Does that mean the transformation process is complete?
I have banned transformation from people’s vocabulary. But you can always do better, and we are not letting up in the drive to be more efficient. We have good business processes, now they just have to be executed. Another change has been the shift away from merger and acquisition activity. Previous shows have been a chance to round up all the latest purchases and detail how they fit into the CA portfolio again, CA has been very quiet on that front this year. There were some clear deficiencies in the product portfolio when I joined the company, particularly around identity and access management, network management capabilities, and application management capabilities. We had an offering but it was not market leading and the company had not acquired great technology. So we spent $18bn (£12.2bn) acquiring 15 companies, but there were three things that then caused us to pause. First, we needed to integrate what we had acquired. Second, we were in the middle of an SAP implementation and w
