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We believe our competitive differentiators include: our platform and hardware independence, breadth of offerings, industry
expertise, intellectual property, comprehensive distribution, customer relationships, product functionality and scalability, as
well as brand name recognition and reputation.
Employees
We had approximately 13,600 employees at March 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
(d) Financial Information About Geographic Areas
Refer to Note 17 ‘‘Segment and Geographic Information,’’ in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for
financial data pertaining to our segment and geographic operations.
(e) Corporate Information
The Company was incorporated in Delaware in 1974, began operations in 1976 and completed an initial public offering of
common stock in December 1981. Our common stock is traded on The NASDAQ Global Select Market tier of The
NASDAQ Stock Market LLC under the symbol ‘‘CA.’’
Our corporate website address is www.ca.com. All filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, our Current Reports on Form 8-K, our
proxy statements and any amendments thereto filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, are available for free in the Investor Relations section of our website
(www.ca.com/invest) as soon as reasonably practicable after they are filed with or furnished to the SEC. Our SEC filings are
available to be read or copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549.
Information about the operation of the Public Reference Room can be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Our
filings can also be obtained for free on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. The reference to our website address does not
constitute inclusion or incorporation by reference of the information contained on our website in this Form 10-K or other
filings with the SEC, and the information contained on our website is not part of this document.
The Investor Relations section of our website (www.ca.com/invest) also contains information about our initiatives in
corporate governance, including: our corporate governance principles; information about our Board of Directors (including
specific procedures for communicating with them); information concerning our Board Committees, including the charters of
the Audit Committee, the Compensation and Human Resources Committee, the Corporate Governance Committee and the
Compliance and Risk Committee; and our Code of Conduct (which qualifies as a ‘‘code of ethics’’ under applicable SEC
regulations and is applicable to all of our employees, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and
principal accounting officer, and our directors). These documents can also be obtained in print by writing to our Corporate
Secretary, CA, Inc., One CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11749.
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
Current and potential stockholders should consider carefully the risk factors described below. Any of these factors, many of
which are beyond our control, could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results, cash flow
and stock price.
Failure to achieve success in our business strategy could materially adversely affect our business, financial
condition, operating results and cash flow.
As more fully described in Part I, Item 1 ‘‘Business,’’ our business strategy is designed to build on our portfolio of software
and services to meet next-generation market opportunities. The success of this strategy could be affected by many of the
risk factors discussed in this Form 10-K and also by our ability to:
•Effectively rebalance our sales force to enable us to maintain and enhance our strong relationships in our traditional
customer base of Large Existing Enterprises and to increase penetration in our combined Large New Enterprises and
Growth Markets where we currently may not have a strong presence and where we may have a dependence on
unfamiliar distribution partners and routes;
•Enable our sales force to sell new products, including instances where our offerings are of a type not previously
provided by us, to our traditional core and new customers, or where a competitor already has an established
relationship with a potential new customer;
•Improve the CA Technologies brand in the marketplace; and
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