Computer Associates International, Inc.has completed its acquisition of Concord communications, including its Aprisma Management Technologies subsidiary. The acquisition substantially advances CA's ability to deliver comprehensive enterprise management solutions across networks, systems, applications and databases, and to extend its presence in telecommunications/cable and service provider markets.
"This strategic combination further solidifies CA's position of leadership in enterprise management and will enable us to deliver even greater value to our customers worldwide," said CA President and CEO John Swainson. "We welcome Concord's employees, customers and partners to CA and look forward to working with them."
CA plans to make Concord's network management products available both as stand-alone, best-of-breed products and as integrated components of CA's industry-leading Unicenter enterprise systems management suite - enabling customers to manage their increasingly complex technology environments in a seamless and efficient manner. Together with CA's eTrust and BrightStor solutions, the extended Unicenter line offers customers unmatched management capabilities.
Concord's eHealth products complement CA's existing solutions in several areas, including network performance, availability and capacity reporting. Its Aprisma SPECTRUM products provide important additional capabilities for strategic network operations, as well as fault and service management. CA intends to make SPECTRUM the foundation for its core network service management solution.
"The addition of Concord eHealth and Aprisma SPECTRUM to our already extensive enterprise management portfolio puts CA in a unique position to meet the evolving needs of enterprise, government and service provider customers - bringing simplicity to challenges that would otherwise present overwhelming complexity to their IT organizations," said Russell M. Artzt, executive vice president of products at CA. "No other vendor can offer customers a management architecture that is more secure, complete, extensible, scalable or business-centric."
The Concord and Aprisma products will support CA's Common Technology Stack, including the Management Database, which provides a complete, integrated and open database schema for all CA and partner management products. The integration of the Concord and Aprisma technologies with the common stack provides another key building block in CA's Enterprise IT Management strategy.
In conjunction with the acquisition, CA has established a cross-functional organization that is focused solely on the needs of customers in the telecommunications/cable and service provider market segments.
CA will continue to fully support Concord and Aprisma products and will honor all obligations (including special features) specified in current CA, Concord and Aprisma contracts.
