Clarity is the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution created by Broadcom. The platform aims to help medium and large organizations to manage products and services. Clarity features scoreboards, financial analysis tools, and more.
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The platform facilitates the delivery of projects and programs and can accelerate an organization’s digital transformation. It allows users to create initiatives, add budgets and projects with a few clicks, and assign and track teams. It shortens the time to make changes to projects to minutes instead of days.
Broadcom Clarity PPM features in-app collaboration and timesheets accessible via mobile devices. Users can access the platform via desktop or mobile. The platform can be deployed on premises or as a cloud-based service with a hosted or SasS delivery.
How does it work?
Clarity’s Strategic Portfolio Management enables planning and prioritizing of work to fit customer demands and business needs, managing the value stream from concept to cash.
Broadcom Clarity PPM Key Features
Other features include:
Broadcom Clarity PPM Benefits
Broadcom Clarity PPM Use Cases
Organizations use Clarity PPM for a variety of use cases:
Reviews from Real Users
"Broadcom Clarity PPM is a high-value product that helps users become productive. It's a very stable, scalable, and fast platform, even from a self management perspective," says Mohammad J., Senior Clarity PPM Technical Consultant at Al Rajhi Bank.
A Director of Operations at a tech services company adds that "It's very good out of the box, without configurations required."
Sergio C., Service Delivery Manager at Syntech, says, "The most valuable feature is the portfolio functionality because we have the ability to work with different scenarios and many kinds of financial management. We can integrate with ERP, and with other solutions from third-party vendors. The financial model in Broadcom Clarity PPM, it's the most valuable aspect."
Broadcom Clarity was previously known as Clarity PPM, CA Clarity, CA PPM, CA Clarity PPM .
Toyota Financial Services, GameStop, Polycom, Sky, Qantas, Cox Enterprises, Banco Mercantil, Borealis
All of these show not only the current state, but also integrated views of the impact of proposed changes across the organization in terms of resources and costs.
CA PPM provides an integrated view of the total set of projects in the organization. It also has the ability to see data by multiple slices: by department, project type, objective, resource type, etc. The possibilities are nearly endless.
Since it is all in a common database, there are no longer questions about the data sources, or how current the information is.
I have been using this solution for twelve years. I began with much earlier versions.
There are no significant issues with stability. Unplanned outages are extremely rare and brief.
There are no issues at all with scalability. The system is capable of supporting tens of thousands of users globally.
Technical support is variable. The core product support is very good, typically with quick response times and very helpful engineers.
The support for the reporting tools is much less effective.
Support for infrastructure related issues, i.e., how the application is affected by the operating system, browser, and related external elements is variable. Some are quickly resolved and some drag on.
I am personally familiar with a number of other solutions, but my current organization has been using this software since I have been associated with them.
Most other organizations that I am familiar with who switched solutions, did so to take advantage of the comprehensive feature set, the ease of use, and the easy configuration.
The product itself is easy to set up and configure. Whether that is complex or not, depends on how complex the organization is.
If there are a lot of business rules that need to be incorporated, then those need to be accommodated and it will take more time.
In some cases, the real implementation timeline is around managing the change to a new system internally, and not in preparing the system itself.
Be sure about what kinds of functions you will want your users to perform on the system. That will impact the type and cost of the license based on the licensing model that CA uses.
This is an enterprise PPM solution, so it will have functional aspects that extend into many corners of the enterprise.
The focus should be on the functionality that is needed, and not on small differences in cost. There will rarely be a significant cost difference between systems that are competing at this level.
This product was in place when I joined the organization.
Take the implementation as an opportunity to simplify your business processes and not simply to try to replicate existing processes into a new tool.
The out-of-the-box functionality has a lot of power and capability and should be used wherever possible.
If you do have a few critical, must-have processes, have them demonstrated before you commit to the tool. Be sure that they are real needs and not just legacy “that’s how we have always done it” items.
