CA Announces SaaS Delivery Option for its Leading Enterprise-Class
PPM Solution
CA Clarity PPM On Demand Enables Customers to Get Industry-Leading
Project & Portfolio Management Functionality with Faster Time to Value
LAS VEGAS (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 16, 2008 --
CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
delivery option for its leading enterprise-class PPM solution, CA
Clarity Project & Portfolio Manager (PPM). By extending the availability
options for its award-winning CA
Clarity PPM product, CA now provides CIOs and business executives
with best-in-class functionality through a flexible SaaS delivery model.
With CA
Clarity PPM On Demand, organizations of all sizes and maturity
levels can now “buy once-buy best” with a proven, scalable and
feature-rich solution that delivers value now and over time.
Organizations with immediate requirements can benefit from a streamlined
PPM deployment and the option to seamlessly leverage new capabilities as
their needs mature. Those with established project management and IT
governance processes can implement the full functionality of CA Clarity
PPM On Demand right away, an option not previously available from
upstart PPM SaaS vendors with limited capabilities.
“Firms are recognizing that balancing business demands with constrained
IT budgets requires strong project portfolio management processes and an
application that meets their needs now and over time,” said Daniel
Stang, principal research analyst at Gartner. “SaaS-based PPM software
can help meet this need while reducing upfront risk.”
CA Clarity PPM On Demand allows leaders of businesses, government
agencies and non-profit organizations to easily and quickly get the
visibility they need to improve portfolio, demand and project
management, all of which help them better align IT with their
organization’s business objectives. With CA Clarity PPM On Demand,
enterprises benefit from faster implementation and reduced up-front
costs, speeding up the time it takes to receive value from
enterprise-class PPM.
“With the launch of our award-winning CA Clarity PPM solution in a SaaS
delivery model, enterprises that prefer the flexibility and ease of SaaS
can now leverage the most powerful PPM software on the market,” said
Helge Scheil, corporate senior vice president and general manager,
Governance Group, CA. “Delivering CA Clarity PPM On Demand is a
reflection of our commitment to provide our customers with the best
value and most complete capability of any PPM system on the market. With
CA Clarity PPM On Demand, customers no longer need to compromise on
functionality to get rapid value. They can buy once and buy the best.”
One customer that is already benefiting from CA Clarity PPM SaaS is Kellogg
Company, a leading producer of cereal and convenience foods. To
achieve greater governance over a multi-million dollar HR software
implementation, the company leveraged CA Clarity PPM On Demand. Kellogg
was using spreadsheets to track and manage resources and realized it
needed to quickly replace that approach with an enterprise-class
solution. Kellogg was drawn to CA Clarity PPM On Demand due to its
robust functionality and straightforward, streamlined interface. In just
10 days, Kellogg implemented the CA Clarity PPM On Demand solution and
trained end users with the CA Productivity Accelerator, an
industry-first personalized training tool for CA Clarity PPM.
“To support our business, it was vital to keep our multi-million dollar
HR software implementation on time and on budget,” said Sheila Bridge,
senior director, IT Global Compliance and Controls, Kellogg Company.
“Working with CA, we were able to rapidly standardize processes on a
single, scalable platform that gives us visibility into mission-critical
resources. In a matter of days, CA Clarity PPM SaaS erased the burden of
managing resources on multiple spreadsheets, keeping our project in
order with a dynamic and flexible solution.”
CA Clarity PPM On Demand is one of three SaaS offerings from CA
announced today. CA On Demand solutions offer industry-leading
functionality with faster implementation times. Customers can achieve
cost savings, realize faster time to value, free up scarce IT resources
for other priorities and reduce risk by leveraging CA’s state-of-the-art
secure hosting facilities. Over 1,000 customers worldwide use CA SaaS
and hosted solutions to improve IT economics. For more information about
CA On Demand offerings, visit www.ca.com/ondemand.
CA Clarity PPM On Demand is another example of how CA Enterprise IT
Management solutions help organizations drive business value from IT and
effectively improve IT economics. With CA solutions in place, such as CA
Clarity PPM On Demand, customers are able to respond more quickly and
efficiently to changing conditions and capitalize on emerging business
opportunities. The on-demand solutions CA is announcing at CA World 2008
help lower the total cost of ownership of IT by providing faster
time-to-value and reducing IT costs through better integration,
automation and control.
For more information about CA Clarity PPM On Demand, visit www.ca.com/clarity/ondemand.
About CA Clarity PPM
CA Clarity PPM, the industry-leading project and portfolio management
solution, enables public and private sector IT organizations to achieve
world-class performance by improving the quality of their engagement
with their stakeholders and enhancing their ability to run at peak
efficiency. The CA Clarity PPM system features integrated IT portfolio
planning, demand management, project management, resource planning and
time, cost and earned value management. More than 800,000 users at more
than 900 companies depend on CA Clarity PPM to govern IT and,
increasingly, to manage new product development (NPD). For more
information on CA Clarity PPM, please visit www.myclarity.com.
For a brief demonstration of CA Clarity PPM for IT governance, click
here.
About CA
CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world's leading independent IT management
software company. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and
expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure
IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage.
For more information, visit www.ca.com.
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