CA, Inc. — formerly, Computer Associates, Inc. — is a multinational computer software corporation headquartered in Islandia, New York. More specifically, it develops and markets information technology (IT) management software, which it sells both directly via its sales team and indirectly via systems integrators, value-added resellers, and other service providers.

The company articulates its vision of how enterprises can harness the power of IT through what CA calls Enterprise IT Management (EITM). EITM divides into three broad categories across distributed or mainframe environments:

* Govern: Help make better decisions by giving enterprises insight into their IT investments and risk from a single place.
* Manage: Make it easier to manage technology so that high-quality IT services can be delivered at a competitive cost.
* Secure: Ensure secure access to the information, applications, systems and services needed to conduct business.

CA, which posted $4.3 billion USD in revenue for fiscal year 2008 (ending March 31, 2008), maintains 150 offices in more than 45 countries. The company employs 13,700 people (March 31, 2008) ), including 5900 engineers. The Software Top 100 — an independent initiative — ranks CA as the seventh-largest software company in the world by 2007 revenue. CA holds more than 600 patents worldwide, and more than 1,000 patent applications are pending.
CA offers a broad portfolio of software products and services for both distributed computing and mainframe environments in support of its Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision. The portfolio spans the following product categories:

* Infrastructure and operations management
* Project, portfolio, and financial management
* Security management
* IT service and asset management
* Application development and databases
* Database management
* Application performance management
* Storage and recovery management
* Business governance

The company maintains product development staff in locations worldwide including the United States, Australia, China, the Czech Republic, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Most of CA’s products target large and medium-size enterprises, but some of its product line — for example, its anti-virus, anti-spyware, and personal firewall solutions — are for home and home-office users.