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

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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.
Farshad Farhadieh - PeerSpot reviewer
National Practice Manager - Enterprise Work Management at Ampion
Efficient project management with roadmap and hierarchy features
I use Broadcom Clarity for end-to-end project and program portfolio management Every customer has achieved a return on investment within the first six months of implementation with Broadcom Clarity. The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity are the roadmap feature and the hierarchy feature,…

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."
"Upgrades were pretty straightforward. CA took care of everything, we just did the testing."
"It helps a lot with the automation and manual processes to go faster."
"The app style of the new UI is absolutely fantastic. It's the right way to go. Our users will love it."
"It’s driven global consistency and the management of our projects."
"Because it’s comprehensive, I only know that it's the best-practice solution."
"Absolutely, the most active community I have ever been on."
"You can identify resources by roles."
"The CA suite for PPM and Clarity was ranked up very high by several of the independent research companies so we evaluated it with other tools and it came out on top."
 

Cons

"Better integration with other corporate finance systems would be an advantage."
"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."
"I think the user interface could be more user friendly."
"The provided reporting tool is inadequate. Structured reports are too difficult."
"I want to see trends and how things change over time. Now, you only see what’s live in the system, and there's no way currently to see what yesterday’s project was and how it's changed."
"A huge pain-point is the Jaspersoft reporting. Jaspersoft is extremely cumbersome and our end users dislike it, and are frustrated when using the criteria filter because many times the results returned do not match the results in the main system when using the inbuilt searches."
"We want to get to know the CR functionality. We want to get a better picture of how to incorporate CR into our regular functionality."
"I want to see integration for SMS functionality."
"It would be nice to have more configuration options at the partition level."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Better understanding of requirements and how it will be implemented (with number of licenses for a given budget) would help."
"Cost-wise, the tool is very expensive and some tools might be able to cater to 80% of the functionality provided by Broadcom Clarity PPM but are not as expensive."
"There are different licensing models with Broadcom Clarity PPM. With the software as a service model, you pay as you go, and if you are on-premises, you can buy a perpetual license and an annual fee for maintenance."
"We're also moving to the latest version for less than $20,000 for a major corporate system. It's just amazing."
"It is a little bit costly compared to others, but it is mature. Customer should understand this product is geared towards project management, not financial management."
"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."
"Pricing is flexible, depending on the customer and the region."
"The subscription is not that expensive."
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Construction Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
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?
An interesting point in this discussion is how much value organizations already get from Clarity as a central portfolio information source. I'd add one question to the evaluation: when priorities o...
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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