Broadcom Clarity Scalability
It is incredibly scalable. It is deployed on-prem. I ran into a little bit of a complication trying to move to the cloud, and then I saw someone offer a solution to that problem. Basically, the application needs to be able to communicate with itself, and we set up multiple instances. In a cloud environment, you can basically set up a super large instance of a cloud environment and have all the instances on that same cloud server. We had the opportunity to move to a cloud, and I just didn't do that because I didn't have a solution to that simulcast issue where the application needed that to work, but the cloud didn't offer it. In a cloud environment, because it doesn't allow multicast, you'd have to expand just one cloud server, but you can re-instantiate a cloud server with a larger environment, but with the on-prem solution, you can just add another server and add instances and some items. You can just keep expanding. It is very expandable.
In terms of usage, in my organization, they're using it for project and portfolio management, but not as much for time or resource tracking as they used to. Its usage changes with the business environment. So, it is rather unpredictable.
I believe there are 2,000 users at the moment. We were at a high of 10,000 for a while, but then they scaled back a bit. We have all of our contractors entering time via the Clarity system, and then I have an interface with an external company called Beeline, where we export timesheets there, and that is for a contractor payment processing center. The system is very dynamic where you can generate exports and transfers like that. They create projects within Clarity, and this is where portfolio management comes into play. I transfer the assignments and the project information to Workday. The resources enter their time in Workday, but the project design and tracking are kept track of in Clarity because Workday, I guess, doesn't allow the same level of detail that Clarity does. I know it sounds a little complicated, but that's the way companies work.
Broadcom Clarity PPM is a scalable platform.
I would rate this solution a nine-point-five out of ten since it's highly scalable. We have some customers who have close to 45,000 users already, but larger clients can have between 8,000 to 9,000 users on average. Our clients are enterprise businesses.
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Broadcom Clarity
March 2024
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The scalability of Broadcom Clarity PPM is very good.
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Alexandre De Tiberge
IT Consultant at Abinvest Swiss Fiduciaria Switzerland
It is very scalable. Currently, we have around 350 users, the majority of whom are from various governmental services. Though some smaller organisations, such as the tax service, use the software for their projects, their numbers are limited. Despite offering a variety of services, there is an underutilization of its features. We have the capacity to activate more choices to improve the information flow between the system and SAP, particularly in the financial area. Previously, node two was the option, but we're now lobbying for modifications that may need changes to the system's financial structure. Furthermore, we have forthcoming services that are interested in using the product, and thankfully, supporting them will not need large setup modifications.
View full review »Scalability has been good. We initially rolled it out just for IT, but it's been growing to other areas of our organization. So it's proven to be quite scalable for us.
I will reference my last job where when I first started, nine years ago, working with PPM (Clarity), we started out with a PMO of about 20 people, and keeping track of IT resources in the couple hundreds. Over those eight years, we scaled to a PMO of 250 people and thousands of users.
So, I have seen it scale up. I have also, unfortunately, seen it scale back down, which is why that is where I used to work. So, it is definitely a scalable system.
View full review »There are some performance issues in our financial areas, but we are not using the out-of-the-box financials. We are using our own. So, we have to kind of rip that out and put ours in. In that specific area, we have been asking and we are trying to get some stuff optimized, because it just takes a long time to get data.
View full review »I think scalability has been easy. I think it works well. We have almost 3,500 users and licenses around the world. I think it was an easy transition to do that. I look forward to see how we can do this with Agile Central because that's the direction we are going now.
View full review »It's nice that we have the options. We try to tell our customers not to "drink from the fire hose." It's important that they start off and have some discipline before they take on more. They come to CA World, they see all the exciting things and features, and they come back and say, "I want it all." So it's kind of my being the "pacemaker" for them. I have to say, "Let's start here and build off that," while building their disciplines. They're getting their PMs engaged because everybody adopts change a little bit differently. So we want to make sure we're doing it smoothly.
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reviewer1867770
Experienced Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
At my organization, in my last couple of assignments, I worked inside IT. It's the global IT organization. Inside of that organization, there, of course, are subgroups. One of which was our program management office. There were also areas within the IT organization that tracked things other than projects. They tracked applications. For example, on a worldwide basis, we had about 1,500 applications worldwide approximately.
At its peak, I don't believe it exceeded 500 users. I don't know what the actual licensure arrangement or agreement or contract was with Broadcom CA, but what I do know is that as time went by, the number of users declined. There were trade-offs, and decisions were made. Some of the biggest complainers about doing the data entry were the most senior managers.
In time, the more like mid-level managers would say, "Well, if our bosses don't have to make their time entries, why should we? All we really care about are the worker bees." Eventually, things became more diluted.
