CA Clarity PPM for IT Governance

Many IT organisations are faced with two critical problems:

• How to maximise ROI
• How to demonstrate greater value to the businesses they serve

IT Governance can solve these challenges by aligning their goals with the business units they serve, and, at the same time, improving the delivery of projects and services.

CA Clarity PPM is built on a robust web-services platform and consists of PPM functionality, prepackaged content and IT governance best practices.

CA Clarity PPM for ITG extends beyond traditional strategic portfolio management. It gives an IT organisation a single system of record for comprehensive portfolio management. In combination with the core capabilities of CA Clarity PPM, the following capabilities deliver a comprehensive solution to support IT Governance:

• Scalability, structure, and flexibility needed to work in any IT environment, and help build systematic IT Governance process.
• Informed IT decision-making that leads to better alignment between IT and the business.
• Best-practice project execution and resource optimisation that leads to greater IT efficiency
• Minimum risk deployment, ensuring end-user empowerment and driving maximum value
• 100% financial transparency of all of your IT services.

CA Clarity PPM for ITG strengthens the relationship between IT and business through enhanced decision-making on IT services and efficiency improvements.

IT Portfolio Management

Provides rich collaboration, knowledge management and best practice methodologies for cross-functional work teams across the entire extended enterprise.

Requirements Planning

With statistics boasting 40-60% of software failures and defects are the result of poor software management and requirements definition, it’s critical that IT organisations ensure business requirements are clearly defined during the planning process and tracked through project execution. CA Clarity PPM allows users to capture business value in the form of requirements, evaluate and prioritise these requirements into high-level release plans, and construct a road map for the release schedule (describing what will be built and when). This allows both IT and business stakeholders to graphically monitor and track changes over time.

IT Financial Management

A single IT finance system of record that maps IT costs to services consumed, dynamically analyzes the impact due to budget changes, provides a detailed invoice for IT services, and provides an audit mechanism for all IT cost changes.

Business Relationship Management

Ensures that services are aligned business customers’ needs by defining and managing business agreements for IT services.