Service quality

Orange.pl, developed by AMG.net, voted the best business portal in Poland

At the end of February 2008, the Swedish consultancy group Hallvarsson & Halvarsson published a report evaluating 16 business websites in Poland .

Three of the five best portals in Poland were developed by AMG.net, a Bull company. The top award went to the corporate web site of the Telekomunikacja Polska group (orange.pl together with tp.pl), with BRE bank’s site in second place, and the state-owned petroleum and gas mining company Polskie Gazownictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo in fifth place.

Brazilian telco Embratel develops strategic applications with Bull

Embratel heads the country’s largest telecommunications network (fibre optics, underwater cables and satellites) and pursues sustained growth through the implementation of state-of-the art technologies.

Bull has been partnering Embratel for the last ten years in all application-related aspects of its network operator’s business: integration, software support, and the evolution of its communication infrastructure and business processes.

Establishing the information systems for IP operator Wana

Wana , a new Moroccan operator in the Internet access and mobile telephony markets, started out with the aim of providing innovative offerings to individual subscribers and business customer, to rapidly win significant market share in the face of stiff competition from existing
players. The company successfully signed up a million consumers in just eight months!

Bull designed Wana’s entire IT architecture, delivered specific developments, and integrated all the components, including solutions from partners including Highdeal, Comptel, Oracle PeopleSoft and StreamWIDE. The shared services platform is based on Open Source
developments using JOnAS, AIX ® and Oracle. It is especially flexible, scalable and simple to maintain, and additional workflows can be integrated with ease.

Effective systems for OnAir’s in-flight services

OnAir – a joint venture between IT solutions provider SITA and Airbus – chose Bull to develop the business management system for its in-flight mobile phone and Internet services.

OnAir allows airline passengers to access their personal or professional environment while in the air. The passenger can use their portable terminal: PC, mobile phone, ‘smartphone’ or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), as easily as any other device that is available to them during the flight. Using OnAir’s services means that airline companies can offer passengers a range of innovative, customized services, from mobile telephony to Internet access.

Bull has implemented a comprehensive billing, customer care and CRM solution that will evolve to keep pace with the growth of OnAir’s business. The call-collect system is based on market-leading tools and
specific developments. The Highdeal Transactive software suite was selected for billing and customer care, and the Microsoft SQL Server platform was chosen as the reporting system.
The next stages of this project will provide OnAir with additional CRM,
reconciliation and advanced reporting functions.

IP network infrastructure for a French mobile operator

For a French mobile operator, Bull designed and deployed a convergent fixed-mobile network infrastructure in a very tight timescale, and helps run and maintain this via its subsidiary Agarik. This architecture allows the operator to offer and develop innovative and competitive services to private subscribers and enterprises alike.

Bull’s solution integrates the StreamWIDE, Dilithium and Thomson Cirpack software solutions, and MySQL Cluster database. It uses Open Source components including Apache Reverse proxy, SMTP Postfix gateway and PHP script language. The hardware architecture includes Thomson Cirpack Blade and Bull NovaScale servers, and finally Cisco switches, firewalls and DHCP.

Telecom Malagasy

Bull has also enabled the first fixed-mobile-Internet convergent operator in Madagascar Telecom Malagasy to significantly reduce its operating costs by simplifying its IS and virtualizing its NovaScale servers.

Seznam

The leading Internet services portal in the Czech Republic , Seznam, has based its portal designed to handle promotional applications on a redundant Bull infrastructure composed entirely of blade servers, which is both flexible and easy to administer.

Chunghwa Telecom

In Taiwan , the leading operator Chunghwa Telecom has chosen Bull to modernize the infrastructure supporting its Internet, mobile and Media-on-Demand services, as well as its R&D center.