Las Vegas –CA has unveiled 16 new solutions for the Enterprise IT Management strategy announced 18 months ago at the last CA World conference.
The new applications, dubbed CA Capability Solutions will fall under three broad categories: ‘govern’, ‘manage’ and ‘secure.’
Ten of the solutions focus on the management of service levels, configuration, help desk, application performance, availability, network and voice, virtual systems, workload automation, database, and recovery.
CA’s identity and access management, security information management and threat management products are part of the secure group.
<P“The vision we had 18 months ago has become even more important to us over the past year,” Al Nugent, chief technology officer for CA, said at this year's conference here.Back then EITM was focused only on management and security. Nugent added that CA needed to expand the definition and include governance. “Governance is a topic for every CIO,” he said.
The new govern group will consist of project and portfolio management, IT asset and financial management and CA Information Governance.
John Fechenback, practice director for CA partner Xinify of San Ramon, Calif., said EITM is one of the largest growth areas in the management and control of the IT product lifecycle. It allows IT management and senior executives to be able to work from the same common data and eliminate the disconnects between the corporate strategic objectives and the actual projects planned or in progress.
CA is also engaging the channel to deliver EITM. Company CEO John Swainson said in his keynote address that strengthening channel relationships is the No. 2 priority for the company, behind strengthening customer relationships.
“We are much more proactive than in the past to bring on more technology partners,” Nugent said. “We have the right attitude and the channel is where the market starts and stops.”
CA has already moved 4,000 global accounts to global service integrators such as Deloitte & Touche and Accenture, as well as some enterprise solution provider, in an attempt to build out the small and medium enterprise for the company.
According to Bill Lipsin, CA channel chief, there are 10,300 accounts in the direct space, but the company has developed a co-existing strategy where the global system integrators will work with the channel on implementing solutions.
Deb Golden, principal security and privacy services practice at Deloitte & Touche, said that when the global systems integrator goes to market with CA it uses sub-contractors, such as enterprise solution providers and commercial channel partners, when clients ask or to get an expertise the company does not have.
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