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Broadcom Clarity pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

Broadcom Clarity excels in project and resource management, providing comprehensive visibility across organizations and enabling better decision-making.
It supports financial management by integrating with ERP and third-party solutions, making it valuable for managing investment portfolios.
Users appreciate its flexibility and extensibility, allowing for easy customization and adaptation to various business processes without issues.
The platform is stable, scalable, and enhances productivity with its robust features, offering a high return on investment within six months of implementation.
Broadcom Clarity's capacity planning and demand management is best-in-class, supporting role-based, individual-based, and team-based planning efficiently.

CONS

Integration between Broadcom Clarity and Atlassian Jira is cumbersome and not straightforward.
The architecture needs improvement to enhance stability.
Ease of use is a concern as users find Broadcom Clarity less user-friendly.
The software faces compatibility issues with existing systems, requiring external consultancy.
The mobile application has compatibility issues with network and inflow settings.
 

Broadcom Clarity Pros review quotes

Farshad Farhadieh - PeerSpot reviewer
National Practice Manager - Enterprise Work Management at Ampion
Nov 12, 2024
It has best-in-class capacity planning and demand management, role-based, individual-based, team-based, and location-based.
Stacey Feldman - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, PMO at Fiserv
May 23, 2024
The initial setup was easy.
JoelBeavers - PeerSpot reviewer
Functional Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 17, 2024
Clarity is a strong project management and portfolio management product.
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reviewer1952796 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project manager at a think tank with 201-500 employees
Nov 6, 2024
The valuable feature is the portfolio management, which includes project management and status reporting, managing the projects and programs at a portfolio level.
SA
Senior Product Manager at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Jun 5, 2024
Value streams, investment cases, road mapping, and fast destinations. These are the ones we use to manage stuff.
Kiran  Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Head - Retail & CPG at Infosys
May 30, 2023
It is a scalable, easy-to-deploy, and user-friendly solution for enterprise businesses.
reviewer1867770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Experienced Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 11, 2022
There were probably about five or six metrics that we used. As a result, the groups that I supported were consistently ranked at the absolute top of the organization, as we were leveraging these built-in tools for tracking.
AD
IT Consultant at Abinvest Swiss Fiduciaria Switzerland
Jul 14, 2023
For a very long time, Broadcom Clarity had not developed the old interface that Broadcom no and we were not able to see any new features on the system because of the older UEX. We switched to the new UX at the end of March and it needs some time for the user to react to the new features. But if overall main features are being talked about, the financial part of Clarity is really appreciated.
Lowell Wetzel - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Cambia Health Solutions
Aug 24, 2022
The dynamism of the application where you can modify it to fit your needs is valuable. For example, you can create fields, metrics, and measures on the fly. You don't have to be limited to what the out-of-the-box format would be. It allows you to generate fields, metrics, and reports off of that with relative ease.
Gaurav Datar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at Infosys
Jun 2, 2022
The most useful feature for me as an implementer of Broadcom Clarity PPM is its extensibility. The tool is pretty extensible, and I haven't had any issues with it in terms of it getting used for multiple scenarios and for multiple clients where there's a need for high customization. Broadcom Clarity PPM is a very, very customizable tool, so you can pretty much implement any business process on it with no issues.
 

Broadcom Clarity Cons review quotes

Farshad Farhadieh - PeerSpot reviewer
National Practice Manager - Enterprise Work Management at Ampion
Nov 12, 2024
Broadcom Clarity could improve by adding artificial intelligence and reporting capabilities, which they are already working on.
Stacey Feldman - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, PMO at Fiserv
May 23, 2024
The product's stability needs improvement.
JoelBeavers - PeerSpot reviewer
Functional Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 17, 2024
While Clarity is highly customizable, it could be better delivered as an agile solution out of the box.
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reviewer1952796 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project manager at a think tank with 201-500 employees
Nov 6, 2024
We are having difficulty using the Broadcom mobile application, which is not compatible with our network and inflow settings.
SA
Senior Product Manager at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Jun 5, 2024
Another major concern I see is usability. Many users I've worked with, including myself, feel that the application could improve in terms of user-friendliness.
Kiran  Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Head - Retail & CPG at Infosys
May 30, 2023
In the next release, I would like to have a little bit more functionality on chatbots in Clarity PPM, especially for support requests, such as for the most commonly used support tickets that people could resolve themselves.
reviewer1867770 - PeerSpot reviewer
Experienced Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 11, 2022
Whenever that second instance of Clarity came about, it was overwhelming even to people who were accustomed to working with program management tools.
AD
IT Consultant at Abinvest Swiss Fiduciaria Switzerland
Jul 14, 2023
Portfolio Management Solution for Project Strategizing" What is our primary use case? It is mainly used for project management, developing the portfolio of the project and the budget process of all projects. What is most valuable? For a very long time, Broadcom Clarity had not developed the old interface that Broadcom no and we were not able to see any new features on the system because of the older UEX. We switched to the new UX at the end of March and it needs some time for the user to react to the new features. But if overall main features are being talked about, the financial part of Clarity is really appreciated. What needs improvement? Among things to be improved, Clarity can really work on its SAP interface. The current interface lacks out-of-the-box connectors for different applicators in the system. Therefore, this requires external support, which is beyond our expertise. In-house development is done for the interface, but as the system becomes complex, there is a building need to maintain the necessity of updates. If the updates aren’t maintained, then the system might be compatible. Additionally, the report generation process using a different software poses difficulties, leading to the need for external consultancy to create specific reports. Certain features, also face compatibility issues with our existing system. Despite these limitations, we find the system satisfactory overall, although a learning curve exists, especially for those unfamiliar with its particularities.
Lowell Wetzel - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at Cambia Health Solutions
Aug 24, 2022
One of the things that have always been a bit painful is the integration with reporting utilities. The current integration is with Jaspersoft, and there are a number of difficulties with that. If you're using out-of-the-box fields and everything, it is a bit slow and clunky. It has a drag-and-drop interface for the users. On the backend side, there is a report designer. They haven't given or allowed me any training on it yet. So, it has been a bit limited in its features. On one of the earlier report utilities, they had one called Actuate, which had VBA as its base programming language, and you could do quite dynamic things behind the scenes, whereas the Jaspersoft interface seems rather locked. So, you're limited in your options. Being a programmer, you like to have room to be able to invent and create rather than just being limited to a few selection boxes.
Gaurav Datar - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architect at Infosys
Jun 2, 2022
One of the major pain points for me when it comes to Broadcom Clarity PPM is the new UI. The new UI is very good in terms of functionality and the drag and draw features, but it's not very responsive. When I say that it's not very responsive, what I mean is that sometimes, the tool is not very user-friendly. For example, a user saves a value on the form, but the tool doesn't give any indication to the user that the value has been saved. Some users are moving from the classic UI to the new UI, and end up getting confused because on the classic UI, when you click "Save", it'll save the information and you'll get an indication that it was saved. With the new UI, it auto saves the information, but it doesn't give an indication in the form of a popup box that "this form has been saved", or any type of message indicating that the information was successfully saved. It's been confusing for users who move to the new UI because of that. The users don't understand when the values are being saved or not being saved, even if there's an auto-save feature in the new UI.