ISLANDIA, N.Y., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced a new release of CA Clarity™ Project
and Portfolio Management (PPM).
This release redefines the user experience and improves
customers' ability to:
- Innovate by managing the innovation lifecycle from the idea
phase to execution;
- Transform the business by providing a value roadmap to make
informed decisions and better align IT initiatives with business
strategy; and,
- Sustain the optimum portfolio of IT and corporate initiatives
and investments to deliver greater business value.
"Organizations are looking to CA Technologies for Business
Service Innovation - using advanced technologies and new approaches
to deliver innovation and value to their customers," said
Brian Bell, general manager, Service
and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies. "We see organizations
expanding how they use PPM by applying it to business initiatives
such as cloud service adoption for business transformation, new
product development, managing projects from conception to execution
and enterprise collaboration.
"With its redefined user experience and integrated enterprise
social collaboration, CA Clarity PPM v13 revolutionizes how
organizations use PPM by increasing business alignment and
providing a means to significantly simplify the adoption of PPM
within IT organizations and across other business areas. It offers
a single solution for managing the work, resources, budgets and
performance of IT and business initiatives, whether delivered on
premise or on-demand as a service," Bell added.
This release of CA Clarity PPM furthers customers' ability to
reduce costs through improved productivity and a simplified user
experience; to achieve faster time-to-value from their software
investment; and to collaboratively innovate across varied functions
within the enterprise.
Improved productivity is achieved through a new
consistent, intuitive user interface (UI) that simplifies the user
experience to enhance productivity and help reduce costs. The new
UI provides:
- Smarter, more refined navigation across the solution with
streamlined menus, search-as-you-type data validation, and in-line
editing. The UI requires fewer clicks to manage and access
information, and gives users the ability to personalize views and
save favorites.
- Improved interactive charts, dashboards and Gantt views that
make real-time PPM information accessible and relevant to anyone at
any level across the organization.
Collaborative innovation is achieved by incorporating
idea capture and community collaboration, requirements planning and
Agile planning throughout the CA Clarity PPM solution.
- The blend of these capabilities into a single solution helps
manage the full lifecycle of innovation. CA Clarity PPM provides
complete control over project inception, delivery and management
for both traditional and agile project management.
- By leveraging Chatter from Salesforce.com, CA Clarity PPM
incorporates enterprise social collaboration, thus refining
requirements planning and Agile project delivery. Chatter feeds
also can be directed to smart phones for real-time collaboration
and allow users to "follow" items of interest ranging from ideas,
requirements, tasks or individuals.
Rapid time-to-value of the software can be realized
through multiple operational enhancements including automated
financial management and visual roadmaps as well as an easy upgrade
from earlier on-premise versions and the option to use CA Clarity
PPM delivered on-demand as a service.
"This release of CA Clarity PPM has many new functions and
features that extend its utility and benefit beyond the IT
department," said Tammi Reel, vice
president of the New York City CA Clarity PPM User Group and senior
application analyst, Emerging Health, Montefiore Information
Technology. "The simplicity, added features and a new user
interface should enhance productivity for all users – from senior
management to project managers. CA Clarity PPM users should see
version 13 as a breath of fresh air. It is truly an extreme
makeover to the CA Clarity PPM application."
Available on premise, on-demand as a service, or hosted and
implemented by CA Services, CA Clarity PPM v13 changes the way
partners and customers view and use the solution. Customers who
engage CA Services to host and implement the software can realize
savings on capital investments and internal resource expenditures,
since CA Services will also monitor and manage the solution and
infrastructure, and make CA Clarity PPM upgrades available
automatically.
Customers who use the software on-premise, on-demand, or as a
hosted solution have the option to engage CA Services for an
in-depth assessment to extend the value they can derive from PPM
and use CA Services to perform upgrades.
"This release of CA Clarity PPM delivers everything a solution
update should – it improves the product without changing the
existing functionality that customers love," said Bob Schwartz, managing principal, Digital
Celerity, a premier CA Technologies solution provider partner. "We
expect this release to open new markets for us with an improved
ability to demonstrate CA Clarity PPM's expansive capabilities. The
agility to move from an innovative idea to an element of the
portfolio to be managed in a single solution is powerful for the
mid-market."
The latest release of CA Clarity PPM is available today. For
additional information, please visit
http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Clarity-PPM.aspx.
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IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the
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