Joint go-to-market strategies to deliver solutions for cybersecurity, fraud prevention and citizen services

CGI, one of the world’s largest independent technology and professional services firms, announced a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate trusted artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, advance secure cloud adoption and streamline digital transformation across the U.S. public sector.

Through this multi-year agreement, CGI will deliver scalable, mission-critical solutions that address the most complex challenges facing the public sector.

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AWS and CGI each bring expertise, experience, innovation and a deep understanding of their customers’ missions and operating environments to help U.S. public sector organizations:

• Accelerate trusted AI adoption across public sector missions, including analytics, fraud prevention and operational decision support;
• Strengthen Zero Trust cybersecurity architectures to improve protection of sensitive government systems and data against evolving threats;
• Unlock value from government data by improving interoperability, accessibility and advanced analytics across agencies;
• Improve citizen-focused digital services through innovative solutions that increase access, responsiveness and service delivery and
• Continue to modernize legacy government systems and data environments through secure, cloud-based platforms.

“This agreement enhances our proven ability to better serve government, education, nonprofit and healthcare organizations in the U.S.,” said Tim Hurlebaus, President and Chief Operating Officer, CGI. “As a Premier Tier Services AWS partner, this new agreement complements CGI’s deep understanding of public sector missions and enables us to co-deliver innovative and transformative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our clients.”

The collaboration focuses on deploying advanced cloud-based solutions that leverage AI and other emerging technologies. It also includes dedicated investments in cloud and AI training and certification programs to deepen the expertise of CGI professionals who are driving public sector outcomes.

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“Government agencies need AI that works at mission speed,” said David Levy, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, AWS. “This collaboration puts advanced cloud and AI capabilities directly into the hands of agencies tackling their toughest challenges, from stopping fraud to securing critical systems to delivering better citizen services.”

“The new collaboration between CGI and AWS represents a further advancement,” said Massimiliano Claps, Research Director at IDC, a global technology market intelligence firm. “By uniting CGI’s mission-focused expertise with AWS, IDC expects that the collaboration will accelerate the delivery of secure, scalable solutions to help public sector organizations drive innovation, improve operational agility and address their mission challenges.”

CGI’s collaboration with more than 150 technology firms through its Global Alliances network further strengthens its cloud, data and AI capabilities to help clients modernize operations. CGI’s Premier Tier Services status with thousands of AWS-accredited professionals worldwide combines CGI’s local expertise with global delivery to provide innovative, industry-leading AI-integrated cloud services that drive client success. CGI is well positioned to support clients throughout their AI journey, guiding strategy development, prioritizing business use cases, building machine-learning models and mobilizing a roadmap to maximize AI investments, including services such as its “12 Weeks to AI” program.