Computer Associates 1997 Annual Report Download - page 7

TNG. The Next Generation
On the morning of January 18, 1997, CA launched the most important new product in its
20-year history.
In front of a standing-room only crowd in New York City, while thousands watched on live
satellite feeds in locations around the world, CA unveiled a major upgrade to its flagship product
and the industry standard for network and systems management: Unicenter®TNGTM.
TNG stands for “The Next Generation,” and the name couldn’t be more appropriate. Unicenter
TNG truly is a generation ahead of the competition. With a revolutionary 3-D, virtual reality interface,
and innovative Business Process ViewsTM,which enable managers to look at the enterprise in an
entirely new way, TNG looks and acts like nothing the industry has ever seen.
It is so different in fact, that some people don’t believe it’s real. Even after watching real-life
demonstrations, many believe it’s some kind of futuristic technology demo. To convince the skeptics,
we’ve had to use the phrase “Shipping Today” in large type in all of our ads and collateral material.
As you can see, Unicenter TNG is having no trouble living up to its bold name. But, The Next
Generation is much more than just a clever name for a breakthrough product.
It’s our culture. At CA, we’re focused on “The Next Generation” in
virtually everything we do. Our products. Our services. Even our people.
We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating what our clients
will need, and working hard to get there first.
The Next Generation Computing Environment.
Today, and for the foreseeable future, the world’s governments and enter-
prises are largely dependent on their distributed computing environments.
Whether they are leading-edge organizations exploiting the Internet revolu-
tion, or smaller businesses using traditional computing to gain a competitive
advantage, they depend on CA for their “infrastructure.” The infrastructure is the technological
foundation of their computing environment. CA’s core competency is designing, building, and deliver-
ing the “best-of-breed” tools to develop, deploy, and manage this infrastructure.
Development. CA provides the tools used by the world’s software developers to build the next gener-
ation in applications. From multimedia kiosks to electronic commerce Internet Web sites, CA tools and
databases are the building blocks of state-of-the-art applications.
Deployment. Once applications are built, the next stage in their life is the controlled deployment
throughout the network. This requires the rigorous use of networking and management technologies,
not only to ensure the accurate delivery of the applications, but also to coordinate their interaction
with a massive quantity of associated data.
Management. The life of software applications really only begins once they are deployed. This is
when the “payback” begins. This is also when the most significant challenges begin for the organiza-
tions, which depend on applications for their business. CA has delivered the tools that manage net-
works, systems, databases, and applications, and have been CA ’ s focus for over 20 years.
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