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Moroccan
Post Office chooses Bull to automate its International Mail
Center in Casablanca
February 4, 2009
Paris, France –
the Moroccan
Post Office, Barid Al-Maghrib, has selected Bull to act as
prime contractor on the automation project for its
International Mail Center in Casablanca. As such, Bull will
be leading a consortium including AddressVision Inc. (AVI),
its subsidiary specializing in automated mail solutions used
to process more than 50% of all international mail, and
National Presort Inc. (NPI), a major mail sorting machinery
manufacturer. The project will also use Prime Vision BV's
postal address recognition engines.
Of the seven
proposals tendered, Barid Al-Maghrib chose Bull because of
the performance record and the high-level functionality of
its solution, as well as for its overall costing plan
assessed over a ten-year operating cycle.
"Bull is a
strategic partner for Barid Al-Maghrib. This major project
will enable us to significantly improve our efficiency, and
will assure our position as an international player in the
mail sorting field," explained Anas Alami, Chairman and
CEO of Barid Al-Maghrib.
This project
will involve the implementation of four NPI mail sorting
machines, of which two are equipped with a letter-weighing
capabilities that automatically sort individual items of
mail according to their weight. These machines will be
linked up to the AVI software suite. The AVI solution
comprises a series of independent functional modules within
an open architecture that conforms to international industry
standards, making it possible to attain especially high
rates of postal address recognition.
Bull has
decided to create a Center of Postal Expertise within its
international Services Center based at the Casanearshore
business park in Morocco. As a result of impressive
achievements locally, this Service Center today specializes
in telecoms and the public sector, focusing both on software
applications and IT infrastructures. The Postal Expertise
Center will have regional coverage including Europe and the
countries of the Mediterranean basin, and will benefit from
skills transfer by AVI's teams.
"Morocco
is a highly strategic country for Bull, where it already has
numerous government and private sector customers. I am
especially proud that Barid Al-Maghrib has chosen us as its
IT partner in this program to modernize its business. Our
subsidiary AVI's mail sorting automation solution has an
excellent reputation for robustness, technological
innovation and openness, having already won over some the
world's largest postal businesses,"
explained
Didier Lamouche, Bull Chairman and CEO.
About AddressVision Inc.
AddressVision Inc., a Bull Group Subsidiary,
provides software solutions to help organizations more
accurately and efficiently organize, process, and deliver
mail, whereby increased mail-piece effectiveness, and
decreased processing times and costs are achieved.
About Prime Vision B.V.
Prime Vision is a leading supplier of mail and parcel
automation solutions. Prime Vision’s parcel automation
identification solutions suite, Parcel Vision, incorporates
our unique OCR recognition technologies for handwritten and
machine generated text and is fast becoming the de-facto
high-performance standard in the global express-parcel
market.
About Bull, Architect of an Open World
As one of the leading European IT companies, Bull delivers
open, flexible and secure information systems. The Bull
Group helps public and private sector customers transform
their information systems, applying its know-how and
expertise in three main areas; capitalizing on Bull’s
innovative and open servers, building on Bull’s alliances to
develop flexible and interoperable application
infrastructures, and depending on Bull’s expertise to secure
data and exchanges critical to business integrity. Bull’s
distribution network and business partners cover more than
60 countries worldwide.
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