CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) — formerly, Computer Associates, Inc. — is a multinational computer software corporation headquartered in Islandia, New York. More specifically, it develops and markets information technology (IT) management software, which it sells both directly via its sales team and indirectly via systems integrators, value-added resellers, and other service providers.
The company articulates its vision of how enterprises can harness the power of IT through what CA calls Enterprise IT Management (EITM). EITM divides into three broad categories across distributed or mainframe environments:[3]
Govern: Help make better decisions by giving enterprises insight into their IT investments and risk from a single place.
Manage: Make it easier to manage technology so that high-quality IT services can be delivered at a competitive cost.
Secure: Ensure secure access to the information, applications, systems and services needed to conduct business.
CA, which posted $4.3 billion USD in revenue for fiscal year 2008 (ending March 31, 2008),[2] maintains 150 offices in more than 45 countries.[4] The company employs 13,700 people (March 31, 2008) ),[2] including 5900 engineers.[2] The Software Top 100[5] — an independent initiative — ranks CA as the seventh-largest[6] software company in the world by 2007 revenue.