Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE: CA) has announced that it 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 standalone, 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 organisations," 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 organisation 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 honour all obligations (including special features) specified in current CA, Concord and Aprisma contracts.
The merger consideration to be paid in cash for each share of Concord common stock outstanding immediately prior to the closing is $17, without interest. The aggregate cash consideration to be paid by CA is approximately $337 million. CA will soon mail a letter of transmittal and instructions to former holders of record of Concord common stock to be used for the exchange of Concord shares for the cash consideration. Concord stockholders who own shares through a broker will be contacted by their broker. Former Concord stockholders with further questions regarding the exchange of Concord shares for the cash consideration should contact Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, CA`s exchange agent, by telephone at 1-800-735-7777.
Customers can continue to access Concord support at http://www.concord.com, via e-mail at support@concord.com or by calling 1-888-832-4340 (US and Canada), 2-9965-0650 (Asia/Pacific), or 508-303-4300 (rest of the world). Customers can continue to access Aprisma support at http://www.aprisma.com, via e-mail at support@aprisma.com, or by calling 1-877-428-6324 (US and Canada) or 603-334-2978 (outside of the US and Canada).
A white paper on CA`s technology integration directions in network and systems management is available here. CA plans to provide detailed a product roadmap at CA World in November.
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Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE:CA), one of the world`s largest management software companies, delivers software and services across infrastructure, security, storage, lifecycle and service management to optimise the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, New York and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com.
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