Stay in Control of Project Deliverables with Clarity PPM Software
What Is Clarity Project Portfolio Management (PPM)?
While 80% of companies are trying to transform digitally, only 14% succeed. Visibility gaps, disconnected tools, inefficient workflows, governance issues and Agile integration challenges all contribute to challenges. Clarity PPM provides top-down roadmap planning and bottom-up agile execution to facilitate a more effective way of managing project deliverables.
As Broadcom’s enterprise PPM platform, Clarity is a leading enterprise solution. Compatible with both agile and traditional project delivery systems, Clarity can be used by enterprises of all sizes to move beyond traditional project management to strategic portfolio and digital product management.
- Clarity is available on-premises and in the cloud.
- Get strategic planning, visibility and governance.
- Organise investments your way, with configurable types and fiscal periods.
- Map your strategy to objectives on roadmaps.
- Prioritise work based on outcomes using our unique must-have ranking.
- Empower your people with collaborative work and agile management.
- Get a better handle on resource management.
Ignite Technology provides a Clarity Training and Consulting service which ensures a streamlined integration, handover and ongoing support to get the most out of Clarity.
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Why Choose Clarity PPM Over Other Solutions?
Clarity PPM provides centralised control over multiple projects aligned to strategies with market-leading features for enterprises to enhance their strategic portfolio, digital product and collaborative work management. With real-time insights, enhanced financial control and cross-platform integration, the benefits include predictability, profitability, and unified governance.
Enhance Project Visibility and Control
The solution provides better visibility and control of projects, which can speed up delivery.
Self-Service Business Intelligence
Users can create custom reports and dashboards with self-service business intelligence capabilities.
Value Stream Management
Clarity PPM lets businesses nest multiple value streams under each investment with direct links to resource, work and financial data.
Cross-Team Collaboration
Support hybrid delivery by bridging Agile and Waterfall; enable better teamwork and communication across silos
Risk & Capacity Planning
Allow scenario modelling, risk forecasting, and dynamic resourcing for shifting priorities
Faster Value Delivery
Use pre-built templates, best practices, and repeatable processes to reduce time-to-value
Governance at Scale
Enforce consistent processes, controls, and compliance across portfolios
Strategic Decision-Making
Provide real-time performance data to prioritise initiatives and align spend with strategic goals
Clarity PPM Consulting u0026 Implementation Services
Ignite Technology also works with existing Clarity customers, supporting them with consultancy, implementation and training.
What Is Clarity PPM Software Used For?
Clarity provides transformative capabilities across strategic planning, work collaboration, financial management, resource optimisation and idea capture management. Discover more about these features and use cases below.
Link Business Objectives With Strategic Roadmaps
Roadmaps can be custom-built to suit your workflow and ensure that all your projects and teams are on track and working towards the same goal.
- Eliminate organisational fatigue and start planning your value streams on multidimensional roadmaps with drag-and-drop speed.
- Map risks and dependencies and track progress in Clarity with agile team execution.
Powerful Financial Management with BI Integrations
Clarity PPM provides an enhanced method of managing the finances and budgets of your project deliverables.
- Ensure investments stay on target with familiar Microsoft Excel charting and grouping functions.
- Customise investment types and fiscal periods for your business.
- Connect your favourite BI software, including Power BI and Tableau.
Facilitate Collaborative Work Management
With collaborative work management software, you can view detailed checklists, to-do tracking and in-context collaboration, all with a modern UX.
Information about team members’ availability should be at your fingertips. Clarity PPM provides one consolidated view of each employee’s project queue and their schedule.
Managers can assign tasks to teams with telescoping and pinning features that replace outdated filtering.
With a single source of truth, you won’t have to worry about employees using out-of-date information.
Forecast Your Capacity with Resource Management
Easily forecast capacity and allocation for labour and non-labour resources. Clarity lets you manage your resources more effectively, with the ability to track resource use and availability months in advance.
Juggling labour and non-labour resources can be challenging. Clarity simplifies the process.
By filtering available resources and investments down to the department or team level, you can match supply and demand across any major enterprise.
Convert Your Ideas into Value with Idea Management
Clarity helps you streamline your capture-to-approval process for your portfolio work.
With idea management, you can not only capture your organisation’s best ideas, it also makes sure you focus on the value streams that will bring the most value.
With a few clicks, you can convert projects into work with budgets, staff and tasks included.
Why Choose Ignite Technology for Clarity PPM?
