Broadcom Clarity Valuable Features

Lowell Wetzel - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Cambia Health Solutions

The dynamism of the application where you can modify it to fit your needs is valuable. For example, you can create fields, metrics, and measures on the fly. You don't have to be limited to what the out-of-the-box format would be. It allows you to generate fields, metrics, and reports off of that with relative ease.

The volume of information you can get out of a system is valuable. There is always a caveat when companies partially adopt something. So, resource capacity planning is an incredible value, but because we only partially use it, it is only partially valuable here. We don't fully put all the resource information in.

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Gaurav Datar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at Infosys

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.

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MohammadJarrar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Clarity PPM Technical Consultant at Al Rajhi Bank

Broadcom Clarity PPM is a high-value product. It's amazing, and it helps us become productive. It's a nice product. It's helpful, and we can do a lot of things faster through Broadcom Clarity PPM.

We also love that the platform is scalable and very stable. We have trust in it, even from a self management perspective.

Easy to enhancements for any requirements In Clarity PPM environment VS other platforms.

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Buyer's Guide
Broadcom Clarity
March 2024
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Kiran  Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Head - Retail & CPG at Infosys

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.

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Nishant Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Head - Wipro Digital - PPMS at Wipro Limited

Broadcom Clarity PPM's most valuable feature is the plenty of modules, such as portfolio, project, resource, and time.

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AD
IT Consultant at Abinvest Swiss Fiduciaria Switzerland

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.

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it_user778710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT Project Portfolio at Owens-Illinois, Inc.
  • Flexibility
  • Easy user adoption

Those are valuable because the tool should be an enabler and not a barrier to people getting their work done.

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it_user779232 - PeerSpot reviewer
PPM Product Owner at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The ability to have all of the data in one place from risks and issues to resource capacity and actual utilization. We are currently undergoing an integration with our financial systems that will allow us to bring in financials into our cost plans and minimize the need for project managers to be going into both Clarity and the financial system. They will have everything all-in-one place, so that will be really beneficial to our users.

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

The most valuable feature is the portfolio management tool and the new project management, and the way it will all look from the user experience.

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

The best thing is one single source to capture all our IT project information. We are a very big company all over the world. We have all the data in one spot. The product is easy to access, easy to compile and pull up reports, with everybody working to the same tool. Training makes it easier. There are other things that we can add-on or we can expand upon. Because we're going to be implementing Agile, Agile Central, there are benefits of using the software as a service (SaaS) as a service platform We don't have to accommodate physical infrastructure for it. It's maintained on the cloud. People can access it anywhere. It makes it a lot easier too. We have people all over the world. I'm sure cost is probably a big benefit as well for us overall.

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

Right now, it's the PPM piece of it, the scheduling, the Gantt, the task view. It gives that full visibility to the team. But we're wanting to take that further and start building upon the financial piece of it, doing extracts from contractors to employees, to determining resource planning and future planning, and doing "what-if" scenarios.

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

There was a need to keep better track of hours spent by employee type and how their times were allocated to given projects, or if not on a project, if it was just like a general administrative type kind of thing, how were we using our time. Of course, at the employee level, they would have their profiles. There were a variety of data fields that were made use of in order to identify the person by name, their skill sets, their charge-out rate, whether they were assigned full-time, or part-time, or not at all to a particular project or projects, plural. It was, of course, like a lot of things in life, it could be as simple or as complex as you want.

One of the things that we found out very quickly was when we went from kind of dabbling in program management and using Clarity, where management at the highest levels of our IT community, it was decided that this right here is our tool of choice. We're not going to be making use of any other tools. Everyone needs to make use of this project management. What they did is, they swung one way and then went to the other extreme. It was everybody who had to log their time. This was done at the highest level. Whether you were a contract employee, whether you were a full-time badged employee, whether you were part of supervisory, or management, or even a member of our senior leadership team, our executive management team, everyone had to account for their time.

There was tremendous pushback in doing this. The counterargument was, well, there's a lot of companies, high tech, defense industry, et cetera, et cetera, they always do this. This is nothing new. If we're a "high-tech" company, we should follow suit and get on board with doing this. This is actually fairly common practice. Inside of the tool, there were performance metrics, things that could be tracked, graphed, and what have you. I began distributing to my internal customers at the management level where we were relative to other family groups if you will, or sub-organizations within the IT community. Where we were relative to entering our time sheets on a weekly basis on time.

