Most IT organizations are faced with two critical problems: how to maximize ROI and how to demonstrate greater value to the businesses they serve. IT Governance plays a critical role in both of these issues.
Chances are, your IT organization is faced with an unrelenting demand for its services. At the same time, it is probably hampered by limited financial transparency, poor visibility into the status of IT activity, and increasing regulatory requirements. Given these circumstances, how can your IT managers align their goals with the business units they serve, and, at the same time, do a better job of delivering projects and services? The answer lies in enhancing project portfolio management through improved IT Governance.
CA Clarity PPM for ITG strengthens the relationship between IT and business through enhanced decision-making on IT services and efficiency improvements.
Project Portfolio Manager for IT Governance extends beyond traditional strategic portfolio management. It gives your IT organization a single system of record for comprehensive portfolio management that includes:
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The scalability, structure, and flexibility you need to work in any IT environment, and the foundation upon which |
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Informed decision-making on IT services that leads to better alignment between your IT organization and your |
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Best-practice project execution and resource optimization that leads to greater IT efficiency. |
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100% financial transparency of all of your IT services. |
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A systematic approach for managing all risk and control activities from a single system of record. |
Your Foundation for IT Governance: CA Clarity Project Portfolio Manager
Built on a three-tier architecture designed for maximum scalability, CA Clarity PPM provides you with the standards-based services you need to deliver scalable and reliable deployments and Web services. Its modular structure allows you to achieve phased implementations that can be as small as 20 users and as extensive as 100,000 employees using all aspects of the system.
Specific pre-packaged content provides you with functionality, metrics, and reportingfeatures, including Earned Value Management (EVM), Advanced Resource Management, Project Management Offices (PMOs), and Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC).
IT Governance-specific modules make it easy for your IT organization to expand and strengthen its business relationships, finances and portfolio management.
CA Clarity PPM system is built on a web-services platform and consists of PPM functionality, pre-packaged content, and IT governance-specific modules.
Often, the decisions you need to make regarding IT investments revolve around the services IT delivers to your business. But you may still be struggling to deliver services that meet the needs of yourcustomers. Without a single system of record that allows you to understand costs, benefits and tradeoffs, it’s difficult to have a fact-based dialogue with your business customers. And if you can’t talk about the services you can deliver in terms, your customers can understand,your IT organization will continue to face a credibility and communications gap.
Project Portfolio Manager allows you to create a real business dialogue with your customers. This leads to defensible IT budgets, better resource allocations and greater IT management credibility. With real-time service portfolio planning and analysis, IT and business have a common system of record for improved decision making and trade-off discussions.
CA Clarity PPM IT Portfolio Manager offers real-time service portfolio planning and analysis.
With increased regulatory responsibility and stringent overlapping regulations (SOX, Basel II, HIPAA, PCI, GLBA, State Identity Theft, etc.), it’s no wonder that your managers are turning more of their time and attention to enterprise risk management.
CA Clarity PPM provides you with a global repository for enterprise-wide mapping of legislative mandates. By providing a portfolio view of risks and controls, the solution streamlines the compliance process that typically includes an unsustainable mix of multiple systems and ad-hoc spreadsheets, charts and documents. CA Clarity PPM enables you to proactively manage, monitor and report on your internal and external controls, improving the management of your entire control landscape, including those risks and controls associated with outsourced relationships.
Risk and Controls Manager provides a single global repository for enterprise-wide mapping of legislative mandates to controls.
Gaining Visibility into IT Service Costs and Status
If your IT finance managers are using multiple systems to track costs, chances are they’re finding it difficult to relate those costs to the services they deliver to their customers. What they need is a single IT finance system of record that maps IT costs to services consumed, analyzes impact to budget changes, provides a detailed invoice for IT services, and audits all IT cost changes.
IT Financial Manager gives you the ability to achieve comprehensive financial planning for all of your IT investments. You’ll get detailed service invoices, cost recovery statements, audit trails, and the ability to issue chargebacks on your IT costs for services used by your business customers. You’ll also be able to demonstrate to your customers exactly what costs they have incurred and where their money is going.
IT Financial Manager provides detailed service invoices, cost recovery statements, audit trails, and the ability to issue chargebacks.
For more information contact:
Melissa Mata
Phone: (281) 558-2433
Email: houstonofc@commintinc.com