WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — (Marketwired) — 07/25/13 — Jahia, , today announced that The International Summit of Cooperatives, hosted by Desjardins Group, the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, has chosen Jahia xCM (content management solution) and Jahia Wise (social & collaborative document sharing) to power the full online presence of the 2014 Event which will take place from October 6th to 9th in Quebec City, Canada.
The International Summit of Cooperatives has also chosen (TSX: GIB.A)(NYSE: GIB), a leading provider of information technology and business process services, to lead the project and implement the Jahia solution.
About the Summit
The Summit is the biennial meeting place for leaders from the cooperative and mutualist worlds who want to discuss their concerns about the current and future challenges they all share. More information: .
The Summit group needed to find a solution, based in the following criteria:
“What is really unique with Jahia is that not only its platform is incredibly easy to use, deploy and integrate with, but it is also robust, innovative and yet affordable,” said Stephane Bertrand, Executive Director for the Summit.
Other key elements in the decision included the ability to quickly deploy sites and create powerful Web applications with no need to code, as well as to personalize the user experience, including for mobile devices.
“We are glad to work very closely with our Gold partner CGI on this exciting new project. We are both committed to provide a next generation solution for the extranet, the web site and mobile application of the 2014 International Summit of Cooperatives,” said Emmanuel Garcin, Jahia-s Vice President and General Manager Americas.
The prior International Summit of Cooperatives, held in 2012, gathered 2,800 attendees and 156 speakers from 91 countries, and the site captured about 100,000 unique visitors.
About the host
The Group Desjardins is the largest cooperative financial group in Canada
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is the fifth largest independent information technology and business process services firm in the world. Approximately 69,000 professionals serve thousands of global clients from offices and delivery centers across the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific, leveraging a comprehensive portfolio of services including high-end business and IT consulting, systems integration, application development and maintenance, infrastructure management as well as a wide range of proprietary solutions. With annualized revenue in excess of C$10 billion and an order backlog exceeding C$18 billion, CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Website: .
About Jahia
Jahia-s next-generation, open source CMS stems from a widely acknowledged vision of enterprise application convergence where web, document, social, collaborative and portal content are unified. Structured around Jahia Extended Content Management (xCM), Jahia Wise, the Jahia Studio IDE and based on a powerful Content platform, Jahia brings a unique modularity to the Java development arena. With its hundreds of available JahiApps and modules, the Jahia software is the tool of choice for building business driven user experiences for innovative web and mobile applications at a fraction of the cost of competing solutions. Founded in 2002 in Switzerland, Jahia has its North American headquarters in Washington DC, and offices in Canada and throughout Europe. Jahia counts hundreds of global brands and governmental organizations among its loyal customers, in more than 20 countries across the globe. For more information, please visit .
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