We could follow what was the quality of the input, et cetera. There were probably about five or six metrics that we used. As a result, the groups that I supported were consistently ranked at the absolute top of the organization, as we were leveraging these built-in tools for tracking.

There were some groups that were laggards or not performing very well at all. It almost became some kind of internal competition. Whether it was program management, or just metrics and entering data, or keeping records up to date, because people would go out of the organization, there were tools that were inherent or built into Clarity that we leveraged.

I'm just an analyst at heart, I can take data from disparate systems. I can correlate them and provide management with what they need in order to make decisions and affect change in the organization or what have you. I did not have any issues with the system. The whole interface would fit on the inside of the screen of a laptop computer. I wouldn't say at 100%. Let's say the screen was brought down to like 80 or 90%, the entire interface would fit on the screen. At the top of being where the true interface was, where you were able to do your filter selections, things like that, that's where you were able to, an individual, depending on their access that they've been granted. I was actually given almost administrator access, where you could see all the options that you could drill down into.

I did create custom reports. Some people had great difficulty with that. To me, it was, what data fields do you need, and dragged them into the report that you want to create and save it. That, to me, was always a very simple thing. Some people have to be spoon-fed. Other people are naturally curious or inquisitive and will look at second-level, third-level options for a given application interface. That's what I did.

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

We use it to track projects and work in our portfolio. For us, it is about the reporting on project statuses during the project lifecycle.

The benefit of using the SaaS version is that it is more manageable than needing to have the infrastructure and the overhead of being on-premise, which would be too much for us. We really like being able to use the SaaS solution so that CA is managing everything except the actual data capture and generating reports.

With it, we're able to organize how we collect information and ideas and projects and get them funded. Without it, we would be using Excel spreadsheets and people don't want it to be like that.

It lets us aggregate all that information about ideas and projects, and put them into common reports which we can share. That's been very valuable.

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it_user481104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Program Manager IV at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

CA PPM’s project management functionality is the most valuable. Being able to record project information, risks, issues, changes, status reports, tasks, and scheduling of resources etc. in one place instead of in different spreadsheets and documents is really important for project managers to manage their projects and for management to see the reports of that information.

Also, the time-tracking functionality and being able to track time to project tasks and other admin, sustaining tasks is also really valuable because we can see the actuals vs. the forecast for project metrics, and organization metrics. CA PPM has a mobile app that allows staff to time-track on the go, and also lets managers review and approve time on their mobile as well. This gives us a lot of flexibility especially for our services organization that is constantly travelling and removes barriers as staff do not need to log on to VPN with their laptop to time-track.

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MartinQuiroga - PeerSpot reviewer
Value Stream Management specialist & Solution Leader at Tricise at OdPe Business Solutions

The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity PPM are demand, project, and product management.

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it_user797940 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of EPMO at Telstra

The value for Telstra is really around how we can manage strategic investments, so we've moved earlier this year to CA PPM Cloud. It's greatly changed our user experience for our 1,500 project managers.

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

The financial management part because it calculates, it retains the data, and everything is pretty much cool about the reporting part for financial. For PMOs it has some cool reporting and a dashboard. That is a good part of CA PPM. 

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it_user779187 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don't work as an administrator of the tool, so I can talk from the standpoint of the end users who actually use it. I think financial management would be one of the most important features of all of them, to keep track of the finances. Everyone runs against a budget. They have a particular funding, which they have to manage. So I think the Cost Plans, Financial Planning, those are among the most important features for most users.

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it_user373071 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Development Manager at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

We use the time sheet for reporting against tasks. We have a large user group that we keep track of all the time, and where people are spending it. From using the solution, benefits would include knowing what our people are up to, one, being able to post that to GL, we do use it as a sub-ledger. We also are starting more and more to use it for allocating resources, to make sure we understand what the availability of those resources are versus the work that we're asking them to perform.

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Fabio Nicida - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at Agila Tecnologia

Broadcom Clarity PPM is robust and flexible, and all the functionality sets are in one place.

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it_user93960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, IT at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features is the broad spectrum ability to pull in all of our portfolio information and drive that down to where the end result outputs to our financials. This allows us to close books each month.

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

Basically everything. 

