Aras®, the next leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) software, and CGI Business Consulting today announced
their partnership. The intent of the relationship is to deliver specialized
intellectual property (IP) and expert integration services with Aras for
global companies.

As part of the high-end business consulting activities in the Research
& Development (R&D) domain, CGI Business Consulting will now
include the Aras Innovator platform & suite in the business
transformation practices and methodologies.

With Aras Innovator, CGI Business Consulting plans to develop operational
frameworks and IP for system engineering, advanced manufacturing
engineering, and compliance processes including Advanced Product Quality
Planning (APQP), as well as, creating an ISO IDMP standards repository for
life science data used in submissions.

The flexibility of the modern Aras Innovator platform will be used for
rapid prototyping of processes to enable a “mock-up consulting” approach
for developing transformation recommendations during the very early stages
of a project.

About CGI

CGI Business Consulting is a trademark of CGI for high-end Business and IT
consulting. Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is the fifth largest
independent information technology and business process services firm in
the world. Approximately 68,000 professionals serve thousands of global
clients from offices and delivery centers across the Americas, Europe and
Asia Pacific, leveraging a comprehensive portfolio of services including
high-end business and IT consulting, systems integration, application
development and maintenance, infrastructure management as well as a wide
range of proprietary solutions. . Website: www.cgi.com

About Aras

We offer the best Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for global
businesses with complex products and processes. Resilient PLM platform
technology makes Aras more scalable, flexible and upgradable for the
world’s largest organizations, and a full set of applications provide
complete functionality for the business of engineering. Customers include
Airbus, GE, Hitachi, Honda, Kawasaki, Motorola and XEROX. Aras is privately
held with global headquarters in Andover, Mass. More at www.aras.com and Twitter @aras_plm