Certified
Interoperability with Partners' Diverse
Products Ensures Fast, Effective Solutions to
Key IT Challenges
ISLANDIA,
N.Y., July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA)
today marked the first anniversary of its ca
smart solution certification program by
showcasing customers and partners who have
experienced tangible benefits from the
program's diverse solutions. These solutions
have enabled customers to combine
best-in-class technologies from CA and its
partners to quickly and effectively address
their most critical information technology
challenges.
ca smart
certification is earned by partners who
deliver business value and technical
excellence through the integration of their
products with CA technologies. The program
promotes close collaboration between CA and
its partners, ensuring that certified
solutions meet the highest standards of
engineering quality and deliver tangible
business benefits.
Solutions
featured within the ca smart solution
certification program benefit customers from a
wide range of vertical markets and represent
CA's key IT focus areas.
Enterprise
Management
Party City,
one of the world's largest party supply
retailers, is utilizing G&Z Systems' ca
smart certified PollView in conjunction with
CA's Unicenter to radically simplify the
management of its geographically distributed
IT infrastructure.
"We are
truly impressed with the functionality of the
combined solutions," said William
Zaccardi, Party City's Director of IT.
"The tight integration between Unicenter
and G&Z's PollView has enabled Party City
to slash the cost and complexity of technology
ownership, while boosting the reliability of
our critical systems."
Security
Management
LA Fireman's
Credit Union, a full-service financial
institution committed to providing for the
financial security of its members/owners, is
deploying SAFLINK's SAFaccess to add biometric
capabilities to CA's eTrust Single Sign-On.
"In
enhancing our ability to securely administer
access to business-critical systems, we needed
a solution which combined the utmost in
flexibility, convenience and protection,"
said George King, vice president, IS, LA
Fireman's Credit Union. "We believe the
integrated offering from CA and SAFLINK, as
implemented by Stirling Systems Group, will
provide us with the unique capability to
identify and administrate the use of our
systems." Storage Management
The
University of New Mexico leverages both the
hierarchical storage management capabilities
of CaminoSoft's Managed Server solution and
the extensive functionality of CA's BrightStor
ARCserve Backup to optimize the performance
and resource-efficiency of its data protection
strategy.
"We
used to think that it would be impossible to
keep pace with the data growth on our servers
and control storage costs at the same
time," said Barney Metzner, manager,
Systems Group, Health Sciences Library and
Informatics Center, University of New Mexico.
"But the uniquely powerful combination of
CaminoSoft's ca smart certified Managed Server
and CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup solution
provides us with an extremely effective way to
meet our growing storage requirements without
busting our budget."
Portal and
Business Intelligence
The Dutch Tax
and Customs Administration is utilizing
LibRT's VALENS, a ca smart certified add-on
for CA's CleverPath Aion Business Rules
Expert, to automatically verify the
consistency, completeness and non-redundancy
of formal models of legislation.
"The
ability to automatically detect anomalies in
drafts of regulations is an important service
for our legal staff and ultimately the
citizens of the Netherlands," said Dr.
Tom van Engers, the Administration's POWER
Program Manager. "LibRT's VALENS solution
-- ca smart certified with CA's CleverPath
Aion Business Rules Expert -- helps us to
further improve the quality of our regulations
and legislation."
Application
Life Cycle Management
The U.S.
Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) has
deployed the ca smart certified Meta
Integration Model Bridge (MIMB) to help
development teams more efficiently share data
models, including those created by CA's
AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler, further
streamlining the technical integration of its
mission-critical systems.
"Capitalizing
on the Department of Defense standard data
models developed and published by CA's
AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler and shared by
Meta Integration's MIMB, the MSC is able to
more efficiently reuse critical standard data
elements in support of enterprise-wide systems
integration," said Gordon Spicer,
Director of the Technical Integration Division
at MSC. "The meta data sharing and reuse
capabilities of these solutions, as deployed
by Dyad Sodality, Inc., are especially
important in achieving higher levels of
systems consistency, quality, and
manageability."
Data
Management and Application Development
Missouri
River Energy Services, a large utility company
serving the Midwest U.S., implemented the ca
smart certified ProphecyOpen, which CA's
partner Prophecy built on CA's Advantage
Ingres Enterprise Relational Database.
"In an
increasingly deregulated business environment,
the effective design and rapid deployment of
our new finance system were critical to
maintaining our company's competitive
edge," said Merlin Sawyer, CFO, Missouri
River Energy Services. "The complementary
strengths of CA's Advantage Ingres database
technology and the ProphecyOpen solution
enabled us to easily build a comprehensive
system to our exact specifications that
incorporated our many existing enterprise
applications and data sources."
"IT
managers today are extremely concerned about
the quality and reliability of the
technologies they assimilate into their
enterprise environments," said Russell M.
Artzt, executive vice president, CA. "The
resounding success of this first year proves
that our ca smart solution certification
program fully addresses these concerns,
allowing customers to move forward with new,
complex technology initiatives with total
confidence in the quality and efficacy of
their chosen, multi-vendor solutions."
A complete
list of ca smart certified solutions is
available at http://ca.com/casmart .
About
Computer Associates
Computer
Associates International, Inc. CA
delivers The Software That Manages eBusiness.
CA's world-class solutions address all aspects
of eBusiness management through
industry-leading brands: Unicenter for
infrastructure management, eTrust for security
management, BrightStor for storage management,
CleverPath for portal and business
intelligence, AllFusion for application life
cycle management, Advantage for data
management and application development, and
Jasmine for object-oriented database
technology. Founded in 1976, CA serves
organizations in more than 100 countries,
including 99 percent of the Fortune 500
companies. For more information, visit http://ca.com
.
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