ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced new enhancements and service offerings
that further strengthen the CA Clarity® PPM solution's
ability to help users make better decisions about their investments
across global organizations. These new capabilities which include
executive dashboards and support for mobile devices, give users
across the enterprise quick access to meaningful business
intelligence from nearly anywhere, enabling them to move from
static to more dynamic decision making.
New highly visual and interactive dashboards are designed to
help executives make smarter portfolio decisions by assessing
dynamic, critical business information, such as resource trends -
for in-depth financial analysis, review of current project status,
and to provide for team optimization.
Smart Phone Time Management for CA Clarity PPM extends
capabilities to a mobile workforce, allowing users to create time
entries directly from an Apple iPhone or RIM BlackBerry®
smart phone while enforcing business rules and data validation
defined in the PPM application. It also provides managers with
access to CA Clarity PPM time entries so they can review and
approve them while working remotely.
"CA Clarity PPM is strategic to our business and is used on a
daily basis as our collaboration platform to manage nearly 150
ongoing IT projects at Finansbank," said Metin Ornek, PMO Planning & Analysis
Department Head at IBTech, the IT services subsidiary for
Finansbank. "CA Clarity PPM's extensive project reporting and
executive dashboards provide a real-time view into every project,
resource allocation, and key financial metric for smarter and more
accurate decision making. As a result, we've increased our
competitive advantage by streamlining our portfolio management
processes and leveraging our resources more efficiently."
Adding to the momentum of the CA Clarity PPM solution is the
continued growth of CA Clarity PPM On Demand, the SaaS offering of
this leading solution. Already over 150 enterprises have chosen
this option to achieve higher and faster ROI with a proven,
enterprise-class solution. CA Clarity PPM On Demand is designed to
shorten deployment time, reduce risk and lower costs, helping
organizations to get started quickly and have the option to
seamlessly leverage additional capabilities as their needs
mature.
"More than 1,300 enterprise customers trust CA Clarity PPM to
deliver the capabilities that enable them to make better decisions
and maximize their portfolio of business investments," said
Brian Bell, general manager, Service
and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies. "Regardless of whether
CA Clarity PPM is used for delivering new IT services or innovative
products, we lead the industry by offering increased flexibility in
how an organization can deploy and leverage our solution."
Overview of key new features:
CA Clarity PPM 12.1:
- Executive dashboards offer an interactive and highly-visual
display of critical portfolio information to allow for fact-based
decision making and better business alignment.
- New pre-built Business Objects Universes allow users to more
easily create investment, resource, timesheet, and financial
reports.
Smart Phone Time Management for CA Clarity PPM:
- Allows staff the ability to enter time and management the
ability to approve time, for more efficient record-keeping.
- Offers support for RIM BlackBerry, and Apple iPad and iPhone
users.
Business Analytics for CA Clarity PPM:
- Gives IT leaders robust business intelligence within CA Clarity
PPM to help better analyze trends, patterns, and
relationships.
- Provides the ability to slice data in new, unique ways without
creating a traditional report or portlet.
KPI Monitor for CA Clarity PPM:
- Helps organizations derive greater value from CA Clarity PPM
data by presenting it as KPIs and exceptions delivered in a context
that is clear and consistent to users.
- Enables users to proactively monitor critical data with less
effort and risk of error to meet business objectives.
About CA Clarity PPM
CA Clarity™ PPM, the industry-leading project and portfolio
management solution, enables enterprise 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. CA Clarity PPM features integrated IT
portfolio planning, demand management, project management, resource
planning and time, cost and earned value management. More than
1,300 companies, organizations and government agencies depend on CA
Clarity PPM to govern IT, manage product innovation, and drive
organizational planning across the enterprise. For more information
on CA Clarity PPM, please visit:
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About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) is an IT management software and
solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from
mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies
manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to
deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative
products and services provide the insight and control essential for
IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT
ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at
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