ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Core News Facts
- More than 300 customers have successfully implemented CA
Mainframe Software Manager (CA MSM)
- Customers are reporting time savings of up to 99.4%, leveraging
the simplified user interface and automated processes
- One customer installed 70 products in just 7 hours versus 50
days without MSM, another cut software maintenance time by 80%, a
third reduced product install time by 400 percent, still another
cut out 3/4 of a day to manually administrate tape and activity
management
CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) today announced that CA MSM
surpassed over 300 installations helping customers increase
productivity and cut costs by leveraging Install shield -like
capabilities and process automation to help both experts and
novices simplify the software acquisition, installation, and
deployment of CA Technologies mainframe products.
A key innovation in delivering on CA Technologies Mainframe 2.0
strategy, CA MSM customers around the world including Tieto,
International Software Products and Garanti Technology report
dramatic reductions — as much as 99.4% — in the amount of time they
spend installing and updating CA Technologies products.*
Industry analysts, including EMA and Clabby Analytics have also
published research about the customer benefits of CA MSM.
CA Technologies 'Mainframe 2.0' management strategy helps
organizations to maximize platform value and workforce agility by
simplifying its management through integration, automation, and
modernization.
"As they seek to respond more quickly to changing business
needs, organizations are demanding greater agility from IT,
increased operational efficiencies and reduced cost," said
Dayton Semerjian, general manager,
Mainframe, CA Technologies. "With CA MSM, we are
helping customers meet these needs by simplifying the
implementation and ongoing maintenance of our mainframe management
solutions."
Businesses are focused on sustaining critical mainframe skills
and ensuring they have staff in place to support the current
platform, now and into the future. With CA MSM, customers are
reporting that they have been able to help achieve these goals
by:
- Accelerating time to benefit for new mainframe technologies,
like the new z/OS operating environment
- Proving that critical maintenance tasks are carried out quickly
and effectively
- Increasing staff productivity, freeing them up for activities
more strategic to the business.
- Reducing the impact of industry skills shortage, by reducing
the ramp-up time for newer staff
- Leveraging CA MSM's open design to import SMP/E information
about software products from other mainframe ISV's, and managing
the application of maintenance to those products.
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and
solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from
mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative
products and services provide the insight and control essential for
IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT
ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at
www.ca.com.
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*Some information in this press release is based upon CA and
customer experiences with the referenced software product in a
variety of development and customer environments. Past performance
of the software product in such development and customer
environments is not indicative of the future performance of such
software product in identical, similar or different environments.
CA does not warrant that the software product will operate as
specifically set forth in this press release.
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