Ignite Technology provides end-to-end services including Clarity-specific consultation, rollout, integration, training and support.
By partnering with us, your digital transformation will be streamlined, and your business will be ready for the future — whatever challenges and opportunities that might bring.
Whether you have 50 users or need access across the enterprise, we can help. We reduce time-to-implementation, and ensure you’re set up in the optimum way for your business operations.
Ignite consultants possess extensive knowledge, with over 20 years of expertise in Clarity PPM software. This deep experience has been instrumental in numerous successful implementations. Key integration capabilities include SAP, Oracle, Agile tools and BI platforms, as well as custom integrations.
As an Expert Advantage Broadcom partner, you’ll even have earlier knowledge of new Clarity features, meaning you can stay competitive and consistently enhance efficiency.
Reducing Time-to-Market for BCI’s Digital Banking Services with Clarity PPM Software
To ensure investments in digital transformation were delivering value, BCI wanted to increase the visibility of its project portfolio and empower employees to work more productively.
Find out how Clarity PPM supported a 15% reduction in dropped projects for a corporation that handled 250 projects with a combined value of over US $80 million.
Clarity Licenses
Full Access to Enabled Modules
PM/RM/PMO roles require full use of the functionality and any enabled modules.
Restricted Access
Team Members or Executives can be granted limited functionality.
Read Only
Executives and third parties can be granted read-only access to view Information but not make any changes to the system.
There are three Clarity licence types available which ensures you’re allocating the right visibility, access and capabilities for specific user roles, while fulfilling the requirements needed for your organisation’s maturity level.
Top 10 tips on how to ensure a successful Clarity implementation
Based on our extensive experience implementing Clarity inrnorganisations of all sizes and complexities around the world, we’verncompiled a checklist of 10 key considerations to bear in mind to helprnfacilitate a successful implementation.
Clarity PPM FAQs
Simply put, Yes. The tool has been rebranded a few times in the past few years from Clarity PPM to CA Clarity, but we are pleased to see the Clarity brand name return with the tool now simply referred to as Clarity. You may still see some content referencing historic naming but rest assured it is all referring to the same product.
PPM solutions, like Clarity from Broadcom, are not just designed for the multi-million dollar large enterprise. We also have many small and medium-sized customers benefiting from the Single Source of Truth Clarity can provide. As the product is licensed by the user, customers can start small (our starter package allows up to 50 users) and grow with the solution, knowing the value really does outweigh the initial investment due to its scalability and configurability. Get in touch to see if your business is the right fit for Clarity.
The pricing model for Clarity is based entirely on user licence count. It is not gated by modules used or number of projects stored in the system. A licence grants access to all of the functionality within Clarity that you choose to show your users based on their role and organisation maturity. This allows you to create a roadmap to release new functionality at the right time, without incurring additional licence cost.
Clarity delivers a reporting platform for a powerful yet simple reporting experience. Reporting can be delivered through user definable real-time end-user dashboarding (portlets) using Jaspersoft for Clarity—the integrated and self-service advanced reporting tool embedded in Clarity. Or, you can create reports via any other third party BI tool using the OData connector to integrate products such as Tableau, Power BI, QlikView with the Clarity Data Warehouse.
Broadcom has designed products with ease of integration in mind. Clarity’s Integration Framework provides a platform to create inbound and outbound integrations between Clarity and your current systems. Clarity includes out of the box connectors for Rally (Agile), Microsoft Project, Microsoft SharePoint, SSO and third party BI Products (through the ODATA connector). Ignite also has packaged solutions for common integrations such as JIRA, SAP and Excel. Where more complex integrations are required, they can be implemented with ease and speed because of Ignite’s extensive experience with application integrations.
Yes, we offer existing customers a full range of Clarity consultancy, implementation and support services.
Broadcom’s route to market for the majority of customers is to rely on Expert Advantage partners like Ignite to support the sales cycle, provide subject matter expertise and the real world implementation experience needed to become a trusted adviser. Ignite’s position as an Expert Advantage partner allows us to be a one stop shop for your licence, services, support and account management needs across the Broadcom Enterprise Software Portfolio. Get in touch to find out how we can help.
Digital Transformation – Tooling Assessment
Our analysis shows that those with the highest level of PPM maturity have greater visibility of the current state of their transformation and a higher chance of success.rnrnThis Assessment has been designed to present you with a series of questions used to assess Project Portfolio Management maturity in your organisation and provide you with actionable steps on how to improve.
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