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CA Technologies Delivers Ground-Breaking CA Mainframe Chorus Solution to Help Control Costs, Increase Productivity and Agility

SCANA and Tieto Among Customers Validating Benefits of Next Generation Management

ISLANDIA, N.Y., December 6, 2010 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that CA Mainframe Chorus and CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management are available now.

CA Mainframe Chorus is the most important innovation yet in CA Technologies Mainframe 2.0 strategy to simplify mainframe management, and help this critical platform to continue to be an effective and integral part of our customers’ evolving IT infrastructures. It offers management capabilities that are designed to appeal to the next generation mainframe staff while also offering significant productivity improvements to today’s mainframe experts. 

“The most critical challenges faced by mainframe customers are to control costs, increase productivity, sustain high levels of mainframe skills amongst employees, and enhance the agility of the platform to meet their business needs,” said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies.  “CA Mainframe Chorus is a ground breaking innovation that addresses all these concerns by simplifying mainframe management through integration, automation, and modernization, thereby helping the mainframe to continue to help power the global economy.”

CA Mainframe Chorus helps:

- Reduce the time and effort required to securely manage the mainframe environment. 
- Enable faster problem resolution and improved service levels.
- Increase productivity for current expert mainframe staff and more rapid on-ramping of new staff.

CA Mainframe Chorus’ role-based integrated management workspace, rich data visualization, modern GUI, and advanced knowledge capture and transfer capabilities, help redefine the future of mainframe management.

Each CA Mainframe Chorus role leverages functionality from the CA software that supports a key management discipline.  CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management is the first role bringing together features from seven individual CA tools that support IBM® DB2® for z/OS® in the unified workspace.

Customers including SCANA and Tieto have commented on the strong business value they’ve realized with Chorus*:

SCANA

“We are pleased to see CA Technologies taking a leadership position and delivering such game-changing innovation targeted at its customers’ needs and engaging with its customers so closely,” said Randy Senn, CIO for SCANA Corporation, a Fortune 500 energy-based holding company.  “We see great potential in CA’s vision and in the benefit of CA Mainframe Chorus to SCANA’s operation.”

“SCANA recognizes that to continue delivering quality energy services to its over one million customers, the mainframe and DB2 specifically need to be managed effectively and perform proficiently,” said Efrain Berdecia, newest DBA team member for SCANA Corporation.  “With CA Mainframe Chorus, we anticipate having a shorter learning curve for novice users, faster problem solving of DB2 related performance issues, and increased productivity for the whole team.”

Tieto

“To help meet our goals for increased efficiency, while maintaining services levels for customers in high transaction industries like banking, insurance and telecommunications, we have been reducing the costs of managing our mainframe environment,” said Juha Parnisto, director of mainframe environments for Tieto, a leading IT service provider in Northern Europe.  “We’ve already created a consolidated mainframe environment, leveraging 120 CA Mainframe products, including CA Mainframe Software Manager to reduce our costs, and foresee huge benefits from the automation and simplified management in CA Mainframe Chorus.”

“We are particularly interested in the new knowledge sharing features in CA Mainframe Chorus that pass information to younger specialists, helping us with a key training challenge we will face in the near future,” continued Parnisto.

Key benefits specific to CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management (highlighted by customers) include:

- Increasing productivity and faster problem solving via enhanced visualization of data and historical data comparative capabilities
- Saving time and money with simplified management of complex DB2 workloads
- Optimizing DB2 performance by proactively monitoring DB2 thresholds and alerts, more quickly identifying and resolving DB2 bottlenecks and leveraging displayed historical data to predict trends
- Simplifying mentoring of new staff and accelerating the ability to expertly manage DB2 through instant access to decades of DB2 experience and ongoing knowledge management capture and transfer capabilities

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.

For more information on CA Mainframe Chorus and CA Mainframe Chorus for DB2 Database Management visit http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Mainframe-Chorus.aspx.