New SaaS-based iPad App From CA Technologies Empowers CXOs to Strategically Manage Technology Investments
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New SaaS-based iPad App From CA Technologies Empowers CXOs to Strategically Manage Technology Investments
MUMBAI, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
CA Clarity Playbook Bridges Gap Between Strategic Planning and Operational Execution
CA WORLD - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA Clarity(TM) Playbook, an
innovative mobile application that uniquely empowers CXOs to strategically manage their
organization's technology investments in the context of their high-level business goals
and objectives-right from their iPads.
Delivered via a SaaS model, CA Clarity Playbook also makes it easy for CXOs to quickly
collaborate with key process stakeholders and respond more quickly to changing business
needs anywhere, any time.
"IT and the business have to work hand-in-hand to create new revenue streams and
deliver a differentiated brand experience - even in the face of finite structural and
human resources," said Lokesh Jindal, general manager, Service and Portfolio Management,
CA Technologies. "CA Clarity Playbook enables this critical coordination by giving
executives the ability to nimbly adapt plans, activities and priorities."
CA Clarity Playbook integrates with CA Clarity PPM
[http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Clarity-PPM.aspx ] and other systems of record to
provide CXOs with the intuitive dashboard-style mobile workspace they need to:
. Define strategic objectives, goals and initiatives;
. Collaborate with stakeholders on strategic plans;
. Leverage information from operational systems;
. Assess alignment of IT investments with business objectives;
. Visualize investment financials in real time; and
. Evaluate impact of new priorities on in-place plans.
According to a research study
[https://www.ca.com/us/register/forms/collateral/The-Future-Role-of-the-CIO-Becoming-the-Boss.aspx ]
* by CA Technologies, few CIOs are directly involved in defining business
strategy-even though 73 percent of business executives acknowledge that IT is central to
the execution of that strategy.
CA Clarity Playbook helps address this disconnect by liberating CXOs from the manual,
annual planning cycles of the past, so they can more proactively take advantage of
emerging business opportunities and technological innovations.
"With the increasing use of technology by patients and healthcare providers, a
successful business strategy in the healthcare industry should be driven by a strong
technology strategy," said R. John Ragsdale, Chief Information Officer, BerylHealth. "To
grow our business in the midst of this Health Information Technology explosion, we need to
embrace strategic planning disciplines and tools that increase our innovation and
speed-to-market-and that improve technology visibility and decision-making for our C-level
executives."
CA Clarity Playbook can draw from information sources both in the cloud and across the
enterprise to keep strategic initiatives on track and aligned to organizational goals.
Users can access CA Clarity Playbook workspace from an iPad app or from a tablet or
desktop running an HTML5-compatible web browser.
"To successfully cope with today's intense time-to-market pressures, business leaders
need the same kind of real-time, multi-dimensional visibility into IT as they have into
sales pipelines and supply chains," said Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of
THINKstrategies, Inc. and founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace. "It has simply become
impractical for them to continue depending on periodic second-hand IT reporting that can't
be dynamically queried and is often out-of-date by the time it arrives on their desks."
CA Clarity Playbook is a key enabler of the broader CA Technologies Business Service
Innovation [http://www.ca.com/us/business-service-innovation.aspx ] initiative, which
enables customers to more effectively accelerate, transform and secure IT to adaptively
meet the intensifying challenges of competition in a global information economy.
"IT is adopting more complex and fluid service provisioning models at the same time as
it is becoming increasingly integral to the business," said Cameron McNaught, Senior Vice
President and Head of Cloud and Strategic Solutions, International Business, Fujitsu
Limited. "With CA Clarity Playbook, CA Technologies is directly responding to this
confluence of complexity and criticality with a solution that gives corporate managers
much-needed control of technology resource allocation and performance."
*The Future Role of the CIO 'Becoming the Boss', October 2011, CA Technologies.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers
manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services.
Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate
innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center
to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at http://www.ca.com [http://www.ca.com ].
Follow CA Technologies
- Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/cainc ]
- Social Media Page [http://www.ca.com/us/social-media ]
- Press Releases [http://www.ca.com/us/press-releases.aspx ]
Legal Notices
Copyright (c) 2013 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All
other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their
respective companies. Certain information in this publication may outline CA's general
product direction. However, CA may make modifications to any CA product, software program,
method or procedure described in this publication at any time without notice, and the
development, release and timing of any features or functionality described in this
publication remain at CA's sole discretion. CA will support the referenced products in
accordance with (i) the documentation and specifications provided with the referenced
product, and (ii) CA's then-current maintenance and support policy for the referenced
product. Notwithstanding anything in this publication to the contrary, this publication
shall not: (i) constitute product documentation or specifications under any existing or
future written license agreement or services agreement relating to any CA software
product, or be subject to any warranty set forth in any such written agreement; (ii) serve
to affect the rights and/or obligations of CA or its licensees under any existing or
future written license agreement or services agreement relating to any CA software
product; or (iii) serve to amend any product documentation or specifications for any CA
software product.
