Competence centers

There are numerous service providers on the market and they certainly meet most of your needs. However, often the more complex requirements, especially those concerning infrastructures, often remained unfulfilled.

Why? Because the right answer requires intervention from very high level experts that are difficult to find in the market place. Only a leading vendor can acquire such a team and maintain its level of expertise due to the number and quality of the cutting edge projects these engineers work on.

This is why Bull has decided to give you access to its highest level skills by opening up the doors of its worldwide Competence Centers:

• Linux and AIX™ in Echirolles and Les Clayes sous Bois, France.
• Windows Data Center in Les Clayes-sous-Bois and a HA Center in Nantes. Bull is the only partner in France to be accepted by Microsoft in this domain and one of the top three in Europe.
• Networked Storage (European).
• SAP in Waldorf, Germany.

What services can you expect from Bull?

Bull's team of experts has designed and tested the products you use today and has incorporated them into our partners' products to offer you the solutions best tailored to your needs (EMC², AIX, BEA, Oracle, SAP, BAAN, PeopleSoft, OpenSource, ...).
These engineers are experts in these products and related interoperability and can meet your most complex requirements.
Bull therefore proposes the following services:

• Study and system design,
• installing, configuring and customizing systems,
• storage and back-up
• production systems services,
• expertise and consultancy services

Whether you are a Bull Customer or Partner you can opt for on site services or remote services provided by our Control Tower at Echirolles, enabling fully confidential, speedy and cost-effective operations; or you may prefer the "Expert to Expert" approach to get right to the heart of the matter.

Bull Services, a unique advantage in Europe.

What areas are covered?
The services we can deliver cover the entire infrastructure of the Information System, in particular based on AIX: platforms and the operating system, 3 tier architecture, clustering and high availability, storage and back-up, middleware, databases, TP, decision-support, networks and ERP software.

Therefore we can meet your needs regarding performance, scaling, availability, interoperability, release management, disaster recovery, SAN consolidation of servers and storage, production operations and numerous other sectors. This top of the range services offer further reinforces our Maintenance Services offer for 24/7 needs.