BCE Teleglobe signs seven-year IS/IT outsourcing agreement with CGI
📅 - BCE Teleglobe, a global communications and Internet services provider, and CGI Group Inc., an information technology services firm, today announced the signing of an agreement for the management and operation of BCE Teleglobe's (bceteleglobe.com) processing infrastructure including IT voice legacy systems, desktop, e-mail, and administrative server solutions as well as back office software support. Under the seven-year IS/IT outsourcing agreement, CGI (cgi.ca) will develop and maintain the applications.
CGI will become BCE Teleglobe's IS/IT delivery manager and designated systems integrator via a dedicated team of client care, network, server and application development specialists. Valued at between CDN$125-150 million, the contract will affect over 100 employees, who will be transferred to CGI by the summer of 2002 when the terms and conditions of the agreement are finalized. "In keeping with our business goals, BCE Teleglobe will outsource to Bell the overall IT development and partner with CGI for IT functions and legacy application support. This will ultimately result in enabling us to intensely focus on the sales and marketing of our services," said Charles Childers, president of BCE Teleglobe.
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