Computer Associates (CA), one of the world’s largest management software companies, has unveiled the next steps in its strategy to provide a new generation of infrastructure management solutions to help cable, wireline, and wireless service providers ensure the security, performance, and availability of their revenue generating infrastructures.
CA is leveraging its recent acquisition of Concord Communications and its Aprisma subsidiary to extend its traditional telecommunications business.
"In the past, CA has provided solutions that enable service providers to effectively manage their internal IT environments," said Gilbert Lacroix, VP and general manager of CA in the Arab Countries and Pakistan. "Now, by leveraging our industry-leading technology, we will also help them manage their customers' environments, as well as the externally facing infrastructures they use to deliver their revenue-generating services."
By combining the leading-edge network performance and fault management solutions from Concord and its Aprisma business unit with CA's industry-leading systems management, security management and storage management product lines, CA is able to provide the telecommunications industry with comprehensive management solutions that reduce operating costs, increase service levels, and generate new revenue streams.
"CA has spent more than US$1.2 billion in the last two years developing a unified platform for IT management that is entirely consistent with trends in the telco Operational Support System (OSS) market," added Lacroix. "The unparalleled breadth of CA's technology is extremely applicable to the management challenges faced by telco and service providers' operations staffs, and offers these companies an extremely compelling value proposition."
CA's new telco and service provider team includes telecommunications professionals with experience in marketing, presales support, architecture, business development, and sales. The team plans to enhance CA's current IT management offerings to expand support for managed IT services and high-growth services such as IP VPNs, mobile wireless, VOIP and voice/data/video over cable.
