Bull, NCR Team Up To Provide Data Warehouse Solution in Expanded Public Sector Push.DAYTON, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. & BILLERICA, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1997-- Bull has entered into an agreement with NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers under which Bull will resell NCR WorldMark servers and NCR's Teradata database software, as part of data warehouse solutions that will help state and local governments reduce administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. . The Bull-NCR alliance has already delivered a data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse system that is helping Minnesota's Department of Human Services (DHS DHS Department of Homeland Security (USA) DHS Department of Human Services DHS Department of Health Services DHS Demographic and Health Surveys DHS Dirhams (Morocco national currency) ) provide policy-makers with critical information about state spending on a broad range of health care programs in minutes. In addition, the combination of NCR WorldMark, Teradata and Groupe Bull's systems integration and public sector expertise is expected to save the State of Minnesota $1 million in programming and application development costs annually. Especially critical during legislative sessions, the data warehouse is now allowing state policy-makers to ask very precise questions and get answers back quickly so they can make more informed decisions based on the latest information. Previously, that information would have been gathered by combing through data about 500,000 patients producing 22 million claims annually. "NCR's Teradata software and WorldMark servers are critical to our successes in working with local and state governments," said Pat Mansfield, president of U.S. Systems and Services for Bull. "Together with our knowledge and experience in health and human services Noun 1. Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Department of Health and Human Services, HHS and consolidating state data warehouse development, Bull continues to deliver complete solutions to its state and local government customers. Government applications already account for 40 percent of our revenue, and adding the NCR computer products to our marketing mix will help us greatly expand that base. Furthermore, we believe our relationship with NCR will help Bull achieve its goal of being recognized by its customers as a long-term information technology partner." "With successes such as the Minnesota's Department of Human Services and others, Bull has finely honed the expertise needed to market and support NCR's Teradata software and WorldMark 5100M server in a variety of state and local government applications," said Mark Hurd, Marketing vice president of NCR's Computer Systems Group. "We look forward to helping Bull to continue succeeding in that marketplace." The NCR WorldMark 5100M is the flagship model of NCR's Intel-based WorldMark family of servers which scale from the WorldMark 4300, supporting up to eight Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. processors, to the massively parallel See MPP. WorldMark 5100M that can support 4,096 processors. Bull will integrate the NCR WorldMark 5100M and NCR Teradata software with its own mainframes as the company expands into other public sector markets, primarily in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . About Bull With a presence in more than 85 countries, more than 21,000 employees, and combined revenues of $4.7 billion, Bull offers a wide range of systems, infrastructure software, and IT services through focused innovation, alliances with the best partners, and its own integration expertise. Bull generates more than $1 billion in systems integration and solutions revenue. Bull's North and South America headquarters is located in Billerica, Mass., with significant R&D marketing and customer support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services in Phoenix. The company also employs a nationwide network of direct sales people. Bull is recognized for innovative products such as Escala servers, Sagister multiframes, CP8 smart cards, and infrastructure software such as ISM/OpenMaster for the management of systems and networks. The Bull web address is http://www.bull.com. About NCR NCR (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NCR) is the world leader in delivering commercial, open computer systems for distributed application and decision-support solutions to customers in all industries. The company also develops industry-specific platforms and solutions for customers in the retail, financial and telecommunications industries. For further information on the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and Marketing unit and NCR WorldMark servers, access the NCR site on the World Wide Web at http://www.ncr.com. -0- NCR WorldMark is a trademark and NCR Teradata RDBMS (Relational DataBase Management System) See relational database and DBMS. RDBMS - relational database and NCR TOP END are registered trademarks of NCR Corporation. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. All other product names are trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Jim Mazzola, NCR (937) 445-6148 jim.mazzola@daytonoh.ncr.com or Kate Bochonko (212) 213-7061 kbochonk@mslpr.com or Steve Puleo, Bull (508) 294-6418 s.puleo@bull.com |
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