Consulting

	In an open, rapidly-evolving world, organizations need to constantly adapt their information systems to the changes around them. Through a good understanding of the strategic challenges faced by the business, Bull’s consultants help private and public sector organizations formulate and specify the architectures, applications and business processes they need to put in place. From defining specifications to change management, Bull supports the program managers at every stage in their transformation projects.

In particular, consultants from Bull Services and Solutions provide specialist consulting services aimed at:

• Key business function, capitalizing on their in-depth understanding of customers different business disciplines.
• Infrastructures and applications, capitalizing on very extensive technical expertise.
   

They take a structured approach, which involves:

• Preparing for the launch of new projects (feasibility study, statement of requirements, project follow-up…)
• Helping to align information systems with organizational strategy (defining and modifying systems compared to business processes)
• Modifying the system architecture to meet new functional requirements (‘urbanization’ of applications, functional architecture)
• Assistance with solution selection (preparation of functional specifications, package selection)
• Project management support
  

In particular, Bull has specific expertise in the following areas:

STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT

As catalysts for change, information systems play an increasingly strategic role in the modernization of public and private sector organizations. As a result, IS departments have to support this process of transformation by constantly ensuring that information systems are in good shape to meet the strategic challenges of the appropriate business sector. That means continually realigning systems with the organization’s strategic goals. Bull can support you in this process, helping to align your business processes with the new direction in your sector, managing the evolution of your information systems more effectively, analyzing costs to improve ROI (return on investment), enhancing system supervision and encouraging everyone involved to communicate more effectively with each other. Using a proven approach and our extensive expertise, we can help to identify how your systems will be affected by your organizational strategy and target your investment in technology accordingly.

INFORMATION SYSTEMS ‘URBANIZATION’

When it comes to corporate strategy and business needs, the principle of information systems ‘urbanization’ enables you to define a new way of organizing your IS to improve your business process performance across the board, and ensure more effective integration and managed evolution. Whether the aim is better management of IT infrastructure or improved strategic alignment, almost all organizations want to continually update their information systems. This evolution needs to take two key issues into account: optimizing existing systems and implementing new applications. ‘Urbanization’ techniques respond to this twin challenge.

CONSOLIDATION

Faced with the need to rationalize and reduce costs, IS departments are constantly looking to improve the efficiency of their information systems. Consolidating a disparate, heterogeneous IT infrastructure is often a good way to simplify and improve the performance of information systems, while achieving rapid and significant cost savings. Bull offers a proven end-to-end methodology to support IS departments throughout their consolidation projects – from initial qualification to implementation – taking into account all the key cost, technical and organizational considerations.
 

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Effective realization of corporate strategy depends on making the right choices about which performance measures to track, and how you track them. This in turn depends on having the most effective information system to measure and monitor those performance indicators. Bull can help you to introduce new analytical models – from helping you to define your performance indicators right through to the implementation of an information system to support your chosen performance management tools.

THIRD-PARTY APPLICATION ACCEPTANCE

Based on its broad experience as a manufacturer, developer and integrator, Bull can support organizations in the final, all-important stage of any IT project before go-live: application acceptance. Bull provides totally independent assistance, to ensure that your chosen application meets all your requirements in terms of conformity and user expectations: so you can ‘press the button’ to start live operation with total confidence.
 

eBUSINESS / eSERVICES : BREAKING DOWN THE BARRIERS BETWEEN PROCEDURES

The Internet and other new information and communications technologies allow public and private sector organizations to make their information accessible to customers, partners and other users via Web sites or portals. As legislation evolves, all the conditions are coming together to enable entire government or commercial processes to be carried out on line.
Implementing effective virtual processes – to enable growth or modernization – is one of the real challenges for today’s businesses and public sector organizations. With its vast experience of developing and implementing e-procedures in the public sector, understanding of the solutions marketplace, and sector-specific expertise within its consulting teams, coupled with the in-depth expertise of its specialist subsidiaries Bull can help you at every stage to define and implement your solution.