Bull at a glance

Bull, as Architect of an Open World™, is a pathfinder. With the convergence of IT, telecommunications and media, Bull – the only European-based company that masters all the key elements of the IT value chain – helps enterprises and public sector bodies to build, optimize, run and ensure return on investment in their business-critical Information Systems (IS), so they can operate in total security. Modernizing IS by applying open and secure solutions – that is our obsession. Architectures based on open technologies – that is where our know-how lies. It is our heritage, part of our culture.

A growing and profitable company

Revenue	€ 1,117m
Ebit	€ 25m
Net Equity	€ 77m
Net Cash	€ 193m
Employees	7,775

Architect of an Open World

New markets, new technologies, new regulatory constraints. The world is in constant upheaval. Meaning that IS have to adapt to fast changing conditions and be constantly re-adjusted to fit business strategies as they evolve.

AS ARCHITECT OF AN OPEN WORLD, Bull puts its skills and know-how at the service of its customers to help them develop and fine-tune their IS. Thanks to its versatile offering of open solutions and technologies, Bull helps them set up IS that slot smoothly into their business strategies, optimize costs and build trust.

FROM HARDWARE TO APPLICATIONS, Bull brings a unique vision to today’s markets – and unique skills:

• An in-depth knowledge of, and commitment to, open technologies based on standards, for full interoperability.
• Integrated expertise throughout the whole IT value chain to supply end-to-end robust solutions.
• Comprehensive skills in secure solutions that are tailored to business-critical computing.

A technology leader designing the future

Building open servers and secure storage solutions for new-generation data centers
Bull’s NovaScale® open and scalable server family is designed around standard components for data centers and high-performance computing (HPC). For example, Bull supplied the most prominent Research and Development centers across the world, with some of the world’s biggest supercomputers. Bull also offers its powerful Escala® range of AIX® servers, co-developed with IBM, which is particularly relevant for large IT infrastructure consolidation and virtualization projects.
Bull’s StoreWay™, a broad palette of end-to-end storage solutions, solves the exponential growth in data volumes. StoreWay encompasses consulting
services together with design and development of a customized storage solution using the latest technologies in partnership with industry leaders.

Developing middleware for applications and service-oriented architectures (SOA)
Bull is a leading supplier of open infrastructure solutions, while focusing on industry-specific applications (e-government, telco, postal automation). Bull is a founder of OW2, a leading consortium committed to open middleware and a key partner of JBoss/Red Hat in Europe. Bull is also one of the founding members, spanning Europe, Brazil and China, to launch QualiPSo, the first quality platform to foster the development and use of Open Source software.

Providing the security and Open World needs
As European leader in integrated IT security, Bull provides solutions ranging from identity and access management, encryption, e-signature, payment systems and encrypted mobile computing device to Web services security. With globull™, Bull has invented the world’s most secure mobile computing platform. A large number of European organizations with particularly demanding security requirements – government, manufacturing, finance, defense, healthcare – rely on Bull for their IT security solutions.
NovaForge™, Bull’s pioneering software development factory brings together the best resources in a shared, structured environment to optimize the development process and deliver projects on time, on budget, and on quality. With the best of these emerging practices built into NovaForge, Bull helps corporations enter the era of ‘Virtual Shore™’ and optimize the governance of their projects at a time when speed and flexibility are essential.
With the advent of Open Source software, open architectures and on-demand computing, IT is at a real crossroads. Thanks to its long tradition of research and development and its constant quest for innovation, Bull’s understanding of all these issues is ahead of the game. With its experience of major IT projects and technology partnerships, expertise in the latest software tools and strategic initiatives, Bull really is ‘Architect of an Open World’.

A solutions-oriented IT services provider consulting

With services ranging from IT architecture and system planning all the way through to project management, Bull helps organizations to design or re-engineer their information systems to support their business strategies.

Integration
These services can involve complete IS or specific applications such as HPC, BI, ERP, CRM or industry-specific applications. For example, 7 of the 10 new members of the European Union have entrusted Bull to modernize their Customs systems. With its software development factory NovaForge, and virtual shoring services, Bull helps its customers to accelerate the
development of their applications. We also enable them to “industrialize”
their information systems to ensure seamless availability and flexibility.

Operation and outsourcing
With its long-standing expertise in business-critical IT systems, Bull provides
HA999 support, operations and facilities management services round the clock, seven days a week enabling its customers to outsource all or part of their IS operations. That way, they can focus on their core business. Quite a number of organizations in sensitive areas such as government, healthcare, or telco operators, outsource their emergency centers or their entire IS to Bull and its Agarik subsidiary, expert in hosting critical Web infrastructures and networks.

A pool of unique skills for an Open World

Bull, the IT innovator, is:
European leader of enterprise systems and HPC solutions.
Its open and innovative technologies have been selected by major research centers and industries across the world.
Europe's leading integrator of Open Source software.
Bull is not only a major provider of consulting, integration and facilities management services, but also one of European leading providers of Open-Source-based integration services.
Europe's leading supplier of integrated security solutions.
Bull is the top European developer of identity and access management solutions. We also provide cutting-edge integration services for end-to-end security solutions.

Bull has built tight-knit partnerships with blue-chip companies such as IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP among many others, as well as with Open Source communities such as the Linux Foundation and OW2. Bull is also involved in European Union research programs such as ITEA. Thanks to this intense research effort and Bull’s dense network of partnerships worldwide, Bull customers benefit from state-of-the-art IT solutions with outstanding performance, robustness and flexibility.

A supplier of choice for demanding businesses

As an innovative supplier of comprehensive IT systems - the only one with roots in Europe - Bull is active in over 60 countries. A whole range of industry sectors benefit from its special strengths, tailored approach and solutions. They include:

• Public sector, to simplify citizen processes and stimulate territory development. Also Bull delivers specific solutions for Customs and Tax authorities to modernize declaration and collection systems and to Healthcare and Human services, to help individualize and optimize the service to beneficiaries.
• Telecommunications and media, to streamline roll-out of innovative services and ensure their continuity and robustness.
• Banking and Insurance, to improve customer loyalty and
  guarantee total security.
• Transport and Utilities, to align IS to new priorities due to
  deregulation.
• Manufacturing, to accelerate innovative and energy efficient
  products with HPC solutions, optimize the supply chain, reduce time and costs, particularly through the use of ERPs.
• Research to innovate faster with cost-effective open HPC solutions.
• Postal services, to automate mail processing and raise reliability.

Bull, Architect of an Open World, is committed to helping the most demanding of public and private organizations to grow in an open world with absolute confidence.