CA WORLD 2008, LAS VEGAS, November 18, 2008 – To drive innovation and process efficiency, CA, Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), today introduced CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Manager (PPM) for New Product Development (NPD). This new version of the award-winning CA Clarity PPM solution provides comprehensive product portfolio management, streamlined idea-to-launch management and detailed requirements planning capabilities. When applied to an organization’s NPD initiatives, CA Clarity PPM for NPD v12 helps optimize resources, shorten time to market, increase innovation and reduce development costs.
“Product, process, and people performance management and analytics is critical for successful new product development and launch (NPDL), especially in a struggling economy where companies are trying to squeeze maximum performance out of their products, the people that develop them, and the companies that source them,” said Michael Burkett, vice president, AMR Research, in an article titled, “PLM Top Business Drivers for 2008.”
CA Clarity PPM for NPD is an integrated solution that incorporates industry best-practice processes used to drive NPD initiatives, including:
Product Portfolio Management
- CA Clarity PPM for NPD helps executives better align their innovation and business strategies by providing the ability to track product development priorities and resources in a portfolio view.
- CA Clarity PPM for NPD provides visibility into product portfolio composition and status; real-time comparisons between planned product costs and resources and actual results; and automated scenario planning to help organizations optimize NPD resources.
Idea to Launch Management
- To increase the rate of innovation, CA Clarity PPM for NPD enables efficient capture of new product ideas and prioritization of the best concepts through time-tested idea-to-launch management.
- With support in CA Clarity PPM for NPD for top workflow management processes, Stage-Gate® and PACE®, organizations can leverage pre-built best practices to streamline and improve gate reviews and decisions by stage, automating the complex innovation process.
Requirements Planning
- Keeping product development on time and on budget is important, but ensuring new products have the right features is even more crucial. Integrated requirements planning capabilities in CA Clarity PPM for NPD automatically compile roadmaps with product-specific plans and features, and assign projects based on available resource capacity.
- With poor requirements a top reason for project failure, integrated requirements planning significantly improves product success rates. According to a study by IAG Consulting, organizations that focused on executing business requirements completed successful projects 73 percent of the time, while organizations without strict business requirements only had a 10 percent project success rate.
Accelerated Time-to-Value
- To drive customer ROI, CA Clarity PPM for NPD is bundled with best-practice content and rapid implementation services that speed deployment and boost user adoption. With faster adoption, organizations can implement NPD best practices quickly and efficiently to improve product success rates.
“Developing commercially successful products, while staying on time and on budget, is a top priority for our clients,” said Sander Stoffels, managing consultant, Capgemini. “CA Clarity PPM for NPD can help our clients to manage their mission-critical development processes, like product portfolio management, requirements planning and comprehensive idea-to-launch management, all in one integrated solution. Together with our expertise in project performance improvement, we’re excited to offer this powerful solution to our clients.”
“In challenging economic times, organizations focus on two key areas of business—driving and maintaining revenues, and closely managing and controlling costs,” said Michael Metcalf, CA’s NPD product marketing director. “CA Clarity PPM for NPD helps organizations keep product development costs under control and promotes product success.”
About CA Clarity PPM
CA Clarity PPM, the industry-leading project and portfolio management solution, enables public and private sector IT 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. The CA Clarity PPM system features integrated IT portfolio planning, demand management, project management, resource planning and time, cost and earned value management. More than 800,000 users at more than 900 companies depend on CA Clarity PPM to govern IT and, increasingly, to manage new product development (NPD). For more information on CA Clarity PPM, please visit www.myclarity.com.
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