SOUTHFIELD ? Computer Associates International?s Business Service Optimization and Enterprise Systems Management solutions have won ?Intelligent Enterprise? magazine?s 2005 Readers’ Choice Awards in the Best IT Systems Management Tool, Best Enterprise Application Management System, and Best Application Change Management Toolset categories. CA also tied with Microsoft and Oracle for Best Business Process Management System.

?Readers? Choice awards are particularly gratifying because they are selected by our customers, and they demonstrate how popular CA solutions are with the IT organizations that use them every day,? said Vincent Re, senior vice president and chief architect at CA. ?Customers rely on the CA solutions chosen for this year?s awards to maximize the business value of their technology investments and ensure tight alignment between IT resources and business needs.?

CA solutions that received Readers? Choice awards include:

Best Application Change Management Toolset and Best Enterprise Application Management System ? AllFusion Harvest Change Manager, a comprehensive, repository-based change and configuration management solution that helps customers effectively manage complex, enterprise-wide development activities throughout the entire application development life cycle, won both categories.

Best IT Systems Management Tool ? Unicenter Network and Systems Management, which manages the health and availability of operating systems and infrastructure elements such as network devices, business applications and databases, won this category.

Best Business Process Management System ? CleverPath Aion, a robust business process management solution that enables both technical and non-technical users to effectively define, implement, monitor and streamline a complete range of business rules and processes, tied for first place in this category.

“Each year, we poll our readers to find out which vendors are most deserving of praise in a variety of technology categories,” said Doug Henschen, editor of Intelligent Enterprise. “Our readers have declared that Computer Associates offers the best products in three important categories added to the award program this year. We congratulate CA on this triple-crown achievement.”