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Gaurav Datar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at Infosys

My company went with Broadcom Clarity PPM because of complex business processes and implementation, and we particularly chose the tool because it was highly customizable. Because of complex and secure business requirements, there was so much focus on security that it was very complicated compared to regular implementation, so my company decided to go with Broadcom Clarity PPM.

Broadcom Clarity PPM is also a leader in the PPM space in the Gartner Quadrant, so my company picked up the top five to six tools and compared those tools, but as Broadcom Clarity PPM was highly customizable, we picked it over the other tools.

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Kiran  Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Head - Retail & CPG at Infosys
Nishant Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Head - Wipro Digital - PPMS at Wipro Limited

I have used other solutions other than Broadcom Clarity PPM, such as Planisware. Broadcom Clarity PPM is better than Planisware because they have the multi-road mapping feature. This feature gives clients very good visibility on what needs to be done and what will happen in let's say two or three years.

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Broadcom Clarity
March 2024
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it_user778710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT Project Portfolio at Owens-Illinois, Inc.

We were running all manual processes, and using Excel spreadsheets, and investing far too much manual effort to try and run a process.

One of the main drivers in our choosing CA was that it was one of the recognized industry leaders. Also, we had an existing relationship with CA from other work that we had done with them in the past.

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it_user779034 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We were on an older version of Clarity, version 9.

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it_user558096 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Project IT Leader - Project Management at Honeywell Aerospace

We were using a SharePoint site in our Aerospace Group and our SBG, our Strategic Business Group, which is Aerospace. We had another couple of homegrown applications, the ones that were used for the financial piece of it. Now that we're going to this tool, it's great because it offers a lot more flexibility.

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it_user778968 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Not in my current company. In my past life, we had been using a different PPM. And I was instrumental in doing the proof of concept. We interviewed several customers and put them through the gamut before choosing Clarity.

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RR
Experienced Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It's incumbent upon the information technology group to be aware of those systems, to help maintain them, to keep track of them. Then, in addition to that, to the extent that they can be eliminated, in other words, consolidated, so that we have ultimately fewer applications where more people can make use of them, it just helps simplify the business, et cetera, cut costs. We used Clarity as a tool to keep track of all the applications worldwide. There used to be a tool that was used, some other tool. I don't know if it was homegrown. It could have been a Microsoft access database for all I know. I just don't recall what it was, however, I know that it was problematic. Trying to scale up and it was problematic. They actually created a sub-element within Clarity to help the corporation keep track of all of its applications. I was actually a very heavy user of that particular element within Clarity. One of the problems was that a lot of folks didn't know just how many applications there were within the corporation. By using a variety of technology, sending out surveys, et cetera, we were able to find out that we didn't have 1,000 applications. We didn't have 1,200 applications. We actually had 1,500 applications. The reason is obvious why we would need to know whether they are maintaining internal standards or generally accepted standards relative to the IT community.

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it_user558186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had nothing before. We were basically doing it manually in spreadsheets. This was our first foray into formal project portfolio management. We made that move in 2009.

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it_user779199 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Lead with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, we didn't have a previous solution. But in terms of managing projects, when we saw a lot of complexity in the managing of projects, we realized we needed to go for a PPM and try it once.

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it_user779022 - PeerSpot reviewer
PMO Principal at GAF Materials / Building Materials

We were Microsoft Project Server users. I think about seven years ago we started using Project Server with the same goals of a centralized repository and collaboration for project managers and team members; also, resource and financial management. We never got to the resource and financial management part of it, because I think on the time sheets side we were aggressive, and that did not go well with the resources, so we started using it only as a project repository.

We were in it all the time, and every year when there was a new demand for projects, and we were trying to set the portfolio for the next year, the question always was, "Okay, who's available to take up which projects?" And every time it was a spreadsheet, and I was working with 50 resource managers bringing their allocations and merging them; it was a nightmare. 

And at any point in time, especially when a new demand would come in during the middle of the year, if you wanted to inject that project into the portfolio, we didn't know what the impact of that would be on other resources. Again, it would be another big round of, "Okay, call all the resource managers." 

So that was our key need for the PPM tool.

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it_user558252 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Programmer at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We weren't using any sort of PPM tools earlier, it was all through spreadsheets.

In my opinion, the most important criteria for choosing a vendor should be knowledge, experience, willing to walk the customer through their issues, understanding what problems they have and how the vendor can help them achieve their goals.

