'The combination of CA's leadership in serving enterprise IT and salesforce.com's experience in cloud computing made this the perfect partnership,' said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. 'Agile development is transforming the way that companies innovate, and by partnering with CA, we're empowering companies to manage agile development in the cloud.'

CA Agile Planner is designed to build on salesforce.com's agile management expertise. After transitioning to the agile development methodology, salesforce.com has amassed deep expertise on managing innovation. The company shared some of its best practices with CA to help the Enterprise IT Management leader fuel its research and development programs.

By being built on the trusted Force.com platform, CA Agile Planner joins the more than 135,000 custom applications built by the salesforce.com community of 200,000 developers. It will better enable users to simultaneously manage multiple development methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP).

'Force.com's growth and momentum is nothing short of amazing, as is the tremendous productivity our engineers are gaining with it,' said John Swainson, CEO, CA. 'With CA Agile Planner, CA is seeking to leverage both technologies for the benefit of developers large and small. If they want to develop better cloud services, regardless of methodology, and get them to market faster, CA Agile Planner on Force.com will help get them there.'

CA Agile Planner will be integrated with CA Clarity PPM , the leading project and portfolio management system used by more than 250,000 people at more than 1,000 enterprises worldwide to manage various programs, especially development initiatives. Through integrating CA Agile Planner and CA Clarity PPM, CA customers would have comprehensive management control regardless of development methodology.

CA Agile Planner: Enterprise Tested, Community Approved

Agile development is based on collaborative teams using iterative development to rapidly deliver high-quality applications that meet evolving requirements and goals. In the agile spirit of collaboration, CA is engaging the global developer community to source the features and functionality of the CA Agile Planner.

Community members can access up-to-date information at ca.com/agile where anyone can submit, vote and discuss feature ideas and collaborate with fellow agile evangelists.

CA's Enterprise Cloud Accelerators Fuel Cloud Computing Adoption

The CA Agile Planner is being built on CA's existing offerings, which helps salesforce.com customers to fuel adoption of cloud computing within their organization. With CA's enterprise cloud accelerators, customers can accelerate the deployment of Salesforce CRM within the organization, simplify sign-on as well as manage composite applications for success. These offerings include:

- CA Clarity PPM On Demand : Accelerate deployments of Salesforce CRM across multiple departments, divisions and locations, by managing them as projects.

- CA Federation Manager : Employ standards-based single sign-on and centralized security management.

- CA Wily Application Performance Management : Monitor and manage cloud-based composite applications to help ensure they're delivering the superior online experience that end users expect.

Availability of the CA Agile Planner

According to current plans, CA expects that CA Agile Planner will be generally available in the first half of Calendar Year 2010 on salesforce.com's AppExchange and from CA . The companies intend to co-market the solution.

About salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/ , has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com platform ( http://www.salesforce.com/platform/ ) helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.

As of October 31, 2009, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 67,900 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol 'CRM'. For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com , or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange

Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM ( http://www.salesforce.com/ ) applications with more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 135,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 67,900 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/ .

About CA

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 .

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With Cloud Converter, an application developed by Model Metrics, users can automate and simplify the process of migrating spreadsheets to Force.com. Not only does the application migrate data, but it also automatically creates the custom objects and fields, including field types and list of values for certain field types. Utilization of Cloud Converter can save hours, days, and even weeks of development time for new Force.com applications.

Cloud Converter is available for free on the AppExchange and can be installed as a new application in a user's salesforce.com environment within minutes. It works with CRM and non-CRM applications alike, automatically reading metadata and configuring new objects and fields on Force.com.

"The power of Cloud Converter lies in its ability to help users unlock their data in Excel spreadsheets and not only share it across their organization, but also integrate it with Salesforce CRM or other applications built on the Force.com platform," said Kendall Collins, chief marketing officer, salesforce.com. "The addition of Cloud Converter to the AppExchange means any salesforce.com customer may download the application through a few simple clicks and be live within minutes."

