CA Clarity™ Modules - A Seamlessly-Integrated IT Governance System

CA Clarity couples top-down IT portfolio planning and analysis with bottom-up IT portfolio, project, resource, financial and process management.  The result is a seamlessly integrated IT governance system. 

It’s modular structure enables CA Clarity to be implemented in phases. You can start with as few as 20 users focusing on project portfolio management and end up with 100,000 users taking advantage of all aspects of the system.

The CA Clarity system is comprised of the following modules:

IT Portfolio Manager
Designed to strengthen the relationship between your IT organization and business units, IT Portfolio Manager enables apples-to-apples comparisons across IT investments for better decision making about IT services.

IT Financial Manager
Get a single IT Finance system of record that maps all  of your IT costs to services consumed, analyzes impact to budget changes, provides a detailed invoice for IT services and audits all IT cost changes.

Business Relationship Manager
Improves your business and IT relationships by providing real-time visibility into the status and costs of all IT services, and by translating business needs into IT requirements.

Project Manager
A rich set of functions ensures that you adhere to corporate best practices and methodologies, produce optimal plans, eliminate communication barriers and execute your projects with control and precision.

Resource Manager
This timely solution allows you to plan and manage your resource capacity and balance it against work demand, a necessary component of any successful project and resource management strategy.

Project Financial Manager
Take advantage of extensive financial capabilities, including project billing and invoicing, charge-back allocations, multiple billing and cost rate matrices, multiple currencies, flexible financial organization modeling and SOP 98-1 reporting (expense vs. capital).

Project Portfolio Manager
Align your resources and investments with your corporate goals. Help your executives make fact-based decisions about strategic initiatives using crucial information from project portfolio modeling and analysis, scenario planning and portfolio performance dashboards.

Process Manager
Managing all of your business processes in a holistic manner makes it easier to optimize and standardize them across your organization.  Process Manager provides you with graphical workflow, role-based assignments and phase-gate process support for complete automation of your business processes.

Demand Manager
Give your IT organization a top-level view of all demand points, including project work, service work and incident driven requests, making it possible to strike a dynamic balance among them.

CA Clarity Studio
Your power users can configure CA Clarity to function the way your organization works – not the other way around.  CA Clarity Studio also provides you with the interface you need for building System Partitions, which allow for multiple virtual configurations of CA Clarity within a single usage of the application.

Open Workbench
As an alternative to Microsoft Project, Open Workbench provides desktop project scheduling, off-line scheduling, Gantt and PERT charts, automatic what-if resource scheduling, inter-project dependency tracking and a customizable view library.  Open Workbench is the open source alternative to Microsoft Project, and it is sponsored by CA.