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it_user558120 - PeerSpot reviewer
PPM Consultant at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Before this product, we had 3 or 4 legacy systems. One was used for time reporting. It was not a centralized one; only the Canadian people were using it. The US office was using Primavera. We wanted to collaborate everything into a single domain and that is why we selected the CA PPM tool.

The most important criteria while selecting a vendor was more flexibility in the CA PPM tool. They were more approachable, so that was another reason.

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SC
Service Delivery Manager at Syntech

I'm currently using ServiceNow and Service Management with some monitoring solutions from Broadcom.

Most users that switch from other solutions to Clarity PPM were using open source solutions. Maybe they were using BMC Remedy, but it would be kind of weird that they jumped from ServiceNow to Clarity Service Management. I haven't seen that. They switched from open source to Clarity Service Management, and from BMC to Clarity Service Management, but I've never seen from ServiceNow to Clarity Service Management.

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it_user558264 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Architect at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

We weren't using any sort of PPM tool at the time; it was all through spreadsheets.

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it_user558060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Ppm at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We wanted to leverage our existing relationship with CA. We were trying to consolidate in our vendors, which most companies try to do. Having a shorter list makes life simpler as far as planning and budgeting. The CA suite for PPM and Clarity was ranked up very high by several of the independent research companies so we evaluated it with other tools and it came out on top. We've been moving forward since then.

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it_user558243 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager Information Technology at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We were previously using Primavera.

We decided to move to CA PPM because we had an ELA with CA and we needed to get to a tool that we could integrate with other systems. Also, Primavera was legacy. We had it for a long time, so we needed to get a better tool.

In general, the most important criteria when selecting a vendor is partnership, collaboration and working together to provide the best solution.

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GG
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

The tool that they had was not adequate, so we ended up inviting three different vendors in, did a down select, did a pilot, and it has been there since 2011.

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it_user572901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager / Management Consultant at Edmonton Police Service

We knew it was time to invest in a new solution because of all the silos. We had to integrate everybody into one centralized point. It's just good governance.
The most important criteria when selecting a vendor are years of experience, accuracy of calculation, scalability, SQL back end, interoperability with our existing applications, and familiarity.

From an asset management perspective, from time sheet management, project management, from a summary nature, we wanted to move towards portfolio, and that’s where we saw CA PPM really shine. You start with your asset allocation, your resource administration; you move into your project management. Now you can see portfolio management, because you have that good initial data. You know: Garbage in, garbage out. Now that we have good stuff in, we're getting great stuff out.

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it_user558147 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Portfolio Manager/CA PPM Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

I think the previous solution was homegrown. I don't think they had a solution, but rather they had a lot of little solutions. It is the same now, but at least we've consolidated the finances into one.

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it_user462963 - PeerSpot reviewer
Client Project Manager/Coordinator II at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Our company previously used a home-grown project solution. It worked very well and was very user-friendly, but unfortunately did not have the capability to disseminate data from different regions or parts of our organization. Reporting in the system was very minimal and we utilized several solutions (including MS SharePoint) to share deliverables and other collaborative data to complete projects. We did evaluate other solutions (such as Oracle) but based on our organization’s needs, and promises made by the CA sales team on the system capabilities, we found that CA PPM was the best option for us.

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it_user558135 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Guardian life insurance

We had Primavera before we moved over to (CA PPM) Clarity. I wasn't involved in that decision, so I don't know the reason behind that transition.

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it_user345678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director IT Business Office at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've always been using this and I wanted to continue. I implemented a Microsoft Project Server at a prior company, and it was not as good. Where I am now, I got to pick so I chose this.

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it_user779148 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using Artemis. We switched because it was not meeting our needs. They weren't using it in the way that they wanted to be using it. It didn't have the functionality.

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it_user778566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Premier Health

Our old solution was pretty much Excel, and we really did not have it. For a health system, we are now facing a lot more cost pressures, and needing to spend our dollars way more efficiently than we ever had to. Other organizations or sectors have already cut a lot of their costs. Healthcare has lagged behind in this, mainly because we did not have to in the past, and now we are at that point. In looking at that, and really analyzing what we do and how we spend, we need to be more on our forefront now. That is why we ending up investing.

