Open Energy : a professional and comprehensive approach to Open
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The growing maturity of available Open Source solutions is driving more and more IS departments to integrate open software components into their information systems, enabling them to implement powerful, highly secure and cost-effective solutions.
With its R&D investment in Open Source and its resources as a major manufacturer, Bull has built up such a wealth of experience and know-how that it is now quite naturally considered to be the leading integrator in the Open Source world. |
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Bull is the only European company to be involved at all three levels
in Open Source:
- As a manufacturer, creating Open Source components
for its hardware platforms
- As a systems integrator, offering a wide
range of open software services, from support to integration
- As a software
publisher, delivering added value on the back of existing Open
Source components.
Bull’s significant capabilities in this area mean it can
provide a complete service offering to port, support, integrate
and develop
Open Source application infrastructures for its customers.
The four main strands of this offering are:
Open Service: an industrial-scale
development capability, utilizing a flexible methodology and based
on Java
Development Factories
(JDFs), which offer a standardized, ready-to-use development
environment to
implement our collaborate development platform.
Open Service also offers:
- Significant development
capacity, capitalizing on Bull’s industrial
infrastructure, and offering customers a highly transparent,
interactive approach
- NovaForge, a development
environment consisting of Open Source building blocks
- Standardized costing
model
- Shared resources, ensuring
complete flexibility.
Open Enterprise: enabling the integration
of Open Source software in collaborative working, content management,
portal,
integration broker, application server and development tool projects.
Open Enterprise also offers:
- A structured service
offering
- The Bull SOA platform,
a unified framework for building, integrating and deploying distributed
applications consisting of Open Source middleware
products, supported and enhanced by Bull
- A technological methodology
environment, for the design and development of service-oriented applications.
Open Access: Open Source support,
covering a range of tested components, with the option to provide
support for the customer’s
chosen portfolio of Open Source components.
Open Access also offers:
- Access to the best in
Open Source skills
- Large-scale, professional
support infrastructure
- The capacity to provide
on-going third-party application support for components
- The ability
to incorporate measurement tools and performance guarantees.
OpenExchange: application
porting service to support the move from proprietary products to
open environments.
Bull
helps customers
who want to shift their environment towards a battery
of Open Source components, responding to their need for:
- Reductions in
application
costs
- Independence and access
to source code
- The capacity for evolution,
particularly for customers involved in modernizing or replacing
existing applications.
Open Exchange also offers:
- Application recovery,
at optimum price/performance ratios and minimum risk
- Professional utilization
of Open Source components.
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