Microsoft

A winning alliance for long-term customer satisfaction

Bull and Microsoft have joined forces to provide secure infrastructure solutions and integrated platforms to answer enterprise needs for business critical computing.

Gold Certified Partner for Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Information Workers Solutions, and OEM Hardware Solutions, Bull brings to customers real competitive advantage and immediate business benefits relying on the following expertise:

Technology collaboration with Microsoft engineering

Bull engineering resources are presently deployed at Microsoft Labs in Redmond to test the future versions of Windows Server and SQL Server on Bull NovaScale servers. The relationship with Microsoft ensures best-of-breed support quality, as well as strengthens Bull specialist’s expertise in the deployment of Microsoft-based solutions. Our engineering focus on the Microsoft platform has earned Bull NovaScale leading TPC benchmarks, translating to price performance and high customer satisfaction.

IT Infrastructure Services and Solutions

Bull’s service offering encompasses the entire lifecycle, from assessment, strategy and design, to implementation, operational services and support of Microsoft-based solutions. Bull has the expertise, proven methodologies and tools to help customers deploy new solutions, improve operations and performance, and deliver business results in the area of

• Business Intelligence solutions and SQL Server applications
• Servers and applications Consolidation / Virtualization
• SAP/R3 infrastructure migration and deployment
• .NET application development
• Security: Identity and Access Management with Bull Evidian WiseGuard
• High Performance Computing (Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003)

Microsoft Competence Center

Bull’s Microsoft Competence Center provides high level technical pre-sales consulting, while proposing architectures and solutions based on the latest Microsoft technologies. The main areas of competency include Business Intelligence, Migration, Consolidation/Virtualization, assistance to Microsoft .NET Application Development, sizing and tuning of SQL Server-based solutions on Bull NovaScale servers.

Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Competence Center

The European Competence Center brings customers the expertise of MCSE-certified specialists to address the complex needs of mission-critical computing, with customer solutions based on SQL Server 2005, BizTalk Server, Exchange Server, and other Microsoft technologies running under Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition environment on Bull NovaScale servers.

Microsoft Software Support Center

Bull's Microsoft Software Support Center provides a full range of support services for clients deploying Microsoft technologies in a multi-vendor software environment. Bull’s Support offer, based on Microsoft Services Partner Advantage, includes 24x7 support, incident escalation, and a personalized follow-up by dedicated experts for the coordination of all customer support needs.

Education and Certification Center

Bull Formation is "Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions". Bull’s trainers are all Microsoft Certified with a solid experience acquired in the field in terms of design, deployment, and support. Programs cover the whole of Microsoft technologies and include training courses to prepare for all certification programs.