If You Want To Be Built To Last You’d Better Be Built To Change: Martin Mackay, President, & GM- APJ, CA Technologies

ETCIO - Sneha Jha - 6/16/17

In an exclusive interview, Mackay how building a Modern Software Factory will ensure a company is built to change and how CA Technologies is trying to stay relevant to its customers in the digital era.

Martin Mackay joined CA Technologies as the President and General Manager for Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) in December 2016. In this role, he is responsible for driving growth by helping customers and partners leverage new business opportunities in the application economy.

Sneha Jha caught up with Martin Mackay during his recent visit to India. In an exclusive interview, Mackay how building a Modern Software Factory will ensure a company is built to change and how CA Technologies is trying to stay relevant to its customers in the digital era.

Your CEO Mike Gregoire predicts that “Built To Change” will be the new paradigm for success. This involves putting software at the center of everything that enterprises do. How will building a Modern Software Factory ensure an enterprise is built to change and can adapt successfully to the rapid pace of change in the market?
That’s a great point. And that’s exactly at the heart of our strategy. Digital transformation has been top of the agenda for enterprises over the last couple of years. And enterprise customers have realized that digital transformation essentially has three elements. It’s about internal culture, change in business processes and tools and technologies to enable that.

We’ve talked about the application economy for the last couple of years. Customers interact with your business through software. So we looked at was putting software at the center of our business. So with this dynamic of putting software at the heart of your business, we determined four elements that customers need to put in place to successfully build the modern software factory which puts applications at the heart of their business software.

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