Allianz Insurance UK, Aviva UK General Insurance and Harford Mutual Insurance Companies Honored at New York City Summit

MONTREAL, Canada, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- CGI Group, Inc. (TSX: GIB.A; NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of
information technology and business process services, announced that its
clients Allianz Insurance UK, Aviva UK General Insurance and Harford Mutual
Insurance Companies have been included in the Celent Model Carrier 2009
Report spotlighting implementation of CGI solutions. This marks the third
year that CGI clients have received this honor.

Celent, a research and consulting firm focused on the application of
information technology in the global financial services industry, publishes
the Celent Model Carrier Report to illustrate case studies of key best
practices in the use of technology in IT infrastructure and management that a
"model carrier" would use.

Harford Mutual was recognized as a Model Carrier: P/C (Property and
Casualty) in the rating category for their implementation of Ratabase(R); a
solution that allowed them increased speed to market and the successful
accomplishment of their SOA technology objectives. With Ratabase, Harford
Mutual was able to convert all internal rating systems to one common rating
engine and offer online access to their agents.

Steve Fabian, Assistant Vice President IT, Harford Mutual explained,
"Working with CGI to implement Ratabase allowed us to achieve the best
possible results within our aggressive timeframes to incorporate rating in
our agency portal. Our agents are extremely satisfied with the system we
implemented and have increased the new business being sent to Harford
Mutual." Allianz Insurance UK and Aviva UK General Insurance teamed with CGI
to develop the Account Reconciliation Centre (ARC), an electronic collections
tool that streamlines the account reconciliation process eliminating the
previous paper-based system. Both insurers, who have been live on the system
for over a year, cite significant savings such as a 25% reduction in
outstanding queries, a 7-day reduction in debtor days and a 35% reduction in
bad debt.

Chris Hanks, General Manager Commercial Division, Allianz commented, "ARC
has the potential to become an industry wide solution for handling and
reconciling broker accounts, making the process far simpler and significantly
less labor-intensive for all parties."

"Celent is pleased to recognize Allianz Insurance UK, Aviva UK General
Insurance and Harford Mutual Insurance Company as Model Carriers," said Craig
Weber, Senior Vice President of Celent's insurance practice. "Among many
excellent nominations this year, Allianz Insurance UK, AVIVA and Harford
Mutual were all selected for demonstrating improvements in their business
through use of IT best practices."

Gordon Gaar, Vice-President, Global Marketing, Insurance Sector, CGI
said, "CGI congratulates Allianz Insurance UK, Aviva and Harford Mutual and
takes pride in partnering with clients to transform their business to achieve
measurable results. These initiatives are especially important during these
difficult economic times in order to ensure the greatest value to their
stakeholders."

About Ratabase(R)

CGI's Ratabase is a comprehensive set of tools that empowers your
business professionals to build, design, and publish insurance products in
the fastest possible time and manner. Since business users maintain the
business logic, the dependency on IT resources is minimized thus increasing
the speed with which organizations can respond to market needs. Because it is
not line of business specific, Ratabase is successfully implemented by many
insurance organizations to create different and unique product plans.

About Account Reconciliation Centre (ARC)

The Account Reconciliation Centre (ARC) is a web based reconciliation
solution that eradicates the current manual and paper insurer / broker
statement process. ARC provides an online view of statements enabling
electronic reconciliation between brokers and insurers. It incorporates
online query management making the process faster and simpler. Use of ARC has
been proven to dramatically improve the efficiency of the reconciliation
process.

About CGI

Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest independent
information technology and business process services firms in the world. CGI
and its affiliated companies employ approximately 25,000 professionals. CGI
provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide
from offices in Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific as well as
from centers of excellence in North America, Europe and India. CGI's annual
revenue run rate stands at CND$4.0 billion and at December 31, 2008, CGI's
order backlog was CND$11.4 billion. CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A)
and the NYSE (GIB) and are included in the S&P/TSX Composite Index as well as
the S&P/TSX Capped Information Technology and MidCap Indices. Website:
http://www.cgi.com.

For further information:

Business Development:
Gordon Gaar
Vice-President
Global Marketing
+1-803-216-2400
gordon.gaar@cgi.com

Media:
Linda Odorisio
Vice-President
US Communications
+1-703-267-8118
linda.odorisio@cgi.com

CGI Group, Inc.