CA Software Compliance Manager to Help Customers Address Software License Compliance Demands at Lower Cost

CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the planned release of CA Software Compliance Manager, a newly developed module designed to help organizations manage the risks associated with software license compliance and reduce IT costs associated with ineffective software license management. Businesses using manual, inconsistent processes for software license management increase their level of risk by using non-repeatable processes. CA Software Compliance Manager is designed to help establish sustainable and continuous compliance processes that can help address regulatory challenges. "Organizations face many challenges today as they manage software licenses to address compliance needs. For example, inventory tools don’t discriminate between freeware and licensable software, and there are too many variances in how software is described in the inventory report, license agreement and purchase records,” said Brian Bell, senior vice president and general manager, CA Service Management. "Those challenges have forced organizations to engage in practices such as paying for more licenses than they need to avoid the risk of fines and to avoid being found out-of-compliance. CA Software Compliance Manager is designed to help businesses obtain the software license information they need to help maintain software license compliance without overspending.” CA was recently rated a "Strong Positive” in the Gartner report, "MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository, 2008.” * CA is a recognized leader in providing technology to help organizations manage their IT assets. CA Software Compliance Manager is a future addition to CA’s IT Asset Management solution with planned features to address customer challenges associated with software license compliance, including: Compliance Engine – Matches licenses to discovered software assets to help determine compliance status and optimize the use of licenses. License Administration – Records license information—including maintenance and dependencies—required to address the challenges associated with compliance, audits or proof of ownership. License Event Manager – Provides continuous views of software license compliance information via a dashboard. Inventory Integration – Integrates discovered software data from CA and third party inventory tools. Inventory Data Interpreter – Cleanses, normalizes and classifies the software data obtained from inventory tools, and identifies the software products that require compliance management. Knowledgebase – Provides a dynamic base of software license compliance information and software knowledge that is continually refreshed, replacing manual research of software inventory data. "The challenge with managing software assets for our company comes at audit time. With multiple data sources for software license information and various licensing models, the audit process is time consuming and complex,” said Juergen Joeckel, CEO, Merkantis GmbH. "We anticipate that CA Software Compliance Manager will help us address the audit challenge while helping reduce costs and facilitate good IT governance. CA's innovation is evident with this internally developed product. We are part of the beta testing program with CA and look forward to the putting it through its paces.” Customers seeking assistance in deploying CA Software Compliance Manager can turn to CA Services or to various CA partners ranging from global systems integrators to specialized solution providers. CA Services offers implementation services that use best practices and methodologies developed from hundreds of successful deployments of CA service management technology. That experience helps provide for rapid time-to-value. "Whether a business has 40 seats or 40,000 seats of a software product, properly managing software assets can help save money. Software asset management is a critical piece of the systems we implement for customers,” said Jim Bassich, president, Avery Island Technologies, a solution provider headquartered in Louisiana. "CA has developed this product from the ground up, designing it to integrate with various CA products and those of other vendors. We anticipate that this integration will ease automation of the software audit process and help address overall software compliance.” CA Software Compliance Manager is among eight new and updated products announced by CA today that are designed to help customers lower IT operations costs, manage risk, and improve security and compliance processes. The products support CA’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision by providing customers with capabilities to better govern, manage and secure IT for better business results. CA Software Compliance Manager was developed on the release 11 platform, so it is designed to integrate well with other CA solutions. For further information, about CA’s Service Management business, please visit http://ca.com/us/it-asset-management.aspx. * Gartner Research, "MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository, 2008,” Patricia Adams and William Snyder, April 2008. MarketScope Disclaimer The MarketScope is copyrighted April 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. 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