CA joins with Datamatics, Pentafour, Escorts

18 November 1999

Enterprise delivery centres allow CA clients to accelerate e-business and development projects through access to highly skilled personnel and CA technology, enhance quality through adherence to standards and best practices, and rapidly bring to market new business technology environments.

The EDCs have access to the high-speed EDC-NET network, which links each facility and allows systems to share all available technical resources. This network enables the global professional services division to leverage the full range of CA''s products, and its experienced consultants, project managers and specialists around the world to assist in critical client projects. The GPS division also maintains a repository of re-usable applications, code strings and components that reduce the time, effort and expense needed to achieve client solution goals.

EDCs can readily model even the most complex, large-scale projects, helping ensure that development, integration and installation requirements are fulfilled. The GPS division has established eight EDCs in the US and similar centres in Munich in Germany, and Perth in Australia. It also plans to open additional centres around the world.

"Our alliance with Datamatics is outstanding news for those businesses that require manageable systems developed according to proven quality standards — all within the tight time frames mandated by today''s competitive climate," says Chris Wagner, CA GPS executive vice president and general manager.

Datamatics brings to the partnership a complex satellite logistics system and proven ISO 9000 international standards certification for software development. The first in India to pioneer and establish the offshore software factory model, Datamatics employs 1,500 software professionals and services more than 1,100 clients in 58 countries, including five of the top 10 Fortune 500 firms. With more than two decades of experience in managing large and complex projects, Datamatics'' platform experience includes IBM mainframes, networked PCs, AS/400, RS/6000, HP/9000, SUN SPARC, Unix, Wang and DEC systems, among others.

Datamatics specialises in custom software development, legacy transformation and migration, business process re-engineering and data management. The company will adopt CA''s GPS methods and technologies in order to be consistent with other EDC operations around the world. The firm will employ CA''s ''accelerated delivery'' methodology to provide client solutions while focusing on technology integration, application manageability and development/deployment time frames.