TOKYO -- Fujitsu Limited and CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the formation of a strategic alliance that will enhance each company's service assurance product portfolio and cloud computing strategy.

In the initial stage of the alliance, the companies have signed an OEM agreement under which Fujitsu will sell CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) (CA Technologies is named a leader in Application Performance Monitoring(1)) in Japan, and offer it with their SOA middleware suites and system management software suites. In addition, CA Technologies will offer Fujitsu's Interstage Business Process Manager Analytics product worldwide, as CA Business Process Performance Analytics (CA BPPA), as an add-on option to CA APM.

This partnership enhances the ability of both Fujitsu and CA Technologies to help organizations improve management of heterogeneous enterprise IT environments and dynamically optimize IT supply chains. Using the solutions from Fujitsu and CA Technologies, organizations can launch new cloud initiatives with confidence by gaining comprehensive transaction and business process performance visibility across the application infrastructure. This will help assure that service delivery is meeting end user expectations and business objectives.

Fujitsu Ltd. (Tokyo: 6702; London: FUJ; OTC: FJTSY)