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it_user779049 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT Service Transition at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

We didn't have any centralized PPM solution. Everybody was just using Microsoft Project for their own thing. We needed an overarching solution to give visibility on what everybody was doing, and what we can do as an enterprise.

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it_user558129 - PeerSpot reviewer
Portfolio Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

At another company I used HPE PPM. I like Clarity CA PPM a lot better. It's more user friendly, easier to figure out if you don't have the significant training that you need. Pretty intuitive.

At my current company they previously used a home-grown solution but I'm not sure how they decided on CA.

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MS
IT Governance & Performance Management Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We previously used two instances of Clarity in the business division and a different PPM tool in the IT organization for IT PPM. The decision was to deploy one system group-wide for all kinds of projects.

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it_user558042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We didn't have any real solution in place. We saw the need for a tool to take on all these different responsibilities, and PPM just happened to fall into place.

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it_user558249 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Management IS Analyst at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We used Primavera for almost ten years. People were generally unhappy with it. They felt that it was inflexible and wanted something new. We have other products from CA, and they came and offered us PPM if we got a bundle. It was a big change for us to go from an old tool to the new tool.

I was not involved in the selection process. That was much higher than me, so I don't know what they did.

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it_user498396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Planning Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We did not previously use a different solution. We were collecting singular project status reports on MS PPT, with little to no aggregate reporting.

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it_user558366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Solution Expert (CA PPM) at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have a previous solution.

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it_user558366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Solution Expert (CA PPM) at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had about 5 or 6 different ways to record time for work that we do. That is reason enough to move to a single solution.

The most important criteria when we select a vendor are their reputation and their strategic direction. I think we chose CA primarily because of their reputation.

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GJ
Consultant at Ericsson
it_user778902 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at IBERIABANK

It's better than an Excel spreadsheet, and that's what was used before.

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it_user779088 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

I'm not sure about why the switch was made, because the one who made the decision is our director, and the architects. But I think it was because it simplified things for the users; that matters.

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it_user558462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Territory Manager at Netready CCA

We did not use any other vendors before CA to provide a solution. When we were selecting a vendor, we considered their reliability and presence in our region. This is a key factor for us, and CA has fortunately been stable in Latin America. It's committed to our countries, and that means a lot. Price is also important. That’s normal.

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it_user572865 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We had a plethora of solutions and, of course, they all did things a little bit differently. When we tried to take a look at the overall portfolio of all our IT projects, there was really nothing to unify everybody under one common solution. Essentially, if you talk to one portfolio, they manage things in a certain way. A different portfolio would do it completely different. Of course, when you tried to look at the overall IT budget, it got to be a very complex solution. Of course, if you try to take a holistic look – you have resources and projects, and you have your planned budgets – nothing was under the same umbrella. It was a hodge-podge, and a lot of manual time and effort went into basically having just a simple conversation on, "Hey. What do we want to do next year?"

Bringing everything into PPM, now, the conversation’s about what we want to do next year and the whole what-if scenarios that come out with regards to, "Hey, what if we do this? What if we do that?" Instead of taking weeks and months to have those discussions, we can now have them in real-time, right here and right now.

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it_user558048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Portfolio Management, Capacity Planning & Delivery Effectiveness at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

PPM being an industry, CA PPM is an industry-leading product and we certainly keep utilizing it. We don't have a compelling reason or business case to move away from it. In fact, we want to invest in it.

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DM
Project Manager

Everything was through Microsoft Project, just the desktop version. People would get printouts or PDF's of them.

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it_user778914 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Of Engineer at Daktronics

Our previous solution, a spreedsheet, was complex, and it was difficult for multiple people to use. To make it easier to use, we needed a different tool.

We felt CA was a better fit for our needs.

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it_user779154 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Geha

The one that we had at the time, Microsoft Project Server, which was pretty basic in the data that you could get out of it. It did not have near the functionality around portfolio management that this CA solution does. So, that was really one of the reasons why we were evaluating new tools.

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it_user651855 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user474588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Consultant at Ericsson Global Limited

I haven’t used any other similar product but I am always talking with those guys to understand the differences.

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it_user345618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Governance Administrator at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

No, I wasn’t involved in the decision. This is scalable over a home grown solution.

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it_user779223 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The old one we had just did not meet our needs. We had to do too many configurations, and we wanted something that we could keep a little more vanilla. As it was and not have to worry about tweaking it for our needs. We have tweaked it, but with what we had previously, we had to do major changes.

