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Business
Description:
Computer
Alliance International, Inc was incorporated in Texas in
1985. Computer
Alliance (CA) is the world's #3 independent software
company after Microsoft and Oracle.
CA's global business is principally in a single
industry segment, which is the design, development, marketing,
licensing and support of integrated computer software products
operating on diverse range of hardware platforms and operating
systems. CA
offers over 500-enterprise systems management, information
management and business management software products for
use on a variety of hardware platforms. Because of its independence
from hardware manufacturers, CA has been able to offer products
for use on most of the existing major computer operating
systems.
Company
History:
CA
designs, develops, markets, licenses, and supports standardized
computer software products for use with a broad range of
desktop, midrange, and mainframe computers from many different
hardware manufacturers including, among others, IBM, Hewlett-Packard
Company (HP), Sun Microsystems Inc., Data General Corp.
(DG), and Compaq Computer Corporation (including the Digital
Equipment and Tandem Computer Companies). CA supplies
an array of enterprise management, information management
and business application software products. Revenues
for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1998 was $4.7 billion,
compared with $4.04 billion for the fiscal year of 1997.
CA
distributes, markets, and supports its products on a worldwide
basis with its own employees and a network of independent
value-added resellers, distributors, and dealers.
The Company also operates through subsidiaries located in
42 countries outside North America. Each of these
subsidiaries is structured as an autonomous entity, and
markets all or most of the Company's products in its respective
territory.
During
fiscal 1999, the Company formed a professional services
organization known as Global Professional Services (GPS)
to expand the Company's offerings on behalf of clients and
partners around the world. GPS offers a broad spectrum
of services ranging from consulting to implementation to
comprehensive outsourcing and custom developing leading
edge IT solutions. The Company also acquired a number
of professional service companies during the fiscal year,
including Computer Management Sciences, Inc., Realogic,
Inc., and LDA Systems, Inc., which strengthened GPS.
During
fiscal year 1998, the Company commenced full-scale delivery
of JasmineTM. Jasmine is a true object database with
an integrated development environment and a robust multi-platform
deployment facility. Its object-oriented database engine
provides the foundation to store, manage, and maintain multimedia
and business objects.
Unicenter
TNG is an object-oriented solution that enables organizations
to visualize and control their entire information technology
infra-structure including applications, databases, systems
and networks from business perspective. This technology
establishes a link between an organizations information
technology resources and its business policies. Through
Unicenter TNG, an organization can define its business policies
map
these policies to particular resource management requirements,
and then monitor resources for their support of specific
business processes.
Operation
Process:
How
Computer Alliance manages its operations to effectively
deliver its products and services to customers.
Customers are other businesses, not the eventually end-users.
In order for this company to be
successful,
management must determine the correct process flow, the
proper service quality, and recognize the challenges that
are inherent in a very labor intensive and close customer
relationship environment. From an investor's perspective,
a company must manage its operations well in order to succeed
in a competitive industry and thus give a satisfactory return
on investment.
Each
business customer has its distinct system, needs, and resources.
Therefore, Computer Alliance must customizes its software
and service to satisfy its customers ' requirements.
The evidence is reflected in the large number of software
products offered. CA designs and supports the systems
it develops for each customer.
There
is a high degree of both labor intensity (i.e. sales, software
engineers, programmers, technicians, etc.) and consumer
contact/interaction. The challenges for management
pertaining to the workforce will be proper hiring, training,
methods of development and control, employee welfare, scheduling
workforces, control of often geographically spread locations,
start-up of new units, managing growth. The challenges
pertaining to the high customer contact/interaction are
cost increases, maintaining quality, reacting to customer
intervention in process, managing advancement of people
delivering service, and managing relatively flat hierarchy
with loose subordinate-superior relationships. A firm
cannot be profitable in a competitive industry without addressing
these factors.
Competition:
Computer
Alliance International, Inc. (CA) supplies systems management,
information management and business management software
products for use on a variety of hardware platforms.
Because of its
independence
from hardware manufacturers, the Company has been able to
offer products for use on most of the existing major computer
operating systems. The Company offers over 500 products,
many of which
provide
tools to measure and improve computer hardware and software
performance and programmer productivity. The Company's
solutions help clients use the latest technologies while
preserving their substantial investment in hardware, software
and staff expertise.
Built
upon a common infrastructure, these products provide solutions
across multiple operating systems and hardware platforms.
The Company's standardized business software products
enable clients to use their total data processing resources
hardware, software, and personnel more efficiently.
The Company provides products that effectively manage the
complex, heterogeneous systems upon which businesses depend.
By employing a common infrastructure, the Company's developers
create modular software designed to be continually and consistently
improved. This pragmatic approach protects client's
investments by using scalar, evolutionary change rather
than revolutionary disruption and waste.
Also
it enables clients to modernize legacy applications without
mounting expensive full-scale development efforts. And provides
access to mainframe legacy applications as well as other
information sources through an advanced graphical user interface,
employing multimedia, animation, sound, and video.
Management
Team
Aden
Victory
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Computer Alliance International, Inc.
James Bush
President
Computer
Alliance International, Inc.
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