Bull is a $1.6 billion worldwide IT group with a 60-year history of technological innovation. Bull has 8,000 employees, a presence in more than 100 countries, and major R&D centers in the United States and Europe.
Bull designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrates the most advanced technologies and provides a wide range of services, including systems integration, consulting, and outsourcing.
Worldwide, Bull provides solutions and services to key vertical markets that include the public sector, finance, manufacturing, and telecommunications. Bull has partnerships with some of the world's leading IT companies, ensuring that the company has access to best-of-breed technologies to help develop customized solutions. Some of Bull's key partners include Teradata a division of NCR, NEC, EMC, Business Objects, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, SAP, SAS, and STK.
Bull consists of two major businesses, Bull Services and Bull Products & Systems. These operations serve the IT needs of a broad range of customers in both the private and public sectors, from Fortune 1000 companies to many large state governments and leading educational institutions.
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Bull's Major Directions
Bull Services U.S.
Bull Services is a leading end-to-end business intelligence solutions company, with a presence in 29 states and 150 agencies. Bull is an IT services provider, offering a full range of services and solutions to the public sector and commercial accounts, including consulting, project management, systems integration, Web-enabled technologies, outsourcing, security, networking, and disaster recovery.
In the United States, Bull Services has expertise and years of experience providing systems integration and decision-support solutions to the Public Sector, focusing on state and local government agencies. The company delivers its solutions through an open, fast, flexible, and complete information management infrastructure, the Bull Services Knowledge Framework.
Bull Services has more than three decades of Public Sector experience in states and large counties across the country, with strong subject matter expertise in critical areas such as Health and Human Services/Medicaid, Tax & Treasury, Justice & Public Safety.
Top state officials, the National Governors Association, the National Association of State CIOs, and national Public Sector publications have all recognized Bull Services' solutions for providing agencies with the ability to rapidly access and analyze information to make better decisions and control costs.
Bull Services customers view the company as a trusted and strategic partner that can help them manage their mission-critical IT systems that help run their businesses and serve their customers. Bull Services brings world-class project management and methodology, total dedication, stability and reliability that customers need in a managed services/outsourcing partner.
Bull Services customers include:
State of Michigan
State of Illinois
State of New York
State of Utah
State of Minnesota
State of Iowa
State of New Jersey
Honeywell
First National Bank of Marin County
Delco Remy International
Savings Bank Life Insurance (SBLI)
Cincinnati Public Schools
Las Vegas Metro Police Department
Kansas City Police
Genesee County (Michigan)
Clark County (Nevada)
Fulton County (Georgia)
Arizona Registrar of Contractors
Bull Products & Systems North America
Bull Technologies helps its customers in the transformation of their infrastructures to net infrastructures. Bull designs and supplies infrastructures solutions, including a wide range of servers, most notably for e-business, data warehousing, networked storage, and security. The company provides a comprehensive range of specialized infrastructure services to enhance performance, flexibility and availability.
Bull's leading position as a worldwide net infrastructure supplier is built on:
Strong relationships with leading suppliers of technology and solutions: Intel and ST Microelectronics for processors; NEC for Intel systems; EMC Corp. and STK for storage; SAP, and BEA.
A strong technological foundation with 1,000 engineers in R&D, based in Europe and in Phoenix, Arizona, who design and develop mainframes and the next generation of large open systems, and produce state-of-the-art software.
Bull has adopted a long-term industrial strategy to make technological innovation available to its customers. R&D developments are focused on four areas:
Large enterprise servers using open standard technologies (Escala platforms)
Proprietary (GCOS) mainframe evolution
AIX operating systems for high-end platforms
Internet security
To provide the best level of support to its customers, Bull has developed the "We-Commit" pledge, that ensures implementations of effective infrastructures, tailored for customer needs. With We-Commit, Bull is committed to deliver to customers the infrastructure (including the most innovative and effective servers and storage units) that performs up to their expectations - in terms of performance, systems availability, scalability, and cost.
Teradata Partnership
In the large system world, Bull and Teradata a division of NCR have been partners since the mid 1980s. Bull has been selling Teradata Decision Support Systems for 6 generations of Teradata systems. Bull has developed its own host client software to support Teradata data warehouse loading and inquiry from its GCOS mainframe platform. Bull addresses the solution market together with selected ISVs, integrators and consulting companies.
A Bull competence center for the Teradata offering has been based in Phoenix Arizona for many years to support U.S. activity. Bull also has a software engineering department to test and validate host client software as well as supporting prospects' pilot and demonstrations on its internal systems. Bull is supplying a complete solution to its customers. To do so, Bull trains its support personnel to become as self-sufficient in the field as any NCR field support organization, to promote and sell Teradata.
In the United States, Bull has implemented Teradata data warehouses to provide decision support for large Medicaid programs in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Utah.
Outside of the U.S., leading users of decision-support systems include the French Army, BNP Paribas Bank, La Poste France and the Italian State Police.
