CA Technologies, Inc., formerly Computer Associates International and CA, Inc., was an American multinational software company that developed and published enterprise software. Active from 1976 to 2018, the company was co-founded by Charles B. Wang and Russell Artzt. The pair incorporated CA to capitalize on the emerging market of third-party mainframe software. It grew its portfolio and became successful through acquiring many companies in disparate fields, including system monitoring and management, ID management, security, and anti-virus, among others. In 2018, CA itself was acquired by Broadcom Inc. for nearly US$19 billion in cash. [1]
Acquisition date | Company | Business | Country | Value ( US$) | Used as or integrated with | References |
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1981 | Viking Data Systems | United States | Undisclosed | [2] | ||
August 31, 1982 | Capex Corporation | OS/MVS and DOS/VSE mainframe job scheduling and programmer productivity | United States | $22,000,000 | [3] [4] | |
1983 | Stewart P. Orr Associates | United States | $2,000,000 | [5] | ||
July 1, 1983 | Information Unlimited Software | Word processing | United States | $10,000,000 | [6] | |
1984 | Johnson Systems | Job accounting | United States | $16,000,000 | [7] | |
May 31, 1984 | Sorcim | Spreadsheets | United States | $27,000,000 | CA-SuperCalc | [8] [5] [9] |
1985 | Arkay Computer | DOS/VSE migration to MVS | United States | Undisclosed | CA-CONVERTOR | [5] |
May 1985 | Value Software, Inc. (previously Value Computing, Inc.) | Mainframe data center operations packages | United States | Undisclosed | [10] | |
December 2, 1986 | Software International | Accounting software | United States | $24,000,000 | [11] | |
December 5, 1985 | Top Secret, from CGA Computer | Computer security | United States | $25,000,000 | CA-Top Secret | [12] |
December 8, 1986 | Integrated Software Systems Corporation | Computer graphics | United States | $67,000,000 | [13] [14] | |
August 20, 1987 | Uccel | Tape management systems, job scheduling, rerun/restart, mainframe security | United States | $870,000,000 | Unicenter CA-1, CA-7, CA-11, CA-ACF2 | [15] [16] |
October 14, 1988 | Applied Data Research | Flowcharting software, database management systems | United States | $170,000,000 | CA-Datacom/DB | [17] [18] |
December 25, 1989 | Cullinet | Database management system | United States | $300,000,000 | CA-IDMS | [19] [20] |
September 27, 1991 | On-Line Software International | Debuggers | United States | $120,000,000 | [21] [22] | |
October 30, 1991 | Pansophic Systems | Change management | United States | $300,000,000 | CA-Panvalet | [23] [24] |
November 12, 1991 | Access Technology | VAX (division of H&R Block) | United States | Undisclosed | [25] | |
May 6, 1992 | Nantucket Corporation | Xbase | United States | $80,000,000 (estimated) | CA-Clipper | [26] [27] |
September 1992 | Glockenspiel Ltd. | C++ compiler | Ireland | Undisclosed | Aspen | [28] |
June 24, 1994 | ASK Group | Unix database | United States | $308,700,000 | Ingres | [29] [30] |
July 29, 1995 | Legent Corporation | United States | $1,740,000,000– $1,800,000,000 |
[31] [32] [33] | ||
November 12, 1996 | Cheyenne Software | Backup | United States | $1,200,000,000 | CA-ARCserve | [34] [35] |
November 12, 1997 | Avalan Technology | Remote monitoring and management | United States | Undisclosed | [36] [37] | |
December 18, 1997 | AI Ware | Artificial intelligence | United States | Undisclosed | [38] [39] | |
August 5, 1998 | Realogic | Consulting | United States | Undisclosed | Global Professional Services Division | [40] [41] |
September 2, 1998 | QXCOM | Database management for Lotus Notes | United States | Undisclosed | Unicenter TNG Lotus Notes/Domino | [42] |
October 29, 1998 | Viewpoint DataLabs International | 3D-CGI model and image libraries | United States | Undisclosed | [43] | |
November 24, 1998 | LDA Systems | Consulting | United States | Undisclosed | Global Professional Services Division | [44] [45] |
March 25, 1999 | Computer Management Sciences | Consulting | United States | $415,000,000 | [46] [47] | |
June 7, 1999 | Platinum Technology | Consulting | United States | $3,500,000,000 | [48] [49] | |
March 29, 2000 | Applied Management Systems | Federal e-business software | United States | Undisclosed | [50] [51] | |
April 4, 2000 | Sterling Software | Network management | United States | $3,910,000,000 | [52] [53] [54] | |
