This paper will review the CA, Concord and Aprisma product lines to give customers and the market a clear view into CA's strategy for network and systems management. We will examine the offerings from CA, Concord and Aprisma and show how they map to varying aspects of functional network and systems management requirements regarded as being the most valuable by both our customers and the market.
White Paper
Technology Integration
Directions:
Network and Systems
Management
February 2006
network and systems management requirements regardedIntroduction as being the most valuable by both our customers and theOn June 7, 2005, CA successfully completed the acquisition market. of Concord Communications, Inc. (including its recentlyacquired subsidiary, Aprisma Management Technologies, Inc.). This paper will also describe CA's Enterprise ITManagement (EITM) vision, along with our vision of howThe combination of CA, Concord and Aprisma will provide Unicenter® Enterprise Systems Management fits into thiscustomers with a set of powerful and unique resources for vision - creating solutions that are broader and moremanaging increasingly complex network services within comprehensive than any other in the market today.traditional enterprise and public sector IT environments, aswell as Telco, Cable, Mobile Wireless and other service providerindustries. All three companies are focused on creating Moving Forward Together network and systems management solutions that enabletechnical teams to control costs, reduce risk, increase CA's Strategic Vision revenue as well as drive efficiency and effectiveness when For Enterprise Systems Managementmanaging technology assets as a business service. We understand that it is important for us to give our collectiveThese solutions adhere to CA's, Concord's and Aprisma's guiding network and system management customers a level ofprinciples of providing customers the benefit of multi-vendor, assurance and comfort regarding our plans and to let youmulti-technology, highly scalable and standards-based know what you can expect moving forward. In the followingproducts. The acquisition also infuses CA's Enterprise Systems sections, we provide an overview of our plans for each of theManagement Business Unit with Concord's and Aprisma's CA, Concord and Aprisma products, along with some futureproven network management teams. CA will further strengthen migration considerations. Our integration efforts will beits service availability solutions and complement CA's other continuous over the next 6 - 24 months, and we encourageinfrastructure and security management solutions through you to inquire with CA regarding any questions or concernsthe integration of eHealth® and SPECTRUM® technologies. not addressed here regarding our future roadmaps.
Integrating these product sets delivers significant benefits to Following the acquisition, our support commitments remaincustomers. For example, customers can now invest in, and unchanged. We will continue to offer support for all currentbe supported by, a single vendor that offers the leading product releases in accordance with existing supportmanagement solutions for network, system, storage, database, agreements. We're committed to customers and partners ofapplication and security infrastructures in heterogeneous our three companies and we will honor all licensing andenvironments. It is the case, however, that when three support agreements while continuing to embrace productestablished product lines merge, many questions may innovation and functionality. CA will also honor and maintainarise regarding how the transition will be managed, how any special support agreements in place between CA, Concordcomplementary and overlapping product lines will integrate, or Aprisma and our respective customers. and how the future road map will be defined. While Concord and Aprisma offer a number of uniqueThis paper proactively addresses these questions and defines products that have no overlap with current CA offerings, it's clearour commitment to delivering a seamless and continuous that there are significant synergies across the CA, Concordgrowth path by supporting the customers, prospects, partners and Aprisma product lines. Where there are significantand products from CA, Concord and Aprisma. CA will support functional overlaps, CA will select the best features acrossConcord and Aprisma products after the closing and honor all the family of products and deliver a superset (i.e. combinedsupport and feature obligations specified in current CA, Concord solution) that includes well-defined migration paths fromand Aprisma contracts. CA's partner program, known as ca existing offerings. Supersets listed in the chart on page 6Tsmart , was developed to foster interoperability with other IT are merely designe... [download for more]
