Dubai, UAE August 20, 2007 - CA (NYSE: CA) today announced it was named a "Leader" in the client management suites market by Forrester Research in the "Forrester Wave: Client Management Suites, Q3 2007" report.
Of the eight companies invited to participate in the study which evaluated client management solutions across 98 criteria grouped by strategy, current offering, and market presence CA had the highest score across multiple criteria such as architecture, administration and management, and key technology partners.
Commenting on the research, Maria Medvedeva, Regional Director of Technical Sales for CA's EMEA Eastern Markets said, "The CA Client Management solution unifies and automates the processes needed to rapidly implement changes to IT services, such as automating compliance and minimizing risk, while maintaining service levels. Forrester's assessment underscores CA success of delivering on its vision to unify the entire change lifecycle from inception, to the delivery of a fix, to the ongoing management of client and server configurations. Moreover our customers can ensure end-to-end management of every IT infrastructure change."
The Forrester report stated that CA's Desktop Management Suite offers practical features in the areas of software, OSes, and systems management and "has broad desktop OS support, the most flexible software distribution capabilities, and includes power and license management functionality." *
"In addition," according to Forrester, "the product hooks directly into other IT management solutions from CA, enabling IT to have visibility into enterprise-wide system status. Best of all, this solution comes at a price point that enterprises can afford." *
Forrester's report also recognized the administration and management features of CA's client management technologies and said they "include rich identity-based policy capabilities, which lower the costs associated with managing the client environment by decreasing the amount of time administrators spend keeping systems up and running. In addition, the product architecture is solid, scaling to any size organization without significant performance impact."
CA's Client Management solutions streamline the management of desktops across an organization's IT environment to reduce costs, improve service levels and mitigate risk. They help ensure the optimum configuration of desktops with automated features that provide continuous and active discovery, change monitoring, software and patch distribution, remote support for end-users, data protection and targeted reporting.
"The Forrester Wave: Client Management Suites, Q3 2007" and the associated report entitled "CA Offers A Viable Client Management Suite Alternative," Forrester Research, Inc., July 24, 2007, are available at http://www.ca.com/analyst/clientmgmt
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About CA
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. For more information, please visit http://www.ca.com.
About CA in the Arab Countries and Pakistan
CA's Eastern EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region comprises the Arab countries, Africa, Levant, Pakistan, Russia and the CIS (Commonwealth Independent States), and Turkey. Today CA has strong local presence across the region, with over 100 highly skilled professionals in over a dozen countries and a 24x7 tri-lingual Customer and Partner Support Center located in the region.
CA customers in the region include Aga Khan University, Al-Rajhi Bank, Arab Banking Corporation, Bank of Beirut, Comium Group, Dubai Department of Civil Aviation, Emirates Bank International, Etisalat Contact Center, UAE Higher Colleges of Technology, Investment Dar Company in Kuwait, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, King Saud University, KSA National Computer Center, Mashreq Bank, Kuwait Public Authority of Civil Information, Middle East Airlines, Royal Court Affairs in Oman, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Salalah Port Services, PWC Logistics and many other organisations large and small. For more information, please visit www.ca.com/arabworld.
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