2000 millennium problem: investment opportunities

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2000 millennium problem: investment opportunities

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The "millennium" bug is here (some systems have started failing already) and even the Canadian government must now take immediate action as evidenced by the latest report of the Auditor-General.

oag-bvg.gc.ca

Here are some of the companies who whose expertise, products and services will be key in helping Canadian organizations become ready for Year2000.

CGI Group (GIB.A - Montreal)
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This is a long-established consulting company which has more recently moved into providing outsourcing services as well as concentrating its efforts in the financial services area.

This company offers a variety of services re Y2K including consulting, conversion, outsourcing, testing plus any combinations of these. For instance, an organization may want CGI to handle their conversion, and then simply have CGI manage their entire IT shop from then on. Alternatively, many companies with insufficient computing capacity to run the multiple operating environments required for testing Y2000 remediation may call upon CGI to provide this excess capacity (CGI can also call upon its strategic partnerships with Comdisco and Sungard in this area).

CGI has offices across Canada and will now be moving into the American market via its recently acquired Teleglobe Insurance Systems group.

Home page: cgi.ca

LGS Group (LGS.A - Montreal)
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This too is a long-established consulting company, and like CGI, has enjoyed an important partnership with federal and provincial governments, crown corporations and industry over the past few decades.

LGS is using the Peritus tool in its Y2K practise and also has offices in France, which may give it a lead in the Euro conversion business.

Home page: lgs.ca

Agiss (AGCR - OTC BB)
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This a new company with an important automated conversion tool partner in ConSyGen of Phoenix, AZ. A joint Agiss-ConSyGen Y2K conversion centre has been established in Ottawa to provide conversion and testing services.

home page: agiss.com

Cognicase (COG - Toronto, COGIF - OTC BB)
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A very timely October IPO for this Montreal-based company which provides an automated conversion tool (COGNI-2000) being used currently by some 70 customers. It also provides a variety of migration tools from mainframe to UNIX, client-server, AS/400 etc.

home page: cognicase.ca

Group West Systems (GPW - Vancouver)
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Another long-established company but which which went public only in July 1997. Group West has a strategic partnership with INTO 2000, a company with a conversion tool which specializes in the AS/400 platform. In addition to using the tool in its own practise, GPW may sub-license the product to others across Canada and in the north-central and western US.

They are also in the process of establishing a conversion centre in Vancouver where clients will be able to test their remediated code before putting it back into production.

GPW has offices are in the western provinces and some US states; partnerships are also being established with other companies in central Canada.

Home page: groupwest.ca

Transformation Processing Inc (TPII - OTC BB)
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Located In Mississauga, TPI is primarily an automated migration company but which is now marketing IBS' Y2000 tool and methodologies. They also hope to pick up some sub-contracting Y2000 work through primary contractors such as LGS, CGI and SHL.

home page: tpii.com

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All of these companies have discussion threads on SI.

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222	WOW triple swans! HIYA GUYS!	scouser	-	1/2/2000
221	Informission contract with Convertix Corp. OCTOBER 7, 1998 Informission Group	BM	-	10/7/1998
220	CGI Group To List On New York Stock Exchange October 1, 1998 MONTREAL, Q	BM	-	10/5/1998
219	Informission Q3 Results - 178 % Increase In Earnings September 28, 1998 MON	BM	-	10/4/1998
218	Thanks B.M. I have seen a reference that the Republicans may try to make Y2K	Tom McIlwain	-	9/24/1998
217	>> Any ideas on who the mystery company is Hi Tom, Informission's cl	BM	-	9/24/1998
216	Informission - license agreement with leading U.S. Managed Care Company SEPT	BM	-	9/22/1998
215	Hi Tom, my guess is that the mystery multi-billion company ("The world lea	BM	-	9/15/1998
214	"with one of the world's largest systems integrators (multi-billion d	Tom McIlwain	-	9/15/1998
213	Informission Group Signs Worldwide License Agreement With The World Leader In T	BM	-	9/15/1998
212	Informission Signs Major Software Distribution Agreement for Latin America Au	BM	-	8/19/1998
211	CGI chosen to implement gov't-wide PC Docs solution NEWS RELEASE TRANSMITT	BM	-	8/19/1998
210	SAP and CGI Group sign strategic partnership SAP CANADA TEAMS WITH CGI TO EXTE	BM	-	8/13/1998
209	CGI Group acquiring Technologie Desjardins Laurentienne (TDL). Confederation d	BM	-	8/12/1998
208	Murray, I still believe that Y2K is a real and expensive problem to fix. I rema	BM	-	8/12/1998
207	BM Some very committed investors out there have nearly given up hope of Y2K bu	AuldDruid	-	8/9/1998
206	CGI Group Q3 - Rev +123%, earnings +218%, cash flow +156% AUGUST 5, 1998 C	BM	-	8/5/1998
205	Re LGS volatility, perhaps market perception that recent good news has been too	BM	-	8/3/1998
204	BM, LGS has been very volatile, do you have an explanation? Thanks	Fouad Nahas	-	8/3/1998
203	Some think that the Y2K panic is over and Y2K is no big deal while others are c	BM	-	7/31/1998
202	CGI Signs Full Outsourcing Contract With U.S.-Based Insurance Company	BM	-	7/31/1998
201	BM, do you know of any reason for the recent weakness in some of the Y2K stocks	thesheik	-	7/31/1998
200	CGI Group and Laurentian Bank Sign E-com and EFT Services Agreement JU	BM	-	7/30/1998
199	CGI Signs Two Contracts with Loto-Quebec Worth $6.6 Million July 29,1998	BM	-	7/29/1998
198	NRC and CGI Group Sign Contract Worth More Than $20 Million JULY 28, 1998	BM	-	7/28/1998

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