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ca annual report 2008 | page 1
Dear Investors,
Fiscal Year 2008 was a pivotal year for our Company: With
the challenges of our past behind us, we began realizing the
benefits of the transformation we started three years ago,
delivering solid revenue, earnings and cash flow growth. Let
me share with you some highlights of the past twelve months,
and our plans to build on that success in the coming year.
Our Core Business
Foremost among our priorities in Fiscal 2008 was refocusing the company on selling new
software licenses. We made great progress in this regard; our sales of new licenses to new
and existing customers reached their highest level in many years.
To achieve this goal, sales and marketing had to reorient their focus, but so did the
development teams. For many years CA has been known for its rock-solid products, which
run on mainframe and distributed platforms, and are deployed in and relied upon by the
majority of companies in the Forbes Global 2000. However, as large banks, government
agencies and other sophisticated users of information technology (IT) have become even
more dependent on an increasingly heterogeneous IT infrastructure, they’ve come to
realize that they need a company like CA to help them solve their most complex IT
management problems. As IT becomes increasingly networked and virtualized, these
customers need a reliable partner to help them govern, manage and secure technology
so they can better leverage IT to help their businesses innovate, compete and grow. This is
CA’s great opportunity for the future, and it will allow us to continue to grow our business.
Enterprise IT Management (EITM), CA’s unique vision of using technology to automate the
management of IT, is rapidly becoming a reality. EITM offers a level of integration and ability
to work in a heterogeneous environment that far surpass prior IT management offerings. For
letter from the ceo