PRODUCT SHEET:
CA Clarity PPM
CA Clarity™ PPM
CA Clarity Project & Portfolio Management (CA Clarity PPM) helps
CIOs decide with greater confidence and deliver with improved
agility. This is accomplished by helping IT organizations to integrate
the management of their services, projects, people and financials in
a single solution. In addition, easy-to-use, interactive executive
dashboards allow for quick, fact-based decision making.
Business value
Portfolio Management for Agile IT from CA Technologies helps to deliver the right projects,
faster, in a consistent and predictable way. As a result, IT executives are more empowered to:
•Balance agility with governance
•Make smart IT portfolio decisions
•Accelerate the delivery of their commitments
•Achieve PPM success
Product overview
CA Clarity PPM provides IT executives leading portfolio management capabilities in order to
collect all requests for new IT services and projects, make improved decisions regarding how to
invest and best optimize the IT portfolio based on costs, risks, business value and compliance. It
helps to deliver every initiative on time, on budget and with the right quality and business value.
CA Clarity PPM
Delivery approach
CA Clarity PPM is available on premise, on demand (SaaS) and in a hosted environment.
Each engagement is focused on reducing risk with documented best practices deployment
methodology. Our nine-stage methodology and strict project governance help ensure that
implementation projects are always on time and on budget.
Features
Key features of CA Clarity PPM include:
•IT Portfolio Management – Provides real-time planning and analysis into the total cost of a
service and enables a one-to-one comparison across all IT investments.
•IT Financial Management - Gives you comprehensive IT financial planning capabilities to
view total cost and effort across your portfolio of projects.
•Demand Management – Gives a holistic view of all IT demand resulting in accurately
forecasted resource requirements and improved cost tracking.
•Resource Management – Helps you to achieve an equitable balance between resource
capacity and project demand.
•Interactive Xcelsius Dashboards - Sleek, highly visual and interactive Xcelsius dashboards
help IT executives to quickly access critical IT information housed both within and outside of
CA Clarity PPM.
•Simple Report Creation –Allows easy access and collaboration around important project
data, such as investment, resource, project status, and profitability.
•End-User Training – Speeds user training and adoption using a fast and flexible method for
developing customer specific documentation, training and support.
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Interactive dashboards
available within
CA Clarity PPM allow
you to quickly assess
resource availability
across an extended
global workforce, so you
can make smart IT
portfolio decisions.
Benefits
CA Clarity PPM helps CIOs to decide with greater confidence and deliver with improved agility.
IT leaders are able to better:
•Balance Agility with Governance – Improve the pace of IT innovation while providing for
consistency across the portfolio.
•Make Smart IT Portfolio Decisions – Strengthen results using fact-based decision making
across the entire IT portfolio.
•Accelerate the Delivery of Your Commitments – Help provide that IT projects and services
delivered meet or exceed the expectations of the business.
•Achieve PPM Success – Implement the CA Technologies full suite of online training and
services methodologies, like the CA Productivity Accelerator and CA Clarity Rapid
Implementation and gain rapid end-user adoption, and reduce the total cost of ownership.
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Why CA Technologies
CA Clarity PPM gives IT executives a real-time view into their organization’s investments,
initiatives and resources and empowers your managers to deliver controlled and predictable
execution of projects and programs. When combined with CA Service Catalog, service financials,
and service level management products, Service Portfolio Management solutions from
CA Technologies can help you continuously target and right-size IT investments and
resources to better meet business requirements for service quality, cost, function and benefit.
CA Clarity PPM also supports critical process beyond IT and across the enterprise to support
Business, New Product Development, U.S. Federal Government and Professional Services
Automation.
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