CA Clarity® PPM Delivers CIOs the Enterprise Visibility and
Comprehensive Functionality Needed to Maximize Resources in Any Economic
Environment
New CA Clarity PPM v12 Delivers Requirements Planning to Address the
Most Common Cause of Project Failures
LAS VEGAS (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 18, 2008 --
CA (NASDAQ: CA) today introduced a major new version of CA
Clarity PPM to help organizations improve IT governance, reduce the
high rate of project failures and extend the benefits of project and
portfolio management (PPM) into other areas of the enterprise.
CA Clarity PPM v12 adds capabilities to streamline the planning and
tracking of requirements, improve collaboration with project and
portfolio stakeholders through the most popular collaboration tool,
Microsoft SharePoint, and leverage the market-leading functionality of
the system outside of IT. Significant improvements in functionality,
integration and automation work together to enable IT executives to
better engage with their business stakeholders and IT managers to drive
greater efficiency within IT, in project planning, resource management
and financial accounting.
“Especially in times of economic uncertainty, business leaders aim to
gain the most ROI from their mission-critical IT investments,” said
Helge Scheil, corporate senior vice president and general manager,
Governance Group, CA. “This new version of CA Clarity PPM delivers to
all levels of the enterprise—from CIOs and business executives to
project managers and team members—unparalleled visibility into
portfolios and requirements, improved efficiency in project delivery,
and faster time to value.”
Longtime PPM customer Novell, the provider of SUSE Linux Enterprise, has
benefited from hands-on testing of CA Clarity PPM v12 as part of the CA
beta program.
“Executing projects efficiently and successfully is a top priority for
our organization, given the many products we provide our customers,”
said Jeff Jaffe, chief technology officer and executive vice presidents
of Products, Novell. “After careful evaluation, we already see several
new features in CA Clarity PPM v12 that we know will help elevate
project success rates. In particular, we're interested in how the
requirements planning capability gives our organization the ability to
contribute and then know the status of their requirements throughout the
life of major projects.”
The most important features of CA Clarity PPM v12 include:
Holistic Requirements Planning
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To bridge the gap between strategic planning and project execution, CA
has integrated requirements planning into its PPM solution. For the
first time, PPM users can capture requirements from their customers,
translate business requirements into actionable IT deliverables and
detailed product roadmaps, and provide requirements traceability
throughout the project lifecycle.
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Providing requirements planning in CA Clarity PPM allows organizations
to replace the use of multiple spreadsheets and disconnected systems
to track requirements, which previously led to poor communication,
poor visibility, unrealized expectations and ultimately, failed
projects.
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Improving the requirements planning process is critical to project
success. According to a study by IAG
Consulting, companies with poor business analysis and requirements
capability will have three times as many project failures as
successes. The study also found that companies pay as much as a 60
percent premium on time and budget when they use poor requirements
practices on their projects.
Integrations for Business Intelligence
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To engage stakeholders and promote improved engagement, CA Clarity PPM
v12 now integrates seamlessly with the most popular collaboration
tool, Microsoft SharePoint, and with the most popular reporting and
business intelligence solution, Business Objects.
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With direct integration to SharePoint, project managers, stakeholders
and IT executives can seamlessly collaborate atop a familiar Web 2.0
platform to get updates and work together on project scope, plans,
documents and action items.
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Integration with Business Objects enables users to easily create and
tailor BI reports using CA Clarity PPM data in a pre-built
environment. CA Clarity PPM v12 ships with pre-configured Business
Objects reports and a pre-defined universe for easy custom report
creation.
Accelerators to Extend the Adoption of PPM beyond IT
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CA Clarity PPM v12 includes modules that facilitate PPM software use
outside of the IT department, specifically for new product development
(NPD) and for compliance with U.S. federal government mandates.
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With pre-configured idea-to-launch and product portfolio management
capabilities to develop and create new products efficiently, CA
Clarity PPM for NPD accelerates product innovation, optimizes
resources and drives product success.
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Incorporating advanced
earned value management and reporting in CA Clarity PPM v12 helps
U.S. federal agencies and their prime contractors comply with mandates
for ANSI/EIA-748-A reporting. This new capability in CA’s solution for
U.S. federal agencies adds to the existing support for OMB reporting
and federal program management.
“Organizations in the market for project portfolio management software
are increasingly requesting integrated solutions that deliver faster ROI
within IT, and that are flexible enough to utilize across the
enterprise,” said Melinda Ballou, program director, Application
Life-Cycle Management at IDC. “Better requirements planning and
collaboration tools are important for users that seek to implement
enterprise-wide PPM.”
CA Clarity PPM v12 incorporates numerous enhancements requested by the
nearly 1,000 customers actively using the software. The new version will
be available to existing and new customers for electronic delivery, and
through CA’s new CA Clarity PPM On Demand service, on November 25, 2008.
CA Clarity PPM v12 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 v12, customers are able to respond more quickly and
efficiently to changing conditions and capitalize on emerging business
opportunities. The solutions that 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.
About CA Clarity PPM
CA Clarity PPM, an 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.
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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