Primary Media Contact: Pallavi Bordoloi, pallavi.bordoloi@ca.com, 91-9867696467
Secondary Media Contact: Nikita Nadwani, nikita.nadwani@2020msl.com, 91-9167443578
CA Technologies
CONTACT: PRN
MUMBAI, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
CA Clarity Playbook Bridges Gap Between Strategic Planning and Operational Execution
CA WORLD - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA Clarity(TM) Playbook, an
innovative mobile application that uniquely empowers CXOs to strategically manage their
organization's technology investments in the context of their high-level business goals
and objectives-right from their iPads.
Delivered via a SaaS model, CA Clarity Playbook also makes it easy for CXOs to quickly
collaborate with key process stakeholders and respond more quickly to changing business
needs anywhere, any time.
"IT and the business have to work hand-in-hand to create new revenue streams and
deliver a differentiated brand experience - even in the face of finite structural and
human resources," said Lokesh Jindal, general manager, Service and Portfolio Management,
CA Technologies. "CA Clarity Playbook enables this critical coordination by giving
executives the ability to nimbly adapt plans, activities and priorities."
CA Clarity Playbook integrates with CA Clarity PPM
[http://www.ca.com/us/products/detail/CA-Clarity-PPM.aspx ] and other systems of record to
provide CXOs with the intuitive dashboard-style mobile workspace they need to:
. Define strategic objectives, goals and initiatives;
. Collaborate with stakeholders on strategic plans;
. Leverage information from operational systems;
. Assess alignment of IT investments with business objectives;
. Visualize investment financials in real time; and
. Evaluate impact of new priorities on in-place plans.
According to a research study
[https://www.ca.com/us/register/forms/collateral/The-Future-Role-of-the-CIO-Becoming-the-Boss.aspx ]
* by CA Technologies, few CIOs are directly involved in defining business
strategy-even though 73 percent of business executives acknowledge that IT is central to
the execution of that strategy.
CA Clarity Playbook helps address this disconnect by liberating CXOs from the manual,
annual planning cycles of the past, so they can more proactively take advantage of
emerging business opportunities and technological innovations.
"With the increasing use of technology by patients and healthcare providers, a
successful business strategy in the healthcare industry should be driven by a strong
technology strategy," said R. John Ragsdale, Chief Information Officer, BerylHealth. "To
grow our business in the midst of this Health Information Technology explosion, we need to
embrace strategic planning disciplines and tools that increase our innovation and
speed-to-market-and that improve technology visibility and decision-making for our C-level
executives."
CA Clarity Playbook can draw from information sources both in the cloud and across the
enterprise to keep strategic initiatives on track and aligned to organizational goals.
Users can access CA Clarity Playbook workspace from an iPad app or from a tablet or
desktop running an HTML5-compatible web browser.
"To successfully cope with today's intense time-to-market pressures, business leaders
need the same kind of real-time, multi-dimensional visibility into IT as they have into
sales pipelines and supply chains," said Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of
THINKstrategies, Inc. and founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace. "It has simply become
impractical for them to continue depending on periodic second-hand IT reporting that can't
be dynamically queried and is often out-of-date by the time it arrives on their desks."
CA Clarity Playbook is a key enabler of the broader CA Technologies Business Service
Innovation [http://www.ca.com/us/business-service-innovation.aspx ] initiative, which
enables customers to more effectively accelerate, transform and secure IT to adaptively
meet the intensifying challenges of competition in a global information economy.
"IT is adopting more complex and fluid service provisioning models at the same time as
it is becoming increasingly integral to the business," said Cameron McNaught, Senior Vice
President and Head of Cloud and Strategic Solutions, International Business, Fujitsu
Limited. "With CA Clarity Playbook, CA Technologies is directly responding to this
confluence of complexity and criticality with a solution that gives corporate managers
much-needed control of technology resource allocation and performance."
*The Future Role of the CIO 'Becoming the Boss', October 2011, CA Technologies.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers
manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services.
Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate
innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center
to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at http://www.ca.com [http://www.ca.com ].
Follow CA Technologies
- Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/cainc ]
- Social Media Page [http://www.ca.com/us/social-media ]
- Press Releases [http://www.ca.com/us/press-releases.aspx ]
Legal Notices
Copyright (c) 2013 CA. All Rights Reserved. One CA Plaza, Islandia, N.Y. 11749. All
other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their
respective companies. Certain information in this publication may outline CA's general
product direction. However, CA may make modifications to any CA product, software program,
method or procedure described in this publication at any time without notice, and the
development, release and timing of any features or functionality described in this
publication remain at CA's sole discretion. CA will support the referenced products in
accordance with (i) the documentation and specifications provided with the referenced
product, and (ii) CA's then-current maintenance and support policy for the referenced
product. Notwithstanding anything in this publication to the contrary, this publication
shall not: (i) constitute product documentation or specifications under any existing or
future written license agreement or services agreement relating to any CA software
product, or be subject to any warranty set forth in any such written agreement; (ii) serve
to affect the rights and/or obligations of CA or its licensees under any existing or
future written license agreement or services agreement relating to any CA software
product; or (iii) serve to amend any product documentation or specifications for any CA
software product.
Primary Media Contact: Pallavi Bordoloi, pallavi.bordoloi@ca.com, 91-9867696467
Secondary Media Contact: Nikita Nadwani, nikita.nadwani@2020msl.com, 91-9167443578
CA Technologies
CONTACT: PRN