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 |
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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.
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