Bull and SAS team up in business intelligence
SAS®9 and business intelligence solutions deployed on
Bull NovaScale® and NovaScale blade servers
Paris,
July
5, 2004 -
SAS and Bull announced today a Europe, Middle East and Africa Technology Alliance under the terms of which Bull will deploy SAS®9 and business intelligence solutions on both (64-bit) Bull NovaScale® servers and (32-bit) NovaScale® blade servers.
Alliance of Itanium 2-based servers and SAS analytical capabilities
SAS analytical capabilities will combine with the performance and availability of the Itanium 2 processor-based Bull NovaScale® servers and NovaScale® blade servers powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, to give managers business insights into the data locked in large corporate databases. As a result, businesses will be able to identify new revenue opportunities and pinpoint global trends to make quicker and more effective business decisions. In addition, SAS and Bull plan to enter into a cooperative agreement to provide complete support for customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Expertise and competence centres
As a part of the Technology Alliance, Bull will open an SAS/NovaScale Centre of Excellence within the Research and Development Centre of Les Clayes sous Bois, near Paris, France and supported by the SAS European Technology Competence Centre. The Centre of Excellence will be dedicated to optimizing the performance of the SAS®9 architecture on Bull systems. This centre, coupled with the Bull's decisional SAS Consulting and Integration practices, will guarantee tailored and optimised business solutions.
When signing the contract, Danièle Asheuer, Chief Marketing Officer at Bull, stated : "We are extremely pleased to sign with a major player in the BI market. SAS®9 represents great opportunities to gain market share together and guarantee, to our customers, a high level of competitiveness and quality."
About Bull
Bull designs and develops servers, software and services for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. In this respect, Bull's range of NovaScale servers combines the openness of standards with the robustness of mainframes. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimize their IT infrastructure and their applications.
Bull is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication, utilities and manufacturing sectors. Capitalizing on its wide experience, the Group has a thorough understanding of the business and specific processes of these sectors, thus enabling it to efficiently advise and to accompany its customers. Its distribution network spreads to over 100 countries worldwide.
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