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CA Technologies
May 22 2018
What do you think of CA PPM?
Hi All, If anyone is looking for a Project and Portfolio Management tool, then I highly recommend CA Clarity PPM. Of all the PPM tools we had tried, Clarity PPM (now called as CA PPM) is the most robust, multi-functional and reliable tool. The different modules in CA PPM include Resource Management, Project Management, Portfolio Management, Timesheet Management, Financial Management and Demand Management. The technical side of this tool asks from Clarity developers skills in the following areas: XML Open Gateway (XOG), GEL scripting and NSQL. The reporting platforms supported which can be integrated to this PPM tool are Jaspersoft and Business Objects. But CA has recently dropped Business Objects support from v14.2 version onwards and has only Jaspersoft now as the reporting...1 comment
CA Technologies
Feb 27 2018
What is most valuable?
Deep Dive and Transaction Analysis Triage capability. The AppMap feature is very very helpful in visualizing. Also ACC is a huge help with agent maintenance/management (life cycle).How has it helped my organization?
We are introducing 10.1 in our dev environment and then prod down the road. APM is a new culture here so we are working with customers in getting them introduced to the product. Want to show them how deep dive provided by APM can help them... more»What needs improvement?
User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment.CA Technologies
Dec 05 2017
What is most valuable?
Presently we are making maximum use of this product for IBM Websphere monitoring with agents monitoring the MQ's. We are also using the java and .net agents for monitoring the respective applications. Introscope Reports and Dashboards provide... more»How has it helped my organization?
In our organization, the critical applications are being monitored with thresholds set for any malfunctioning through APM. Also, we have configured Dashboards which display any deviation of the application from normal. Further, the Tool is... more»What needs improvement?
Based on my experience with the product, I found two areas which can be improved on in future. Firstly, the APM upgrade procedure is a bit complicated with compatibility issues which can emerge like between agents and EM/Collectors. Secondly,... more»CA Technologies
Nov 06 2017
What is most valuable?
The most important part is the user experience. CA Service Desk Manager provides a great and helpful experience. It's a tool with constant updates and always thinking about and looking out for the user. It's a powerful tool that is able to do... more»How has it helped my organization?
I've been implementing the solution for more than a decade, in different companies of different sizes and in different industries. It's adaptability is incredible; you can codify and change almost everything. Therefore, the solution is... more»What needs improvement?
The solution could include in your own license other products to help your own customers embrace more disciplines to their needs. With a small licensing of these products, it's possible to present all the power of the power of suite.CA Technologies
Oct 01 2017
What is most valuable?
It has many great features, but in most of the companies that I have done consulting for, they rarely use them as it requires an advanced level of knowledge of the tool. Event Configuration: A tool in its simplest form creates business logic... more»How has it helped my organization?
Reduces the false positives, by creating our own business logic with the Event Configuration. Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring.What needs improvement?
It’s like having a Ferrari, without a professional driver. Most companies don’t use all the good features. The out-of-the-box features are just too poor: (Ping, CPU, Disk and Memory, Process, and File Systems). CA Spectrum is an... more»CA Technologies
Apr 24 2018
What is most valuable?
Time Entry, Resource Allocation, Interactive Dashboards, Risk Management, Integration with Jaspersoft reports.How has it helped my organization?
The health report and all metrics of any project including KPIs are now available in a central location under the clarity project or project dashboard, replacing all those excel spreadsheets.What needs improvement?
The application memory management and responsiveness of this JAVA product can be improved, especially in the peak usage times. A better way to track, analyze and tweak the heap memory would be a great addition to this PPM tool.CA Technologies
Jan 01 2018
What is most valuable?
It's the ability to take software that's installed in our entire environment, and normalize the data, and then compare the information to what's in our catalog or software titles that we have built, based on how we purchase the software. In... more»How has it helped my organization?
It's the ability to make sure that the software that you have installed in your environment is software that you're licensed to have installed. Also, the software you have, you can monitor for end of life. If you have software that is end of... more»What needs improvement?
