CA launches new CleverPath brand of portal-based BI solutions

Computer Associates International, Inc (CA) has announced several new portal-centric solutions in conjunction with its launch of CleverPath, the company`s new brand for its industry-leading line of portal and business intelligence solutions. The CleverPath offerings enable organisations to gather, analyse and present information from diverse sources more easily and flexibly than ever before.

CleverPath solutions leverage CA`s newly enhanced CleverPath Portal, simplifying the delivery of dynamic, personalised content to users in visual formats that are easy to understand and customise. By delivering information, analysis, predictive intelligence and applications to users` desktops and wireless workplaces, CleverPath Portal maximises productivity and enhances the quality of knowledge-based business processes.

"CA`s CleverPath brand provides in a single product family a very comprehensive range of software for analysing and developing business intelligence from diverse enterprise resources, and then delivering the information to internal and external users in an intuitive, individualized way," said Henry Morris, vice president, Application and Information Access, IDC. "The re-focusing of the brand, combined with the enhanced capabilities and integration engineered into its constituent products, should benefit both CA and its customers."

CA is the leading supplier of enterprise information portals in terms of worldwide software licence and maintenance revenue, according to IDC. CA`s CleverPath Portal provides unmatched integration with databases, applications, application servers and Web services, with ultra-fast performance and scalability, as well as globalisation capabilities for companies operating in multiple countries.

CleverPath Portal Release 3.5 extends CA`s technical leadership in the portal marketplace, providing comprehensive out-of-the-box support for wireless devices, including WAP-enabled phones and PDAs. These wireless capabilities allow organisations to fully extend the information and applications on their intranet and extranet portals to mobile professionals around the world.

"CleverPath Portal is the cornerstone of our entire knowledge management strategy," said Dr Simon Samaha, CIO of Cooper Health System, a premier provider of comprehensive health services, medical education and clinical research. "Its unique advantages, such as its predictive intelligence, allow us to use all the information resources at our disposal to better understand and support our constituents - which is ultimately what makes us successful as a company."

In conjunction with today`s release of CleverPath Portal, CA also announced:

* CleverPath Enterprise Content Manager (ECM), a CleverPath Portal solution that addresses the growing need to store, manage, control, and access digital assets such as video, audio and other rich media across the enterprise.

* CleverPath Predictive Analysis Server 2.0, which utilizes CA`s US patented Neugents technology to synthesize high-value business intelligence from vast amounts of raw data in order to dynamically detect, predict and respond to changing business conditions. The new version features expanded customer-profiling capabilities that can increase sales from existing customers and more quickly identify new markets, as well as tight integration with CleverPath Aion Business Rules Expert.

* CleverPath Aion Business Rules Expert 9.1, which provides a sophisticated business rules engine, advanced inferencing capabilities, and a component-based development environment that allows organizations to rapidly build and deploy intelligent rules-based applications. This new version increases developer productivity and eases application maintenance - through dynamic rules

* New releases of CleverPath OLAP 5.0, CleverPath Reporter 4.0, and CleverPath Forest & Trees 6.5 that are integrated with CleverPath Portal to enable developers to fully exploit enterprise-wide information assets. In addition, CleverPath Forest & Trees 6.5 now supports double-byte languages, including Japanese, traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, and Korean.

"Customers in every market we serve are looking for ways to extract more business value from the massive amounts of useful, but broadly dispersed data in their corporate applications and databases," said Carl Hartman, vice president of marketing, portal and business intelligence, CA. "Within the CleverPath brand, CA has brought together the technologies that customers need to accomplish these goals, without putting undue strain on their development teams, e-business infrastructure or end-users."