Broadcom Clarity Reviews

I use Broadcom Clarity for end-to-end project and program portfolio management.

Every customer has achieved a return on investment within the first six months of implementation with Broadcom Clarity.

Clarity is used for financials, resource management, project planning, and portfolio planning. I work with companies in the United States and abroad across various industries, utilizing Clarity as a tool.

Clarity helps with planning and financials, especially with financial transactions for IT resources and projects.

We use Clarity to track time, utilization, and chargeability beyond traditional IT governance. It includes billing customers for staff hours, tracking billable and chargeable hours, and managing all internal and external projects and initiatives.

We use the product for a comprehensive contract intake process, which includes engaging resources for projects and assigning project or program managers.

The solution is mostly used for strategic portfolio management and is more focused on resource management, demand management, and a little bit of financial management.

It differs from client to client for the financial management aspect.

The features I find most valuable are definitely project and portfolio management, and resource management. Those are the most commonly used features for most of the customers we work with.

During the time, we explored the options, and some of the competitors to Clarity only offered a cloud-based version. Due to our server security restriction, we wanted to go with the on-premises option, and Clarity offers both on-premises and cloud versions.

The valuable feature is the portfolio management, which includes project management and status reporting, managing the projects and programs at a portfolio level.

We were doing projections. I happen to work in an IT organization for the past couple of assignments, however, at the end of the day, my background is in finance, internal controls, and business operations. We were also using the tool for forward-looking projections, to kind of get our head around where we think spending is going to be at the project level, and where there might be holes, either financially or in the need of certain kinds of human resources type kinds of things, just classic project missions.

Sometimes you get applications where there might only be one user, or five users, or a very, very small group. Maybe we could migrate them from a little-used application to something that we could bring to the attention that might be better suited for them. There was a variety of things, why we gathered information and collected it inside Clarity. The more important and heavier use of the tool was program management.

Broadcom Clarity PPM has multiple use cases, and with one of the clients that had implemented it recently, the tool was used for capital budgeting purposes. The client is one of the giants in the U.S. that had a PPM tool for managing all the project portfolios, but that tool was developed in-house. It was a homegrown solution, but there were a lot of limitations because some specific expertise was required. The tool was outdated and was difficult to scale, so my company replaced it with Broadcom Clarity PPM as it is an enterprise-level solution with high scalability and could be moved to the cloud.

The main business case was for capital budgeting, more like investment management, where there are multiple units and the client proposed some ideas. My company prioritized those ideas and did budgeting accordingly. For example, there are four different business objectives. One is lights on, the second is compliance, the third is business growth, and the fourth is running the business. My company tries to allocate a certain amount or certain funds towards the four business objectives for a particular financial year. My company then considers all the ideas from different stakeholders then tries to prioritize those ideas within Broadcom Clarity PPM.

The most useful feature for me as an implementer of Broadcom Clarity PPM is its extensibility. The tool is pretty extensible, and I haven't had any issues with it in terms of it getting used for multiple scenarios and for multiple clients where there's a need for high customization. Broadcom Clarity PPM is a very, very customizable tool, so you can pretty much implement any business process on it with no issues.

It is mainly used for project management, developing the portfolio of the project and the budget process of all projects.

For a very long time, Broadcom Clarity had not developed the old interface that Broadcom no and we were not able to see any new features on the system because of the older UEX. We switched to the new UX at the end of March and it needs some time for the user to react to the new features.

But if overall main features are being talked about, the financial part of Clarity is really appreciated.