This year, Bull's e-biscus solution for customs administration achieved Powered by SAP NetWeaver certification. In addition, Bull also became a member of the SAP industry value network (IVN) initiative for the public sector. These two announcements further strengthen over 15-year's partnership between Bull and SAP.

Alliance Overview

Bull operates throughout the entire design, build, and run value chain – from architecture definition, systems integration, and implementation, to outsourcing services.

As an SAP global technology partner since 1991, Bull has established SAP Competence Centers in Europe (at SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany and in France). In addition, Bull has been an SAP integrator since 1991 and an SAP Hosting partner since 2005.

Key Customer Benefits

Bull supplies the technical infrastructure that supports some of SAP's largest business suite implementations in Europe. Bull is committed to delivering performance and availability through a range of proven methodologies and services, while optimizing ROI.

Through its competence center in Walldorf, Bull provides highly skilled experts in architectures and solutions based on the latest SAP technologies. Backed-up by a strong expertise in each component of infrastructure – including servers, storage, networks, back-up, middleware – Bull experts can provide optimized infrastructure for the full scope of SAP solutions.

In addition, Bull provides also the functional and integration services needed for critical projects. With an expertise in the fields of application integration and technical infrastructure, Bull can offer a unique approach encompassing the complete chain of services, from build to support. Bull creates end-to-end solutions with SAP software.

Capabilities and Industry Expertise

Bull is a global company with in-depth knowledge and experience in an array of industries, with longlasting expertise in the public sector and utilities.

Bull's expertise covers the following areas:

• Consulting and integration services – Bull provides these services with specific emphasis on business intelligence, human resources and finance modules, as well as upgrade services.
• Technology infrastructure design and high technology – Bull is a recognized expert in consolidation/virtualization, high availability, performance, upgrade/migration, under Windows, AIX, or Linux environments. Bull's expertise is also reknown in the arena of large and critical SAP infrastructures.
• Outsourcing services as a certified SAP Hosting partner
• Change management and learning services – Bull's customers rely on these key factors for fully successful projects.

Today, through "We commit" – Bull's commitment on performance – Bull has set a strong emphasis on infrastructure to offer a unique dedication to our customer for the SAP's entire range of software.

Alliance Focus Areas

Bull's alliance with SAP harnesses the following areas:

• SAP Global Technology Partner
• Bull's SAP Competence Centers offer a high level of expertise to deploy the most complex and demanding projects through a direct link to the best SAP experts.
• Bull is an active member of SAP councils – SAP Sizing Council, SAP Benchmarking Council, and SAP Adaptive Architecture Council
• Bull takes part into the SAP LinuxLab where it operates benchmarks and server validations. Bull also contributes to LinuxLab hotline.
• Public Sector – Bull is a member of the SAP Industry Value Network Initiative (IVN) for Public Sector. Through IVN, customers, partners, and SAP coinnovate to quickly develop solutions taking up industry-specific customer challenges. Bull's e-biscus customs solution provides a comprehensive, end-to-end solution on the SAP NetWeaver platform. The combination of Bull's e-biscus core strengths and SAP's business process platform opens new horizons to customs administrations.

About Bull, Architect of an Open World

As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible, and secure information systems. Bull helps public and private-sector customers transform their information systems, applying knowledge and expertise in three main areas:

• Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies
• Building on its alliances with leading ISVs, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve
• Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers' business integrity

Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 60 countries worldwide. For more information, visit Bull online.

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Dominique Grelet