Mutual Insurance company
Mutuelle nationale des hospitaliers
chooses Bull NovaScale 7000
to host its GCOS 7 and Linux applications
Bull's new-generation NovaScale 7000 server meets MNH's demands in terms of
openness, power, ease of operation and cost reduction.
Paris,
November
15, 2005 -
Specialist French Mutual insurance company La Mutuelle nationale des hospitaliers et des professionnels de la santé et du social (MNH), has chosen Bull's new NovaScale 7000 server to host its existing GCOS 7 applications, as well as for the development and implementation of new applications running under Linux.
MNH, France's leading insurance company in the healthcare sector, has in excess of 630,000 members and processes some 25 million healthcare forms.
MNH chose the NovaScale 7000 - which has already been running as a pilot implementation for a number of months - in response to the growth in its membership and the increasing complexity of social security regulations.
Open architecture enables consolidation of production, development and new Linux applications
The NovaScale 7000 will enable MNH to consolidate its GCOS 7 production and development systems - as well as a Linux environment destined for the testing and subsequent deployment of new applications, most importantly email and shared diary facilities - onto a single server.
In addition, the NovaScale 7000 will share the firm's back-up solution with Bull Escala servers running under AIX.
"The new NovaScale 7000 server is the perfect answer to our growing requirements in terms of power, whilst also meeting our need to control costs. By consolidating different types of environments, it will simplify our production tasks, while at the same time reducing our costs. We were also attracted by the flexibility it offers us, enabling us to easily reallocate resources from one environment to another," explains Michel Hennebert, Information Systems Manager at MNH
GCOS 7 applications switched over in under 24 hours
The new server was installed in a matter of hours, and the switchover of applications to the new machine was achieved in the space of less than 24 hours. Users of the firm's GCOS 7 applications immediately noticed a significant improvement in performance and a complete restoration of all the functionality from the previous environment, underlining the new server's total compatibility.
"We are delighted that MNH opted for the NovaScale 7000," said Michel Lepert, Bull's General Manager, Products and Systems. "Their choice reflects Bull's ability to offer its customers open architectures that contribute to the modernization of their infrastructures and enable them to offer new services to meet tomorrow's challenges, while also maximizing their return on existing investments."
About MNH
MNH is France's leading mutual insurance company in the healthcare sector.
From hospital management to maintenance workers, doctors and nursing staff to all medical and support personnel, MNH offers the same level of healthcare cover and the same sense of solidarity to all health and social care professionals, whether they work in a major public hospital or a small, specialist private clinic.
MNH has offices throughout France and is headquartered, for historical reasons, in Montargis, in the Loiret region of central France. This local presence confers a national dimension to the company's operations. For more information, visit: http://www.mnh.fr
Contact
MNH
Pascale Belsoeur-Bluteau - Tel: +33 2 38 90 76 82
pascale.belsoeur-bluteau@mnh.fr
About Bull, Architect of an Open World
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers open, flexible and secure information systems. The group helps public and private sector customers transform their information systems, applying its know-how and expertise in three main areas:
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Capitalizing on its extensive mainframe experience, Bull designs and produces robust, innovative and open servers, based on industry-standard technologies;
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Building on its alliances with leading ISVs and long-standing involvement with Open Source, Bull develops and implements flexible and interoperable application infrastructures which give business processes the freedom to evolve;
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Bringing together recognized expertise in end-to-end IT security, Bull secures data and exchanges that are so critical in preserving customers' business integrity.
Bull has a particularly strong presence in the public, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, manufacturing and defense sectors. Its distribution network and business partners cover more than 100 countries worldwide.
For more information visit: http://www.bull.com
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