CA expands its end-to-end management capabilities to support real time enterprise applications worldwide
Dubai, 17 January 2006 - CA (NYSE:CA), one of the world's largest IT management software companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wily Technology, a leading provider of enterprise application management solutions, for $375 million in an all-cash transaction.
"Application management is key to enabling customers to manage IT environments from end-to-end - from applications to infrastructure - and delivering on CA's Enterprise IT Management vision," said Gilbert Lacroix, vice president and general manager of CA in the Middle East & Africa (MEA). "Wily is the leader in this sector and the fastest growing major company in a fast growing market. With this acquisition, CA will be the only company to address the management of applications, IT assets and users across all hardware and software, from the mainframe to the distributed environment."
Wily provides end to end visibility into customer transactions in real time, and enables IT organizations to successfully manage the health and availability of their critical enterprise applications and infrastructure. Its solutions allow IT managers to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success, resulting in better customer service and higher IT productivity.
CA expects Wily to contribute approximately $72 million of revenue in CA's fiscal year 2007 on a ratable basis. Billions of web transactions a day are monitored by Wily's software more transactions for more customers than all its competitors combined. Wily's technology is installed in more than 450 leading enterprises and government organizations worldwide.
Wily is positioned in the Leader's Quadrant of Gartner Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for J2EE Application Server Management, 2005 (1); Gartner is forecasting that the Application Management market, based on new license revenue, will exceed $1 billion in 2007, and is estimated to reach $1.355 billion in 2009 (2).
The acquisition is expected to be completed within three months, pending regulatory approval, and is expected to be dilutive to CA's earnings per share in fiscal 2006 and neutral to earnings per share in fiscal 2007. "The expertise of Wily, packaged along with CA's ERP solutions will help organizations, large & SMBs, reduce costs and time of implementation," concluded Lacroix.
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About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted April 4, 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT.
Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries.
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About CA Middle East & Africa
CA set up its direct presence in the Middle East region in September 2004. Today CA has offices in Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai). With over 100 highly skilled professionals and a tri-lingual 24X7 customer support centre in the region, CA is able to help many large and small organizations to unify and simplify their IT environments securely to drive better business value.
CA customers in MEA include Aga Khan University, Bank of Beirut, Dubai Department of Civil Aviation, Emirates Bank International, Etisalat Contact Center, Public Warehousing Company, Royal Court Affairs in Oman, Salalah Port Authority, Saudi Arabian Airlines, UAE Higher Colleges of Technology and many other organisations large and small. For more information, please visit www.ca.com/arabworld
About Wily
Wily is the market-leading provider of Enterprise Application Management solutions. By providing end-to-end visibility into customer transactions in real time, Wily's products enable companies to successfully manage the health and availability of their critical Web applications and infrastructure. Wily's collaborative management approach allows enterprises to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success. This means better customer service, more stable revenue streams, and higher IT productivity.
Gartner Research, "Magic Quadrants for J2EE Application Server Management 2005" by Cameron Haight, April 4, 2005.
Gartner Research, "Forecast: Enterprise Management Software, Worldwide, 2004-2009" by Laurie Wurster and Fabrizio Biscotti, July 12, 2005.
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