INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business
CA Technologies showcases
new and updated innovations
at summit
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A Southern Africa has revealed that
at its second annual Built to Change
Summit, CA Technologies showcased
new and updated innovations across
the portfolio that fuels every company’s
evolution to a Modern Software Factory. giving customers the ability to derive and
apply deep insights for machine learning
and artificial intelligence that helps with
more accurate planning, as well as predictive
modelling and real-time remediation to
operational issue.
These solutions integrate powerful
advanced analytics and data science with
machine-learning, artificial intelligence and
automation into the tools and technologies
that support the entire software
development lifecycle (SDLC). “As a leading management consulting
and technology services firm that focuses
on digital innovation, we understand the
critical role that data plays in business
transformation,” said Karl Kleinert, Vice
President of Sales at IntelliNet.
Across various industries, the use of AI and
advanced analytics within the enterprise is
certainly top-of-mind for companies looking
to optimise their business with the use of this
technology. According to a recent Gartner
report, ‘AI and machine learning strategy
development and investment is already in
the top five CIO priorities.’ “The ability to leverage data taken from
various platforms and correlate that data
to derive insights that have an impact on
our company’s bottom line is an extremely
powerful thing.”
Yet, while the benefits of AI at a high level
are readily accepted and new use cases
continue to emerge, hurdles to fully realising
the business benefits of AI still exist. • CA Digital Operational Intelligence,
a machine learning-driven solution
that provides comprehensive insights
by automatically ingesting cross-
domain data from IT operations tools.
Powered by CA Jarvis, the solution
uses algorithmic intelligence to quickly
identify the problem root cause,
measure and improve business service
levels, improve cost and resources
utilisation, and proactively detect and
remedy potential issues.
• CA Project & Portfolio Management
(CA PPM) 15.4 introduces a strategic
planning capability with a road-mapping
module for top-down visual planning
and collaboration. It gives users the
ability to easily view, pivot and sort
investment information across the
organisation and delivers actionable
business intelligence with extensive
modelling and forecasting capabilities.
Gartner states: “CIOs face two key
challenges in exploring and adopting AI:
the availability of skilled and experienced
staff, and the lack of IT and business
understanding of AI’s potential.
Insights for better experiences
Leveraging the vast amounts of data
generated to glean actionable insights that
drive business impact is an ongoing challenge.
Adding to the complexity of the issue
is being able to use the data in modern
architectures that use APIs and micro-
services for new and improved services and
offerings. To address this challenge, CA is
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New ways CA is helping companies apply
key insights include:
Intelligent Automation for DevOps
The latest update to the CA Automic One
Automation Platform empowers the Ops of
DevOps through new lifecycle management
of automation artefacts, intelligent
critical-path management and support
for PostgreSQL. It also supports shift-left
automation capabilities for developers
with new automation-as-code functionality
and connects automation silos with new
integrations for CA Workload Automation, CA
Continuous Delivery Director and CA Jarvis to
deliver powerful analytics capabilities.
“The CA Automic One Automation engine
allows TASC to better orchestrate our
development toolchain and plug in the
right tools as we need them,” said John
Gildenzoph, DevOps engineer at TASC.
“Whether we need to deploy software or new
instances, our automation engine gives us
the flexibility to deliver new services at scale.
With the CA Automation platform, we are
now a more nimble and agile organisation
and instead of being impeded by arduous
processes, we can focus on what is important
– driving business value for the company.”
Secure development from the start
The latest addition to the CA security
portfolio, CA Veracode SourceClear is a
SaaS-based software composition analysis
tool which relies on a unique vulnerability
database that goes beyond the National
Vulnerability Database (NVD) and vulnerable
methods technology to increase the
actionability of static composition analysis
(SCA) results. Unique to CA, the combination
of CA Veracode and CA Veracode SourceClear
offerings enable organisations to use open
source libraries to accelerate software
development without adding unmanaged risk
to support the DevSecOps movement. n
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