Profile: CA, Inc. (CA.O)

CA, Inc. (CA), incorporated in 1974, is an independent information technology (IT) management software company. The Company develops and delivers software that helps organizations to manage IT throughout complex computing environments. CA address the entire computing environment, which includes all of the people, information, processes, systems, networks, applications and databases from a Web service to the mainframe to a virtualized cloud, regardless of the hardware or software customers are using. CA serves the majority of the Forbes Global 2000 companies, who rely on its software, in part, to manage mission-critical aspects of their businesses. The Company has a portfolio of software products and services that address its customers’ needs for mainframe and distributed environments, spanning IT governance, IT management and IT security. Key focus areas include infrastructure management, project and portfolio management, security management, service management, application performance management, and data center automation and virtualization. In October 2008, the Company acquired IDFocus LLC and its identity management technology, ACE. In November 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of NetQoS Inc. In January 2010, the Company announced that it has acquired Oblicore, a provider of service level management (SLM) software for enterprises and service providers.

The Company licenses its products worldwide, principally to IT service providers, financial services companies, governmental agencies, retailers, manufacturers, educational institutions and healthcare institutions. These customers typically maintain IT infrastructures that are both complex and central to their objectives. CA offers its software products and solutions directly to its customers through its direct sales force and indirectly through global systems integrators, managed service providers, technology partners, enterprise IT management (EITM) value-added resellers and distribution and volume partners. In November 2008, the Company announced a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery option for its enterprise-class solution, Clarity Project & Portfolio Manager. In September 2008, the Company began offering support for Microsoft’s virtualization technology across its Recovery Management, Virtualization Management, Security and Systems Management products. This support will help Microsoft customers govern, manage and secure complex virtualized environments.

In September 2008, CA enhanced its Clarity Project & Portfolio Manager solution by fully integrating cost and schedule measurement functionality to help the United States federal government agencies and contractors conform to the American National Standards Institute/Electronic Industries Alliance Standard 748 (ANSI/EIA-748) standard for earned value management systems. In September 2008, it released CA GRC Manager NERC Program Accelerator, a complete North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)-compliance program for power and utility customers. In July 2008, the Company launched a customized channel partner program dedicated to its global Internet security partners’ focus on its anti-malware product portfolio. The program for Internet security will help value-added resellers, retailers and technology partners market and sell solutions to service small, medium and large organizations, as well as the home and home office market. In June 2008, the Company released eight new and updated solutions that deliver on its objective of EITM to enable customers to govern, manage and secure the services IT delivers to the business. Its new offerings include products for managing compliance and risk across mainframe and distributed computing environments, and products that build on its advances in automation.

The Company helps its customers automate IT governance and various aspects of business governance. IT governance is the process of deciding about the priorities of their IT investments and how IT will allocate its human and financial resources to support those priorities. Business governance includes risk management, policy and regulatory compliance management, and information governance (such as records and messaging management). IT governance is addressed by CA Clarity Project & Portfolio Manager, its enterprise-class project portfolio management (PPM) solution. Business governance is addressed by its CA GRC Manager and Information Governance products.

The Company focuses on service management, data center automation and application performance management, which includes offerings, such as CA Wily Introscope, and infrastructure management, which includes offerings, such as CA SPECTRUM Network Fault Manager, CA eHealth Network Performance Manager and CA NSM. CA helps to ensure that customers have secure access to the information, applications, systems and services they need to conduct their businesses. It focuses on identity and access management, as well as security information management and threat management, which include CA Access Control, CA Identity Manager and CA SiteMinder. The Company’s main areas of focus for mainframe and distributed environments are infrastructure management; project and portfolio management; IT security management, including compliance and risk management; service management; application performance management, and data center automation and virtualization.

To guide customers through the process of selecting, implementing and using IT management software, the Company delivers solutions and serves as a partner through a range of offerings and programs that make up the CA Customer Value Network. The CA Customer Value Network consists of CA Education, CA Services, CA Support, CA Partners and CA Communities. CA Education, CA Services, CA Support and CA Partners provide numerous offerings from solution implementation to technology consultation, educational programs and support services, throughout the customer’s software ownership. CA Communities provide programs that can help customers solve problems and network with peers.

The Company competes with IBM, HP, BMC and Symantec.