities with industry use cases to provide
immediate benefits to our clients. We have already embedded
PulseAI's decision engine, machine learning, natural language
processing, and other intelligent automation capabilities within
many of our global products. We are now accelerating integration
across our entire IP portfolio," said Dave
Henderson, President, Global Intelligent Solutions and
Innovation.
"With the ability to now harness the power of generative AI
within the PulseAI platform, we see great opportunities to support
early adoption in commercial industries where we already have
large enterprise clients who are live in production using PulseAI
as the human-assisted intelligence engine within CGI's Credit
Studio and OpenGrid IP," noted Henderson. "Part of our
future roadmap includes plans to enable clients to build new models
on PulseAI using their own data. As we expand this platform and
develop new solutions, our priority remains on enabling data
quality and responsible use of intelligent automation
technologies."
As part of its investment to drive the global vision and
strategy for AI, as well as other emerging technologies, CGI has
expanded the scope of the global business and solutions group under
Henderson to focus on global intelligent solutions and innovation
which will accelerate the delivery of the company's AI-powered
platforms and technologies.
Read more about CGI's AI offerings on cgi.com,
including how CGI is working with clients to help detect and
prevent water pollution, predict cracks in steel manufacturing,
review CT scans to detect brain hemorrhages, use Earth observation
data to prevent ship-whale collisions, and improve city services
and operational efficiency.
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and
business consulting services firms in the world. With 91,000
consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an
end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and
business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business
process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works
with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a
global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform
their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2022
reported revenue is $12.87 billion
and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE
(GIB).
*IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Services
2023 Vendor Assessment, (Doc# US49647023), May 2023
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