CGI announced the City of Los Angeles' successful upgrade of CGI Advantage, a cloud-based solution that integrates and streamlines the management of financial, procurement, and reporting operations in a modern, unified platform. CGI Advantage is a built-for-government solution backed by years of industry expertise and supplemented by value-added business process services that specifically address the needs of public sector organizations. Building on a decades-long collaboration with the U.S.'

second-largest city, CGI delivered on time and on budget, its most advanced version of CGI Advantage which features a streamlined and intuitive user interface that increases processing speed and ensures a smooth and efficient workflow while maintaining policy compliance. With the extensibility and configuration capabilities, CGI Advantage met all of the city's requirements out of the box, eliminating 130 customizations. The city also leverages CGI Advantage's integration platform - reducing reliance on manual processing and allows for real-time integration with AWS and Salesforce technologies used by the city.

CGI's modernization of Los Angeles' enterprise resource planning (ERP) system also focused on change management, delivery excellence, and the journey of the individual user. This includes those served by the online vendor self-service platform, where the city's 7,300 vendors can update account information, view contract and payment status, submit and track invoices and respond to bidding opportunities. Additionally, the eProcurement systemdigitizes purchasing across contracts, inventory, and catalogs - creating an online experience similar to consumer shopping sites.

The migration of the city's data storage was also part of the modernization, allowing the decommissioning of an expensive and aging content management solution. To support the city user's personal journey of change to the new platform, CGI and the city collaborated to develop a comprehensive suite of eLearning videos, delivered in-person training, and executed sustained communication and outreach activities.