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NAMED A LEADER IN THE PPM MARKET BY INDEPENDENT RESEARCH FIRM |
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CA
Clarity PPM Received Top Score in Both Current Offering and Strategy
Hong Kong,
December 20, 2007 - CA today announced that it has been positioned
as a "Leader" by Forrester, Inc. in The Forrester Wave:
Project Portfolio Management Tools, Q4 2007 (December 2007) research
report.* CA was among a select group of 14 project portfolio management
(PPM) companies invited to participate in this independent research
effort, which included evaluation on some 95 criteria. CA received
the top score in both current offering and strategy.
"CA is moving up in its leadership position. Priced and built
to perform as well in medium-sized shops as in large installations"
wrote Lewis Cardin, vice president at Forrester and the report's author.
He added, "CA's Clarity is a strong performer across the majority
of important PPM offerings."**
Continuing from The Forrester Wave Vendor Summary for CA, the product
is an especially good fit for buyers that:
¡P "Place a high value on having applications and IT infrastructure
as part of the portfolio. With the great majority of IT spend
typically directed at infrastructure and application support, Clarity
enables the application of the principles and practices of PPM toward
operational financial and resource demand management-and increases
the benefit of IT portfolio management capability significantly."
¡P "Have their IT management processes firmly in place.
One of Clarity's strengths is the product's flexibility-and the ability
of users to highly customize the solution to adapt the product to
existing processes. While this is a significant benefit of the Clarity
offerings, organizations with immature processes will have a tendency
to over-engineer the software."
The CA Clarity PPM system-which features integrated portfolio planning,
demand management, project management, resource planning and time
and cost management-has achieved significant growth and even broader
market acceptance in the past year. Already trusted by more leading
companies than for any other PPM solution, CA Clarity PPM was recently
selected by the 800th global enterprise.
"We are thrilled to be named a leader by Forrester, especially
in light of the rigor of their selection process," said Carl
Landers, vice president of marketing for CA Clarity PPM. "Forrester's
findings reflect that CA continues to bring together the technology
and value-added knowledge enterprise customers need to successfully
manage their increasingly complex IT project portfolios in order to
maximize overall ROI and optimize the alignment of resource investments
with business needs."
CA Clarity PPM is an integral part of CA's vision to unify and simply
the management of IT. Through Enterprise IT Management, organizations
around the world depend on CA's IT Governance solutions, including
CA Clarity PPM, to ensure they make the most effective IT investment
decisions to support their business strategy. These solutions provide
insight into value, cost and risk across the service portfolio, so
that organizations can improve business alignment, optimize demand,
meet compliance requirements and increase financial transparency.
For a copy of The Forrester Wave and Vendor Summary for CA, please
visit http://www.myclarity.com.
* Forrester, Inc., "The Forrester Wave: Project Portfolio Management
Tools, Q4 2007" by Lewis Cardin, December 18, 2007.
** Forester, Inc., "CA Leads In Many Offerings In The PPM Market:
The Forrester Wave? Vendor Summary, Q4 2007" by Lewis Cardin,
December 18, 2007.
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