Enterprise IT management software provider CA has managed to survive the economic downturn, with its revenues remaining flat in fiscal 2009. The company has been quite successful in acquiring and integrating companies over the last few years, and these strategic acquisitions continued this year, including three in the security space. Stringent cost control measures have improved the company’s margins and cash-in-hand. However, CA needs to increase its reach beyond the current customer group (which primarily consists of large financial institutions, government, telco and service providers) if it is to accelerate its growth and achieve its ambitions to rebalance its business geographically.

Executive summary
In a nutshell
The Ovum view
SWOT analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Products and services
Products
Virtualisation and the cloud
Application performance management
Service management
Project and portfolio management
Infrastructure management
Security management and compliance
Mainframe 2.0
Services
Professional services
Education and support
Software-as-a-service
Strategy analysis
Strategy objectives
Strategy execution
Internal product development/enhancements
Strengthening partner relationships
Expansion and restructuring of international operations
Strategic acquisitions
Improving internal efficiency
Future outlook
Financial analysis
Group analysis

List of Tables
Table 1: CA key financial indicators