Keeping the catalog updated and having more titles in the catalog is helpful, because the more items that are in the catalog, your process goes faster because you don't have to manually build all the entitlements.CA Technologies
Real User
Reservations Supervisor at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Aug 21 2017
What is most valuable?
I like it because I have several projects, and it keeps me on track for each one. So, I can track each iteration of each project, and see where I'm at and where other people are at, visually. I guess maybe the iteration planning and tracking... more»How has it helped my organization?
It has helped a great deal in the fact that we are able to take small chunks of data and get them actually moved forward end to end. Previously, we had to wait several months before something would actually be available for the end user. This... more»What needs improvement?
I think I'd like to be able to color-code the words more easily, not just the side. You can change the color on the side, but to actually change the font color would be useful. Currently, I use an HTML color font to change the title of a... more»CA Technologies
Oct 03 2017
What is most valuable?
This product has so many adjustment possibilities for many different clients. One of the features of this product is to elevate the customer experience. Due to the constantly increasing needs of the customers experience, we always have to... more»How has it helped my organization?
* We certainly increased the quality of our work. * The system is more robust. We can elaborate on a better and complex service. At one time, we had a lot of processes. * The application has the possibility to integrate with other systems.... more»What needs improvement?
One area that this product can improve is in the mobile user aspect. We need to get more solutions to our client's mobile, so they will have the same mobile experience that they have on their computer.CA Technologies
Jan 07 2018
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is the Portal that comes with the tool. That helps make it look much more user-friendly for the users. Also its ease of use - even for developers it's not that complicated. It gives us the ability to * mask the data * sub-set the data * synthetically generate test data * create test data for specific business case scenarios and more.What needs improvement?
* Addition of more data sources. * Make the Portal a little more user-friendly, make it even easier to configure things directly from the Portal.CA Technologies
Jan 04 2018
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is that it enables me to present data in the format that the client wants to consume it. That client might be a visualization tool, that client might be a report, that client might be a customer's API requirements.... more»How has it helped my organization?
The benefits are rapid development and deployment of APIs, which means that your information, your ability to handle information, to receive it and to send it, to visualize it, to report on it, to get intelligence out of it, happens fast and... more»What needs improvement?
The latest version that just came out at the first of October really was a powerful move in the right direction. I was very, very pleased with that because it allows now beginning to use information of things. We've got this IOT... more»CA Technologies
Dec 12 2017
What is most valuable?
* Now, we get automated test cases, where before we did not. It cuts out the construction time of testing, about 75%, is what we found. * It is a store that we keep all of our requirements in where, before projects would come in and we would not have a place where we keep the past requirements so there was always a fight between development, testing, and the... more»What needs improvement?
The only thing CA does not have today is a testing engine. So they have got the requirements piece, SDLC lifecycle with Rally (or whatever it is called now), but they do not have an engine to house test scripts to really pull together the testing pieces of it like HPE does. Really that is the piece that I would love to see them either acquire, build, or figure... more»CA Technologies
Real User
Senior Manager Quality Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 07 2017
What do you think of CA Endevor Software Change Manager?
Primary Use Case We use it for version control in the mainframe area. It's been great. To be honest, we use GitHub for enterprise for the distributed world, and we use SCM for the mainframe world. So far, I've looked around as well. I've not seen a computer that's close to Endevor in terms of performance, scalability and capability. • Improvements to My Organization On a day to day basis, it's all about managing my operations without any downtime. The tool has done a good job of want I want it to do, and it's a very stable tool. I think it's doing a good job. • Valuable Features Automated build Quick Edit option Utilities for continuous integration • Room for Improvement I think the main focus should be the continuous delivery aspects. How can I have a single view...CA Technologies
Dec 07 2017
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature for us is the automatic creation of the test cases, based on the models. And the impact analyzer that shows you where your change is impacting your test cases, and the ability to export that to our TFS Instance.How has it helped my organization?