February 3, 2003 | Netreon | Storage area network management | United States | Undisclosed | BrightStor SAN Designer | [55] |
July 2003 | SilentRunner | Network monitoring | United States | Undisclosed | [56] | |
March 11, 2004 | Miramar Systems | PC migration | United States | Undisclosed | BrightStor SAN Designer | [57] [58] |
August 16, 2004 | PestPatrol | Anti-spyware | United States | Undisclosed | CA Anti-Spyware | [59] [60] |
October 23, 2004 | Netegrity | Network security | United States | $430,000,000 | eTrust | [61] [62] |
June 7, 2005 | Concord Communications | Network management | United States | $350,000,000 | Spectrum Network Management | [63] [64] |
June 27, 2005 | Tiny Software | Personal firewall software | United States | Undisclosed | CA Personal Firewall | [65] [66] |
July 29, 2005 | Niku Corporation | IT governance | United States | $350,000,000 | CA PPM | [67] [68] |
October 17, 2005 | iLumin | E-mail archiving | United States | Undisclosed | BrightStor | [69] |
January 11, 2006 | Control-F1 Corporation | Service management | United States | Undisclosed | [70] [71] | |
January 5, 2006 | Wily Technology | Application performance management | United States | $375,000,000 | [72] | |
May 9, 2006 | Cybermation | Mainframe management | Canada | $75,000,000 | [73] [74] | |
June 13, 2006 | MDY Group | Records retention management | United States | Undisclosed | [75] | |
July 11, 2006 | XOSoft | Backup | United States | Undisclosed | CA-ARCserve | [76] |
September 27, 2006 | Cendura | Application management | United States | Undisclosed | [77] | |
October 7, 2008 | IDFocus | Identity management | United States | Undisclosed | [78] | |
November 13, 2008 | Eurekify | Role-based access control | Israel | Undisclosed | [79] | |
January 5, 2009 | Orchestria | Data security | United States | Undisclosed | [80] | |
November 19, 2009 | NetQoS | Network quality of service | United States | Undisclosed | CA NetQoS Super Agent | [81] |
January 11, 2010 | Oblicore | Service level management | United States | Undisclosed | [82] | |
June 2, 2009 | Cassatt Corporation | Data center automation | United States | Undisclosed | [83] | |
February 24, 2010 | 3tera | Cloud computing | United States | Undisclosed | CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager | [84] |
March 11, 2010 | Nimsoft | Application monitoring | United States | $350,000,000 | [85] | |
August 12, 2010 | 4Base Technology | Cloud computing consulting | United States | Undisclosed | Global Virtualization and Cloud Consulting Team | [86] |
August 30, 2010 | Arcot, Inc. | Authentication | United States | $200,000,000 | SiteMinder | [87] [88] |
November 2, 2010 | Hyperformix | Capacity planning | United States | Undisclosed | [89] [90] [91] | |
August 16, 2011 | Itko | Service virtualization and API testing | United States | $330,000,000 | CA LISA, DevTest Solutions | [92] |
August 16, 2011 | WatchMouse | Website monitoring | Netherlands | Undisclosed | CA APM Cloudmonitor | [93] [94] |
April 22, 2013 | Layer 7 Technologies | API management | Canada | $155,000,000 | [95] [96] | |
April 22, 2013 | Nolio | Application release automation | Israel | $40,000,000 | CA Release Automation | [97] [98] |
May 27, 2015 | Rally Software Development | Cloud-based agile development management platform | United States | $480,000,000 | CA Agile Central | [99] [100] |
August 17, 2015 | Xceedium | Privileged identity and access management | United States | Undisclosed | [101] | |
June 4, 2015 | Grid Tools | Enterprise test data management, automated test design, and optimization software | United Kingdom | Undisclosed | [102] | |
June 8, 2015 | IdMLogic | Identity management applications | Israel | Undisclosed | [103] | |
November 15, 2016 | Mobile System 7 | User behavior analytics and security | United States | Undisclosed | [104] | |
October 12, 2016 | BlazeMeter | SaaS-based open-source test execution platform | Israel | Undisclosed | [105] | |
December 1, 2016 | Automic | Business automation | Austria | $635,000,000 | [106] | |
March 6, 2017 | Veracode | SaaS-based secure devops platform provider | United States | $614,000,000 | [107] | |
September 28, 2017 | Runscope | API monitoring | United States | Undisclosed | [108] | |
April 9, 2018 | SourceClear | Software security tooling and automation | United States | Undisclosed | [109] |
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