Service Reduces Time and Cost of Implementation by Delivering Upfront
80% of the PPM Functionality that 80% of Customers Want
CA Productivity Accelerator Tool Provides Highly Personalized and
Cost-Effective PPM Training for Business and IT Users
ISLANDIA, N.Y.--CA (NYSE: CA) today announced a new version of its industry-leading CA
Clarity Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) software, as well as a new
service delivery approach and a personalized training tool for CA
Clarity PPM. The new software, services and training make CA’s
comprehensive PPM solution even faster to deploy and easier to use—enabling
customers to more rapidly and cost-effectively gain the benefits of
improved alignment between IT investments and business priorities.
CA’s enhanced PPM offering also further
delivers on the company’s Enterprise IT
Management (EITM) vision of unifying and simplifying IT.
The new version of CA Clarity PPM software features more than 50
enhancements, as well as significant improvements in usability and
application performance. Best-practice content accelerators in the new
version each contain dashboards, reports and best practice content
designed to speed deployment and end-user adoption. These accelerators
include the PMO Accelerator 2.0 and the Federal PMO Accelerator 2.0
which provide pre-packaged content and reports specifically designed to
enable the Project Management Office (PMO) to quickly deploy project and
program management best practices.
“Because of the intense demands on IT
organizations, CIOs are under more pressure than ever to ensure that
every dollar, person-hour, and infrastructure resource is allocated
where it can have the greatest impact on business performance,”
said Carl Landers, vice president of marketing for CA Clarity PPM. “The
new enhancements to CA Clarity PPM software enable our customers to meet
this challenge—even as their IT environments
become increasingly complex and their project portfolios become
increasingly diversified—by providing them
with the visibility and financial insight they need to make better, more
informed management decisions.”
Leveraging the best practices from more than 800 successful global PPM
deployments, CA’s new service delivery
approach applies a streamlined methodology, data migration utilities and ‘lift-and-drop’
CA Clarity functionality such as the PMO Accelerator to substantially
accelerate time-to-benefit. This new approach delivers a pre-packaged
solution that includes product installation, application of best
practices and pre-configured field-proven customizations that CA has
learned are most valuable to customers. This new service builds on the “30
Days to Clarity” program first announced by
CA last year. It also supports continual customer solution maturity
through incremental delivery of additional functionality.
“It is critical for companies to bridge
process and cultural gaps to successfully deploy PPM solutions—this
can be greatly facilitated by pre-configured deployment and process
options that get the customer installed faster with much of the
functionality they want most while helping to shift behavior as well,”
said Melinda Ballou, program director, Application Life-Cycle
Management, IDC. “Starting implementations
from scratch when enterprise customers have many of the same needs and
requirements doesn’t make sense in terms of
the time spent or cost to deploy.”
To provide highly personalized and cost-effective PPM training, CA is
also delivering the CA Productivity Accelerator (CA PA), a customizable
training solution that provides immediate and ongoing support to
end-users of the CA Clarity PPM solution. Context sensitive, the CA
Productivity Accelerator is able to provide users with the information
they need to be successful based on where they are in the CA Clarity PPM
application at a given time. It consists of three components: training
content, an editor to modify or create content and education consulting
services for development and delivery of training materials. This
complete synchronized platform enables customers to optimize user
effectiveness and adoption while streamlining training operations.
“Deploying an enterprise-level PPM solution
is an important element of our Enterprise governance strategy. Essential
to its success is getting both business and IT users to quickly adopt
and use the capabilities available in CA Clarity PPM,”
said Tony Thelemaque, IT project manager at Union Bank of California. “We
see a huge value in utilizing the CA Productivity Accelerator for
cultural adoption inside our company. Since this is a new deployment for
us, having this tool as a knowledge and training source at our end users’
fingertips will be priceless.”
About CA Clarity
CA Clarity, an industry-leading project and portfolio management
solution, enables IT organizations to achieve world-class performance by
improving the quality of their engagement with their customers and
enhancing their ability to run at peak efficiency. The CA Clarity system
features integrated IT portfolio planning, demand management, project
management, resource planning and time and cost management. More than
650,000 users at more than 700 companies depend on CA Clarity to govern
IT and, increasingly, to manage new product development. For more
information on CA Clarity, please visit http://www.myclarity.com.
About CA
CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT)
management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of
enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia,
N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more
information on CA, please visit http://ca.com.
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