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6
CA ca.com/catoday/2007ar
What to Expect from CA
You can expect to see results from our continuing focus on operational excellence in the six priorities
we set for ourselves two years ago. We will substantially complete the restructuring of our business we
announced last year, and we expect to see the benefi ts from that restructuring by the end of this fi scal
year. That does not mean that we are fi nished looking for effi ciencies. We are measuring ourselves
against the best software companies, and understand that we have more work to do to create the kind
of cost effi ciencies that the best of breed have.
However, a little more revenue growth would go a long way to letting us grow into these effi ciencies.
We are keenly aware that our business is not growing as fast as we would like it to, and have recently kicked
off a strategic planning process focused on fi nding ways to enhance the company’s growth. One area we
are exploring is something we call business services optimization; the idea being that businesses need to
view IT as a set of services and start managing and measuring them as such. We have seen substantial
growth in this area over the last year, with acquisitions like Niku and Wily helping jump-start other parts
of the CA portfolio. Likewise, we have integrated our acquisitions — MDY,
iLumin, Cybermation, XOsoft, Netegrity and Concord — adding hundreds
of new CA customers and seeing the synergies of these acquisitions with
our existing products.
In Fiscal 2007, we expanded the portfolio with the addition of records
management products, and have begun to offer customers a way to
integrate all of their services. Our security business, anchored in Identity
and Access Management, continues to grow, and is an important
long-term growth opportunity for us, especially when customers want
to link their security and systems infrastructure.
Another growth area in Fiscal 2007 was the Network and Systems
Management business. These products are the core of CA’s business,
and last year we shipped the fi rst major upgrade in four years, and were
pleased with the customer acceptance. As customers make their IT operations more networked, more
heterogeneous and more outsourced, their need for the kinds of products and services CA offers will
continue to grow. We feel very good about our portfolio of products and our market position.
“ We feel very
good about our
portfolio of
products and
our market
position.”