SOUTHFIELD ? CA announced Thursday it has acquired Canadian-based Cybermation for $75 million in an all-cash deal. Cybermation specializes in software and services that automate job scheduling.
Cybermation’s software will fit nicely into CA’s automation portfolio, where customers can simplify their IT environments by automating the scheduling and deployment of workloads across mainframe and distributed systems. The acquisition will also make Cybermation?s solutions available to a wider range of customers worldwide and provide both companies? existing customers with advanced technologies for next-generation job scheduling.
The worldwide market for job scheduling software is expected to grow to $1.77 billion in the year 2010, according to recent research published by IDC. This trend bodes well for CA, since the former Computer Associates has lead the market for three years in a row for job scheduling software. CA in 2004 held a 20.2 percent market share.
?The acquisition of Cybermation demonstrates CA?s commitment to continued leadership and innovation in its core markets,? said Alan Nugent, senior vice president and general manager of CA?s Enterprise Systems Management Business Unit. ?It will help us fulfill our vision for enterprise workload automation and provide customers with unprecedented control and automation of production workloads.?
CA?s workload automation software provides integration business policies, events and real-time processes across all applications and platforms from a single point of control. Cybermation technologies will play a key role in building and enhancing this management foundation.
?Joining CA allows us to integrate our leading job scheduling technologies into CA?s workload automation strategy to deliver a single, highly advanced workload automation platform to the market,? said Ray Nissan, founder and CEO of Cybermation.
CA will market the Cybermation solutions as standalone products while integrating them into its larger workload automation solutions suits.
In 2005, Cybermation had revenue of $30 million and was profitable. The company was founded in 1982, is headquartered in Markham, Ontario and has sales offices in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. The acquisition is expected to close within 30 days.
