Clarity Project & Portfolio Management
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Executive View
Top Level Objectives
After years of evolution, businesses look at IT departments today as cost centers; however, the truth is that IT departments provide both tactical and strategic services to businesses that allow them to sustain a competitive advantage. Often when it comes to visibility into IT investments, IT fails to show performance indicators; this is because of the lack of governing processes. Overwhelming IT demand and lack of formal processes to capture, catalog and prioritize the demand for new IT services makes it very difficult to meet the expectations of the business. Often it is not known how new projects or services map to the overall corporate strategy and how they should be prioritized.
These are challenges that Clarity Project and Portfolio Management can help your company solve through its focus on Business Relationship, Demand, IT Portfolio, Project and Resource and Time management.
Solution - Innovation
The Clarity Project and Portfolio Management solution is a highly scalable offering. This solution has the ability to provide IT governance, project portfolio management, product development and grants management capabilities. There are also built-in, pre-defined workflows for ease of operation and a PMBOK compliant methodology.
Advantage - Insight
Clarity Project and Portfolio Management is straightforward and intuitive to operate, making it easy to understand and manage on all levels of business. There are common views to manage risk and control activities, comprehensive portfolio and project service overviews and easy "what if" scenario analysis. You also have views into your business and financial investments that are easy to access and understand.
Benefit - Impact
The Clarity Project and Portfolio solution is fast and easy to adopt. The clarity of information it provides will support better decision making and drive measurable value.
Management View
Business Objectives
Aggregating the right data on people, projects, assets and applications to make decisions is difficult. The lack of governing processes across IT to keep track and control of all projects in a structured manner can be equally difficult. Rolta's offering addresses these issues through CA's project and performance management tool to deliver a structured and configured solution to address each business' unique requirements. We apply our industry and solution knowledge to create a tailored solution specifically for your company to offer increased transparency into the everyday operations of your business. With our low risk implementation there is a rapid return on investment through low resource overheard on implementation and maintenance.
Solution
Rolta’s solution is based on the CA Clarity suite that provides an enterprise project and portfolio management solution. This software allows you to manage your projects, resources and financials with minimal impact to IT. Clarity can eliminate the time-consuming manual processes and reporting. By bringing together demand, resource, portfolio and financial management, IT organizations can confidently select the right IT investments, satisfy increasing demand on scarce resources and effectively determine where to trim IT costs.
Rolta’s extensive domain expertise and best practice accelerators can provide rapid implementation through a repository of pre-built frameworks and pre-defined workflows.
Approach
Rolta has a robust implementation methodology that starts with discovery of your current business processes. We feel this is extremely important to not interrupt current business process while implementing the new solution. Additional elements of our methodology are identified below.
Business Value
Our solutions provide real time information and extensive portfolios at an executive and operational level on the number of projects, project investment and project information to support various business areas.
Technical View
Technical Issues
CA Clarity eliminates the time-consuming manual processes and reporting associated with IT projects. By bringing together demand, resource, portfolio and financial management, IT organizations can confidently:
- Select the right IT investments
- Satisfy increasing demand on scarce resources
- Effectively determine where to trim IT costs
- Prove the value IT delivers to the business
Solution Components
CA Clarity offers extended Project and Portfolio Management capabilities, including: real-time planning and analysis, comprehensive financial planning, requirements capture and release road mapping and IT management integrations. This functionality gives you critical data, along with repeatable best practices, to empower your team to execute projects with control and predictability while minimizing waste. These solutions are well suited for program/ project management, professional services automation, new product development and grants management.
Implementation
Each solution is implemented using Rolta's proven methodology. This deployment method assures minimal impact on existing business process yet assures successful deployment of each solution for rapid ROI. The documentation and knowledge transfer provided assures your technical team is fully competent on the use of the products and their features deployed in your environment. This includes the knowledge to troubleshoot any issues and perform upgrades as they are released from the vendor.
How Does it fit and why is it different?
The Project and Portfolio Management software is based on CA's Clarity product, which has been a leader in PPM space for over 7 years.