CA together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, marketing, licensing, and support of information technology (IT) management software products that operate on a range of hardware platforms and operating systems. The company has a portfolio of software products and services that address its customers needs for mainframe and distributed environments, spanning IT governance, IT management, and IT security. It focuses on various areas that include infrastructure management, project and portfolio management, security management, service management, application performance management, and data center automation and virtualization.
CA offers Enterprise IT Management (EITM) software for organizations to manage IT in computing environments, which include people, information, processes, systems, networks, and applications, as well as databases from a Web service to the mainframe to a virtualized cloud, regardless of the hardware or software customers they are using. The company licenses its products principally to IT service providers, financial services companies, governmental agencies, retailers, manufacturers, educational institutions, and healthcare institutions worldwide through direct sales force, as well as indirectly through systems integrators, managed service providers, technology partners, EITM value-added resellers, original equipment manufacturers, and distribution and volume partners.