  • You can identify resources by roles.
  • You can manage by skill level.
  • You can manage your capacity by roles.
  • Assigning to projects.
  • Booking resources in Soft Book, Hard Book.
  • Gives you visibility into who is currently working on something else but may be available through the Soft Book feature.

I like every feature that's in there.

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

The most valuable features are portfolio management and the resources; resources are the key for us.

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

We are mostly using this tool for financial purposes, moreover for financial reports. The reporting is based on the CA PPM tool; thus we mainly use it for finances.

Although we have integration with different payroll systems such as AP and FA, at the end of the day we are getting the financial information from GL for our accounting purpose. This is our main purpose for using this tool.

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AK
Information Systems Engineer at Masarat Technologies

The product’s functionalities and suite of services grab the customer’s attention. The product is flexible. It is easy to use. Users can configure the product to match their environment, products, and services.

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SC
Service Delivery Manager at Syntech

The most valuable feature is the portfolio functionality because we have the ability to work with different scenarios and many kinds of financial management. We can integrate with ERP, and with other solutions from third-party vendors. The financial model in Broadcom Clarity PPM, it's the most valuable aspect.

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SC
Service Delivery Manager at Syntech

The feature that I have found most valuable is the XFlow, that interface is pretty cool. We have worked with IT PAM with the first two commissions. We have mainly worked with those companies, because we work a lot with process automation, to perform workflows to optimize everything within the organization.

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it_user779019 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director Project Delivery Office at McKesson

We are able to track budgets, and with timesheets, actuals against budgets.

Resource management: It is our primary use now. 

Agile Central is a kind of a scrum tool for the teams to be able to do their work. We are just now starting to leverage the functionality to give a more portfolio view. 

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

The most valuable features of this solution are the portfolio management and the resources. Resources are key for us.

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

PPM provides end-to-end processes for portfolio, project, and resource management. It allows you to ramp up, in a controlled manner, based on your organization’s needs. The ability to configure PPM gives you the flexibility to align it and its strengths with your particular needs and the nuances of your organization. You're not isolated in a siloed process that can't expand. You've got a process area you can work in and then utilize the configuration capability to meet your needs.

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

The most valuable features are time compliance, capacity and demand, and resource management; knowing who is allocated to what task, what projects, what activities, and if they're on track or not. We have time compliance goals, where we have to complete time sheets and we have to have one-on-one meetings with our leadership. That's another value: making sure that we're compliant with those.

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it_user558315 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

What we find valuable is the ability to bring all the different projects that we have into a central location. We have visibility into their status and the work that is going on. We can see whether the status is red, yellow, or green and can immediately identify how well the project is going on the dashboard. On the storyboard, it gives us a one page snap shot of the risks and issues, which can be brought to the attention of management in a quick and easy way.

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GG
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Configurability.

The UX works really well.

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it_user778965 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

In the new solution: It is good for us. 

  • We can have a centralized view that we can have in our delivery and business organizations.
  • Collaborate on certain levels.
  • On priorities, investments, and those kinds of things, it is very helpful. With some of the things that they are rolling out with a bit more of the collaboration and social aspects, that that will help drive that even more.
  • I love the new UX. The problem that we have had around adoption has been pretty much around the clunkiness of the old interface. So, we were encouraged by what they started doing with project management and personas a year or so ago. Now, seeing it flow through the rest of the tool is very encouraging.
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it_user572901 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager / Management Consultant at Edmonton Police Service

It's about integrating the allocation of resources, assignment, into the investment management, so we can actually look at not only how well we're doing, but if we have enough resources, if we're using them appropriately.

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

The financial portfolio management portion is valuable. It's really valuable for our executive leadership in order to make decisions on projects and portfolio funding.

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it_user348435 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Clarity PPM Consultant at Rego Consulting

The competitiveness of the product in terms of functionality is the most valuable feature. It has all the features that we and the people we work with need to do their jobs. The core features are PM management, resource management, portfolio management. Those are invaluable tools for anyone who needs to do IT governance.

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VS
Practice Manager & Solution architect at Wipro Technologies

Clarity PPM's strongest features are project and resource management.

