CA Cairo Seminar Tackles Enhancing Service Desk Practices

Cairo Egypt, July 18, 2006: CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest IT management software companies organized a Business Service Optimization (BSO) seminar for its existing Egyptian customers to discuss new technologies to further enhance their Service Desk Practices and promote it to a higher level.

The Seminar, which was held in Cairo, was attended by CA customers such as the World Health Organization, Dar Al Iftaa Al Islamiya, and United Gas Derivatives. CA demonstrated the capabilities of the Service Desk technology to maximize its performance and showed its best practices to help customers achieve business alignment by translating demand into cost-effective IT services. Several other key topics affecting businesses in the Middle East were also discussed along with vital customer feedback related to the performance of the Service Desk Dashboard.

Commenting on the seminar, Mr. Ewiees Sharaf, General Manager for Computer and Information Technology Center in Dar Al Iftaa Al Islamiya said, "This has been a very successful seminar for us and we thank CA for their efforts in conducting it. The seminar had a very consultative approach on how to get more value from our existing Unicenter Service Desk operations which will significantly cut costs and boost efficiency at the same time."

Speaking on the occasion, Toni Prince, Regional Manager at CA for Egypt and the Levant, said, "BSO solutions deliver critical insight into and control of the assets, processes, people and projects supporting those services thereby providing clear visibility into the total cost of delivering IT services and their performance. Using CA's BSO solutions, IT organization can meet commitments to the business and deliver the most value from existing resources."

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About CA in the 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

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