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4. Strategic Acquisitions
•We consider acquisitions that will support our EITM vision, extend our market position or expand our geographic footprint.
•In fiscal year 2007, we completed four acquisitions (see Note 2, “Acquisitions and Divestitures” in the Notes to the
Consolidated Financial Statements for more information). These acquisitions filled technology gaps in our portfolio,
strengthened our position in core focus areas, and continue to help round out our EITM offerings to better serve our
customers.
Business Organization
According to industry trends and from our own research conducted over the past 18 months, we believe that customers are
transitioning IT from a support function into a true business driver.They not only rely on IT to conduct day-to-day business, but
they also need IT to fuel growth, enable innovation and create a competitive advantage. As this happens, customers need to be
able to run IT like a service business. Fundamentally, IT is a collection of infrastructure assets, information, people and
processes that need to work together. Customers want to be able to see what exists in the entire IT environment and have
insight to make smart decisions on how to best use resources. They have to secure the infrastructure and gain better control
over how IT supports the business.
In order to deliver on our EITM vision and growth strategy, our product development is organized to support the sixteen CA
Capability Solutions described below. As customers increasingly manage IT operations in a more holistic way rather than as
discrete technology functions, we believe our structure allows us to more closely align with our customers’ needs and to focus
on products by growth opportunities within key capability areas. We do not presently maintain profit and loss data on our
Capability Solutions, and they are therefore not considered business segments.
With EITM, CA Capability Solutions and our expertise, we believe customers can govern, manage and secure their entire IT
environment — all of the people, information, processes, systems, networks, applications and databases from a Web service
to the mainframe — while gaining the benefits of integration throughout the enterprise. CA Capability Solutions are grouped
according to the main focus of what they enable customers to do — govern, manage and secure. All CA Capability Solutions
are made up of several products and include services, education, and support, as well as partner offerings. CA Capability
Solutions cover the following areas which customers tell us are important to their businesses.
Govern
Customers can maximize the value IT delivers to the business by aligning a portfolio of services with business objectives —
balancing costs, resources and business risks. Executives gain insight into all of their IT to make the most effective IT
investment decisions to support the business.
Our Capability Solutions include:
•CA Project & Portfolio Management — Ensures IT investment decisions are aligned with business strategy and manage risks
and costs by providing real-time views into an organization’s investments, initiatives and resources.
•CA IT Asset & Financial Management — Manages cost and reduces risk by proactively managing assets through their life
cycles, from requisition to retirement and disposal. Manages IT expenditures from budgeting through cost allocation.
•CA Information Governance — Protects and manages information throughout its life cycle, ensuring accurate access and
availability at the right time and by the right people. Enables organizations to manage, archive and retain information based
on its relative importance to the business.
The acquisition of MDY (June 2006) strengthened our Information Governance portfolio by offering a records management
solution that controls and manages physical, electronic and email records. It provides comprehensive lifecycle management of
all corporate knowledge assets across enterprise content ‘silos’. The architecture, Federated RM
TM
, provides centralized
management (retention, policy, search, discovery, hold and security) of vital information dispersed across the enterprise.
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