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A message from the chair.....

By Legacy User posted Jun 16, 2015 12:29 PM

  

Dear EDGE Community member,

 

I wanted to share this exciting news from CA technologies on the future of CA Gen!    Please note that this letter to our
community comes from Mike Madden,  http://www.ca.com/us/about-us/company-information/executive-management/madden.aspx
General Manager of the Mainframe Business and has executive oversight for CA Gen.  Mike clearly invites us, as a community to get involved in driving
the future of CA Gen.  Let’s take him up on his offer.

 

What can you do as a community member to help drive the future of CA Gen?

  • Make sure you are reviewing and commenting on the current list of Innovation topics

          Under content – review the titles with the “Light Bulbs” and make comments

  • Become a part of a CA Gen Sprint team and help with testing of new features

          Contact John Carter to sign up

  • Make sure your leadership reviews the letter from Mike. I’m confident Mike would welcome inquiries as necessary!

   

This is great stuff!  Thanks in advance for your support!

Larry Schmidt (Posted by Darcy Elliott)

 

An Open Letter from Mike Madden...

 

The world is changing dramatically and CA has been changing with it.
Enterprises today are facing huge volumes of distributed applications, digital
processes and a proliferation of devices. A new era of social and mobile
technologies, powered by cloud, is forcing companies to change how they do
business. 

 

Today, CA is delivering new capability to help businesses lead in this
new world.  From efficient and fast app development to bridging legacy
digital silos to identity solutions and analytics, CA has been busy building
its leadership position in the new “application economy”.

 

Many CA customers have created significant IP and played a strong role
in supporting foundational applications like CA Gen.  Those customers have
priority access to our development teams through communities and agile sprint
reviews which has provided invaluable input to our product roadmaps and use
cases.  And, as we move forward, we see significant opportunity to work
with our customers and partners to utilize Gen as part of our cutting-edge DevOps
solutions.

 

CA is leading as enterprises increasingly turn to DevOps to meet
aggressive application delivery timelines.  A few critical areas where we
are driving innovation include:

 

 

  -       Agile Parallel Development focuses on rapidly creating high-quality software.

Market leading service virtualization, API management and test automation married with our existing
application development solutions (including CA Gen) combine to enable the creation and reuse of higher

quality, more resilient code, and the ability to find defects earlier in the cycle when they are simpler and

more cost effective to fix. 

 

 

-       Continuous Delivery ensures fast, stable and secure application releases.

Enterprise-class release orchestration and automation enables users to build a continuous

delivery tool chain. Re-use release automation processes across other applications, teams and environments

  to speed deployment, reduce manual errors and lower costs.

 

 

-       Agile Operations matches the velocity of Agile Development.

Gain visibility across applications and infrastructure performance, both inside and outside the

data center to accelerate discovery, diagnosis and resolution of issues; enable fast feedback of

data to improve applications across the lifecycle for optimal customer experience.

 

To be clear, we remain committed to the CA Gen product line as we see it
as a cornerstone product to our DevOps strategy as a strategic element that
will increase the velocity of application development.  We continue to
invest in CA Gen and we desire to collaborate  with the EDGE User Group
community to identify and build out additional features and functions that
provide value to all of our clients.  We have hundreds of top customers who
continue to see the value that CA Gen offers in the portfolio management
process. In fact, when coupled with our innovative DevOps tools such as
Application Lifecycle Management offerings, CA provides a unique value
proposition to the market that many of our peers and competitors would have
trouble matching.  A full-featured offering would provide short- and
long-term results to our customers that no labor arbitrage player or managed
services provider could even imagine delivering.

 

Michael Madden
General Manager

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