CA Clarity™ Integration

Delivering Complete Cost, Resource and Change Visibility to IT Management

Enterprise IT Management (EITM) is CA’s vision for enabling a new level of management control across the enterprise by integrating disparate applications.  CA Clarity is the only Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution that integrates with leading IT service, asset and change management applications, ERP systems and desktop schedulers. This new level of integration enables IT management to gain complete transparency of the costs incurred and resources utilized for all IT work throughout the organization.

By integrating with service, asset and change management applications and ERP systems, CA Clarity provides an enterprise-wide view of all IT management information, well beyond the traditional project portfolio. This integration enables CA Clarity to display real-time executive dashboards for fact-based decision making, thus providing better alignment between the IT organization and the lines of business it supports. CA Clarity delivers enhanced cost, resource and change visibility essential for informed decisions regarding strategic priorities.

Seamless bidirectional integration with the two leading desktop schedulers, Open Workbench and Microsoft Project, allows project managers to work in familiar applications while storing all critical project information in the CA Clarity repository.

Key Benefits of CA Clarity Integration:

   Offers complete transparency to the costs incurred and resources utilized for all IT work.
   Integrates change management processes throughout the lifecycle, from initiation through closure.
   Accelerates time-to-market for application development projects by utilizing best practice project and resource
management.
  Provides the means to consolidate disparate data sources to deliver one version of the truth.
   Leverages existing IT investments by integrating with existing enterprise applications, including ERP, IT service,
asset and change management.
   Eliminates manual and error-prone double entry of information.

 

Diagram showing Clarity integration points


The Schedule Connect and Service Connect modules, as well as the XML Open Gateway (XOG), make CA Clarity Integration easy.