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

The Gantt chart is very well built and easy to use. The tool comes out-of-the-box with an MS Project clone called Workbench, and for the most part it is useful, but there is an interface that can also be utilized to connect directly with MS Project. The best feature in my opinion is the Jaspersoft reporting suite as this is well crafted and, not only contains many useful reports out of the box, but creating ad-hoc reports is as simple as drag-and-drop. It is a very powerful tool and ad-hoc reports can be turned into a standard report that shows up in all user libraries. The export of the reports or dashboards can be done in several formats, including MS Excel, MS Word, PDF, and XML. I have to say that exporting into Excel is the best I have ever seen as the resultant spreadsheet is very clean and well laid out. There is little to no adjusting that has to be done on the spreadsheet.

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it_user558135 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at Guardian life insurance

We are currently using the Idea feature for project intake. We actually locked (CA PPM) Clarity down, so people can't open projects. In order to initiate a project, they come through the Idea feature. That helps us because for resource management, we get more applications and all the required fields are populated at that time. That feature is very valuable for us.

We are using the SaaS version of this tool. It works the same as the non-SaaS version, but I know that our responsibility on the back end is different. We don't have that responsibility anymore, and that's a benefit to us.

The project management expertise varies across the organization. This tool works for the people who are advanced as well for the new people.

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it_user558339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Enginer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

For us, it's the ability to feed payroll with accurate timesheets and capitalize project hours.

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it_user558411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Systems Delivery at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable solutions for us are being able to share data across the organization to help use technology to drive our processes. We are trying to use it as our system of record for reporting, integrating with Salesforce and SAP so all of our reporting will come out of the system. That's the plan.

I love the grid-like portlet.

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it_user348348 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Program Management at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are project management, resource management, and idea management.

I run a PMO with a portfolio of initiatives, and we have to report on those to upper management to keep them abreast of the health of the products, critical issues, things that need to be escalated. To get the reporting, I need to ensure that the tool is easy to use for project managers.

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

Capacity and demand management allows me to know if I have enough resources for all the projects that I have to do. It helps to drive the whole budget of the department.

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

It allows me to keep track of the projects, residual location, it gives me the ease of getting status reports out, and checking risks and issues.

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it_user779004 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at Northwestern Mutual
  • Timesheet entry
  • Cost plans
  • Calculating labor actuals and financials
  • Forecasting
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it_user778566 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Premier Health

The new UX is very user-friendly and simple. The new user interface has been great, I think it has been easier. It will be an easier way to get the product out and used more frequently and more real-time, whereas mainly a lot of only the IT people were able to use the old interface well, just from their background. With the new user interface, it will help a lot.

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

I think it's very configurable. However we want to change something with out-of-the-box configuration, it's pretty simple to do.

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it_user778569 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Provides an overall picture, it gives you the ability to store your capex, capital and expense budgets, on projects. You can really drill down with their new utilities, you can use Clarity. You have Allocation Editor and Assignment Editor that give you more flexibility in entering the data.

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

For me it's the Project and Portfolio Management tools within PPM, the portfolios. The functionality within there, and now we're starting to use resource management to tie into that as well.

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MS
IT Governance & Performance Management Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
  • Project and other objects portfolio management
  • Financial management
  • Reporting possibilities
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it_user558042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Its strength is all the different features it offers. It's kind of a one-stop shop solution for project managers, resource managers, and finance department personnel. There are a lot of different uses for the tools; and it enabled us to consolidate our list of tools from five or six tools down to just PPM. We're managing one tool with one person managing it as an administrator, instead of having two or three administrators for each tool, with manual processes, and so on.

It is much more streamlined, with a lot more automation, and it’s just easy to use.

A benefit of the SaaS version is not needing to deal with any of the standard on-premise issues that you have. We can rely on the vendor to do a lot more of the upgrade work and things like that. I don't feel like we're pressured, like we would experience with some of the other SaaS providers out there, to be on the latest version or pick up any other applications that go with it.

It just costs much less, and it's as reliable as if it were on-premises. We don't have to pay for the hardware cost. We don't really have to support any of that. It's just a matter of giving them a call and asking for whatever it is we need.

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

I like that it’s very flexible. If you need it to do something, you can make it do that. That's a good thing.

For example, out of the box we use the SaaS version. It's not highly customizable as if we'd installed it locally, but out of the box there's no process to load the data warehouse on any regular basis. So you have to make a job to schedule and run this process according to your schedule. They give you the tools to do all these different things.

