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Office of the CTO
The Office of the CTO drives our technology strategy; manages development of the CA integration platform, common
components and services; manages our intellectual property and patent portfolio; governs our participation in standards
organizations; and leads research and development for emerging technologies.
•Technology Strategy — As we evolve our vision of EITM, our goal is to help enterprises to more effectively govern, manage,
and secure their environments. Our approach is to enable customers to become more prescriptive about their behavior
through leveraging policies. We call our approach policy-based intelligent automation. The foundation of this approach is
the CA Integration Platform, an event-driven architecture built on an SOA-based conduit and a collection of shared software
services. The evolution of the integration platform enables the evolution of the EITM vision. Over time, the integration
platform will become a focal point for enterprise policy, identity, control structures, and management state. In addition, it
will also provide access to a variety of network-based integration services between CA and third party products and the
common services outlined below.
•Architecture and Methodology — The Office of the CTO seeks to ensure all of our products are implemented according to a
proven and consistent technical architecture. Having a consistent technical architecture also promotes greater product
quality, improves user experience and simplifies product integration, all while lowering development costs and enabling
cross-company usage of key components and technologies.
•Common Technologies/Common Services — The Office of the CTO manages the centralized development of a set of
technologies and services shared by a number of our products and solutions. These include a federated management
repository, licensing technologies, messaging technologies, workflow technologies and user interface technologies. These
technologies and services enable our products to work together more easily and improve our ability to provide a simple,
secure, and agile set of solutions to customers at a lower maintenance cost.
•Intellectual Property (IP) and Standards — We understand a well-developed patent portfolio helps us leverage and protect
intellectual property assets in strategic areas. In fiscal year 2007, we enhanced our invention program in order to increase
both the quantity and quality of our invention submissions. This team is also leading efforts to reduce unnecessary patent
infringement lawsuits in the software industry by improving industry-wide patent quality. The IP and Standards team
organizes CA’s leadership and participation in the most strategic standards and open source bodies including W3C, Oasis,
and Eclipse.
•CA Council for Technical Excellence — The CA Council for Technical Excellence was formed in 2006 to lead innovative
projects designed to set the pace for true innovation in the industry. The Council also advises on technical issues of great
importance to our future business. Council members promote innovation, communication, collaboration, standards and
architectural approaches throughout CA’s global technical community.
•Innovation — The Office of the CTO houses two innovation centers: Research Labs and Emerging Business Opportunities:
•Research Labs — CA Labs drives research in advanced technologies related to management and security with return
horizons typically greater than two years.This group performs research internally and works with major universities and
standard setting bodies. Current areas of focus include the security, management, diagnosis and ease-of-use for on-
demand computing, virtualized environments/virtualized services, policy-based automation and service-oriented
architectures.
•Emerging Business Opportunities — The Office of the CTO manages incubator projects for innovative governance,
management and security solutions beyond those developed to support existing Capability Solutions with return
horizons typically between one and two years. As these innovations reach the customer adoption phase, these product
lines contribute value to customers and revenue to CA.
Technological Expertise
Certain aspects of our products and technology are proprietary. We rely on U.S. and foreign intellectual property laws,
including patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws to protect our proprietary rights. As of March 31, 2007, we hold
over 500 patents worldwide and over 1,000 patent applications are pending worldwide for our technology. However, the
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