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Vishwanath Kulkarni

Las Vegas, Nov. 18 CA, the IT management and security solutions vendor, is betting on strong demand in India and Japan to drive growth even as it seeks to increase revenues from the Asia-Pacific region.

Largely untouched by the current meltdown, CA has seen a faster growth outside of the US, its largest market in recent quarters.

Mr Gavin Selkirk, Corporate Senior Vice-President for Regional Sales in Asia-Pacific and Japan, said India was witnessing a strong double-digit growth followed by Japan and Australia in the region, where e-governance initiatives had helped expand its sales.

CA earns about 12 per cent of its earnings from the Asia-Pacific, which it plans to increase to 15 per cent in two years, Mr Selkirk told reporters at the thirteenth edition of CA World, the company’s three-day annual user conference being attended by some 5,000 IT professionals.

Without disclosing the India revenues, Mr Selkirk said the country was the fastest-growing geography for CA in the region.

Recently, CA charted a strategy for the India market wherein it aims to double its revenues every two years.

As part of the new strategy, CA was relying more on partners such as Wipro, TCS, Satyam, HCL and Infosys to drive its business in the country while targeting newer verticals such as e-governance, defence, pharmaceuticals and healthcare and retail sectors, said Mr Ninad Karpe, Managing Director of CA India.

“We are seeing a lot of traction in e-governance and have formed a team to look into sectors such as retail, infrastructure and pharma,” Mr Karpe said.

CA and its partners are providing solutions to nine of the 15 States in the country that are setting up state-wide area networks (SWAN) as part of the National e-Governance Plan (NeGP), he said.

Further, CA is scaling up its development operations in India by investing $30 million in expanding its infrastructure.

“We plan to add an additional 1,000 engineers over the next three to five years,” Mr Karpe said. Currently, the India centre at Hyderabad has some 1,600 engineers, about one-fourth of CA’s global R&D workforce.

In his keynote address, the CEO of CA, Mr John Swainson, said the economic uncertainty has intensified the pressure to do more with less. But, at the same time, companies are looking for a competitive edge in IT to ensure that they not only survive the downturn but also emerge from it stronger and thriving.

Mr Swainson predicted the era of six ‘disruptive’ technologies that were going to change enterprise computing forever.

These technologies — virtualisation, converged networks, service-oriented architecture (SoA), enterprise-focused social networking, cloud computing and networked device explosion — are going to require new management models, he warned.

CA also announced its foray into the SaaS (software-as-a-service) arena at the event, where it launched three SaaS products along with a slew of other product launches.

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