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it_user558168 - PeerSpot reviewer
Clarity PPM Developer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features of the solution are that it's process driven and helps push our business users to follow that process.

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it_user558348 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategy Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The valuable features are the ability to manage our portfolio of products and initiatives that we're working on.

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it_user558600 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Excers

The Project Portfolio Management software helped get all of your projects, all of our project costs, and all of our people working on those projects gathered together in one single place so we know what we're working on, and where we're spending our money.

The main benefit of using the SaaS (software as a service) platform is that everything is taken care of for us. We don't need to buy the hardware. We don't need to do the installation. We don't need to do the upgrades. That's all done for us. It's just handled.

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it_user498396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Planning Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
  • Project list: exporting in excel for dashboard and other reports
  • Advanced reporting: new feature used for simple reports and dashboards that can be scheduled, which has made project data much more accessible and timely
  • Ideas: input and tracking of ideas
  • Task list (within the project functionality): used by us to track project stages and deliverables
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it_user383805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Software and Support Services at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is work flow management. We really work with the business to make sure that we have an end-to-end reporting of the work flow tool for delivery for implementation and design for our customers.

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it_user778998 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

For us, in Latin America, we use bookkeeping record because we have enough out-of-the-box functionality. 

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it_user778614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at Statpathfinder Consulting

Reporting visibility for projects and on the resource management side as well.

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it_user558216 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Portfolio Manager

The most valuable feature of this solution is the quality of the database; the online database is transactional and we are able to get real-time data.

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

PPM provides the ability for staff (employees and contractors) in the entire IT organization to track time against specific investments and other work. And we can extract the data to analyze what our resources are working on. It also allows us to perform high-level resource planning.

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

It's an integrated product. We can do project management, strategic management, and resource management all in the same place. We don’t have to get sources from everywhere. This helps us make decisions faster.

The main benefits of using the SaaS version are its availability, and that we don't have to think about maintaining the systems.

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it_user383811 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For us, its most valuable features are about resource management, resource assignment, and time tracking.

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GJ
Consultant at Ericsson

Time Entry, Resource Allocation, Interactive Dashboards, Risk Management, Integration with Jaspersoft reports.

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RU
Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

This is the first PPM tool I've used so I can't provide a comparison. It's technically fine, is very user friendly, and it's a good tool. We get pretty good support from Broadcom as well.

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KF
Process Manager

The most valuable features are the project, resource, and portfolio management processes are combined in one solution. The data is possible to use either in the one or the other process, and we do not need to enter the data multiple times. Then, we use the information for multiple purposes.

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it_user778902 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at IBERIABANK

Within my environment, being able to give status reports to my manager is very useful, saves me a lot of trouble. 

I enjoy the Risks/Issues section. I wish that they were combined into the same module. I use that to raise things before they happen. 

I do appreciate the report that shows how utilized a person is set to be within the coming months. I use that feature a good bit.

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it_user779088 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
  • Timesheet Approver
  • Resource management

You know where the hours of each resource manager or each worker are.

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it_user558462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Territory Manager at Netready CCA

The platform is quite robust. We were looking for a solution that would help us build a PMO for our operations, which are based in four different countries. They all have different needs, and different business objectives and relationships; so we needed a very robust yet flexible solution.

CA Clarity, now called PPM, has met all our expectations. We're very delighted with the use of it. Internally, we have seen a good return on investment. The adoption rate has been quite easy for all our project managers and the head of the department; so we are very, very happy users.

There are several benefits to it. First of all is the accountability. You can go deep into any project that you have in your portfolio in terms of resource assignments or scheduling, costs and deviation from the plan. All of that combined with a very intuitive user interface makes the work a lot easier for all the PMO activities.

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it_user558393 - PeerSpot reviewer
Clarity Architect and Functional Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I like to be able to keep track of all our project work in one place, so I don’t have to go get information from three different places. All the info is right there.

We are using the SaaS version of PPM. We don’t have to maintain the servers. We don’t have to keep up with all the hardware, and so on. It’s all taken care of for us.

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it_user481119 - PeerSpot reviewer
PMO - Logistics at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable for me is the opportunity to have a single tool to manager my entire projects portfolio. It is where I can see more value, because I can rate my projects, compare them. We can use a process based on PMI guides, because the solution supports it’s best practices, as lessons learned, change management, risks, baselines, etc.

