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Business Organization
We have a broad and deep portfolio of software solutions with which to execute our business strategy. We organize our
offerings in Mainframe Solutions, Enterprise Solutions and Services operating segments.
products are designed mainly for the IBM System z mainframe platform, which runs many of our
largest customers’ mission-critical applications. We help customers seamlessly manage the mainframe as part of their
strategy to succeed in the Application Economy through unified management approaches, end-to-end visibility and
application portability. New innovation allows customers to effectively manage their mainframes as part of complex,
heterogeneous data environments and accelerate development of mobile-to-mainframe applications to support DevOps
initiatives. New technologies, such as CA Application Lifecycle Conductor and vStorm Connect Data Streaming for Big
Data, extend our comprehensive mainframe portfolio — including systems and database management, automation,
application development and security — helping customers embrace new business models, drive business agility and increase
competitiveness.
products operate on mainly non-mainframe platforms and include our DevOps, Management Cloud and
Security product groups.
• In today’s fast moving world, most companies are bringing some software development in-house. Our DevOps
solutions include Application Delivery solutions, Application Performance Management solutions and Infrastructure
Management solutions and enable state-of-the-art application development in compressed timescales.
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• Our suite of management applications delivered from the cloud enables increased speed and scale
and includes our IT Business Management (ITBM) solutions, API Management solutions and Enterprise Mobility
Management solutions.
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investments. This delivery model allows us to extend our market reach, speed adoption of our solutions, improve our
efficiencies, and compete more effectively for a larger number of customers globally.
Mainframe Solutions
Enterprise Solutions
DevOps:
Application Delivery solutions help customers deliver innovative applications faster, with higher quality and at a lower
cost. As a key part of CA Technologies’ DevOps offering, these tools help organizations create and deliver new
business services by optimizing application development testing processes and by automating the deployment of
applications across all stages of the application lifecycle. The cornerstones of the CA Application Delivery portfolio
include CA Service Virtualization, which eliminates constraints in the testing process by modeling and simulating
both the behavior and performance characteristics of dependent systems and services; and CA Release Automation,
which automates and orchestrates the complex process of deploying and promoting new application capabilities from
development through production.
Application Performance Management (APM) solutions are designed to scale and manage billions of transactions, from
any device, across critical enterprise, mainframe and mobile applications. By providing deep-dive application
diagnostics, end-user experience monitoring, synthetic monitoring and analytics, our APM solutions help to ensure
service quality, increase revenue, improve productivity and enhance customer satisfaction.
Infrastructure Management solutions offer a unified approach to monitoring and managing the performance and
capacity of IT assets and services within traditional data centers and cloud environments. Our solutions provide
operations teams in some of the largest IT organizations in the world with quick access to the information they need
to improve service quality, predictability and efficiency with less effort and reduced costs.
Management Cloud:
IT Business Management solutions help customers optimize their investments, projects, resources and processes.
ITBM comprises core project and portfolio management and service management applications that are delivered
both through SaaS and on premise. For example, with our market-leading CA Project & Portfolio Management, we
help customers improve technology investment decision-making, optimize their resources and execute projects at a
higher value and with less risk. CA Service Management solutions help organizations improve service quality and
end-user productivity by automating service requests, improving operational processes and mitigating software
compliance risk.
API Management solutions help organizations seamlessly and securely connect valuable data to mobile apps, cloud
platforms, developers and the ‘Internet of Things’ through APIs. With APIs, organizations are able improve business
agility, accelerate time-to-value and increase revenue through new routes to market. CA API Management enables