Bull modernizes Council's IT infrastructure in French département of Yvelines and consolidates its mainframe and Linux applications
New infrastructure built around a Bull NovaScale 7000 server set to:
- Reduce Yvelines Council's IT operating costs by over 40%
- Enhance application performance by two to four times, and reduce back-up times
- Simplify system operation and administration
Paris,
December
7, 2006 -
The Conseil Général des Yvelines (the local authority for the French département number 78) has chosen a Bull NovaScale 7000 server to rationalize its IT infrastructure, in order to enhance the performance of its applications and reduce its IT operating costs.
Bull provided its solution as part of the Council's program to accelerate the implementation of on-line public services, designed to enhance the overall services offering to its citizens.
The NovaScale 7000 multi-environment server runs mainframe applications ported from two GCOS 7 machines, as well as Linux applications, on the same platform.
It is enabling the Council to modernize, simplify and reduce the costs of its IT infrastructure, using high-performance, open solutions based on industry standards.
Bull is also the Council's partner in the development, in Open Source, of a 'Personal Independent Living Allowance' application. Currently being under experimentation (until the end of 2006), this application will be widely implemented during the first half of 2007. It confirms the Yvelines Council's role as a pioneer in putting applications on line in the areas of social policy for which local authorities are responsible.
"We were very impressed by the new NovaScale 7000 server. Its performance and ease of use immediately won us over," commented Thierry Ehret-Franck, CIO at Yvelines Council. "Our old applications run more quickly, and back-up times have been more than halved. The new, Linux applications coexist in complete security with the old ones, and share the same data storage system, which simplifies systems administration operations considerably and helps to reduce our costs."
Rapid switchover of mainframe applications to the new, open system
Bull was chosen by the Council to design the target architecture and infrastructure, as well as to manage and implement the project. The development of the new applications and porting of existing ones to the new platform was carried out in close co-operation with the Council's own IT specialists. The Bull NovaScale 7000 server was installed in just one day, and the application switchover to the new server was completed in less than three weeks.
"We are very proud to have the Conseil Général des Yvelines on our list of customers," confirmed Jean-François Bauduin, Director of the GCOS Business Unit of Bull. "Our understanding of the challenges of the public sector and expertise in information systems architectures meant we could respond effectively to all their expectations. This meant we were able to offer a global solution, based around our architecture consultancy, infrastructure and systems integration expertise."
About the Conseil Général des Yvelines
The Conseil Général des Yvelines has been using Information Technologies as modernization tools for several years. It is the ambition of the Conseil Général des Yvelines to use these technologies to improve service extended to citizens as well as to promote the use of IT as a tool to develop relations inside the Conseil Général and with institutional partners.
In this respect, the Conseil Général des Yvelines's strategy is based around a simplification and modernization of its procedures, thus bringing faster and more efficient answers.
This strong ambition is reflected in a set of on-line projects aimed at giving more benefit and greater value to all of the Conseil's partners. These projects require a strong implication of all in a "win/win" state of mind. The question being to create efficient on-line procedures giving more efficiency while avoiding complexity of paper based procedures.
This is why the Conseil Général des Yvelines has modernized its IT infrastructure and consolidated its mainframe and Linux applications, back-office of its on-line projects. Interfacing users and partners also is a priority and the Département des Yvelines which was recently awarded the "best web site" prize - Conseil Général section - by the Trophees of public web.
Conseil Général des Yvelines contact
Communications Department, Conseil Général des Yvelines
Tel: +33 (0)1 39 07 70 77
presse@cg78.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, 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 60 countries worldwide.
For more information visit: http://www.bull.com
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