We use CA PPMs resources to have the only version of the truth on a single path. Before CA PPM, each project was reported and managed with different rules, formats, etc. With the use of the tool, we could centralize, define KPIs, reports and manage better our portfolio. Besides, the SaaS license is a very good feature, because we enjoy the security of CA.COM with 100% of availability.

We use almost all features of the tool: baselines, change management requests, registration and search of lessons learned, and we developed our own KPIs dashboard.

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it_user356061 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It allows us to manage everything, and in terms of business value, its best features are about managing money and financials. We are able to show the business how we spent money and the results we obtained. The tool recognizes this need. Simply put, we use Clarity data simply to track planned vs. actuals. Of course, it is not as simple as that. We have budget plans for labor and non-labor, and we track against that.

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it_user778920 - PeerSpot reviewer
Clarity Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would say the Project and Portfolio Management, its potential. If you talk about any other tool for PPM, I think CA PPM has the most potential.

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

Flexibility is probably the most significant feature that we take advantage of. Being a large company with a lot of customized solutions, migrating from our legacy applications into PPM obviously has been a major challenge. The flexibility of PPM, our ability to customize it and configure it to our needs has been a big selling point of the tool.

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it_user558225 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Mckesson

The most valuable features are the resource management, project management, and tracking time for our employees.

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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

Resource management is probably one of the most widely used features of this product and it is what we are using now.

One of the other features that we have started to step into but haven't really done yet, is portfolio management. It is a direction that we are heading in order to leverage it more deeply.

We mainly use resource management for resource forecasting which basically helps us to manage our resource capacity. In this way, we can understand our availability overallocation and that is really where we are using this tool most in our company. We definitely want to broaden our use of the features of this product.

The main benefits of using this tool as a service platform are leveraging CA to handle availability and stability of the platform. Also, they carry the load in terms of execution of any product upgrades. We need to be ready for the upgrade and help test the upgrade, but they keep us on the upgrade path. These are some of the primary advantages.

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DM
Project Manager

Usability of the new UI. It's easier for people to go in there and know what to do. To train people, it's faster, more intuitive.

Also, managing resources. It's definitely the most important thing for managing your project.

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it_user779154 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at Geha
  • The portfolio management
  • The waterline functionality
  • The data that we can get out of the timesheet information.
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it_user651855 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • The detail available in the financial costs and forecasts
  • The comprehensive resource planning views
  • The portfolio planning capabilities

All of these show not only the current state, but also integrated views of the impact of proposed changes across the organization in terms of resources and costs.

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it_user572835 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Delivery Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I love the time tracking module. That's what I'm most familiar with, at this time: being able to go in and actually break it down; see what everybody is doing; how they're allocating their time; see who's underallocated, overallocated.

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it_user474588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Consultant at Ericsson Global Limited

Many features of this product are valuable to our organization, such as:

  • Project Management: Managing a project for a PM is always tough if he/she has to do it without a tool. Using this tool, they have a view of availability of the resources across the organization, which they can use in their project to leverage their skills. It will reduce the load on the PM, as well as provide access to all resource data in one tool.
  • Financial Management: People always get stuck or avoid the things when it comes to finance. With globalization, finance has to be managed across the world. As everyone has their own ways of creating records for accounting, this functionality brings some standardization, which in turn, makes it easier to manage.
  • APIs: No organization uses a single tool for all of its requirement. Connecting those tools is always required, so that data flows between them and organizations can make the correct decisions.
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it_user345618 - PeerSpot reviewer
Governance Administrator at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We've not been using the tool for long, although we love being able to track the cost per project, initiative, portfolio, and finances.

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

It is very intuitive. Even if you do not have training documents or anything, you can start feeling your way around pretty easily. I like that piece of it.

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it_user558390 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at Excers

CA PPM is an amazing product where you can evaluate anything, from concept to cash, all the way. It's not just project management, it's everything: enablement, managing, tracking, and controlling work.

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it_user351639 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are mandated by law to rigorously manage change to our systems and to ensure zero or very minimal impact to our customers. Given the systems that we had in place -- and we've got thousands of users and thousands of projects in major systems, comprising a large part of the economy -- we could no longer use disparate systems to govern all of those things. So we implemented Clarity PPM to enforce a standard change management protocol.

