Bull at a glance

Bull, as Architect of an Open WorldTM, has been a trailblazer. With the convergence of IT, telecommunications and media, Bull – the only European-based player 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 Information Systems, so they can operate in total security. Our obsession? Modernizing information systems (IS) by applying open and fl exible solutions that combine environmental and cost benefits. Our expertise lies in open and secure systems: that is our heritage and our culture.

A growing and profitable company

Revenue € 1,133 m Ebit €30 m Net Equity € 96m Net Cash € 302m Employees 7,978

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 INFRASTRUCTURES TO APPLICATIONS, Bull has a unique vision and skill set:

• A pioneering commitment to open, eco-friendly
  technologies, based on standards for full interoperability.
• Integration expertise covering the whole IT
  value chain, to deliver robust, end-to-end solutions.
• Comprehensive expertise in operating secure information
  systems, tailored to mission-critical environments.

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). As a result, Bull has equipped some of the most prominent R&D
centers across the globe, with some of the world’s most powerful 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.
And with its StoreWay™ offering – a broad palette of end-to-end storage solutions – Bull meets the challenges of data protection and the exponential growth in data volumes. In partnership with industry leaders, StoreWay combines Bull’s innovative technologies with its expertise in IT security and major projects.

Developing middleware for applications and service-oriented architectures (SOA)
As well as developing applications for specific industry sectors, Bull is a leading supplier of open infrastructure solutions. Bull is a founder of OW2 – the world’s leading consortium dedicated to open middleware –
and a key partner of JBoss/Red Hat in Europe. Bull is also one of the founding members, with other leading players from Europe, Brazil and China, of QualiPSo, the first Open Source quality software platform.

NovaForge™, Bull’s pioneering software development factory, brings together the best software development resources in a shared, structured environment. By professionalizing and automating these development processes, NovaForge enables projects to be delivered on time, on budget, and with the right levels of quality. Thanks to these emerging practices, Bull helps organizations enter the Virtual Shore™ era, and optimize the governance of their projects at a time when speed and flexibility are essential.

Providing the security and Open World needs
As European leader in IT security, Bull provides a comprehensive range of solutions: identity and access management (through its subsidiary Evidian), encryption, e-signature, payment systems, secured mobile computing, and 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 – governments, manufacturers and companies in the fi nance sector, defense, healthcare... – rely on Bull for their IT security solutions.

A solutions-oriented IT services provider consulting

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 information systems or specific business applications (ERP, business intelligence, CRM and HR), computer simulation or industry-specific applications. With NovaForge and its Virtual Shore services, Bull helps its customers to accelerate the
development of their applications and industrialize their information systems for optimum availability and flexibility. In the telecoms sector, where Bull’s revenues have doubled in just three years, Bull provides a unique mix of skills combining speed, innovation and robustness.

Operation and outsourcing
With its support, operation and 24x7 outsourcing services, Bull helps its customers hand over all or part of their IT operations so they can focus on their core business. Numerous organizations in the public sector,
healthcare and telecoms outsource their emergency centers or their entire information system to Bull and its subsidiary Agarik, which specializes in hosting critical Web infrastructures and on-line services.

A unique range of 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 Cassatt, EMC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NetApp, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Schneider Electric and VMware, 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 its intensive R&D efforts and 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 organizations

Every day, in over 50 countries worldwide, hundreds of organizations depend on Bull’s products, solutions and services to support their business activities and critical processes, especially in:

• Public sector, to simplify public services and stimulate local development. Bull also delivers specifi c solutions for Customs and tax authorities to modernize declaration and collection systems, for local and regional authorities as well as social and healthcare services to help them personalize and optimize the service they deliver to beneficiaries.
• Telecommunications and media, to streamline roll-out of innovative services and assure their continuity and robustness.
• Banking and insurance, to improve customer loyalty and guarantee total security of transactions.
• Transport and utilities, to align information systems to new
  priorities due to deregulation.
• Manufacturing, to accelerate the development of innovative and energy efficient products using computer simulation, optimize the supply chain, and reduce time and costs using ERPs.
• Research, to support innovation with cost-effective HPC solutions.
• Postal services, to automate mail processing and raise reliability.

Bull, as “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, while respecting the environment.