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- New Versions Bring More Benefits: The capabilities in 15.3 are designed to provide organizations with more value that drives adoption, empowers teams, and increases reporting and analytics knowledge to support smarter business decisions. The latest version also improves upon the underlying platform, so you can upgrade more easily and expand the PPM solution rapidly across your organization.
- A New User Experience: Release 15.3 is designed specifically to help project managers keep everyone informed, save time in tracking down work, and stay connected with the teams they support. Upgrade to 15.3 to improve your resource management and team collaboration capabilities. This amazing release also offers outstanding new features for project blueprints, links, attachments, task boards, financial plans, and reporting, including scheduling and trending.
- Time-management Capabilities: With simplified time entry and approval, including support for mobile iOS and Android devices, employees can enter information from the field where the actual work takes place. Managers gain easy access to time tracking and approval. Access timesheets through CA Agile Central.
- Central Reporting and Dashboards. Organizations can analyze their data in a single data warehouse that includes all CA PPM information from the largest portfolios down to the smallest tasks. Gain access to more metrics, and add value beyond the realm of IT project management to support business strategies and decision making.
- Accelerate Your Agile Initiatives with CA Agile Central: With CA Agile Central (formerly Rally) integration, organizations can now manage agile execution within the portfolio. Teams performing the work can better understand their impact on the business, and managers can control resources and funding for initiatives ranging from traditional waterfall to the newest agile methodologies.
- Improved Application Portfolio Management (APM):Accelerate time-to-value by rationalizing and managing a wider set of applications throughout the company with application performance management templates.
Release Comparison
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This table compares the key features available in
Clarity PPM
by release:Feature | UI | GA-3 | GA-2 | GA-1 | GA |
Transparent Financial Management | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
New User Experience: Manage Financial Plans
Financial Grid Delivers Insight, Mastery Over Decision-Making, Spreadsheet Flexibility, and Viewing Precision | New | no | no | no | yes |
Robust and Redefined Resource Management | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Improved OBS and Multi-Select Filters for More Precise Resource, Role, and Investment Staffing | New | no | no | no | yes |
Resource Manager and Investment Manager Filters, Allocations, and Booking Manager | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Add Role Limit Expanded from 25 to 75, Select All Roles, and View Hours or FTE Totals | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Elegant and Adaptive Project Management | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Time and Work Transparency | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Enter time for other users and improved field browsing | New | no | yes | yes | yes |
CA Agile Central Integration with Clarity PPM | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Basic Connectivity
Import Portfolio Items from One Instance | Classic | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Advanced Connectivity
Bi-Directional Capabilities; Multi-Instance Support; Create Tasks in a Template; Access New Timesheets and Dashboards | Both | no | no | yes | yes |
Timesheet Integration with SSO
Agile Central Timesheet Integration with Single-Sign-On (SSO) | New | no | no | no | yes |
Connect and Collaborate | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Tagged Documents, Comments with @User Mentions, Auto-Suggest, Avatars, and Notifications | New | no | no | yes | yes |
Attachments and Links in Conversations, Project Documents and Links, Upload Avatar Image | New | no | no | no | yes |
Core Scheduling Enhancements | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Open Tasks in a Gantt Chart, Microsoft Project, or CA Open Workbench
Integrated Access to Scheduler Tools Directly from the New User Experience | New | no | no | no | yes |
Microsoft Project and Open Workbench Scheduling Tool Enhancements
System-Level MSP Installations, Resize OWB Popup Windows, and Aggregate Custom Number and Money Values | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Advanced Reporting and Data Warehouse Improvements | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Store Your Favorite Reports in the My Reports Portlet; Run, Schedule, and Share Jaspersoft Reports | Classic | no | no | no | yes |
New Trend Reporting | Classic | no | no | no | yes |
Jaspersoft Performance Enhancements
Folder Management and PPM Group Synchronization with Jaspersoft Roles | Classic | no | no | no | yes |
Data Warehouse OData Connectivity for Third-Party BI Tools PPM SaaS data warehouse connectivity option supports dashboards and reports using OData REST end points | Classic | no | no | no | yes |
Tenant Level Content Migration Support | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Updated Domain Schema and Additional Locale Support | Classic | no | no | yes | yes |
Restrict Notifications to Trusted Email Domains and Access Events Enabled for Up To Seven (7) Days | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Data Warehouse Configuration Improvements, Update Options, and Security Model Updates | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Performance Improvements for Incremental Updates | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Administration Enhancements | UI | 14.4 | 15.1 | 15.2 | 15.3 |
Powerful Drag-and-Drop Design Environment Gives You Complete Control Over Projects and Templates | New | no | no | no | yes |
Weekly Time Slice Improvements | Both | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Update Investment Type for Earned Value and Cost Totals Job | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Aggregate Calculated Lookups | Classic | yes | yes | yes | yes |
Bubble Chart Display Enhancements | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
UI Theme CSS Validation | Classic | no | yes | yes | yes |
Note: General Availability (GA) is an industry term that denotes the current release.
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Third-Party Software Acknowledgements
The following third-party software acknowledgements apply to this release of
Clarity PPM
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