CA Sponsors Enterprise Service Orientation Award at the Event

Dubai, July 19, 2006 - CA, one of the world's largest IT management software companies announced its support of 'Enterprise Services - Innovation' award at the Computer News Middle East Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Vision Awards 2006 held last week.

This prestigious event focused on the regional use of Information Technology to better enable business by utilizing Service Oriented Architecture that eliminates the boundaries between IT domains.  

The event also featured a full schedule of informative sessions by key industry speakers, amongst them Mr. Luke Kabamba, Business Unit Leader for Enterprise System Management at CA in Dubai.  During his presentation, Mr. Kabamba discussed the convergence of application development and integration, leading to a service oriented architecture framework that delivers better response rates, higher operational efficiencies and faster application deployment.    

Presenting the award to Al Tayer Group, Maria Medvedeva, the Dubai-based Regional Director of CA's Security Management, EMEA Eastern Markets, said, "This event represents the next level of maturity for the enterprises in the Gulf market. It is clear that today's environment is rapidly changing - business dynamics and technological innovations have left organizations with a disparate mix of operating systems, applications and databases.  SOA is aimed to deliver flexibility and agility by dramatically cutting development time and cost, allowing a faster delivery timeframe for new innovative services to customers, suppliers and partners. "

She added, "Through its service oriented architecture, CA is empowering IT users, from executives to operators, by providing them with a unique capability to bypass the impact of the IT infrastructure's complexity and channeling relevant information and services to their fingertips. CA's Service Oriented Architecture creates solutions that are flexible, open and extensible, making the infrastructure easy to manage..

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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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