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BMC IT Business Management OnDemand [EOL] vs Broadcom Clarity comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 1, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

BMC IT Business Management ...
Average Rating
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Broadcom Clarity
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
143
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (1st), Project Management Software (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user233283 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Tight integration with systems like SAP, Oracle Financials and Siebel
* Tight integration with systems like SAP, Oracle Financials and Siebel * Demand management: It helps in planning methodology used to forecast or predict, plan for and manage the demand for products and services. * Finance planning & analysis: It helps accelerate planning cycles and make decisions based on real-time financial insights. It supports budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, performance management, and more. These features can help you track and control costs, and tightly align operations with business strategy, and control the allocated or budgeted costs vs. actual and forecasted cost. * Portfolio management: It is one of the very important functions in this space because in my view it is the function that ensures that the portfolio of IT projects, applications and infrastructure are providing cost-effective benefits to the organization. It is the centralized management of the processes, methods, and technologies used by project managers and project management offices to analyze and manage projects.
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Delivery Transformation Lead at Banca Transilvania
Broad perspective on strategic management exists but integration challenges hinder efficiency
The product execution part, such as planning and executing, is done through Atlassian tools, specifically Jira. We wanted to upgrade our ability to understand how all these products and teams are working against strategic goals, tracking expenses and time, but the integration between Broadcom Clarity and Atlassian Jira is very cumbersome and not straightforward. Their integration, even with ConnectALL, is just adequate, but it's never going to be great because they are actively trying to sell Rally. To make Broadcom Clarity a perfect product, I think with Jira, nothing can be done. To be fair, I don't know exactly how Rally integration works as I've only read about it, but I know that in marketing papers, it seems amazing with full-on integration, whereas with Jira, it just doesn't work that effectively.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I believe that the BMC ITBM solution provides valuable information to CIOs and other business heads, and helps them take quick business decisions about how to manage and utilize their resources."
"The most valuable features are the project, resource, and portfolio management processes are combined in one solution, the data is possible to use either in the one or the other process, and we do not need to enter the data multiple times."
"Provides an overall picture, it gives you the ability to store your capex, capital and expense budgets, on projects."
"We would not have been able to do it without this tool and/or the support."
"Support and the transition from our old system to this, they made it go very smoothly."
"We have a very stable environment."
"This solution has brought our groups a lot closer together and allowed them to communicate much easier rather than using emails and spreadsheets."
"We have a centralized view that we can have in our delivery and business organizations.​"
"Clarity PPM's strongest features are project and resource management."
 

Cons

"Better integration with other corporate finance systems would be an advantage."
"The support team actually broke our QA environment without telling us."
"The user interface (UI) needs to be improved. Right now, it's not the best."
"Our environment is fairly stable, but it is not as fast as what we'd like."
"The install packages are the worst I’ve ever seen."
"While I know it is coming in the roadmap, the risks issues and changes on the new UX would be amazing. However, the risks issues and changes are not in the new UX yet."
"There were some bugs in the old version that were supposed to be fixed but are not. Some features that needed to be added have never been added."
"Overall, technical support has been a challenge."
"they could improve the mobile app. I think right now it only offers time sheet. If they can integrate a lot of other components into it I think that would be helpful for the users."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is hard for them to say, "I have a person on my team who is going to be available, I am going to move that task to them". That requires a project management license, it doesn't require a team member license, so the licensing model does not sometimes support the way the business world is going."
"Broadcom Clarity PPM costs us $500K, and that's only for the installation and kick off within the first year. For each succeeding year, it could cost $200K."
"The price point of Broadcom Clarity PPM is less than Planisware. If a customer comes to me, and the cost is the main parameter for the selection of a tool, then I'll recommend Broadcom because cost-wise, they are less than other solutions."
"The price of Broadcom Clarity PPM is reasonable. My customers pay a license to use this solution on an annual basis."
"Pricing is flexible, depending on the customer and the region."
"We're also moving to the latest version for less than $20,000 for a major corporate system. It's just amazing."
"Better understanding of requirements and how it will be implemented (with number of licenses for a given budget) would help."
"For all the functionalities of the solution, the price is in the market range, since it is a product which offers governance issues and supports the digital transformation, which is where we will go in the next year."
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Financial Services Firm
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Construction Company
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Manufacturing Company
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Healthcare Company
7%
 

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What needs improvement with Broadcom Clarity PPM?
The product execution part, such as planning and executing, is done through Atlassian tools, specifically Jira. We wanted to upgrade our ability to understand how all these products and teams are w...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom Clarity PPM?
The purpose for using Broadcom Clarity is strategic portfolio management, connecting the strategic teams with expenses and linking it to the execution of the product to understand what we're spendi...
What advice do you have for others considering Broadcom Clarity PPM?
When assessing the flexibility of Broadcom Clarity in adapting to industry-specific requirements, it can do many things, but the biggest challenge is that it has traditional project management impl...
 

Also Known As

IT Business Management OnDemand, BMC IT Business Management Suite
Clarity PPM, CA Clarity, CA PPM, CA Clarity PPM
 

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