Study Finds Enterprises May Gain More Than 200 Percent ROI with CA Workload Automation
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Study Finds the Risk-Adjusted Net Present Value (NPV) is $2.7 Million with a Payback Period of Six Months
ISLANDIA, N.Y., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CA, Inc. (Nasdaq: CA) today announced the results of a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on CA's behalf(1) that examined the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying CA Workload Automation. The study found an anticipated risk-adjusted return on investment (ROI) of 208% with the enterprise job scheduling solution. The risk-adjusted net present value (NPV) is $2.7 million with a payback period of six months.
The study "illustrates the financial impact of moving from multiple, automated scheduling tools or highly manual processes for managing IT job execution schedules to a streamlined and consolidated approach using CA Workload Automation. In conducting in-depth interviews with four existing CA customers, Forrester found that these organizations achieved significant benefits, some easily measured for this ROI study, and others that are equally valuable but that the firm could not quantify."
Specifically, the benefits fall into the following categories: 1) reduced workload operations team costs; 2) productivity gains for application owners/developers; 3) reduced HR costs associated with payroll processing; 4) reduced business user downtime due to delayed or failed IT jobs; 5) maintenance cost savings from workload automation solution consolidation; 6) revenue assurance from reduced time to market and management information; 7) improved and faster management reporting; 8) improved end-to-end process visibility; and 9) simplified Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and reporting.
These benefits demonstrate how CA Workload Automation can serve as an "on ramp to creating Lean IT"(2) organizations and generating savings by reducing the effort required to "keep the lights on."
According to a separate report by Forrester Research, "The State of Enterprise Software: 2009" (June 2009)(3), activities relating to ongoing operations and maintenance make up, on average, approximately 66% of IT budgets.
In the commissioned study, several key themes emerged during the customer interviews, which included a U.S.-based operator of several national restaurant chains, a regional power utility, a U.S. plumbing fixture company, and a department within a U.S. federal agency. The themes include the following:
Automated workload delays and failures were reduced by 70 percent;
Workload automation contributed to Lean IT initiatives, with an average 66 percent reduction in the size of workload automation teams;
Application developers and owners realized a 15 percent improvement in productivity;
Business users saw significant productivity gains - both specific business functions improvements and general, across-the-board time savings in terms of creating new automated workloads and time saved while waiting for existing workloads to be completed.
According to Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit, "This study validates how CA Workload Automation can help customers achieve Lean IT by maximizing value and minimizing cost. CA Workload Automation's ability to enable automated event- and schedule-based execution and management of IT-asynchronous processes and applications is a distinct competitive advantage for hundreds of CA customers worldwide."
CA Workload Automation is a pillar of CA's Business-Driven Automation solution, which helps customers automate in context to business priorities by leveraging new and existing IT investments. The solution is instrumental in increasing business agility, service quality and control, as well as helping to reduce risk and human error, minimizing costs, and improving IT efficiency.
(1) "Total Economic Impact(TM) Of CA Workload Automation," a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of CA, August 2009.
(2) CA defines Lean IT as "an approach to process improvement that focuses on removing waste and cycle-time and increasing the value delivered to customers."
(3) "The State of Enterprise Software: 2009," Forrester Research, Inc. June 2009.
CA (Nasdaq: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT -- empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit www.ca.com.
