NetApp Awards 5-Year Contract from CGI

CGI, Inc. announced the award of a 5-year contract from NetApp, Inc. to deliver managed professional services leveraging data fabrics.

Data fabric architecture simplifies and integrates data management across cloud and on-premises to accelerate data-intensive digital initiatives and transformations.

Together, the two companies provide healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and government clients with access to specialized digital services and scalable end-to-end capabilities. CGI will provide these capabilities through a center of excellence specializing in NetApp services, utilizing a combination of local metro market expertise and its North American delivery centers.

“CGI’s scale, industry expertise and unmatched service delivery are attributes NetApp seeks from a partner at a time when our clients are accumulating an unprecedented amount of data,” said Sheila Rohra, NetApp SVP of WW services and support. “To successfully transform, our clients know that data must become the lifeblood of their organization, seamlessly flowing through it to enable new customer and citizen touchpoints through technology, create innovative business opportunities, and optimize operations.“

CGI’s 2019 Client Global Insights report that 81% of executives interviewed cite analytics as their most frequently planned innovation investment within the next three years. While the amount of transactional and contextual data an organization captures continues to grow exponentially, that data is still stored in too many disparate, incompatible and closed systems to allow for meaningful analysis.

“By integrating NetApp’s strategy for helping customers build their data fabrics with CGI’s end-to-end services, we’ll help organizations across industries drive their data-intensive digital initiatives,” said Dave Henderson, CGI president of US commercial and state government operations. “We are proud to work with NetApp at a time when many will be contemplating new business models and practices to enable new ways of interaction. CGI is ready with services and insights for responding to unprecedented challenges, rebounding effectively, and reinventing ways of working.“

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