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it_user778572 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at Daktroniks

The step from spreadsheet to this... We knew we were in a bad spot with the spreadsheet. We said,"Okay, let's take a good first step and get off of that and then we'll go from there." It's really exciting. I'm hoping to see the tool mature and see how it really benefits organization in the future.

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it_user778947 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Microsoft Project focused more on resource management, schedule management, not necessarily on demand management, integrations, agile, etc. We switched due to scalability.  

We had a lot of problems with Microsoft Project. We had to abandon using Microsoft Project because it was not working. We kind of had egg on our face. That is one thing that CA can do better. Give us a better scheduling tool. 

It was about a four year journey for Cerner. We know that our resources were not being deployed. We were spending a lot of time trying to find the right resources. IP uses it. CTS is going to be using it. It was an enterprise decision to invest in a new solution. 

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it_user558321 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Member, Technical Services at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We actually moved from using three different project management tools into a single system. By the time I came along, the choice was made. There was a pretty heavy process of reviewing vendors with similar products, grading and rating them, and making a decision.

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it_user738354 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA PPM Architect / Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No, though worked with Daptiv and HPE PPM. Daptiv is not ready for a big corporation.

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it_user10272 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Organizations that have migrated from other solutions to CA PPM may have found this more suitable to their business requirements.

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it_user558114 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Controls at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We were using a previous solution; it was a combination of Microsoft Access, SharePoint tables and Excel. It was becoming too cumbersome and time consuming to produce reports and we needed something to manage all our projects. With the number of projects we were doing, the things we were trying to track and report on were getting more detailed; thus we needed a tool to manage all that.

The vendor’s ability to understand our current process, adapt to it while also being honest and setting guardrails for us on what their limitations are and what the product can deliver, were important criteria while choosing a vendor.

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it_user558324 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA PPM (Clarity) Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We were using PTC Integrity. We outgrew it; and it didn't handle customizations very well. Of course, we overcustomized to the point where it wasn't usable. Something had to go. It was more of a workflow engine; and so, it worked for IT. But we wanted a space where we had business, IT, and other groups all in one space.

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it_user779262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project And Portfolio Analyst at a security firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Prior to using CA PPM, everything was spreadsheets. There were a few different homegrown solutions out there. We wanted to roll them all into PPM.

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it_user653565 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA PPM Expert at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We did have a previous solution. However, the class of the tool was much lower, so the tools are not comparable.

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it_user372642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Developer at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

My company was choosing between either contracting with CA or this other contracting firm, or having someone internally be the tech-lead for PPM. We chose to assign it to me, because I have the skills to install, configure support having basically the OS knowledge to support such a utility.

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it_user351285 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Trainer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Because it’s comprehensive, I only know that it's the best-practice solution. If we're using CA PPM, we're doing best practices.

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it_user350085 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our previous version needed updating. There’s nothing more to say, we simply needed to update.

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it_user481143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Previously, I used HPE PPM which id similar to CA PPM. I am sure that most CA users would say that the CA solution is more reliable than the HPE one.

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MF
Director of Operations at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We didn't previously use a different solution, however, Broadcom used to be CI Technologies.

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it_user351282 - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisor at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

Because we're smart, we knew we had to switch, and when we saw what CA had to offer, we chose this, although we had pressure to put this in place internally.

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it_user660021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Portfolio Management Office Jr at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

I used Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project in other companies. My current company has the main concept/business of PPM and they use the CA PPM tool to offer their customers.

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it_user345717 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director & Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We previously used Microsoft Project, but this is better because our clients are using it as well.

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it_user391806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We did not use another solution previously.

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it_user778752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Multiple solutions. Switch was to pull data into one software package.

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it_user778758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Management at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have anything before. We did not have a PPM software at all, let alone a process behind it. F5 is a pretty young company.

We have been in business for about 20 years and grown leaps and bounds. The focus has primarily been customer-driven features, products, and services. Now, I think we are pivoting more towards, "Hey, we better get our act together to be able to compete in the marketplace." 

I think the attention is shifting more towards internal process maturity.

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it_user309312 - PeerSpot reviewer
ERP Project Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

No previous solution was used.

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it_user593280 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA Clarity PPM consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not have a previous solution.

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Buyer's Guide
Broadcom Clarity
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Broadcom Clarity . Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.