SOLUTION BRIEF: CA CLARITY PPM ON DEMAND. How can I quickly deploy applications across a complex enterprise?

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1 SOLUTION BRIEF: CA CLARITY PPM ON DEMAND How can I quickly deploy applications across a complex enterprise?

2 CA Clarity PPM On Demand is a SaaS-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution that helps you quickly and easily deploy ondemand and on-premise applications across all your company s divisions, geographies and business units. Copyright 2009 CA. All rights reserved. All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies.

3 Overview Challenge Solution Benefits Getting an entire enterprise started and running with a new enterprise application isn t as easy as just turning on new user licenses. Global companies must carefully analyze and coordinate processes, standards and people across all their dispersed departments, divisions and locations all while minimizing the impact to existing systems and to their overall budgets. CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) On Demand is an enterprise project and portfolio management solution that is delivered via a Softwareas-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. The solution allows you to manage all the projects, resources and financials that need to be coordinated for a successful application rollout. Because it s a SaaS-based application, you can just focus on using it without the headaches typically associated with deploying and operating traditional enterprise software. CA Clarity PPM On Demand provides full visibility and control over tasks, issues, resources, and budgets associated with enterprise deployments. CA Clarity PPM On Demand is also extremely easy to use and deploy, so there s no impact to your deployment timeframe. The CA Advantage CA Clarity PPM is one of the leading PPM solutions available today. With CA Clarity PPM On Demand, your organization can take advantage of the deep and broad functionality used by over 1000 organizations worldwide, with minimal deployment and maintenance effort. In addition, CA Clarity PPM On Demand provides the flexibility of anywhere access and the ability to tailor the solution to meet your specific deployment needs. Next Steps For more information on how CA Clarity PPM On Demand can help you successfully roll out your next enterprise application, contact your CA sales representative.

4 SECTION 1: CHALLENGE Deploy Applications Across a Complex Enterprise While software applications have become more mature in the last several years, many companies still experience unexpected delays, large cost overruns and unmet expectations during their implementations of enterprise applications, such as CRM, Business Intelligence (BI) or ERP. According to independent market research, 70% of all IT-related projects fail to meet their objectives. Facing increased pressure from their users, IT and Operations are trying to figure out the best way to meet the needs of the business while dealing with complex organizational requirements and more stringent budgets. The complex nature of a large enterprise makes even the most seemingly simple application deployments a challenging affair. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), or on-demand, applications have reduced many technical issues associated with traditional enterprise software, but technical considerations are just part of the picture. In large enterprises, challenges still remain with how new applications can impact hundreds of existing processes used by thousands of users across multiple departments. Differences across multiple geographies, divisions and business units further compound the problem. Burdened by such complexities, large enterprises face an extremely difficult task when coordinating an application deployment. A typical application deployment involves tight coordination of multiple stakeholders, tasks, resources and budgets. Unfortunately for most companies, communicating status updates, resolving issues, and tracking resources and budgets is a painful process often managed in ad-hoc spreadsheets, outdated slides and unproductive meetings. SECTION 2: SOLUTION CA Clarity PPM On Demand for Application Deployment ENTERPRISE VISIBILITY AND CONTROL CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) On Demand is the most full-featured PPM solution delivered via SaaS. It enables you to manage projects, resources, and budgets from a single source to ensure that all your application deployments are going to plan. CA Clarity PPM On Demand includes project and resource management, demand management, project financial management, project portfolio management, and integration to desktop scheduling tools. FIGURE A VIEW THE LATEST STATUS ON YOUR APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT CA Clarity PPM On Demand provides you all the information you need to make sure your application deployments on track and within budget in easy-tounderstand dashboards that show the latest status updates and issues. 2

