Clarity PPM: Enterprise Software for Project and Portfolio Management

What Is Clarity? An Overview.

Clarity PPM (formerly CA PPM) is one of the leading solutions for comprehensive project and portfolio management. 

The extraordinarily comprehensive functional spectrum of the tool allows the complete management of projects, portfolios, resources, finances, and reporting. Following the principle of the single source of truth, it combines operational and strategic project and portfolio management in one tool. Thanks to Clarity, you can streamline your work processes, allocate resources more effectively, base your decisions on reliable data and implement your business strategy as planned.

You benefit from an optimized data warehouse, the embedded BI platform, and the integrated reporting engine with TIBCO Jaspersoft. Thanks to Clarity, you achieve more efficient work processes, use resources in a targeted and careful manner, and can implement your corporate strategy according to plan.

itdesign is Broadcom's largest Tier 1 partner in Europe for Clarity and will accompany you through the entire process - from tool compilation, implementation, and hosting to application management and support. In addition to the technical implementation, you benefit from best practices and more than 20 years of expertise. Of course, Clarity PPM can be individually configured and optimally adapted to the needs of your company.

Why Clarity? Advantages at a Glance

• Individual configurability to your needs
• A comprehensive range of features and a broad field of application 
• Acceptance thanks to user-friendliness
• Classic, agile, and hybrid project management
• Business Intelligence and Reporting
• Long-Term Investment Security thanks to continuous improvement

The Main Features of Clarity PPM 

Below you can see an initial overview of the functions that Clarity PPM offers you and how the software contributes to achieving your goals.

Project Management 

• Agile, classic, and hybrid project management
• Collection of project master data
• Staffing of project roles and resources
• Scenario planning and basic plan creation
• Gantt chart overview, task board, and to-do list
• Time tracking 
• Work collaboratively by using the integrated chat and notification function
• Dependencies and relationships
• Save project plans as templates
• Risk, issue, or change management
• Integrated status reporting
• Task overview at the project, team, and resource level
• Document management

Roadmapping and Portfolio Management

• Strategic roadmapping (Top-down-Planning)
• User-definable portfolios (Bottom-up-Planning)
• Allocation based on self-defined criteria and aspects
• Time-scaled aggregation of costs and budgets
• Ranking and prioritization of projects in portfolios
• Scenario planning and comparison in portfolios
• Waterline
• Multi-Invest-Portfolios

Product Management

• Scheduling and configuring your specific investments such as products, epics, goals, or programs, for example
• Mapping of all investments and their dependencies in the form of hierarchies
• Presentation of the requirements with type descriptions, an overview of the current product costs, expenses, as well as development projects and company priorities
• Roadmapping: Strategic product development and release schedule
• Agile software development, for example, via a Jira connection
• Application management
• Reporting and dashboards
  

Resource Management

• Cross-project resource planning at the role, person, and team level
• Support of allocation as well as assignment of planning options
• Transparency of the degree of utilization and capacity at the person, department, and project level
• Maintain resource master data (e.g. availability, contact information)
• Providing resource requests to resource managers
• Scenario simulation
• Schedule resources professionally with the itd Advanced Resource Planning add-on

Demand Management

• Recommendations and ideas for new products, services, and initiatives
• Incidents or problems
• Project-, Service, and support inquiries
• Ability to freely determine the evaluation criteria for demands
• Configurable approval and workflow processes
• Attachment of files

Financial Management

• Putting together a cost matrix for resources and roles
• Presentation of cost, performance, and budget plans
• Calculation of key performance indicators
• Extensibility via user-defined metrics
• Numerous report templates and dashboards
• Reports on project finances with the desired level of granularity
• Sharing and integration of financial information with ERP systems

Reporting

• Real-time portlets for creating your own user-defined dashboards
• Fully integrated reporting engine with TIBCO Jaspersoft
• Selection of predefined and individually configurable reports
• Ability to generate ad hoc reporting either immediately or on a schedule
• Linking your preferred BI solution
• Availability on mobile devices

More features

• Service Management
• Line Activities
• Mobile Time App (Time tracking)
• Mobile Reporting App

Details about the features may be found here on our website.

Please feel free to call us! Our Head of Sales, Mr. Krauss is always available to answer your questions.