Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Radar™ for Workload Automation report

CA Technologies today announced it has been named a “Value Leader” in Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Radar™ for Workload Automation (WLA): Q2 2012.* CA Technologies Workload Automation was cited specifically by the leading IT and data management research and consulting firm for its ability to centrally manage a large variety of enterprise workflows and its integration with all major applications, databases and development frameworks.

A press release said, CA Technologies has clear understanding of the agile IT-as-a-Service model with its integration of workload automation with process automation and service management.

“Serving over 2,500 global customers, CA Workload Automation is one of the premier products in this space,” said Torsten Volk, senior analyst at EMA Research. “CA Technologies provides a robust, versatile, scalable and high performance solution which convincingly ties workloads with corresponding business requirements. It provides health and performance information to the data center and affected line of business stakeholders, which are considered the final frontier of workload automation.”

“Our customers need a comprehensive WLA solution that allows them to process mission-critical workloads seamlessly, reliably and cost-effectively across mainframe, distributed and cloud environments,” said Dayton Semerjian, general manager, Mainframe, CA Technologies. “We are continuing to invest in this area to help them achieve their goals by leveraging dynamic workload provisioning, workload service management, self-service and process automation to make them more agile and efficient in managing critical workloads.”

The Radar for Workload Automation report was based on a comprehensive survey with over 600 data points. All survey questions were founded on customer feedback and vendor responses, and thoroughly verified by a series of product demonstrations and end customer interviews.