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Competition
Our industry is extremely competitive and characterized by: rapid technological change; the emergence of new companies and
products; evolving industry standards, computing platforms, go-to-market and business models; and continually changing
customer needs. We compete with many established companies broadly across our multiple product lines, the majority of which
have substantially greater financial, marketing and technological resources than we do. We also compete with numerous smaller
companies that provide products in a single area of our portfolio. Many of these firms are more agile due to their size and
limited scope, and are able to evolve more rapidly to meet changes in the technology landscape. They are generally delivering
their solutions in cloud-based and/or lightweight try-and-buy models.
Our competitors in various parts of our businesses include Apigee Corporation, AppDynamics, Inc., Atlassian Corporation, Plc,
BMC Software Inc., Compuware Corporation, CyberArk Software, Ltd., Dell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company,
International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Oracle Corporation, ServiceNow, Inc., SolarWinds, Inc.,
Splunk, Inc. and VMware, Inc.
We believe our experience managing mission-critical capabilities for major global corporations, our platform and hardware
independence, and our deep customer relationships set us apart from other established competitors in the market. Further, we
believe we are differentiated from emerging point-product providers by our global reach, breadth and synergy of offerings, and
deep industry experience.
Employees
We had approximately 11,000 and 11,600 employees at March 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.
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.
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 are expected to act on behalf of CA Technologies consistently with the underlying ethical principles of
the Code). These documents can also be obtained in print by writing to our Corporate Secretary, CA, Inc., 520 Madison
Avenue, New York, New York 10022.
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