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throughout complex computing environments, including handheld to mainframe, physical to virtual, and on-premises to
“cloud”. With our vision for Enterprise IT Management (EITM) and our expertise, organizations can more effectively
govern, manage and secure the services IT delivers to the business to reduce costs and risks, improve service and ensure
IT is integrated with the business.
We support our customers’ needs to govern, manage and secure the services IT delivers to the business as follows:
Govern
We help our customers automate IT governance and various aspects of business governance. IT governance is the
process of deciding about the priorities of their IT investments and how IT will allocate its human and financial
resources to support those priorities. Business governance includes risk management, policy and regulatory compliance
management, and information governance (such as records and messaging management). IT governance is addressed by
CA Clarity
TM
Project & Portfolio Manager, our market-leading, enterprise-class PPM solution. Business governance is
addressed by our CA GRC Manager and Information Governance products.
Manage
We make it easier to manage technology so that high-quality IT services can be delivered within our customers’
businesses at a competitive cost. We focus on service management, data center automation and application
performance management, which includes offerings such as CA Wily Introscope »; and infrastructure management,
which includes offerings such as CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager, CA eHealth »Network Performance Manager
and CA NSM.
Secure
We help ensure customers have secure access to the information, applications, systems and services they need to
conduct their businesses. We focus on identity and access management, as well as security information management
and threat management, which include CA Access Control, CA Identity Manager and CA SiteMinder.
We believe this is important because IT has become more critical than ever to running a business. Organizations rely on
IT to conduct day-to-day business, and they are increasingly using IT to do more, including: comply with regulations,
ensure security, manage costs and risks, manage resources, and manage energy consumption, enabling organizations to
increase revenue and profit. At the same time, organizations continue to add new technology to their computing
environments, taking advantage of trends such as cloud computing, virtualization and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS),
which makes the computing environment more complex.
We believe that to get the most out of their technology, organizations must be able to manage IT as a whole and not as
isolated functions unable to work together. We see IT, when managed well, as a business driver, not a cost center. We
believe organizations that are able to manage their entire IT environment, eliminate waste, become leaner and more
productive are able to compete more effectively and even thrive.
We base our beliefs on our decades of experience with some of the world’s largest, most sophisticated users of IT. CA
focuses on enterprise customers who, by the nature of their size and the complexity of their IT infrastructures, have
unique demands that our software and services are well suited to meet.
Our strategy is to enable Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to realize increasing levels of value from their IT investments
by helping them manage IT to solve their business problems, move their businesses forward and achieve a compelling
return on their investments in CA technology.
Business Organization
Our Company is organized to support our customers’ needs and our business strategy, from how we develop and deliver
products and services to how we market and sell our software and how we support our technology. We group our
products into solution sets under our govern, manage and secure framework. The products we develop are based on
areas of focus where we believe we have the greatest growth opportunities and leading solutions.
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