Bull Direct N°17, July 2007

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July 2007

Optimizing corporate performance management
Today, we are witnessing a fundamental revolution in business intelligence systems in the enterprise. On the one hand, these contribute to improved decision-making processes – both strategic and operational – and now involve every business inside the organization. On the other hand, they help businesses to anticipate the future, a major advantage in a world that is moving forward at an ever-increasing pace.

Read Didier Lamouche's editorial >

7i program

EXPERT VOICE

The BI Center of Expertise: towards a single, unified Business Intelligence system

by Florence Burnoud, Director of the BI Solutions Group, Bull France and Cyrille Chastaing, Director of the Bull France BI Services. >>

AGENDA

EACC, Frankfurt, July 5-6 >

GCOS 7 Regional days, Paris, September 20 >

Storage Networking World (SNW), Frankfurt, 29–31 October >

SuperComputing 2007, Reno (USA), 10-16 November >

Other Events >>

QUICK POLL

'Say no to isolated BI systems!’: Bull launches the 3rd initiative in its 7i program to facilitate decision-making. >>

Get to know to decide: getting the most from your information capital to improve competitiveness by Julio del Valle, General Manager, Bull Spain. >>

State of California selects Bull Services’ BI solution to help improve health care outcomes, reduce fraud and abuse in Medicaid program. >>

Publication of a new white paper on ‘Unified Business Intelligence: better knowledge for better decision-making’. >>

Guest Contributor

“OW2: a global platform to encourage the development of Open Source ecosystems”
The ObjectWeb and OrientWare consortiums have merged to become OW2. Its objective is to become the leading global consortium dedicated to Open Source middleware.
Interview with Jean-Pierre Laisné, Chairman of OW2 and Director of Bull Open Source initiatives. >>

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