CA ranked worldwide leader in its asset management by leading market research firm

Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE: CA) has announced that CA was the worldwide market leader based on new licence revenue in IT asset management in 2004 with a 27% share, according to a Gartner report entitled "Market Share: Enterprise Management, Worldwide, 2004".

The report marks the third consecutive year that CA has been ranked as the overall market leader in IT asset management. It also showed that CA is the leading independent software vendor in the worldwide enterprise management software market with a 14.5% market share. The total market grew 11% in 2004 to $6.2 billion, according to Gartner.

CA`s Asset Management solutions enable organisations to proactively manage their entire IT asset base through automated discovery, configuration management, software usage monitoring and cross-platform reporting. By implementing CA`s Asset Management solutions in conjunction with the company`s Service Management solutions, customers gain significant additional capabilities, including comprehensive change management and sophisticated asset billing/chargeback functionality.

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"Asset management is critical for fulfilling all the requirements faced by today`s IT organisations, including optimisation of business performance, improvement of productivity, reduction of risk and acceleration of time-to-market," said Jacob Lamm, general manager of the Business Service Optimisation business unit at CA.

"Gartner`s report demonstrates that enterprise buyers worldwide continue to choose CA`s Asset Management solutions to fulfil these critical requirements and thereby optimise total returns on their substantial technology investments."

CA`s Asset Management solutions are part of the company`s Business Service Optimisation portfolio, designed to help customers realise the full business value of their technology assets, services and investments.