CA's AllFusion Solutions Help Erie Insurance Achieve and Maintain Regulatory Compliance

CA's AllFusion Solutions Help Erie Insurance Achieve and Maintain Regulatory Compliance

Automated Change Management Supports Best Practices for Privacy, Process Control and IT Auditing

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA) today announced that Erie Insurance Group, a multi-line insurance company offering auto, home, commercial and life insurance, is using CA's AllFusion Harvest Change Manager and AllFusion Endevor Change Manager to help achieve and maintain regulatory compliance by automating the collection and analysis of information from multiple platforms across the enterprise.

The AllFusion-driven information helps Erie address regulatory issues such as information privacy and security, process control management, and the auditing of changes to its IT systems. The CA solutions also help protect Erie Insurance against unauthorized and/or non-compliant modifications to both the company's internally developed systems and the various commercial applications it uses, such as PeopleSoft.

"Without a formalized change management process in place, we lacked the necessary audit trail to ensure that changes in our critical business systems were appropriately approved and executed," said John Sommerwerck, chief information officer at Erie Insurance Group. "With CA's AllFusion life cycle management solutions, we can now effectively define and enforce change management processes, maintain the integrity of the data in our system, and reduce the risk of regulatory non-compliance -- as well as other adverse consequences of inappropriate system modification."

Erie Insurance has reaped additional benefits from its implementation of AllFusion Harvest Change Manager and AllFusion Endevor Change Manager, including improved efficiency of development teams, reduced change-related errors, accelerated time-to-benefit and reduced costs.

By spanning mainframe and distributed platforms, AllFusion Harvest Change Manager and AllFusion Endevor Change Manager provide Erie Insurance with a common "snapshot" of its entire software development environment and enable the company to fully standardize processes across the enterprise.

"Since IT organizations have to respond to increasingly rapid and complex changes in the business with similarly rapid and complex changes to core information systems, the risk of mistakenly implementing non-compliant, non- functional or otherwise inappropriate software modifications has grown enormously," said Rob Levy, senior vice president of development for life cycle management at CA. "CA's AllFusion change management solutions empower customers such as Erie Insurance to cope more effectively with this fast-paced business environment, ensuring their ability to respond quickly to changing regulatory and market conditions without jeopardizing the integrity of IT or corporate governance as a whole."

About Erie Insurance

Known for competitive rates and superior service, Erie Insurance Group is a leading property/casualty insurer in the United States. With more than 3.7 million policies in force, Erie Insurance Group includes seven companies operating in 11 states and the District of Columbia and is rated A+ (superior) by A.M. Best Company. Erie Indemnity Company (NASDAQ:ERIE) is the management company for Erie Insurance Group. Headquartered in Erie, Pa., since 1925, Erie provides auto, home, business and life insurance through more than 7,400 independent agents representing nearly 1,800 agencies. Erie Insurance Group ranks No. 368 among the FORTUNE 500 and is included in Forbes "Platinum 400" list of America's best-managed companies. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.erieinsurance.com/.

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About CA



Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA), the world's largest management software company, delivers software and services across operations, security, storage, life cycle and service management to optimize the performance, reliability and efficiency of enterprise IT environments. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y. and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com/.

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