Getting back to our ability to track applications within the corporation, to this day, it is still the official source of record for tracking the number of applications. There's a constant need to simplify our business and start making greater and greater use of better technology, et cetera. I know from that standpoint, the tool is still being used for that. They're still using it for program management, to understand and track project management costs, et cetera. That said, right now, I just don't know how many people are actually logging into the tool.
There were rumors that they were going to stop requiring people to enter their time into the tool. Unless of course, you are actually working on a project. If you're a resource that's assigned to project management, then you're obligated to track your time. For people who have nothing to do with project management, and you're just pure overhead, that's where things began kind of winding down, especially towards year-end last year. I know it's come down substantially since its peak of 500.
It's very scalable.
View full review »The scalability of the solution can be done by adding more features. We work with customers to meet their scalability needs.
We have approximately 100 to 9,000 people using the solution depending on the company.
View full review »I think scalability is a big thing, especially around being on SaaS and on a cloud arrangement. That scale really sits with the CA side of things, so as we grow, CA are going to have to grow with us as far as that relationship. Of course, they can do that, considering some of their larger clients that they have in the US and other areas around the world. We're very comfortable that it leads into the future.
In terms of performance, I would say scalability is around an eight out of 10.
View full review »When we started off - it's been almost eight, nine years now with CA PPM - at that time our user base was a lot more. But now with CA Agile Central coming into the picture, I think a lot of companies are making a shift of moving a lot of their user base from CA PPM to CA Agile Central. So it is cutting across various tools. It does not concentrate on a single tool.
View full review »Very scalable. We have, like I said, over 12,000 users right now, and I feel no problem, given enough money and time, that would scale up to whatever. I've discussed with other users of the same product that use many more than that.
View full review »The scalability of Broadcom Clarity PPM is good.
We have approximately 10,000 people using this solution.
View full review »No issues whatsoever.
View full review »In terms of scalability, it is a little bit slow. Right now we have about 200 users, and we are bringing on our European counterparts as well - our company acquired another company - and we are trying to bring them on. It is slow. We've created a support ticket, and hopefully they'll respond. I think for regular day-to-day operations, it's okay. But when you get into Jaspersoft reporting, it is slow. And nowadays, people don't have patience, I don't have patience.
It could handle a vast amount of data and a huge number of users that are using the tool simultaneously.
View full review »We are using it not just in one department but at the enterprise level; also in both our geographical locations, i.e., Canada and the US. The product is scalable.
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Ali Kanaan
Information Systems Engineer at Masarat Technologies
I rate the tool’s scalability an eight or nine out of ten. It is very scalable. Around four to five enterprise customers are interested in the product.
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Sergio Calvo
Service Delivery Manager at Syntech
Broadcom Clarity PPM is scalable because we can use it to do a lot of things in the area of organization. This is was the main solution for many enterprises to manage projects, financials, portfolios, workflows, and to manage all the integrations.
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Sergio Calvo
Service Delivery Manager at Syntech
Broadcom Clarity PPM's scalability is okay. Obviously, it could be better. But now we have great scalability with Service Management.
Our clients are medium and large enterprises. For example, I implemented for a company in Columbia which had about 3000 users.
I think that the solution's usage has been decreased because the solution has a lot of competition right now. For example, Service Now is improving the end user interface and the final digital interaction and I think Clarity Service Management is not. I feel that Service Management is not developing more functionality to cover the end user's demands.
View full review »I am not aware of any scalability issues.
View full review »I think it could handle a vast amount of data, a vast number of users that are using the tool simultaneously.
View full review »It’s a little too early to evaluate scalability. Thus far, it's been scalable for our organization. We have a solid relationship with CA and if we have any challenges or needs we have an open line of communication. We work with them and those needs are addressed as needed.
View full review »Scalability is good. It's a licensing model; you just upgrade your license when you need to add more users. That's good.
View full review »We haven't really had to test scalability. With our organization, we usually don't have more than 40 projects going on at a time and we only have about a dozen highly active users on it. I don't consider that too large of a scale.
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Gene Greiff
Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
Scalability is fine. We run anywhere. We do not have the time sheet problem where everybody logs in on Monday. We have lots of users, about 300, not a lot but they are not timesheet users. They are all financial contract managers and PMs. We do not have the traditional " I have to do my time."
We have what I will say is a different level of user, meaning they are in there to see if their projects are on, the date is up-to-date, and they are extracting stuff to feed the downstream processes. It is a different user type.
View full review »We have had some issues in the older version on-prem with some of the back-end database stuff. That has all been addressed and we will be doing some changes going to SaaS.
I think we will be fine. Plus, we hold onto everything all the time. So, it is partly our own issue/downfall. We are sort of our own worst enemy at times. I am fully acknowledging that.
View full review »It's very scalable, not only for the product itself, but integrating service management and other functions of CA. The more we get comfortable with it, you move from project management to portfolio management. You're not just doing asset allocation, you're also doing, and so on and so forth.
