| Pitney Bypasses It's Own Outsourcing ... |
Pitney Bowes, a company that is marketing its "Pitney Bowes Business Solutions" as this hot shot outsourcing company, had announced that its Office Systems division outsourced it's IT function NOT to PBMS but to CGI.
"ANDOVER, Mass., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ - Pitney Bowes Office Systems Inc. (PBOS), the fax and copier division of the leading mail and document
management firm, and CGI Group Inc. (CGI) (NYSE: GIB, TSE:GIB.A) signed today a five-year information technology outsourcing contract valued at close to US$25 million. CGI will provide IT infrastructure management and support to PBOS employees in some 150 locations across the United States.
As part of the agreement, the enterprise servers and infrastructure will be hosted and managed out of CGI's Canadian-based data centers and will be ready for operation in December 2001."
