CGI and Avison Young expand their strategic partnership with continued reciprocal services
CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced that global commercial real estate advisor Avison Young has selected CGI to deliver AI-powered managed services to strengthen the firm’s digital foundation and accelerate its evolution as a digitally enabled real estate services leader and support the modernization of its digital platforms. The engagement builds on an expanded strategic partnership between the two organizations.
CGI will help strengthen operational performance and provide greater insight and scalability across Avison Young’s digital environment. As part of the expanded partnership, Avison Young will continue enhancing global service delivery, providing integrated real estate advisory and workplace services aligned with CGI’s operational and workplace needs, driving efficiency and elevating the partner experience through its expertise and intelligence platform.
“As organizations navigate rapid change in both digital platforms and workplace models, AI-enabled managed services are becoming essential to driving resilience and performance,” said Michael Godin, President, CGI Canada. “Through this engagement, CGI is helping Avison Young enhance its digital foundation with secure, scalable capabilities that deliver operational insight, adaptability, and long-term business value.”
The engagement reflects a shared focus on practical, outcome-driven technology offerings. By combining CGI’s global managed services expertise with advanced AI capabilities, Avison Young is enhancing the reliability, scalability and intelligence of its digital environment, enabling teams to operate more efficiently and respond more effectively to evolving client and market demands.
“Our selection of CGI builds on a strong existing relationship and supports the next phase of our digital transformation,” said Martin Jepil, Chief Information Officer, Avison Young. “CGI’s experience in delivering AI-enabled managed services helps us strengthen our technology foundation while continuing to innovate how we deliver real estate and workplace solutions to our clients. We also could not be more thrilled to support CGI in furthering its workplace strategy.”
This expanded partnership builds on an established working relationship and formalizes the delivery of services by both organizations, enabling Avison Young to deliver more consistent, secure, and digitally enabled services to its clients, while supporting CGI’s workplace strategy and operational needs.
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2025 reported revenue is CA$15.91 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
About Avison Young
Avison Young creates real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people. As a private company, our clients collaborate with an empowered partner who is invested in their success. Our integrated talent realizes the full potential of real estate by using global intelligence platforms that provide clients with insights and advantage. Together, we can create healthy, productive workplaces for employees, cities that are centers for prosperity for their citizens, and built spaces and places that create a net benefit to the economy, the environment and the community.
Avison Young is a 2025 winner of the Canada’s Best Managed Companies Platinum Club designation, having retained its Best Managed designation for 14 consecutive years.
Source: CGI Inc.
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