View full review »We're hosted, so as far as scalability goes for us, it's just a matter of user licenses. The user licensing itself could use a little bit of a revamp. Instead of giving everyone the same license, we should have read-only licenses and things of that nature.
View full review »We have used CA Clarity/PPM from less than 500 to more than 100,000 and it scales perfectly.
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Vishal Thakur
Practice Manager & Solution architect at Wipro Technologies
Clarity PPM scales very well.
View full review »This tool is scalable. It’s big enough for us and the right size for our organization.
View full review »I think it's very scalable. We just acquired another company. My company primarily does the lottery, and the company we acquired primarily does gaming. It is the same industry, but with very different practices. I think it really fits both because it's very flexible.
View full review »I think it’s scalable. We're looking to expand, bringing on several new groups, so we'll likely go from 300 users to 800 users pretty soon. We've been cleaning up things as we go along. We ended up removing multiple financial entities to merge them into a single entity. This was a big project for us, but I think it's going to help us scale.
View full review »It’s very scalable – probably the most scalable for an enterprise that really wants to manage their portfolio of projects across the enterprise.
I’ve been working with it for about 15 years since it was Niku, then Clarity, then PPM.
View full review »I do not have any scalability issues.
View full review »Scalability is massive. It is awesome. It is definitely something we have never done at our organization. It is just steering the ship that way. If the product is a 10, we're probably only using it at a one or a two right now with everything that is available. So, it is still to be determined.
View full review »We haven't really tested scalability yet. But we will be with this little "legal team" project, and we'll see how it scales to a completely different demographic of users using the interface.
In terms of scalability, I can't say much. We're trying to use different features in it, because we had so many customizations. Actually, we revamped Clarity in the last couple of months, where we're trying to use more out-of-the-box functionalities, so I'm hoping that will be pleasant.
View full review »We have scaled it. Scalability is very, very good.
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itportfo465114
IT Governance & Performance Management Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »We're going from a few hundred users to several thousand in a few months. We haven't done any stability testing, or anything like that, with around three thousand users; but we know that there are other companies which do use that many people; so we're not too worried about it. We aren’t experiencing any issues today.
View full review »We haven't had any stability issues.
View full review »Our company has about 26,000 users on it. It's been extremely good for us. There are some performance issues that we have to work through. We are testing its limits but it's quite scalable.
View full review »I think it scales well. We're probably one of the largest organizations in the world and probably one of their biggest customers so it does scale well
View full review »It scales as far as you want to go, so there are no issues.
View full review »We started with a very small pilot in the central area. We expanded to the continental United States, and then we just brought on Canada, and also then looking to expand to Latin America. Within that, we have different groups that are using the tool in different ways, but still trying to report on a holistic view. I would say the scalability is definitely growing in an upward fashion.
View full review »Yes, it scales well. In Latin America, we use just it alone. However, in Canada, we have another instance and they use it integrated with other solutions.
View full review »Scalability has been good. The federal government of Canada is not enormous. We'll see use cases here this week, at the CA World conference, of JP Morgan, Chase, or huge organizations. We've worked with organizations with IT shops as low as 200 people, all the way up to probably 10,000 people so it's worked out very well.
Currently, we are using version 14.2. It's hard to say at this point but we have been able to get most of what we need out of the system; there is a list.
View full review »We have not had scalability issues with the application itself. However, we ran into issues with interface using XML Open Gateway (XOG) when we are injecting mass data into the application (such as resource assignment).
View full review »It is highly scalable.
View full review »It's very scalable. We've been growing with it. We now have four different organizations on it.
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Georgy N Joseph
Consultant at Ericsson
No. Its perfectly scalable and perfectly easy to implement the change.
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reviewer1417923
Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We have a lot of Clarity users in the company and it already scales to a pretty substantial level, I would say.
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Reviewer8564564
Process Manager
There have been no issues on our side.
View full review »I imagine that the scalability is there. The problem is, at this time, my company is only looking to give IT workers and project managers access to the tool, and they're trying to get buy-in to expand beyond that hundred-person group.
It has to be able to support a greater amount, and I imagine that the value would be there, but they haven't gotten to that point yet.
View full review »Scalability is good.
View full review »It's a scalable enterprise-level solution. There are no problems with it.
View full review »It’s very scalable. No matter how many users we throw at it, it still works. It still performs. It still does what it needs to. The number of projects it handles just continues to grow, and it doesn't blink an eye. It keeps up with everything we give it.
View full review »It’s very scalable and it's one of the major factors of why people get this solution.
View full review »We haven't had issue with the scalability yet.
I am not aware of us having any scalability issues. As a matter of fact, I don't think our user base would be considered huge compared to other CA clients. We have around 2500 users, so it is not huge.
