CA Technologies Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2012 Results

"We finished fiscal 2012 by delivering a solid fourth quarter," said Bill McCracken, CA Technologies chief executive officer. "Fiscal 2012 was a year that furthermore demonstrated CA Technologies progress against its strategic goals and our commitment to consistently delivering innovative solutions and services to our clients, revenue and revenues growth and attractive, sustainable returns to our shareholders.

"In fiscal 2013 we will continue to focus on improving our execution, expanding our presence in large existing enterprises, and winning new accounts in large new enterprises and growth markets," he said. "We as well will continue to follow a strategy that thoughtfully balances investments in the business to fuel growth with the return of cash to our shareholders."

The fourth quarter

During the fourth quarter, the Company saw demand for its services and learning, virtualization and service automation, security and mainframe solutions. This was offset by softness in mainframe capacity and service assurance. About 4 percentage points of revenue growth in constant currency and 3 percentage points as reported were driven by organic products, with the remaining 2 percentage points in constant currency and as reported coming from products from recent acquisitions. About 63 percent of the Company's revenue in the fourth quarter came from North America, during 37 percent came from International operations.

About 5 percentage points of revenue growth in constant currency and 7 percentage points as reported were driven by organic products, with the remaining 2 percentage points in constant currency and as reported coming from products from recent acquisitions. About 62 percent of the Company's full year revenue came from North America, during 38 percent came from International operations.

IT management software

CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables clients to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

Certain statements in this communication constitute "forward-looking statements" that are based upon the beliefs of, and assumptions made by, the Company's management, as then as information currently available to management. These forward-looking statements reflect the Company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. A number of important factors could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including: the ability to achieve success in the Company's strategy by, among other things, effectively rebalancing the Company's sales force to increase penetration in growth markets and with large enterprises that have not historically been significant clients, enabling the sales force to sell new products, improving the Company's brand in the marketplace and ensuring the Company's set of cloud computing, Software-as-a-Service and other new offerings address the needs of a rapidly changing market, during not adversely affecting the demand for the Company's traditional products or its profitability; global economic factors or political events beyond the Company's control; general economic conditions and credit constraints, or unfavorable economic conditions in a particular region, industry or business sector; the ability to adapt to rapid technological changes and introduce new software products and services in a timely manner; competition in product and service offerings and pricing; the failure to expand partner programs; the ability to retain and attract adequate qualified personnel; the ability to integrate acquired companies and products into existing businesses; the ability to adequately manage and evolve financial reporting and managerial systems and processes; the ability of the Company's products to remain compatible with ever-changing operating environments; breaches of the Company's software products and the Company's and clients' data centers and IT environments; discovery of errors in the Company's software and potential product liability claims; the failure to protect the Company's intellectual property rights and source code; risks associated with sales to government clients; access to software licensed from third parties; risks associated with the use of software from open source code sources; access to third-party code and specifications for the development of code; third-party claims of intellectual property infringement or royalty payments; fluctuations in the number, terms and duration of the Company's license agreements also as the timing of orders from customers and channel partners; the failure to renew large license transactions on a satisfactory basis; changes in market conditions or the Company's credit ratings; fluctuations in foreign currencies; the failure to effectively execute the Company's workforce reductions; successful outsourcing of various functions to third parties; events or circumstances that would require us to record a goodwill impairment charge; potential tax liabilities; acquisition opportunities that may or may not arise; and other factors described more fully in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties occur, or should our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as believed, planned, anticipated, expected, estimated or targeted. The Company assumes no obligation to update the information in this communication, except as if not required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.

? Enterprise Solutions - Our Enterprise Solutions segment includes products that operate on non-mainframe platforms, just as service assurance, security, project and portfolio management, service management, virtualization and service automation, SaaS, and cloud offerings. Our offerings help clients address their regulatory compliance demands, privacy needs, and internal security policies. Enterprise Solutions as well focuses on delivering growth to the Company in the form of new customer acquisitions and revenue, during leveraging non-traditional routes-to-market and delivery models.

GAAP operating margin is calculated by dividing GAAP income from continuing operations previously interest and income taxes by total revenue.