"Salesforce.com has succeeded in bringing development capabilities to a broad audience that was previously attainable only by programmers," said Adam Caplan, CEO of Model Metrics. "Companies can accelerate the speed with which they move to the real-time cloud and Force.com with our services and the Cloud Converter application. This represents a fundamental shift in information technology, enabling users with no development skills to realize customer success by creating applications on the trusted Force.com platform on their own."

Cloud Converter also facilitates the migration of applications such as Lotus Notes, Microsoft Access, Oracle or SQL Server to Force.com with a facilitated approach by Model Metrics. To learn more about converting these applications to Force.com, contact info@modelmetrics.com.

Cloud Converter at Dreamforce Conference

Reid Carlberg of Model Metrics will be demonstrating the power of Cloud Converter live at Dreamforce. Just stop by the Model Metrics booth (#609) for a demonstration of the most challenging migration projects.

Reid will also demonstrate Cloud Converter in a breakout session at Dreamforce '09 on Friday, November 20 at 10:15 am titled "Turning Spreadsheets into Custom Apps."

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange

Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM applications with more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 120,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 63,200 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

About Model Metrics

Model Metrics delivers applications and services at the cutting edge of the cloud computing industry. Since its founding in 2003, Model Metrics has become one of salesforce.com's most diversified and respected partners. Headquartered in Chicago with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Minneapolis and Dallas, Model Metrics' customer base spans all industries and includes enterprises such as Abbott, Allstate, Aon, Cars.com, CME Group, Honeywell, InfoUSA, MasterCard, Medtronic and Orbitz.

With a focus on mobile and call center technology, business process and change management innovation, and custom development, Model Metrics has completed hundreds of engagements for mid-sized and Fortune 1000 companies. Its world-class application development skills using Force.com, Adobe Flex and AIR, Amazon Web Services, Google and the Apple iPhone enable the creation of custom applications featuring multimedia-rich user experiences. To learn more, visit www.modelmetrics.com or email info@modelmetrics.com or call 877.542.2885. Follow us on Twitter @modelmetricsinc.

SOURCE Model Metrics

http://www.modelmetrics.com

"The combination of CA's leadership in serving enterprise IT and salesforce.com's experience in cloud computing made this the perfect partnership," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "Agile development is transforming the way that companies innovate, and by partnering with CA, we're empowering companies to manage agile development in the cloud."

CA Agile Planner is designed to build on salesforce.com's agile management expertise. After transitioning to the agile development methodology, salesforce.com has amassed deep expertise on managing innovation. The company shared some of its best practices with CA to help the Enterprise IT Management leader fuel its research and development programs.

By being built on the trusted Force.com platform, CA Agile Planner joins the more than 135,000 custom applications built by the salesforce.com community of 200,000 developers. It will better enable users to simultaneously manage multiple development methodologies such as Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP).

"Force.com's growth and momentum is nothing short of amazing, as is the tremendous productivity our engineers are gaining with it," said John Swainson, CEO, CA. "With CA Agile Planner, CA is seeking to leverage both technologies for the benefit of developers large and small. If they want to develop better cloud services, regardless of methodology, and get them to market faster, CA Agile Planner on Force.com will help get them there."

CA Agile Planner will be integrated with CA Clarity PPM, the leading project and portfolio management system used by more than 250,000 people at more than 1,000 enterprises worldwide to manage various programs, especially development initiatives. Through integrating CA Agile Planner and CA Clarity PPM, CA customers would have comprehensive management control regardless of development methodology.

CA Agile Planner: Enterprise Tested, Community Approved

Agile development is based on collaborative teams using iterative development to rapidly deliver high-quality applications that meet evolving requirements and goals. In the agile spirit of collaboration, CA is engaging the global developer community to source the features and functionality of the CA Agile Planner.

Community members can access up-to-date information at ca.com/agile where anyone can submit, vote and discuss feature ideas and collaborate with fellow agile evangelists.