However, what we have found is we are leveraging the data behind it to do more portfolio management, which really boils down to, are we working on the right things? Are we using the right people? Are we getting return on investment? Are we utilizing our resources and it has opened up a level of transparency into our change delivery efforts and costs that we've never had before?

The answers are, yes. It's an amazing solution.

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JA
Project Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

The interfaces for project management, portfolio management, and reporting services are always helpful.

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it_user797979 - PeerSpot reviewer
Projects and Planning at a government with 201-500 employees

What has been valuable are the workflows that are there today in order to keep our executive staff informed as well as our program managers and department managers.

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it_user779058 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Advisor at Mary Kay

Right now it is the resource planning, because I know not all of the project managers really did resource planning before. This has set up an expectation for them to do that necessary step, going forward.

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it_user778572 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at Daktroniks

I think the most value that I have seen is the the team management, the resource management. We have flexible scrum teams, we have developers that will serve on one scrum team for a few sprints or for a project, and they'll switch around. Being able to track where people go, and making sure that our teams are fully staffed, and well staffed, so that we can be successful on the projects we're trying to do.

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it_user348177 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of Contracts and External Programs at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable features are resource management and portfolio management. We have too many projects in our organization and not enough resources, which PPM allows us to manage.

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it_user346476 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Management Coordinator & Quality Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable part is the ability to report efficiently across the globe how the company is doing. This is the biggest advantage to me.

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it_user778947 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
  • Having information altogether in one single source.
  • Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources. 
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it_user779238 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Senior Manager

Probably the data itself. We do a lot of extracts from Clarity. There is not a lot of reporting within the tool itself. So, we actually export it, run reports, and roll out that data.

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it_user779076 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Resource Manager at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the version that we are in, it has been able to collect all the data, and in some ways, provide dashboards of aggregated data. 

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it_user687165 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Demand, Resource, Project Portfolio Management, for my business consulting services, PMO services to other clients.

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

We've used this solution as an enterprise tool. It allowed us to bring organizations together for communication, planning, and cost. Outside of our IT department, we are integrated heavily with our marketing areas, both on the wireless and the wireline side. That includes marketing, sales, operations, products, new business development, and networking. All those areas come together and are able to communicate within the tool.

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it_user558183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Easy to use, visually
  • The new UX is intuitive, which is cool

The features I use the most are the planning, the Kanban layout.

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it_user779283 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin Manager
  • Portfolio management
  • Resource management
  • Project management, of course
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it_user778911 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Coordinator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The budgeting. With budgeting would be the resource-tracking, because we budget our resources. Overall budgeting is probably the best use of Clarity for us, because we can see how much we are allowed to spend, how much we have spent, and then how much is left over.

It has all of the features that currently we need.

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

This product is good for resource management and project management. I have managed detailed schedules with great success.

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

Project Management features that are excellent in managing the Project Management Life-cycle, along with other related details like Financials, Resources and flexibility to customize, as per requirement.

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it_user558234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Business Architecture at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The ability to identify business value associated with the financial management of projects.

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it_user558111 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable features are the ability to manage projects, statuses, various queued tasks of the project; and time tracking related to resource management.

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

The most valuable features are its compatibility with other programs, easy to use and the report generating feature.

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

The project management part of it is definitely the most valuable part of it to us. We don't get a lot of value out of resource management or portfolio management yet. It really helps reporting on overall statuses at an aggregate level that we have going on. It's really the best part.

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it_user350013 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, PMO Project Management with 10,001+ employees

For us, it’s all about resource management and schedule management. Without this, we would be in trouble. This solution has it and more.

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

Right now, it is the project management module.

It is allowing us to keep track of what our projects are doing, and the idea module, what projects are coming into the pipeline.

I like the new UX. I am hoping that we will move to it soon. I think it is a vast improvement. It is much easier and more user-friendly.

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

Project management in CA PPM is elastic and comprehensive. You can adjust the solution to any organization quickly and easily.

Studio is a powerful component that lets you add and modify features in an easy way without writing code. These features include new objects, attributes, views, process, and portlets.

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

Improvement over using various Microsoft tools, like just spreadsheets and other things. It's standardizing and expanding its use for the features that help our company.

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

The most valuable aspects of PPM are the project management modules and the visibility that it offers within them.

