CA Technologies

CA, Inc.
legal form	Incorporated
ISIN	US12673P1057
founding	1976
Seat	New York City , United States
management	Michael P. Gregoire, CEO
Number of employees	11,300
sales	$ 4.235 billion
Branch	Software development
Website	www.ca.com
	As of March 31, 2018

CA Technologies was founded in 1976 as Computer Associates International, Inc. , renamed CA, Inc. in 2004 . Since 2010 the external appearance has been as CA Technologies . As one of the largest software companies in the world, it sells management software for networks, storage, security as well as project and portfolio management. CA, Inc. has been a subsidiary of Broadcom Inc. since November 2018 .

Formerly based in Islandia near New York City

history

Computer Associates International was founded in 1976 by Charles Wang and Russell Artzt in New York City with three employees. The company was renamed CA, Inc. in 2004 and was run as CA Technologies from 2010 . It was traded on NASDAQ under the symbol CA.

CA Technologies is one of the first to support the FIDO alliance , which has been developing the Universal Second Factor (U2F) industry standard for generally applicable two-factor authentication since 2013 .

In May 2014, the company moved its headquarters from Islandia to New York City.

The founder of CA Charles Wang dies on October 21, 2018.

The largest single shareholder until 2018 was the Swiss Careal Holding .

In 2018, Broadcom Inc. acquired CA Technologies for $ 18.9 billion and the acquisition closed on November 5, 2018. At the same time, trading in the shares on NASDAQ was discontinued and CA Technologies was run as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcom. The responsible antitrust authorities approved the takeover because there were no technical points of contact between CA Technologies and Broadcom. Immediately after the acquisition, the Veracode business unit was sold for around $ 950 million. At the same time, a drastic downsizing began.

Corporate takeovers

CA grew through a variety of acquisitions in different areas:

1977: Viking Data Systems, Inc.
1982: Capex Corporation
1983: Stewart P. Orr Associates, Information Unlimited Software
1984: Johnson Systems, Inc., Sorcim ( SuperCalc )
1985: Value Software, Inc., Top Secret (by CGA)
1986: Integrated Software Systems Corporation (ISSCO)
1987: UCCEL
1988: Applied Data Research (from Ameritech)
1989: Cullinet
1991: Pansophic Systems, Inc., On-Line Software, Inc.
1992: Nantucket ( Clipper )

With Nantucket, CA Technologies took over the provider of the widely used database language Clipper , but was unable to build on the success of Clipper after 1995 with the successor language Visual Objects .

1994: The ASK Group, Inc. ( Ingres database)
1995: Legent Corporation
1996: Cheyenne Software with the product ARCServe
1997: AI Ware, Inc., Avalan Technology, Inc.
1998: QXCOM, Viewpoint DataLabs International, Realogic, Inc.
1998: CMSI (Computer Management Sciences, Inc.)
1999: IDI ( IMS ToolKit), Platinum Technology International, Vet Anti-Virus
2000: Sterling Software, Cayenne Software, Applied Management Systems Inc.
2003: Netreon, SilentRunner
2004: Netegrity, PestPatrol, Miramar
2005: iLumin Software Services, Tiny Software, Niku, Concord Communications
2006: Cendura, Control-F1 Corporation, Cybermation Inc., XOsoft, Inc., Wily Technology
2009: NetQoS, Austin, Texas
2013: Layer 7, Vancouver, Canada
2015: Grid-tools
2015: IDMLogic
2015: rally
2015: Xceedium Software
2015: Espresso Logic
2017: Automic Software
2017: Veracode
2017: zIT Consulting