Best US Companies To Invest In 2015

Best US Companies To Invest In 2015: CA Inc.(CA)

CA Technologies, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, delivers, licenses, and supports information technology (IT) management software products that operate on a range of hardware platforms and operating systems. It offers enterprise IT management software for organizations that addresses components of the computing environment, including people, information, processes, systems, networks, applications, and databases. The company provides a portfolio of mainframe and distributed software products with a focus on mainframe, service assurance, security (identity and access management), project and portfolio management, service management, virtualization and service automation, and cloud computing. It serves banks, insurance companies, other financial services providers, government agencies, manufacturers, technology companies, retailers, educational organizations, and health care institutions worldwide. CA Technologies offers its solutions through its d irect sales force and indirectly through global systems integrators, technology partners, managed service providers, solution providers, distributors and volume partners, and exclusive representatives. The company was formerly known as CA, Inc. and changed its name to CA Technologies in May 2010. CA Technologies was founded in 1974 and is based in Islandia, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Traders Reserve]

  CA Technologies (CA) is involved in a rapidly growing and necessary part of IT. Its called Data Center Infrastructure Management or DCIM. All you really need to know about it from an investors point-of-view is its staggering market potential. Fewer than 10% of mid- to large-sized data centers utilize it, and 451 Research says DCIM supplier revenue will reach $1.8 billion by 2016, representing a 44% compound annual growth rate. While migrating away from mainframe services, the DCIM provider is also focusing on growing its cloud market sh! are.

• [By Sean Williams]

  Finally, mail logistics software solutions company Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI  ) jumped 3.7% after announcing the appointment of Roger Pilc as executive vice president and chief innovation officer. Pilc will be a welcome face for Pitney Bowes, which has struggled under the weight of lower physical mail volume and increasing competition. Pilc, who comes over from CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA  ) , helped head CA's cloud development segment, which may transform CA back into a high-growth company over the next few years as it invests heavily in R&D. Pitney Bowes certainly needs as many ideas as it can get to stem a precipitous downtrend in sales, so we'll have to see how this move works out for all parties involved.

• [By Traders Reserve]

  Most impressive about CA Technologies (CA) is that its net income for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30 rose 42% to $335 million. Perhaps Michael Gregoire taking over as CEO and cutting costs had something to do with the growth.

• [By Jonathan Buck]

  IT management software and solutions provider CA Inc. (CA) can continue its resurgence with a focus on innovation.

  Early signs are encouraging. The company, formerly known as Computer Associates, is highly profitable. Its problem is a steady decline in revenue that has persisted for seven straight quarters.

  If you take a look over the last several years, we lost our innovation edge, Chief Executive Mike Gregoire said in an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. And over the last year that is the No. 1 thing that I have been trying to put in place. You can structure deals and use financial engineering to a certain extent, package more things together and show growth, but at the end of the day you have to build great software that is highly differentiated and (that) people want.

  Since joining CA a year ago, Gregoire has been trying to sharpen CAs blunted edg! e. He has! closed fragmented engineering shops, opened an R&D center in Silicon Valley and is trying to get ahead of the technology curve to deliver the products that customers will want in two years time.

  This innovation is not something you do some of the time, you have to do it all of the time, Gregoire said.

  We are on a treadmill, he added. We have to keep the products that we currently have innovative and differentiated, and we have to be looking to what the market needs over time to make sure we are highly relevant in the largest markets.

  He sees huge potential from mainframe applications to distributed applications to the cloud. CA, which competes with the likes of Oracle (ORCL) and International Business Machines(IBM), will have customers on all three platforms, which will need to be managed, and applications and security closely monitored. There is lots of room for us to innovate, said Gregoire. He has cut 1,200 jobs, and is looking to revitalize sales and marketing, too.

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