<p>CA Technologies' recently appointed CEO, Michael Gregoire, has vowed to make the company an innovator in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market and has asked his customers to upgrade to the latest releases in order to make the transition as smooth as possible.</p><p>Speaking at CA's annual conference in Las Vegas this week, Gregoire, who had previously been CEO at SaaS giant Taleo, said that he would be offering all customers a free professional services audit over the next year to help identify where those operating on old software releases could be operating more efficiently.</p><p>Gregoire opened his keynote at the conference by saying that CA's SaaS platform will be available behind a company's firewall, on CA's private cloud, or in the true public cloud but that the transition from a distributed environment wasn't going to be an easy one to make.</p><p>"When you take a look at the technology landscape we are at a pivot point. We saw the transition from mainframe to distributed, and now we are all experiencing this transition from distributed to the cloud," said Gregoire.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/cloud-computing/3443288/new-ca-ceo-looks-transform-company-saas-provider/">Keep reading...</a></p>