Application Delivery

The CA Technologies Application Delivery solution is generally branded CA Lisa. It is, in essence, the CA Technologies take on DevOps, which means the removing of constraints from the software delivery lifecycle, the release and deployment of its outcomes and the capture of defect information and live traffic patterns for regression testing and the creation of simulated environments.

CA sells its products largely through its global direct channel, although it has been developing its partner programs lately. It has, for example, a relationship with SQS Software Quality Systems AG, a leading specialist in software quality and the first German company to list on the AIM (Alternative Investment Market) in London (as well as trading on the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt am Main). SQS is headquartered in Germany and has about 2,800 staff, with offices in Germany, the UK, Egypt, Finland, France, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, South Africa and the US. This gives CA Technologies access to SQS’ client base, including half of the DAX 30, nearly a third of the STOXX 50 and 20 per cent of the FTSE 100 companies.

CA Technologies targets large multinational companies and government organisations such as California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

The vision of CA Technologies for Application Delivery comprises:

• CA Lisa Service Virtualisation;
• CA Lisa Release Automation;
• CA Lisa Data Mining.

Service virtualisation is about simulating and modeling systems that aren’t built yet or unavailable for practical reasons (often because they are committed to the business). This allows testing to begin earlier in the lifecycle (with less demands on infrastructure and software licensing) and enables parallel development and testing, which reduces cycle times and increases IT productivity.

Release automation automates the agile software development, test and production workflows, which promotes continuous application delivery and thus reduces deployment errors and time-to-market. This needs to deal with multi-tier application release deployment across distributed, heterogeneous infrastructures and also provide feedback of management information from the process.

Data Mining, as CA Technologies uses the term, is about rapidly generating automated regression test suites by capturing live traffic during application use; automation of the creation and management of virtual services and the automation and simpliffication of defect capture, reporting and root cause analysis.

CA Technologies offers expected enterprise levels of services and support, with global 24x7x365 support if necessary, as well as classroom and web-based training.