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PRODUCT SHEET: CA ECOGOVERNANCE CA ecoGovernance Green Governance for Efficient and Sustainable Business Organizations seeking to enhance their environmental performance typically need to reduce costs, comply with regulations and policies, satisfy the expectations of stakeholders and meet critical business objectives, often simultaneously. CA ecoGovernance helps you pursue an efficient and systematic approach to meeting your environmental goals and helps you deliver, quantify and communicate sustainability outcomes more effectively. Product Overview CA ecoGovernance is a powerful application which helps you take your sustainability efforts though the following steps: Strategy Risk Management Compliance Management Idea Management Portfolio Management Project management Performance Management CA ecoGovernance records sustainability initiatives and the associated stakeholders. It supports energy, carbon and vendor assessments. Energy use and other activity such as business travel, water and waste is tracked. Consumption, cost, carbon and KPIs are recorded and visualized. CA ecoGovernance facilitates continuous improvement. Business Value CA’s innovative approach, Green Governance, is enabled by the CA ecoGovernance product to help you create a sustainability strategy and deliver on it. Assessments are used to identify where progress needs to be made. Scarce investments are directed towards projects that are most likely to achieve organizational objectives. Teams are held accountable for their projects. Measures such as energy consumption, cost and carbon impact are calculated and tracked to demonstrate both the green and financial benefits. What’s New, What’s Compelling? Reduce energy consumption, cut carbon, engage with stakeholders, communicate progress towards environmental goals: Ad hoc efforts, organizational silos and the lack of a uniform approach often make these goals difficult and costly. With a centralized repository supported by powerful functionality, CA ecoGovernance helps you define strategy, identify risks, manage compliance, capture ideas, select initiatives, execute projects, assess outcomes and track performance. This directs your projects, teams and resources towards achieving your organization’s key sustainability goals.

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PRODUCT SHEET: CA ECOGOVERNANCE

CA ecoGovernanceGreen Governance for Efficient and Sustainable Business

Organizations seeking to enhance their environmental performance typically need to reduce costs, comply with regulations and policies, satisfy the expectations of stakeholders and meet critical business objectives, often simultaneously. CA ecoGovernance helps you pursue an efficient and systematic approach to meeting your environmental goals and helps you deliver, quantify and communicate sustainability outcomes more effectively.

Product Overview

CA ecoGovernance is a powerful application which helps you take your sustainability efforts though the following steps:

› Strategy

› Risk Management

› Compliance Management

› Idea Management

› Portfolio Management

› Project management

› Performance Management

CA ecoGovernance records sustainability initiatives and the associated stakeholders. It supports energy, carbon and vendor assessments. Energy use and other activity such as business travel, water and waste is tracked. Consumption, cost, carbon and KPIs are recorded and visualized. CA ecoGovernance facilitates continuous improvement.

Business Value

CA’s innovative approach, Green Governance, is enabled by the CA ecoGovernance product to help you create a sustainability strategy and deliver on it. Assessments are used to identify where progress needs to be made. Scarce investments are directed towards projects that are most likely to achieve organizational objectives. Teams are held accountable for their projects. Measures such as energy consumption, cost and carbon impact are calculated and tracked to demonstrate both the green and financial benefits.

What’s New,What’s Compelling?

Reduce energy consumption, cut carbon, engage with stakeholders, communicate progress towards environmental goals: Ad hoc efforts, organizational silos and the lack of a uniform approach often make these goals difficult and costly. With a centralized repository supported by powerful functionality, CA ecoGovernance helps you define strategy, identify risks, manage compliance, capture ideas, select initiatives, execute projects, assess outcomes and track performance. This directs your projects, teams and resources towards achieving your organization’s key sustainability goals.

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Delivery ApproachCA ecoGovernance is a broad and powerful application. You can choose to use a few functional areas that meet your needs, or you can utilize the application more comprehensively. CA ecoGovernance is provided On Demand using Software-as-a-Service. This helps you get up and running quicker, while reducing the cost and complexity of deployment. CA offers a range of services to help ensure your success. CA has close relationships with leading global and regional consulting partners to provide implementation and consulting assistance.

FeaturesCA ecoGovernance calculates and tracks the following aspects of energy use:n Energy consumptionn Energy spend n Carbon impact

Types of ecoActivity which are tracked include, but are not limited to:n Energy (such as Electricity, Natural Gas and Oil)n Business traveln Watern Waste

Functional areas include:n Strategy and policyn Assessments (vendor, energy and carbon)n Risk assessmentn Compliance management n ROI and financial measuresn Stakeholder mappingn Dashboards and KPIs

BenefitsCA ecoGovernance can help your organization achieve the following outcomes:n Lower costsn Reduced consumption of energy and other natural resourcesn Reduced carbon impact

Better governance of sustainability strategies can also promote the following:n Enhanced employee and stakeholder engagementn Improved allocation of investment in sustainability initiativesn Increased project alignment, management and oversightn Faster, more efficient and more accurate sustainability reportingn Enhanced program outcomes and enhanced reputation

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Why CACA is a leading software company with expertise and vision aimed at helping organizations govern, manage and secure IT. CA has leveraged its capabilities in areas such as project and portfolio management, and governance, risk and compliance management to create a powerful and compelling ecoGovernance solution. CA ecoGovernance is being developed by CA’s ecoSoftware group, one of CA’s incubation business units, which develops, pilots and proves emerging technologies to help solve the energy and sustainability challenges faced by organizations.

ENERGY CONSUMPTION

CA ecoGovernance dashboards display energy consumption and spend.

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ASSESSMENT DASHBOARD

Assessments can be conducted to collect data about energy use, carbon emissions and the environmental profile of suppliers and vendors.

For more information, please visit ca.com/greenIT.

Copyright © 2009 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. This document is for your informational purposes only. CA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CA provides this document “as is” without warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. In no event will CA be liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, from the use of this document, including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, goodwill or lost data, even if CA is expressly advised in advance of the possibility of such damages. CA does not provide legal advice. Neither this document nor any software product referenced herein shall serve as a substitute for the reader’s compliance with any laws (including but not limited to any act, statue, regulation, rule, directive, standard, policy, administrative order, executive order, etc. (collectively, “Laws”)) referenced herein. The reader should consult with competent legal counsel regarding any such Laws. Nothing herein (i) affects the rights and/or obligations of CA or its licensees under any existing or future written license agreement or services agreement relating to any CA software product; or (ii) amends any product documentation or specifications for any CA software product. The development, release and timing of any features or functionality described herein remain at CA’s sole discretion. MP330130509