CA's Enterprise Cloud Accelerators Fuel Cloud Computing Adoption

The CA Agile Planner is being built on CA's existing offerings, which helps salesforce.com customers to fuel adoption of cloud computing within their organization. With CA's enterprise cloud accelerators, customers can accelerate the deployment of Salesforce CRM within the organization, simplify sign-on as well as manage composite applications for success. These offerings include:

    --  CA Clarity PPM On Demand: Accelerate deployments of Salesforce CRM
        across multiple departments, divisions and locations, by managing them
        as projects.
    --  CA Federation Manager: Employ standards-based single sign-on and
        centralized security management.

    --  CA Wily Application Performance Management: Monitor and manage
        cloud-based composite applications to help ensure they're delivering the
        superior online experience that end users expect.

Availability of the CA Agile Planner

According to current plans, CA expects that CA Agile Planner will be generally available in the first half of Calendar Year 2010 on salesforce.com's AppExchange and from CA. The companies intend to co-market the solution.

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About CA

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.

Connect with CA

    --  CA Social Media Page
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    --  CA Podcasts

About salesforce.com

Salesforce.com is the enterprise cloud computing company. The company's portfolio of Salesforce CRM applications, available at http://www.salesforce.com/products/, has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers across sales, marketing and service. The company's Force.com platform (http://www.salesforce.com/platform/) helps customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business applications to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Based on salesforce.com's real-time, multitenant architecture, Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.

As of October 31, 2009, salesforce.com manages customer information for approximately 67,900 customers including Allianz Commercial, Dell, Dow Jones Newswires, Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE, and SunTrust Banks. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase salesforce.com applications should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com has headquarters in San Francisco, with offices in Europe and Asia, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "CRM". For more information please visit http://www.salesforce.com, or call 1-800-NO-SOFTWARE.

About the Force.com Platform and AppExchange

Force.com is the only proven enterprise platform for building and running business applications in the cloud. The Force.com platform powers the Salesforce CRM (http://www.salesforce.com/) applications with more than 800 ISV partner applications like those from CODA and Fujitsu, and more than 135,000 custom applications used by salesforce.com's 67,900 customers such as Japan Post, Kaiser Permanente, KONE and Sprint Nextel.

Applications built on the Force.com platform can be easily distributed to the entire cloud computing community through the salesforce.com AppExchange marketplace at http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/.

Trademarks

Copyright A(C) 2009 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

Copyright A(C) 2009 salesforce.com, inc. All rights reserved. Salesforce and the "no software" logo are registered trademarks of salesforce.com, inc., and salesforce.com owns other registered and unregistered trademarks. Other names used herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Press Contacts

    Michael Zeglin
    CA, Inc.
    (650) 298-3117
    Michael.Zeglin@ca.com

    Daylan Burlison
    salesforce.com
    (415) 536-4902
    dburlison@salesforce.com

SOURCE CA

http://www.ca.com

MultiFactor explained that SecureAuth's design enables single sign on (SSO) while transparently enforcing 2-factor authentication into internally-hosted applications as well as SaaS applications like Salesforce CRM and GoogleApps.

"The ability to enforce a bilateral authentication throughout the SSO process across network, cloud, and web applications is unique in the industry," said MultiFactor's CTO Garret Grajek.

The company explained that while cloud computing is rapidly gaining traction due to its greater flexibility and cost savings, security is often cited as a primary concern by enterprise IT. Cloud vendors can assure the integrity and reliability of their applications and datacenters. However, the enterprise customer must control identities of their users for access to those applications and data.

MultiFactor stated that the SecureAuth solution implements a secure authentication to both legacy onsite and cloud-based applications without forcing the enterprise to migrate or synchronize their existing user credential stores. SecureAuth directly accesses an existing native directory, including Microsoft's Active Directory. An enterprise is now able to migrate to cloud computing with a single or multiple applications at a time while leveraging their existing IT infrastructure and retaining full control of their users' identities.

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