SAS, the leader in business intelligence, and BULL, one of the largest names in the European IT industry, announced today a technology alliance for the European, Middle East and African markets 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.
When signing the contract, Dani`ele 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."
SAS's analytic capabilities will combine with the performance and availability of the Itanium 2 processor-based BULL NovaScale servers and NovaScale blades 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 support agreement to provide complete support for customers across Europe.
"We have seen a lot of traction with BULL and are very excited to work with them to deploy the SAS 9 architecture and business intelligence solutions on the BULL NovaScale and 32-bit blades," said Mike Hamm, director of channels and alliances at SAS International. "BULL's leading-edge technology, coupled with their consulting expertise, will enable us to jointly deliver outstanding solutions to organisations in EMEA."
As a part of the technology alliance, BULL will open a SAS and NovaScale Centre of Excellence within the Research and Development Centre of Les Clayes sous Bois, near Paris, and supported by the SAS European Technology Competence Centre. The Centre of Excellence will be dedicated to optimising the performance of the SAS 9 platform on BULL systems. This centre, coupled with the BULL's decisional SAS Consulting and Integration practices, will guarantee tailored and optimised business solutions.
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BULL designs and develops servers and software for an open environment, integrating the most advanced technologies. It brings to its customers its expertise and know-how to help them in the transformation of their information systems and to optimise their IT infrastructure and their applications.
BULL is particularly present in the public sector, banking, finance, telecommunication and industry sectors. Capitalising 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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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 more than 40 000 sites - including 96 of the top 100 of the 2003 Fortune Global 500 - to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organisations 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.
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