CA Clarity™ IT Portfolio Manager

Best Practice Execution of the Portfolio Plan

Delivery at the tactical level - whether application development, project management or service delivery - holds the key to strategic success. The robust delivery capabilities in CA Clarity ensure that an organization operates at maximum efficiency, with the greatest chance for success. Extending beyond basics such as time tracking and project and resource management, CA Clarity provides rich collaboration, knowledge management and best practice methodologies for cross-functional work teams across the extended enterprise.

Matching Resources to the Portfolio
Some IT resources are in-house, though not all of these work for IT. Others are contractors or outsourced staff.  Some work on projects; others provide help desk or system support. All are important to overall success and must be taken into account to avoid bottlenecks or underutilized resources. The comprehensive resource planning capabilities in CA Clarity provide the forward-looking view that senior managers need to achieve optimal resource usage.

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Capacity Planning: pipeline management and resource matching ensure that the
affordable is also feasible.  

Best Practice Project Planning
Not all projects are created equal. Some require detailed plans; others only need task identification and assignment.  In CA Clarity, project planning alternatives - Open Workbench or Microsoft Project for complex projects and browser-based project definition for simple tasks - can be mixed and matched for optimal adoption and usage. Furthermore, the Author module of CA Clarity allows the quick definition and roll-out of best practice plans via a highly intuitive question and answer interface, broadly propagating best practice methodology usage.

Real-Time Monitoring for Control and Predictability
CA Clarity is the system of record for what has been accomplished and what was required to get there.  Whatever the key metrics may be, CA Clarity provides role-based real-time dashboards so that actual status is never in doubt.

Document Management, Collaboration and Business Intelligence
The integrated document management, threaded discussions, data mart and reporting in CA Clarity eliminate the need for separate systems, an attractive opportunity for system consolidation. Using these capabilities, organizations can collaborate across the extended enterprise and derive actionable insights from masses of data.

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Broadly distributed, easily accessible time and status tracking
supports high quality management response and transparent cost allocations.