CA Clarity® PPM Strengthens Position as Leading Solution for Enterprise Decision Making

ISLANDIA, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) today announced new enhancements and service offerings that further strengthen the CA Clarity® PPM solution's ability to help users make better decisions about their investments across global organizations. These new capabilities which include executive dashboards and support for mobile devices, give users across the enterprise quick access to meaningful business intelligence from nearly anywhere, enabling them to move from static to more dynamic decision making.

New highly visual and interactive dashboards are designed to help executives make smarter portfolio decisions by assessing dynamic, critical business information, such as resource trends - for in-depth financial analysis, review of current project status, and to provide for team optimization.

Smart Phone Time Management for CA Clarity PPM extends capabilities to a mobile workforce, allowing users to create time entries directly from an Apple iPhone or RIM BlackBerry® smart phone while enforcing business rules and data validation defined in the PPM application. It also provides managers with access to CA Clarity PPM time entries so they can review and approve them while working remotely.

"CA Clarity PPM is strategic to our business and is used on a daily basis as our collaboration platform to manage nearly 150 ongoing IT projects at Finansbank," said Metin Ornek, PMO Planning & Analysis Department Head at IBTech, the IT services subsidiary for Finansbank. "CA Clarity PPM's extensive project reporting and executive dashboards provide a real-time view into every project, resource allocation, and key financial metric for smarter and more accurate decision making. As a result, we've increased our competitive advantage by streamlining our portfolio management processes and leveraging our resources more efficiently."

Adding to the momentum of the CA Clarity PPM solution is the continued growth of CA Clarity PPM On Demand, the SaaS offering of this leading solution. Already over 150 enterprises have chosen this option to achieve higher and faster ROI with a proven, enterprise-class solution. CA Clarity PPM On Demand is designed to shorten deployment time, reduce risk and lower costs, helping organizations to get started quickly and have the option to seamlessly leverage additional capabilities as their needs mature.

"More than 1,300 enterprise customers trust CA Clarity PPM to deliver the capabilities that enable them to make better decisions and maximize their portfolio of business investments," said Brian Bell, general manager, Service and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies. "Regardless of whether CA Clarity PPM is used for delivering new IT services or innovative products, we lead the industry by offering increased flexibility in how an organization can deploy and leverage our solution."

Overview of key new features:

CA Clarity PPM 12.1:

• Executive dashboards offer an interactive and highly-visual display of critical portfolio information to allow for fact-based decision making and better business alignment.
• New pre-built Business Objects Universes allow users to more easily create investment, resource, timesheet, and financial reports.

Smart Phone Time Management for CA Clarity PPM:

• Allows staff the ability to enter time and management the ability to approve time, for more efficient record-keeping.
• Offers support for RIM BlackBerry, and Apple iPad and iPhone users.

Business Analytics for CA Clarity PPM:

• Gives IT leaders robust business intelligence within CA Clarity PPM to help better analyze trends, patterns, and relationships.
• Provides the ability to slice data in new, unique ways without creating a traditional report or portlet.

KPI Monitor for CA Clarity PPM:

• Helps organizations derive greater value from CA Clarity PPM data by presenting it as KPIs and exceptions delivered in a context that is clear and consistent to users.
• Enables users to proactively monitor critical data with less effort and risk of error to meet business objectives.

About CA Clarity PPM

CA Clarity™ PPM, the industry-leading project and portfolio management solution, enables enterprise organizations to achieve world-class performance by improving the quality of their engagement with their stakeholders and enhancing their ability to run at peak efficiency. CA Clarity PPM features integrated IT portfolio planning, demand management, project management, resource planning and time, cost and earned value management. More than 1,300 companies, organizations and government agencies depend on CA Clarity PPM to govern IT, manage product innovation, and drive organizational planning across the enterprise. For more information on CA Clarity PPM, please visit:

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