Computer Associates 2016 Annual Report Download - page 14

Part I
Item 1. Business.
Overview
CA Technologies is a global leader in software solutions enabling customers to plan, develop, manage and secure applications
and enterprise environments across distributed, cloud, mobile and mainframe platforms. Most of the Global Fortune 500, as
well as many government agencies around the world, rely on CA to help manage their increasingly dynamic and complex
environments.
In every industry, we see customers transforming their businesses to better manage the market demands for speed, exceptional
customer experience and rich analytics. Their journey, which is broadly referred to as digital transformation, is fueled by
software. The proliferation of mobile devices and the expectation of seamless connectivity has driven users to demand highly
secure, frictionless user experiences via software applications (often referred to as “applications” or “apps”). We refer to this
market shift as the “Application Economy” and it is profoundly changing the way businesses provide services to customers and
build software. Around the world, these complementary trends are placing software at the heart of every business, driving
companies in every industry vertical to invest in the creation of in-house software development teams to build out new business
models, enhance their digital presence and support their on-going relationships with customers.
We address this opportunity with three distinct but highly complementary operating segments: Enterprise Solutions, Mainframe
Solutions and Services. These also represent the operating segments used by our Chief Executive Officer for evaluating our
performance and allocating resources. 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.
Our Enterprise Solutions segment includes products that are designed for distributed and cloud computing environments and run
on industry standard servers. Within Enterprise Solutions, our areas of focus include:
•Agile Management enables customers to more effectively plan and manage the software development process and the
business of IT service delivery. Our solutions enable customers to improve delivery time on large projects, reduce costs and
optimize resources. This positions CA to partner with and guide customers early in the business transformation process.
•CA Agile Central. The acquisition of Rally Software Development Corp. (Rally) during fiscal 2016 gives us the ability to
help customers with their transition from the traditional waterfall methodology of software development (serial
processes) to the Agile methodology (iterative work cadences that decrease time-to-market and increase product
quality). It allows businesses to collaboratively plan, prioritize and track software development work at scale, across the
enterprise.
•CA Project & Portfolio Management (PPM). Our solutions enable customers to improve their decision processes and
resource optimizations of technology investments and decrease project execution risk. This foundational piece of our
Agile Management strategy is complementary to CA Agile Central.
•CA Service Management. Our solutions empower corporate IT teams to speed up and streamline service desk operations
while reducing complex and repetitive tasks with comprehensive automation capabilities and simple configuration.
•DevOps is adjacent to Agile Management and comprises a range of solutions that allow customers to efficiently deliver and
manage applications and IT infrastructure. With our portfolio of solutions, customers can reduce the delivery time of new
applications, increase the frequency of new releases and dramatically improve quality.
•Application Program Interface Management (API Management). Our solutions help enterprises and organizations connect
more directly to end-users via mobile apps, cloud platforms and the ‘Internet of Things’ through APIs, or application
program interfaces, which are the building blocks of application and software development. Our API Management
solutions simplify and secure application development, and facilitate the integration of legacy systems with modern
applications — all of which enable the monetization of data. New solutions include CA Live API Creator which enables
customers to rapidly create API connectors from data sources like MongoDB and Oracle SQL, supporting developers’
accelerating pace of innovation. Additionally, CA Mobile App Services provides common back-end services, like open
software development kits and APIs to enable rapid development of enterprise-class mobile applications.
•Continuous Delivery. Our solutions optimize application development processes by automating the deployment of
applications across all stages of their lifecycles. Our three primary solutions are: CA Service Virtualization, which
eliminates constraints in development and testing by modeling and simulating the behavior and performance
characteristics of dependent systems and services enabling defects to be identified quickly and improving time-to-market;
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