CA’s Clarity, the industry-leading IT Governance solution, enables IT organizations to achieve world-class performance by improving the quality of their engagement with the business and enhancing their ability to run at peak efficiency.

Clarity from Niku marries the strategic to the tactical. It couples top-down portfolio planning and analysis with bottom-up project, program, financial and process management. The result is a seamlessly integrated system for IT Governance (ITG), New Product Development (NPD) and Professional Services Automation (PSA). Clarity gives executives a real time view into their organization’s investments, initiatives and resources, and empowers managers to deliver controlled and predictable execution of projects and programs.

Created in a modern web services architecture, the Clarity system is comprised of nine modules, five of which are used by people throughout an organization, while the others are used to configure and extend the system, automate processes with workflows, and to seamlessly integrate with adjacent systems. The system’s modular structure enables phased implementations that can be as small as 20 users focusing on portfolio management or as extensive as 100,000 users utilizing all aspects of the system.

Portfolio Management has its roots in financial portfolio management, where investments are inventoried, grouped by value class, scrutinized based on real and projected return, and stratified by risk. Applied to an enterprise’s program and system investments, portfolio management provides the framework for structured and rational investment decision making, and for highly productive communications to all stakeholders. Clarity’s Portfolio Management module provides the executive dashboard and ‘what-if’ capabilities for world class decision making.