Here's How the Program Works

The CA Onsite PC Protection Program has so many essential onsite service tools that adding it to your service protocol is a no-brainer. Each registered member's login gives them access to their own personal Command Center. Business Owners have access to business tools and information that are not available to their techs. Actually, there are two ways to login: Express Login or Administration Login - use the Express Login while you're servicing a customer. It hides all of the business information that you don't want your customers to see.

Get started by getting a detailed analysis of your customer's PC (including a PC inventory) by selecting the Diagnostic Scanner. There are several types of security assessment scans available: Data Protection, Virus, Spyware, Privacy and PC Performance. They're fast; so, run as many as you need to. You'll get a full report detailing your customer's PC vulnerabilities and recommendations on the appropriate CA software solutions. Show this report to your customer and discuss their PC vulnerabilities and software solution options with them. Before purchasing the software, through the Command Center, checkout the end-user rebates to give your customers a great deal. Now you can download the product through the Command Center's electronic software delivery platform. CA's products don't require much hard drive space, and they download pretty quickly. With a software delivery system like, this there's no need to buy inventory and no need to carry products around. You purchase only the software you download when you sell it.

Remember that CA is the only security software company to offer an up to $10,000 Total Internet Protection Plan on our CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008.

Identity Theft Coverage²

CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 users can safeguard data on one PC with Mobile Lifeline™ that includes powerful identity theft protection worth up to $5,000 if their identity is compromised.
Note: Identity Theft and Virus Protection Coverage are available only in the United States. Identity Theft coverage is not available in NY and other restrictions may apply.

Virus Protection Coverage

Plus, if their PC fails due to a virus infection after CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 is properly installed, they can receive up to $5,000 in technical service and hardware replacement.

Since it is your business, you set your own price scale and fees. The end-user doesn't get a bill from CA - you do. You're program registration automatically discounts CA products at the special program discount rates. Set it up so that each time you sell product through the Command Center your credit card is automatically billed at the discounted rate. Or, you may qualify for a line of credit. Remember, you decide how much to charge your customers - the end-users - for diagnosis, software, installation and configuration.    

We know that computer technicians are not sales people; they're trusted advisors. That's why the CA Onsite PC Protection Program was designed as a platform that streamlines Best Practices for protecting consumers' PCs. Your technicians will also receive a Welcome Kit containing all of the CA SMB, Home and Home Office software that's available through the program. Remember, your confidence is important to us. We wouldn't want you or your technicians selling our products before they were familiar and totally confident in them.

What to Do When Things Don't Go Smoothly

It's inevitable. You do everything right and still things aren't going as smoothly as you would like them to. No problem! CA technical support is available to all registered CA Onsite PC Protection Program members 24x7 for free. For general questions, customer support is available 12x7, and there are online multimedia installation demonstrations for those self-service techs who want a quick and easy explanation.

The Payoff

Do you like the sound of earning Cash Rewards? We hope you do because CA pays registered technicians a cash reward on qualified sales. If you're both a business owner and a technician, you also can earn cash rewards every time CA software is downloaded from the Command Center. After you make your first qualifying sale, CA will send to you a personal pre-paid Visa® card. For ever qualified sale you make, CA will deposit the cash reward onto your card. There's no limit to the amount of cash rewards you can earn. Spend it wherever Visa cards are accepted. Cash rewards start at $5.00 and run as high as $150 for a single sale.

Think of it this way - CA pays your technicians to help you increase service call revenue.

THE PRODUCTS

Distribution Process:

There are many great reasons to resell CA software solutions:

Award Winning, World-Class Software Solutions

CA's Home & Small Office products use proven, world-class technology, earned several industry awards and meet and/or exceed industry standards.

Home and Home Office Products

All of CA's Home and Home Office Products feature these end-user benefits:

Here's what's new for 2008:

• CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008 - expands on our award winning security suite by combining CA's robust anti-spyware, anti-virus, firewall and anti-spam technology with the added protection of website authentication, integrated parental controls, backup and desktop migration technology.  Plus we've even added a tutorial for improved ease-of-use.  The tutorial launches when you download the product. 
  
• CA Anti-Virus Plus CA Anti-Spyware 2008 - your customers no longer have to choose between virus or spyware protection.  We've integrated the two most requested security software solutions into one great product.
  
• PC Pitstop Disk MD - you can now revive your customers' PCs with a comprehensive system defrag solution that defragments windows restore point files, defragments free space and optimizes file location.

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Business Solutions Products

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Savings for the End User

With our competitive rebate programs, CA software solutions practically sell themselves. End-users who take advantage of CA's rebate offers are paid directly by CA. The latest rebate programs are conveniently posted on the Command Center so it's easy to stay informed.

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Join the Program

You're just a few easy steps away from receiving all of the benefits and rewards of membership in the CA Onsite PC Protection Program. Use the online application to register and start growing your business.

Options

The CA Onsite PC Protection Program is created on a modular platform to suit the needs of all PC service and repair businesses. The Silver Program is designed for large corporations including those with franchised locations. The Transacting Program is suited for smaller companies including those that are run solely by an owner/technician.

Silver Program is geared for businesses that employ 25 or more technicians and can give a minimum annual revenue commitment of $100,000.

Silver

1. Greater Discounts on CA's Consumer and SMB Products
2. $40,000 minimum 6 month revenue commitment
3. $100,000 minimum annual revenue commitment
4. Based on gross sales purchased from Digital River
5. Co-branded Command Center
6. Welcome Kit shipped to each registered technician ($1,500 value)
7. Cash Rewards Program for business owners and their technicians

Transacting Program is geared for businesses that employ fewer than 25 technicians or are run solely by an owner/operator and can give a minimum annual revenue commitment of $25,000, but will likely spend less than $100,000.

Transacting

1. Great Discounts on CA's Consumer and SMB Products
2. $10,000 minimum 6 month revenue commitment
3. $25,000 minimum annual revenue commitment
4. Based on gross sales purchased from Digital River
5. Welcome Kit shipped to each registered technician ($1,500 value)
6. Cash Rewards Program for business owners and their technicians

Who Is CA

CA is one of the world's largest IT management software providers. Our unparalleled range of software and decades of experience simplify the complex for greater business results.

Recognizing that all PC users need software to protect them from Internet attacks and simplify common PC issues, CA now uses that same technology to help small and medium sized business (SMB) as well as consumers. CA expanded into the home and SMB markets in 2004 and already more than 12 million customers are using CA SMB and consumer products to protect their PCs.

You may not realize it, but CA is already touching many areas of your life. By creating and delivering the technology that simplifies complex business systems, everything from ATM transactions, educational programs, government safety as well as thousands of other every day functions have been achieved with CA's IT management software.

Since introducing its first software solution in 1976, CA has continually found solutions to help its enterprise customers manage their IT needs by identifying trends and making acquisitions. This strategy has established CA as one of the largest software companies in the world with products covering virtually every category of the software industry, from the mainframe to the desktop.

CA today is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries. We serve more than 98% of Fortune 500® companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.

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