CA Receives “Positive” Rating in Leading Analyst Firm’s eDiscovery MarketScope Report

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ISLANDIA, N.Y. – CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that CA received a “Positive”— in Gartner’s “MarketScope E-Discovery Software Product Vendors.”* CA was one of 20 vendors evaluated in the report.

CA offers eDiscovery capabilities through its Information Governance Suite which is designed to help customers proactively and consistently manage vital digital and physical information assets across disparate repositories, with policy-driven controls that help mitigate risk and facilitate litigation preparedness.

According to the report, Gartner estimates that “spending on electronic discovery (ediscovery) software technologies and services offerings is forecast to grow by between 25% and 35% annually through 2012.”

”We’re pleased to be rated positive for eDiscovery in this report,” said Galina Datskovsky, Ph.D., CRM, senior vice president and general manager of Information Governance at CA. “The CA Information Governance Suite provides clear value to our customers responding to litigation by leveraging their existing investments and providing comprehensive and cost-effective discovery of physical and electronic content across all leading content repositories, email platforms and storage technologies.”

The full Gartner report “MarketScope E-Discovery Software Product Vendors, 2008” is available at http://www.ca.com/us/analysts/reports/collateral.aspx?cid=196825.

For more information on CA Information Governance, please visit http://www.ca-ig.com/.

Additional Resources

* Information Governance at CA
* CA Information Governance Suite Solution Brief
* CA Records Manager received a “Strong Positive”—the highest possible rating—in Gartner Research’s, “MarketScope for Records Management,” Kenneth Chin, May 20, 2008
* CA Press Release on MarketScope for Records Management
* White Paper: “Thinning Out the Hay—Proactive Information Governance and the Impact on Discovery” by Reed Irvin, VP Product Management for Information Governance, CA.
* White Paper: “Becoming Litigation Ready Through Proactive Information Governance” by Kristin Perdue, Product Management
* CA Information Solutions Brief for the Legal Industry

*Gartner, Inc., “MarketScope E-Discovery Software Product Vendors,” Debra Logan, John Bace, Whit Andrews, December 17, 2008

About the MarketScope

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world’s leading independent IT management software company. With CA’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.ca.com.