How To Use Ca Product Vision

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1 DATA SHEET CA Product Vision CA Product Vision helps manage project and product requirements and enables a comprehensive release planning process insuring only the features your customers really need are delivered on time and budget. CA Product Vision delivers full visibility into the requirements life-cycle, allowing IT Business Analysts, Project Managers and Product Managers control over requirements and insuring only the most important features are included in upcoming releases. And now with Chatter support, CA Product Vision lets project teams collaborate about what s going on with products and requirements in a familiar way consistent with common social collaboration. CA Product Vision is delivered 100% over the Web and runs on Force.com. Business value The goal of delivering applications and solutions to the business with the best feature set, cost and schedule are harder than ever to accomplish today. Making scope decisions based on the highest value customer needs and optimal delivery schedules are essential tasks but project teams struggle with prioritizing an overwhelming list of often-conflicting business needs. They re often waist-deep in organizing and managing project schedules keeping them away from spending time with customers and delivering what matters most to them. CA Product Vision allows IT Business Analysts, Project Managers and Product Managers to quickly manage volumes of requirements from different sources into a single system. Requirements can be automatically categorized and tagged delivering a complete view of customer needs providing analysts with the ability to organize and manage requirements for features, projects, services, products and releases. 1

2 Benefits CA Product Vision gives you the ability to generate, aggregate, and evaluate requirements from your internal teams, customers, and partners, helping you: Respond to changing business and market conditions by connecting requirements to projects and their activities Improve time-to-market by keeping focus on the requirements that customer s place the highest value on, minimizing the distractions of low-value features Increase productivity of dispersed teams with a unified understanding of customer requirements and easy team collaboration with Chatter Improve the effectiveness of agile teams by connecting their work to customer and business requirements Improve time-to-value with no software or hardware to purchase, install, and maintain, providing value in days not months What s new, what s compelling? CA Product Vision gives you the capabilities to manage, track and make sense of all inbound product features and requirements to insure your solutions are delivered with the optimal feature set, at the right cost and on schedule. Outstanding communication made possible with Chatter CA Product Vision now integrates with Chatter which can dramatically improve real time collaboration between teams by leveraging social networking capabilities in a secure and private cloud. Project teams can now have easy access to followed requirements information, status updates along with subscribed group updates. Updates can be viewed within Product Vision, or on your mobile device like an ipad, Blackberry or iphone, as well as through a desktop application making updates accessible anywhere. Seamless integration with CA Idea Vision, CA Agile Vision * and CA Clarity PPM Customer requirements are changing at an ever increasing rate and your organization needs to be able to respond. The integration built into CA Product Vision integrates seamlessly with CA Idea Vision and CA Agile Vision to tie your product and project teams directly to those inputs, and drive innovation across your organization. It is critically important that ideas be evaluated, transformed into requirements, tracked and scheduled as new projects CA Idea Vision, CA Product Vision and CA Agile Vision provide a complete solution to: Connect requirements to projects. Track and manage how scope changes ultimately affect *Starting with the Spring 2011 Release, CA Product Vision now includes CA Agile Vision TM to help streamline the requirements to delivery process 2

3 delivery schedules and cost by tying requirements to projects traditional or agile. Unstructured ideas. Efficiently capture, manage, prioritize, and convert ideas no matter what the source into requirements that your project teams can use and link to products, personas and sources. Top-down hierarchy. Automatically organize requirements with simple drag-and-drop UI in a familiar tree structure to ensure that projects are organized in a logical and meaningful way. Unified application lifecycle management. Enhance collaboration between product Figure 1 Chatter at work project team using Chatter to discuss and comment on product requirements and share documents 3

4 management and development unite agile project management with idea and requirements management to increase the value delivered in every project. Deliver customer-driven products faster to market Maintain project alignment to requirements, the direct connection to CA Clarity PPM from CA Product Vision ensures that all requirements are tied in real time to projects providing for more accurate project scoping, estimating and delivery planning. Manage product requirement requests with CA Product Vision s proven, on demand solution avoid incomplete, incorrect and lost requirements from the use of siloed tools like Excel, Word & wikis which can lead to project delays and failures and even lost customers. Maximize productivity, keep the whole development team on track and focused on delivering the highest value functionality and keep them all communicating by sharing the latest requirements and information. Delivery approach CA Product Vision is delivered on Force.com, a leading cloud platform, and is built in partnership with salesforce.com. With no software or hardware to purchase, install, and maintain, users get value in days, not months. This offers you freedom to focus on your organization s goals, instead of struggling with infrastructure, software upgrades, and backups. CA Product Vision fully supports 7 languages, which include translated administration pages and online help. These languages comprise German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese. 4

5 Why CA Technologies CA Technologies solutions include a broad range of integrated applications from one of the industry s most comprehensive enterprise IT management portfolios. CA Technologies empowers you to manage your entire innovation lifecycle by offering a unique solution that captures the voice of the customer, defines scope of delivery, and integrates work management processes (both agile and non-agile) to deliver what matters most. Deliver what customers need, when they need it while creating efficiencies to speed time-tomarket and ultimately increase your profitability. CA Project and Portfolio Planning Management solutions let you make smarter IT portfolio decisions and improve your investment decision-making capabilities to drive a lean IT organization. For more information on CA Product Vision and a free trial, visit ca.com/ppm. Connect with CA Technologies at ca.com Agility Made Possible: The CA Technologies Advantage CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. CA Technologies is committed to ensuring our customers achieve their desired outcomes and expected business value through the use of our technology. To learn more about our customer success programs, visit ca.com/customer-success. For more information about CA Technologies go to ca.com. Copyright 2011 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. This document is for your informational purposes only. CA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CA provides this document as is without warranty of any kind, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement. In no event will CA be liable for any loss or damage, direct or indirect, from the use of this document, including, without limitation, lost profits, business interruption, goodwill or lost data, even if CA is expressly advised in advance of the possibility of such damages. CA does not provide legal advice. Neither this document nor any CA software product referenced herein shall serve as a substitute for your compliance with any laws (including but not limited to any act, statute, regulation, rule, directive, policy, standard, guideline, measure, requirement, administrative order, executive order, etc. (collectively, Laws ) referenced in this document. You should consult with competent legal counsel regarding any Laws referenced herein. acs1355_0611