There are three major benefits. The first one is there is a time savings. It's much faster to create the model than it is to generate test cases. It's much faster to update the test cases in the model than it is to update them manually. The... more»What needs improvement?
We're actually participating with CA to provide some enhancement requests on new features we'd like to see. I can't think of any specific ones off the top of my head, but I know they are evaluating, and they have already provided us features... more»CA Technologies
Reseller
Lead ,Managed Services at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Aug 21 2017
What is most valuable?
* The remote connection part (Support Automation): CA Service Desk has a Support Automation feature which primarily does remote connection. This is an important customer support tool used in connecting to a user’s/customer’s device or machine... more»How has it helped my organization?
All business processes have been built around the service. SLAs are measured promptly and tickets are owned/resolved faster, thereby improving user/customer satisfaction.What needs improvement?
The Reporting part (Reports Tab) needs to be more robust and made less complex. CA Service Desk makes use of a BusinessObjects XI tool for reports, which is owned by SAP. This is actually a third-party tool and a bit complex in terms of... more»CA Technologies
Sep 21 2017
What is most valuable?
* Simplified federation * Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) Our customer had two requirements: * Authentication without any challenges * Access to the partner's application without any additional login required The first requirement got... more»How has it helped my organization?
My customer is able to get seamless authentication done using IWA and straight access to the partner's application without any further authentication. Reporting an auditing was one of the most needed requirements that was fulfilled very... more»What needs improvement?
The upgrade/migration process can be simplified further. If the reporting feature can be integrated into SSO itself that will be an icing on the cake.CA Technologies
Real User
Program Manager - Enterprise Command Center at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jan 08 2018
What is most valuable?
Easy navigation from initial alerts to a full topology and detail on the Network infrastructure and it relationships is the most valuable featureHow has it helped my organization?
This tool provides excellent Fault Domain isolation when properly instrumented and configured, allowing quick action on links/routers/switches/etc.What needs improvement?
The configurations are still XML-based and require a good deal of coding to setup each object for monitoring. Alerting is yet more coding, and relationships are more coding... In a drag-and-drop world, this tool is in need of a bit more than... more»CA Technologies
Real User
Senior Manager Information Technology Infrastructure at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 17 2017
What is most valuable?
* Cloud monitoring * Easily skinnable * SAP monitoring * Reporting Tools * Probe packages and probe deploymentHow has it helped my organization?
Through action automation (using NAS and robot actions) we got reduced operational effort, improved operative tasks, and optimization of resources.What needs improvement?
I would like to see improvements in the maintenance mode area. I would like to set only a probe from a robot or group in maintenance or place profiles from probes in maintenance. Making a GUI with criteria such as selection by robot/hub/probe... more»CA Technologies
Aug 30 2017
What is most valuable?
These features are core requirements for infrastructure management: * Topology Discovery * Configuration Management * Best network root-cause analysis * Service management * Integration with CA SOI and CA SDMHow has it helped my organization?
* Reduces system fails * Reduces time to resolve issues * Gives a clear picture about device usage: Not in terms of performance, but in terms of roles Sometimes customers use network equipment which does not solve any business tasks and can... more»What needs improvement?
It's a mature product for a classic network. New areas (NFV, SDN, APM) are covered by new technologies. As such, products should have tight integration with modern data science platforms.CA Technologies
Aug 09 2017
What is most valuable?
Transparent login for users of privileged IDs (Linux, Windows). This prevents sharing of the password because it is never seen.How has it helped my organization?
Once we implemented the solution, we found that support groups were sharing the Root password with some application teams to facilitate implementations and upgrades. The applications required Root due to software requirements or other issues.... more»What needs improvement?
Reporting. It's difficult to locate the reports, there are limits on what reports can be run from the GUI, and the report formats are lacking. I have already spoken to product management about this specific area.CA Technologies Projects
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Hi Guys, I am Georgy N Joseph from India. I am working as a Clarity PPM Technical Consultant for the last 6 years. Would love to learn and share many things here in this forum. Looking forward to it.
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