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Customers can obtain licenses to our products through individual discrete purchases to meet their immediate needs or
through the adoption of enterprise license agreements. Enterprise license agreements are comprehensive licenses that cover
multiple products and also provide for maintenance and support.
For our mainframe solutions, the majority of our licenses provide customers with the right to use one or more of our
products up to a specific license capacity, generally measured in MIPS. For these products, customers may acquire
additional capacity during the term of a license by paying us an additional license fee. For our enterprise solutions, our
licenses may provide customers with the right to use one or more of our products limited to a number of servers, users or
copies, among other things. Customers may license these products for additional servers, users or copies, etc., during the
term of a license by paying us an additional license fee.
SaaS is another delivery model we offer for certain products when a customer prefers to use our technology off-premises
with little or no infrastructure required. Our SaaS offerings are typically licensed using a subscription fee.
Competition
Our industry is extremely competitive and experiences rapid technological change, the steady emergence of new companies
and products, evolving industry standards, computing platforms, go-to-market models, business models and continually
changing customer needs. We compete with many established companies, the majority of which have substantially greater
financial, marketing and technological resources than we do. Our competitors include BMC Software Inc., Compuware
Corporation, Dell Incorporated, Hewlett-Packard Company, International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft
Corporation, Oracle Corporation, ServiceNow, Inc., and VMware, Inc. These firms compete broadly across our multiple
product lines.
We also compete with numerous smaller companies that provide products in a single area of our portfolio. Many of these
firms are inherently 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.
We believe our competitive differentiators include: our experience managing mission-critical capabilities for major global
corporations; our focus on innovation and delivery of new, differentiated solutions; and our platform and hardware
independence, breadth and synergy of offerings, industry expertise, intellectual property, comprehensive distribution,
customer relationships, product functionality and scalability, as well as brand name recognition and reputation.
Employees
We had approximately 11,600 and 12,700 employees at March 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.
(d) 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.
(e) 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
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