Bull and SAS strengthen their partnership in business intelligence for ERP environments
Paris,
March
9, 2006 -
SAS, global leader in business intelligence (BI) systems, and Bull are further strengthening their partnership with a new offering destined for the implementation of advanced BI solutions around ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). The new partnership applies in Europe.
Building on the two companies' respective expertise in complex infrastructures and BI solutions, Bull and SAS will enable organizations to improve their business performance and strategic management using data collected from an ERP system.
A number of major customers have already decided to implement SAS®9 with direct access to an ERP, with the aim of controlling their business more effectively or introducing data mining. This is seen as a particularly effective approach when processing large volumes of data. So, Bull and SAS have, for example, worked together to develop a benchmark for Electricité de France (EDF) which has enabled this very large company to optimize response times of its global infrastructure by a factor of 10 and to validate its solution, initially used for some 170,000 business customers and eventually by three million customers.
"The quality and performance of SAS solutions running on Bull servers enables very large volumes of data to be processed, enabling us to optimize our marketing programs and control our activities in the business marketplace more effectively," underlined Philippe Futtersack, Project Manager in the CRM Analysis Department of EDF's Commercial Division.
In the area of BI and ERP systems, Bull capitalizes on the expertise of its consultants in France and elsewhere in Europe, and has also established SAS and SAP centers of excellence which are charged with defining and specifying architectures. These centers also get involved in the implementation and optimization of applications running on Bull NovaScale, Escala and Express5800 servers. Bull experts work in close collaboration with SAS and SAP support and R&D teams.
"We are delighted with the evolution of our partnership with SAS" said Florence Bergeret, Director, Global Strategic Partnerships at Bull. "To define their architecture or to optimize their solutions, our customers can rely on our SAS and SAP competence centres that provide a unique interface for the deployment of fully integrated and optimized solutions".
"It is SAS's objective to be the reference enterprise decision support platform for SAP users. We work in close collaboration with our customers to leverage the huge volumes of production data they manage within the frame of their SAP applications, thus helping them take the best decisions. We do rely on the SAS®9 platform offering an integrated architecture, complete and unique advanced analysis functionalities, a high level of performance together with an outstanding cost of ownership, including implementation & production" stated Jack Voileau, ERP Solutions Development Director at SAS.
About SAS
SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at 40,000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 companies on the FORTUNE Global 500® - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For nearly three decades, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know®
About Bull, Architect of an Open World
Bull is an Information Technology company, dedicated to helping Corporations and Public Sector organizations optimize the architecture, operations and the financial return of their Information Systems and their mission-critical related businesses.
Bull focuses on open and secure systems, and as such is the only European-based company offering expertise in all the key elements of the IT value chain.
For more information visit: http://www.bull.com
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