For the most part, data warehousing is a new business line for the company, he said. In the past four years, the company has grown its business by acting as an integrator, blending its data warehousing products with services, project management and integration into a solution that meets a large need in the public-sector market, analysts and company officials said. Bull's solutions provide access to large quantities of data that is needed to make decisions about internal operations and constituent services. Tenn. On all but a couple of these projects, Bull is the prime contractor, Ginsburg said. A data warehouse is a repository for data created by extracting information from operating and production databases.
Traditional work includes extraction, loading, definitions and storing data.
The company prides itself on its ability to show fast results through pilot programs. It can provide a working prototype in less than a week, said Bishop. This gives the company expertise in a lot of sectors, said Ginsburg. To expand its business, Bull wants to begin providing customer relationship management software applications to its state and local clients. CRM allows a government to manage its relationship with citizens in a personal manner.