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News Facts

• CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced a new release of CA
  Software Change Manager^[2] to help organizations better manage and
  control globally distributed software change initiatives, from request
  to release. By integrating CA Software Change Manager r12 with CA
  Clarity^[3], CA
  Service Desk Manager^[4] and CA
  Software Delivery^[5], CA offers customers the ability to streamline
  software and operational change management processes and more quickly
  respond to changing business opportunities and demands.
• CA Software Change Manager r12 (formerly known as CA Harvest Change
  Manager) is designed to support IPv6 and FIPS 140-2, and includes more
  than 200 process and functionality enhancements such as a completely
  new developer’s interface and modern
  development environment. Integrated software change and build
  management are designed to result in higher quality applications and
  faster deployment cycles.
• According to Enterprise Management Associates, more than 60 percent of
  all critical system and application outages are caused by
  inappropriate change. An integrated solution of CA Software Change
  Manager with CA Service Desk Manager and CA Software Delivery helps
  organizations prioritize and quickly deliver the right changes with a
  clear understanding of service dependencies. This helps minimize
  service interruptions and optimize application maintenance costs.
• Organizations managing application portfolios with CA Clarity and
  managing software change with CA Software Change Manager benefit from
  the integration as they can better manage release projects with
  greater confidence that the right governance processes are in-place
  and projects are delivered on time.
• This release is one of 10 new and enhanced Enterprise IT Management
  (EITM) and Governance solutions CA
  has announced today^[6] to help organizations address IT management
  issues intensified by today’s challenging
  economy by better adapting to change, capitalizing on new
  opportunities and controlling costs.

• New Features Help Prevent Business Disruptions:
  • New Developer Workbench – The new Eclipse™-based,
    full-featured interface is designed to optimize both traditional
    and agile software development lifecycles, supporting isolated and
    shared work areas for optimum flexibility in development. CA
    Software Change Manager r12 also allows users to custom-configure
    their interface giving them easier access to the information they
    need in the way they want to see it for improved developer
    productivity.
  • Refactoring Support – CA Software
    Change Manager r12 is designed to ease refactoring, including Java™
    refactoring, by automating the changes in the software change
    management system. As programmers use refactoring for more agile
    development, CA Software Change Manager gives them the ability to
    rename files and paths of the source code without breaking Builds.
    It also retains full auditing, security permissions, and an
    archived history of modifications with complete roll back support.
  • Work Area Synchronization – CA
    Software Change Manager r12 helps deliver higher quality code
    faster as it tracks, analyzes and reconciles files that developers
    are working on while disconnected, and then synchronizes easily
    with the change management repository at any time, with full
    control and management of code conflicts and Concurrent
    Development.
• CA Software Change Manager r12 Premium Edition with OpenMake Meister
  is designed to solve the cost, delay and compliance problems
  associated with mismanaged builds. While continuing to offer “build
  forensics” to bridge the production
  application back to its source code and ease audit processes for
  compliance needs, CA Software Change Manager r12 has simplified the
  entire build process by integrating the OpenMake user interface within
  the CA Software Change Manager interface so developers can see the
  build while continuing to code.
• CA is a leader in helping customers execute successful change
  management across the enterprise. CA Software Change Manager r12 with CA
  Endevor Software Change Manager^[7] is designed to provide integrated
  and simultaneous release management for distributed and mainframe
  platforms. This need has escalated in recent years as businesses
  deploy SOA-based Web services on the mainframe to support applications
  on a distributed platform.

Supporting Quotes

• “CA Software Change Manager r12 is designed
  to provide critical functionality in IT change, configuration and
  release management that helps ensure that customers have an optimized
  development environment that gives them the flexibility to capitalize
  on emerging business opportunities,” said
  Brian Bell, senior vice president and general manger, CA Service
  Management. “It continues to provide the
  trusted server technology known by thousands of customers for managing
  software changes and now combines that with a modernized interface for
  the developer community.”
• “CA Software Change Manager r12 is highly
  scalable to help meet the diverse needs of an organization’s
  global development teams, which typically operate with multiple
  methodologies, multi-platform environments and on multiple projects at
  the same time,” said Prajval Parthasarathy,
  vice president, software engineering, CA. “At
  CA we use CA Software Change Manager in our own development
  environment to manage the needs of 3,500 developers worldwide. Their
  work is managed from a single datacenter that requires fewer than four
  administrators.”
• “At Sallie Mae we began incorporating IT
  Infrastructure Library guidance to improve our IT effectiveness and
  capitalize on emerging opportunities while reaping the cost savings
  that come from better processes. In deploying CA Software Change
  Manager and integrating it with CA Service Desk Manager we have
  streamlined our application change processes to make it more
  consistent and automated and in line with ITIL guidance,”
  said Jo Lee Hayes, vice president of Enterprise Technologies, Sallie
  Mae. “We worked closely with CA on this new
  release of CA Software Change Manager and our developers are looking
  forward to its full deployment at Sallie Mae.”
• “We’ve been
  working with CA Software Change Manager, formerly known as Harvest,
  for several years and have built a solid business helping
  organizations solve their software change and configuration management
  challenges,” Warren McCall, president and
  CEO, SCM Solutions, Inc., said. “With the
  enhancements to release 12 of CA Software Change Manager and the price
  point CA offers, we anticipate our customers will be impressed with
  the return on investment they can get by using CA Software Change
  Manager in their application development process.”

• “OpenMake is a proud CA partner and this
  release is the result of many years of cooperation and co-development
  to help create a seamless solution for software change and build
  management,” said Stephen King, CEO
  OpenMake Software. “Modern development
  requires continuous build management to be part of a complete change
  solution for quality and compliance needs. CA Software Change Manager
  r12 Premium Edition delivers that capability.”
• “Users increasingly seek integration across the broad swath of change,
  system service and demand management products to be able to succeed
  and survive with an increasingly chaotic and unpredictable global
  economy,” said Melinda Carol-Ballou, IDC
  program director, Application Lifecycle Management & ITMS. “And
  in an industry where compliance seems to touch every aspect of IT, the
  ability to demonstrate control over the software change process is
  being mandated by businesses to support governance and corporate
  compliance initiatives.”

CA World 2008

• To learn more about how CA solutions help customers govern, manage and
  secure IT for greater business value, join the world’s
  largest gathering of CA customers and partners at CA
  World 2008^[8], November 16-20, 2008, at The Venetian Congress and
  Sands Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Additional Resources

— IDC
Report: Sallie Mae Evolves Effective Change and Service Management:
Setting a Baseline First to Establish Key Benefits^[9]

— Technology
Brief: CA Saves $3 Million a Year, Improves Competitive Advantage by
Simplifying Software Change Management^[10]

— Industry
Research: Change, Configuration and Release: What’s
Really Driving Top Performance?^[11]

About CA

CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading
independent IT management software company. With CA’s Enterprise IT
Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more
effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business
performance and sustain competitive advantage. For more information,
visit www.ca.com^[12].

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