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

I like using the on-demand feature as it requires a lot less maintenance for me. Once you understand the product, it’s easy to use. It's initially challenging, but it does what it’s supposed to do. At this point, we can't ask for much more.

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it_user349314 - PeerSpot reviewer
Resource Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's valuable for us to be able to get data across the enterprise. We focus a lot on resources, so being able to get the actuals by project is big. We do reporting at the enterprise level and are focused on the portfolio management side of things, so communicating, aggregating, and analyzing are important. We are married to Business Objects InfoView.

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it_user481143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
  • Resource
  • Project
  • Timesheet Management
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it_user356073 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The best feature is the ability to control the demands of both big and small projects. For example, we recently implemented a CRM tool and it needed many resources and had many, many documents to support the project. PPM gave us the ability to control different projects with different needs at the same time because it's a unified tool.

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LR
Solution Architect

The ability to provide transparency through your investment portfolios at the top-level financial all the way down to the work that drives delivery.

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it_user778782 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technological Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The new UX, though we are not on it. Some of the new features look really nice. We are just looking for them to be a little more fully fleshed out before we move to them. 

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it_user778686 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
  • The configurability
  • The resource management

They're valuable because that's what the customer uses the most.

I've also seen a little of the preview of the new UX and I'm impressed.

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it_user488790 - PeerSpot reviewer
CA PPM Consultant with 51-200 employees

Administration, project management, NSQL queries and portlets, XOG data transfer, user community forum, sandboxes and documentation.

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it_user346677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Software Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It’s deployed corporate-wide and has a heavy user-base, and we provide custom modifications to the solution. I also do all the deployments for seven different environments with each having three servers.

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

The solution is the best tool for portfolio and project management.

It's very good out of the box, without configurations required.

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

It helps with our marketing efforts, projects, timing, budgeting, and resourcing. It also gives us a one-page overview.

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

The most valuable part is related to portfolio management in the home menu. We can add attributes in new and existing pages from the administration section.

In comparison to other PPM tools, these features are clearer in this solution. We can also make ranking rules, in order to select the right projects to put inside the portfolio.

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

Product management and time management are the most valuable features for us, as it’s far superior to Microsoft Project, and the others are worse.

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it_user501972 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Engineer & Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Detailed project planning, showing the updated project status and its most useful KPIs
  • Detailed project financials and cost, defining detailed budget plans and updated management and view of taxes, fees, expenses (transactions)
  • Cost and financial investment hierarchy, obtaining the real aggregated cost of a service and of the whole IT investments. Possibility to show investment hierarchy aggregattions in diferent currencies.
  • Apply strong workflow actions and methods, powered by scripting modules, to implement your processes
  • New Data Warehouse instance and new advanced reporting provided by Jaspersoft Reports
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it_user391806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The capacity to plan and manage projects. It has the profile of every person who works at the company.

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it_user507966 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The following features are valuable to me:

  • Project, portfolio, resource, and time sheet management
  • Ability to customize through process management and custom objects

These features are useful in better organizing projects and resources for the PMO in our organization. And reporting is helpful in seeing a clear picture of project health at the project and portfolio level, so that practitioners make informed decisions.

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it_user351312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead project manager at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Obviously, the project management aspect itself is valuable to us, but we're also using it for portfolio management and financial planning. The combination of these three functions makes this a great tool.

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it_user778752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Project Management, as it allows us to track all of a project's elements in one database.
  • Reporting allows us to create custom reports.
  • Dashboards are useful to review a large number of projects.
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it_user778758 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Management at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Transparency and just having the ability to procure information that is pertinent. Not just the execution of programs in a more systemic way, but also from a strategic perspective; to understand the big rocks in the organization and how much money are we putting where our mouths are.

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it_user350313 - PeerSpot reviewer
Voice and Data Network Specialist at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It allows us to manage our products with all its features, like configurability, filters, add-ons, third-party app integrations, etc.

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

It gives us complete visibility of resource allocation on a global team.

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

The most valuable features are:

  • Scalability: CA PPM supports the approach of starting simple with continuous improvements and additional scope/complexity. This enables the system to adapt and grow together with organization maturity.
  • Flexibility: CA PPM consists of several integrated modules which can be implemented in a combination that brings the most benefit. Also, each module can be easily adjusted to fit the organization’s needs and business processes.
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March 2024
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