Bull Creates New Data Warehouse Operation to Deliver Integrated Software, Hardware, Service Solutions to U.S. Market; Company targets public, private health care applications for its turnkey, best-of-breed centralized and distributed data warehouse solutions.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1996 -- Bull has taken a decisive step in penetrating the U.S. data warehouse marketplace by creating a U.S. Data Warehouse Operation. Bull's data warehouse strategy is to be a "one-stop" data warehouse solution provider, integrating hardware and software with the services necessary to address specific customer needs. The company is showcasing its data warehouse capabilities here at Data Warehouse World.

The new organization, based in Phoenix with sales and technical support locations in five cities nationwide, provides a dedicated sales, marketing and support resource to meet client's specific requirements in the fast growing U.S. data warehouse marketplace. Initially, Bull's U.S. sales efforts are focused on managed health care applications in the public and private sectors, where Bull already has a strong presence.

"Our target markets include Medicaid and managed care applications for state governments and medical service administration applications for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) ," said Dan Traxler, director of the new U.S. Data Warehouse Operation. "Bull's range of data warehouse solutions is well suited for use in large-scale decision support environments, which are becoming a cost-effective solution to help control rising medical delivery costs."

Bull's Integrated Data Warehouse Solution

Bull offers a line of scalable warehouse servers to meet the needs of large and small customers. For large, centralized implementations, Bull's Relational Database Computer, or RDBC, built on NCR/Teradata MPP technology, can support virtually any size data warehouse. For smaller, distributed implementations, Bull's Escala family of UNIX SMP servers provides a highly scalable, cost-effective and powerful warehouse platform for Oracle, Informix and Sybase.

At the Data Warehouse World show, Bull is showcasing its Distributed Data Warehouse (DDW) suite of integrated warehouse management tools. Bull's DDW is a cost-effective warehouse creation, administration and access solution for warehouses of all sizes. Bull's DDW suite is designed to build and maintain Oracle, Informix, Sybase and Teradata warehouses, both large and small.

The DDW suite includes the Designer family for creating and maintaining warehouse designs, the Replicator family for optimizing the transfer and transformation of data, the Administrator family for securing and managing warehouse access, and the User family for accessing warehouse data from PC applications, like Business Objects and Microsoft Access.

"Building a data warehouse can be like building your own home. The integration, coordination and implementation issues can be staggering," said Kirk Mosher, marketing director, Bull data warehouse solutions. "The DDW suite provides the `glue` for building and maintaining your data warehouses, making the process more understandable and manageable."

About Bull

With a presence in more than 90 countries, over 23,000 employees and combined revenue of more than $5.3 billion, Bull is one of the world's largest information technology companies and a major systems and technology integrator, offering a comprehensive range of solutions, services and support capabilities for use in multivendor environments. Information on Bull's data warehouse solutions in the U.S. can be obtained toll-free by calling Bull Direct at 800/980-8575. The company's Web address is: http://www.bull.com.

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CONTACT: Bill Bradley

Bull HN Information Systems Inc.

508/294-5812 Data Warehouse World

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