5 CA Clarity PPM On Demand is intuitive and easy to use, so all your project team members can quickly start using the solution to define their own project plans, communicate status and track their resources. CA Clarity PPM instantly rolls up project information from multiple teams, so you have complete enterprise visibility over all the moving parts of your enterprise application rollout. And by having a single source to view all project information related to your deployment, you can quickly identify and resolve any issues related to schedule, resources or budget. FIGURE B IDENTIFY ISSUES WITH RESOURCES AND BUDGETS CA Clarity PPM On Demand helps you manage resources across all your application rollouts and identifies any bottlenecks that may potentially delay your deployments. GET A PROVEN SOLUTION CA Clarity PPM On Demand is built on more than a decade of PPM expertise, incorporating the input of thousands of customers around the world, including BT, Armstrong, Manpower and Harrah s. You can also rely on CA Clarity PPM On Demand s highly scalable and available infrastructure to always deliver the PPM functionality you need. Managed from CA s world-class data centers with multiple points of redundancy, 24 x 7 monitoring, and daily data backups, you rest easy that your PPM data is secure, reliably and always available to your organization. GET STARTED QUICKLY Because CA Clarity PPM On Demand is delivered via SaaS, you can instantly start managing all your projects, portfolios and resources associated with an enterprise application rollout. And with the CA Clarity PPM On Demand Essentials Rapid Implementation, you can be up and running in as little as 5 days with a superior solution delivered with a proven deployment methodology by Clarity experts. In addition to using the solution s built-in best practices, you can also take advantage of best practices PPM content specifically designed for Advanced Earned Value Management, the Project Management Office (PMO) and PRINCE2. CA s full suite of online training and services methodologies, like the CA Productivity Accelerator and the CA Clarity Rapid Implementation, ensure your entire organization can get up to speed in a matter of days, not months so you can quickly start working on deploying your applications across your enterprise.

6 SECTION 3: BENEFITS Quick and Easy Application Deployments Leading organizations have already used CA Clarity PPM On Demand to quickly roll out enterprise applications to their end users and realize concrete results: Complete projects in 35% less time Complete projects at 37% lower cost Enterprise visibility into all aspects of application deployment Ease of use and high user adoption Configurability to meet any enterprise requirement Fast time to value with no initial capital outlay When CA needed to roll out Salesforce CRM to almost 5000 employees, the company used CA Clarity PPM to manage the deployment to multiple departments, including sales, marketing, services and finance. CA s IT organization had been using CA Clarity PPM since 2006 to manage all its projects, so it was an obvious choice to handle such an extensive deployment. With business and IT leads scattered around the world, CA Clarity PPM was an essential part of tracking and communicating major milestones, budgets and resources. The tight integration between CA Clarity PPM and Open Workbench, an open-source project management tool, enabled project leads to easily update project plans while enabling the entire project team to easily see how the rollout was going. CA Clarity PPM was also used during steering committee meetings to quickly identify and resolve issues and risks with the Salesforce CRM implementation. Months after a successful rollout, CA Clarity PPM is now being used by IT to manage the implementation of quarterly enhancements to their Salesforce CRM deployment. SECTION 4: NEXT STEPS Next Steps If you need to incorporate and take advantage of a fully-featured PPM solution for your enterprise application deployment, but are having difficulty evaluating the various options on the market, be sure to identify one that: Provides the automation, flexibility and functionality of an enterprise-level solution Has a proven track record with large enterprise deployments Is easy to use and has fast user ramp-up Can be easily implemented and maintained Take a look at the CA Clarity PPM On Demand solution. It offers you flexibility, reduced risk and cost savings all in a subscription-based model that helps you successfully deploy your applications across the enterprise. For more information on how CA Clarity PPM On Demand can help you quickly deploy all your enterprise applications, contact your CA sales representative.

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8 CA (NASDAQ: CA), one of the world s leading independent, enterprise management software companies, unifies and simplifies complex information technology (IT) management across the enterprise for greater business results. With our Enterprise IT Management vision, solutions and expertise, we help customers effectively govern, manage and secure IT. Learn more about how CA can help you transform your business at ca.com.