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ProjectM5d11
Project Manager
No issues with scalability. It seems we can have as many users as we need to. We've probably added around 50 full licenses but I haven't seen any issues with that in resources we have; a few hundred resources in there.
View full review »Scalability seems fine.
View full review »We are a fairly small shop, so we really do not run into any scalability issues.
View full review »There are no issues at all with scalability. The system is capable of supporting tens of thousands of users globally.
View full review »At this time, it's meeting our scalability needs. We are looking to build out other areas, so we are assessing the different components to build out in.
View full review »In order to add customization, we can add a custom object. However, there is a limit of up to three levels in which parent-child relationship can be developed.
My rating for the product reflects the scalability of this product, which is very good compared to similar products available in the market.
View full review »We haven't had to scale.
View full review »We have been with a pretty consistent number of users, so we have not had to move. So, I do not know. For the little increase we have had, it has gone very smoothly.
View full review »On a scale from one to 10, I would say PPM scales at a nine.
View full review »We have not had any scalability issues.
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reviewer1441260
Project Manager at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Scalability is great, especially with cloud-based solutions. It makes the product very portable and users can access it on tablets, smartphones, and whatever device they have. This model makes it scalable.
View full review »It is serving our needs today, but there is certainly a lot more that we can be utilizing. As an organization, we are in an infancy stage of implementation. So, I see over the next few years ramping up and improving how we can utilize the tool.
View full review »We don't know yet, we don't have a lot of people in there yet.
View full review »Scalability is great. We've got literally hundreds of engineers. We've got a lot of teams working on a lot of different projects. It seems very scalable to me.
Not seeing any issues, but we’re only at 150 users. It could handle many more if we needed it to.
View full review »It scales well, but the problem is cost.
View full review »I do not think that stability has been a problem. I think we just need to do some indexing.
View full review »Scalability is great. It is very manageable and can scale in different areas. One of the limitations would be mapping our current agile processes in the same tool set without obviously integrating to a different type of tool set within the same portfolio.
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View full review »It scaled very well. We have around 6,500 users. We have had no scalability issues.
View full review »I really haven't put that to the test yet.
Scalability is pretty decent. We are on SaaS, so CA takes care of scalability.
Yes, scalability may be issue in a SaaS environment but can be resolved by proper configuration.
View full review »On-demand implementations are more scalable as compared to on-premise implementations. As with number of users added, licenses can be increased and infrastructure requirements are taken care of by CA itself.
View full review »It's really scalable.
View full review »From what I've seen at a recent conference, I'm quite impressed. You can do a lot with it and there is lot of room for growth.
View full review »It's scalable, but not great. We're a pretty large implementation. We have 120,000 active resources in the tool. We see a lot of performance impacts, particularly in the newer versions with Jaspersoft and things like that, so that part has been pretty disappointing. But, you know, it still gets the job done. It's just a little slow.
View full review »In terms of scalability, it has adapted well. We use it for both small projects and very large projects. I think it’s great that it handles both kinds of projects with equal power.
View full review »It is definitely scalable.
View full review »I know it as being used for two-server system.
We intend to get into the thousands of users. We haven't reached that point. It's not driving the hardware resources that we would expect to see as something that's taxing the system.
As far as the features that we've planned to use, there's Jaspersoft, which allows you to move from Business Objects, and of course we have an upgrade being planned.
It’s 100% scalable. It could be used in a small company and very large, equally effective and equally powerful.
View full review »It has adapted well over time and handled everything we have thrown at it.
View full review »We have a lot of endpoints, and it's scaled just fine.
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Lawrence Rizzo
Solution Architect
As long as you have the licensing, we can scale.
In terms of scalability, so far so good. We haven't had any issues. We're using the cloud, CA cloud.
View full review »It’s pretty easy to throw into any environment.
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reviewer1359999
Director of Operations at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is a bit complex. It's hard to modify things on the product, which affects the ability to expand.
I'm not sure of how many users are on the solution.
View full review »It is scalable, and it adapts well from the end-user point-of-view.
View full review »I did not encounter any problems in respect to the scalability. The capacity is good and it depends on the data that a company wants to enter.
View full review »We're small so we've had no problems.
View full review »You shouldn't encounter scalability issues in well-dimensioned environments and configured with the vendor best-practices
View full review »I wasn’t involved at the beginning of the project. During my stay at the bank, we didn’t perform any upgrade with CA PPM.
View full review »It has scaled well so far.
View full review »No issues with scalability.
View full review »It has worked for organizations the size of Boeing, which is 160,000 people. F5 is 4,000, so I do not see a scalability issue.
View full review »The tool has supported our scaling without issue.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »We have not had scalability issues. Scalability is one of the strengths of the solution.
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Broadcom Clarity
March 2024
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