Tags: CA, CA Clarity PPM, Forrester, Project Portfolio Management

CA (NYSE: 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:
“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.”

“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.

About CA Clarity PPM

CA Clarity PPM, an industry-leading project and portfolio management solution, helps IT organizations to achieve world-class performance by improving the quality of their engagement with their customers 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 and cost management. More than 700,000 users at more than 800 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 http://www.myclarity.com.

About CA

CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world’s largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries. For more information, please visit http://ca.com

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