CA Technologies has acquired privately-held Paragon Global Technology, Inc. (PGTI), a provider of software products that help clients improve service delivery by visualizing data from CA Workload Automation AE (formerly CA AutoSys).
The acquisition brings predictive analytics, critical-path monitoring, service-level agreement (SLA) management, historical reporting, and a centralized management platform to CA Technologies workload automation product portfolio.
“We’re passionate about bringing best-in-class solutions to our customers through both internal development and strategic acquisitions, such as PGTI,” said Dayton Semerjian, GM, Mainframe, CA Technologies. “The proven technology from PGTI seamlessly integrates with CA Workload Automation AE to help our customers improve service levels as they visualize, monitor, analyze and predict the performance of critical workloads.”
Products acquired and available today include:
• CA Workload Automation (WA) iDash (formerly PGTI iDash): a solution for SLA management and critical-path monitoring, alerting and graphical reporting.
• CA Workload Automation (WA) iXp (formerly PGTI iXp): a management solution designed to help customers better manage, monitor, forecast, simulate and secure CA Workload Automation AE across multiple versions and environments.
“The acquisition of PGTI by CA Technologies is a great fit for our clients, our solutions and our team,” PGTI President John Williamson said. “Now, we can work together as one to deliver the best value to our customers by expanding our technology to create superior cross-platform workload automation solutions.”
CA WA iDash and CA WA iXp are integrated with CA Workload Automation AE to provide:
• A cost-effective workload analytics solution designed to help customers maximize return on investment
• Advanced simulation capabilities that can help customers understand how workload changes would impact their business
• A robust audit and compliance reporting engine designed to help customers meet their industry and government regulations
• A real-time latency monitoring and reporting dashboard that helps customer improve their workload service levels.
Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
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