CA plans transformation into SaaS-based engineering firm

April 22, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Madeline Bennett.

CA Technologies is embarking on a project that will see the software management firm transformed into a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business, focused on innovation and engineering, according to the firm’s new chief executive. Mike Gregoire, who took the helm at the company in December, shared his plans with delegates at the CA World user event in Las Vegas.

During the next few days, Gregoire said the firm plans to make announcements around the CA SaaS platform, which will let customers run their apps behind their own firewall, in CA’s private cloud or in a public cloud…

CA has already launched three applications in the current quarter that run on this platform – CloudMinder, Application Performance Management and Nimsoft Service Desk – and plans to move more CA products across. The platform will also serve as an integration framework to third-party products. “It allows us to connect with other great innovation,” Gregoire said…

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