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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: Information and Resource Guide (applicable to all of our employees, including our Chief Executive
Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, and our directors). These documents can also be obtained in print by
writing to our Corporate Secretary, CA, Inc., One CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11749.
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
Current and potential stockholders should consider carefully the risk factors described below. Any of these factors, many of which
are beyond our control, could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results, cash flow and stock
price.
Failure to achieve success in our business strategy could materially adversely affect our business, financial
condition, operating results and cash flow.
As more fully described in Part I, Item 1 “Business,” our business strategy is designed to build on our portfolio of software and
services to meet next-generation market opportunities. The success of this strategy could be affected by many of the risk factors
discussed in this Form 10-K and also by our ability to:
•Effectively rebalance our sales force to increase penetration in Large New Enterprises and Growth Markets where we currently
may not have a strong presence and where we may have a dependence on unfamiliar distribution partners and routes;
•Enable our sales force to sell new products, including instances where our offerings are of a type not previously provided by us,
to our traditional core and new customers, or where a competitor already has an established relationship with a potential new
customer;
•Improve the CA Technologies brand in the marketplace; and
•Ensure our cloud computing, SaaS and other new offerings address the needs of a rapidly changing market, while not adversely
affecting the demand for our traditional products or our profitability.
Failure to achieve success with this strategy could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and
cash flow.
Given the global nature of our business, economic factors or political events beyond our control and other
business risks associated with non-U.S. operations can affect our business in unpredictable ways.
International revenue has historically represented a significant percentage of our total worldwide revenue. Success in selling and
developing our products outside the United States will depend on a variety of factors in various non-U.S. locations, including:
•Foreign exchange currency rates;
•Local economic conditions;
•Political stability and acts of terrorism;
•Workforce reorganizations in various locations, including global reorganizations of sales, research and development, technical
services, finance, human resources and facilities functions;
•Effectively staffing key managerial and technical positions;
•Successfully localizing software products for a significant number of international markets;
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