LAS VEGAS ? Computer Associates used the forum of its CA World Forum in Las Vegas to roll out its Enterprise IT Management product line that lets businesses better control costs, optimize service levels, manage risk and align Information Technology Investments.

EITM provides a path for proactive enterprise-wide IT management that lets organizations optimize resources in anticipation of business needs. It ties together management of the entire enterprise IT environment ? including end-users, infrastructure, data, applications, IT services and business processes.

EITM?s service-oriented approach eliminates the ?silos? that historically have limited an IT organization?s ability to effectively manage disparate technologies. It therefore makes it easier to enhance and monitor the end-to-end impact of IT on the business.

?Businesses today run on a complex amalgamation of technologies ranging from 25-year-old legacy databases to state-of-the-art RFID systems,? said CA President and CEO John Swainson. ?As long as the management of those technologies remains fragmented, IT-related costs and vulnerabilities will be higher than necessary, and organizations will not realize the full economic value of their IT assets. CA?s EITM vision addresses these central issues by bringing unprecedented unity to technology ownership ? enabling our customers to leverage their past, present and future IT investments more effectively than ever before.?

CA is delivering 26 EITM-enabled products tightly integrated through the CA Integration Platform, which provides a workflow engine, management database (MDB), shared policies and a consistent user interface to enable customers to effectively integrate and orchestrate their technologies, people and processes to support their business goals. CA?s EITM-enabled products are available as individual modules and integrated suite components, enabling customers to add functionality and derive value as required. Products include:

BrightStor Storage Command Center ? provides intuitive, business-centric insight into the enterprise storage environment, transforming raw technical information into an intuitive ?dashboard? that lets IT management quickly assess performance and understand how storage assets are supporting key business processes.

CA Identity Manager ? automates the management of user identities to manage risk, enhance regulatory compliance and reduce administration costs.

Unicenter Advanced Systems Management (Unicenter ASM) ?provides extensive insight into the status, performance and dependencies of complex assets, such as clusters and virtualized platforms, enabling organizations to visualize advanced systems and optimize operations using resource brokering.

Unicenter Asset Intelligence ? provides an executive-level view into key IT performance indicators ? enabling organizations to pinpoint anomalies, avoid unnecessary expenditures, assess risk and comply with industry regulations.

Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) ? enables organizations to continuously assess and manage complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructures, correlating events from networks, systems, applications and databases to determine business impact and accelerate mean-time-to-repair.

Unicenter Service Desk ? centralizes, automates and simplifies the management of support activities including incident, problem and change management processes, leveraging industry standard best practices such as ITIL.

Unicenter Service Intelligence ? provides service-focused financial, performance, utilization and risk information to help customers make smarter decisions about how to optimally allocate infrastructure, people and budgets to meet business needs.

CA also is delivering 60 additional mainframe and distributed products that leverage some component of the CA Integration Platform.

The following CA products are tightly integrated through the CA integration platform.

AllFusion Harvest Change Manager ? synchronizes development activities on heterogeneous platforms across the enterprise and throughout the entire application development life cycle.

BrightStor Storage Command Center ? provides a high-level dashboard view for managing storage across multiple data centers and regional office locations, enabling organizations to achieve operational efficiency and manage risk more effectively.

CA Desktop Protection Suite ? automates the processes that support an organization?s end-user computing needs, helping to ensure the optimum configuration of Windows desktops by delivering critical software resources, security patches and updates in a timely manner.

CA Identity Manager ? delivers a comprehensive solution for automating the management of user identities to manage risk, enhance regulatory compliance and reduce administration costs.

CA Wireless Site Management ? provides a complete management and security solution for enterprise Wi-Fi networks and enables organizations to secure and manage the wireless environment and integrate wireless technologies seamlessly into the existing enterprise infrastructure.

AllFusion Change Manger Enterprise Workbench ? integrates complex software development processes across mainframe and distributed platforms.

Unicenter ASM ? provides extensive insight into the status, performance and dependencies of complex assets, such as clusters and virtualized platforms, enabling organizations to visualize advanced systems and optimize operations using resource brokering.

Unicenter Application Performance Monitor ? provides a secure, web-based platform to monitor application response times and help ensure a high-quality experience for end users.

Unicenter Asset Intelligence ? converts asset data stored in the MDB ? including configuration, financial, and usage data ? into actionable intelligence, enabling customers to make more informed business decisions. Unicenter Asset Intelligence also provides an executive-level portal view into Key Performance Indicators, enabling IT decision-makers to identify opportunities for efficiencies and cost savings.

Unicenter Asset Portfolio Management ? delivers a scalable, easy-to-use enterprise solution that manages IT assets and resources as they relate to vendors, contracts, and the financial impact on the organization.

Unicenter Management for Microsoft Exchange ? provides a comprehensive offering that enables organizations to manage their Exchange environments with flexible, business-based policies.

Unicenter Management for WebLogic ? maintains WebLogic servers and applications, prevents and detects problems, and locates the root cause of performance degradation in real time.

Unicenter Management for WebSphere ? provides complete, end-to-end health and performance and availability monitoring of the IBM WebSphere application server built on the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) standard.

Unicenter NSM ? enables organizations to continuously assess and manage complex, multi-vendor IT infrastructures, correlating events from networks, systems, applications and databases to determine business impact and accelerate mean-time-to-repair.

Unicenter Job Management Option ? ensures that all critical jobs are successfully run on enterprise-wide systems at scheduled times, and in the desired sequence, making it easy to manage complex interdependent jobs.

Unicenter Remote Control ? delivers a highly reliable and secure application for controlling and supporting remote Windows and Linux.

Unicenter Service Accounting ? provides IT organizations with detailed financial analysis information based on activities completed and resources utilized in delivering services to the business.

Unicenter Service Assure ? supports process-driven service level management between IT providers and business customers.

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