CGI

CGI is a Canadian IT and consulting company, the kind of firm businesses use for systems integration, managed services, application work, and outsourcing. By our assessment, its real strength is the plain-vanilla corporate work that keeps a lot of organisations running: maintenance, integration, and long-term service contracts rather than flashy one-off products. The downside is that this field is crowded and often looks similar from the outside, so CGI rarely feels exciting unless you care about the plumbing of large companies. In practice it is a back-office name, not a consumer brand, and that is exactly how it behaves. The Astrina catalogue records Canada for it.