New SaaS-Based iPad App from CA Technologies Empowers CXOs to Strategically Manage Technology Investments
April 23 2013 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
CA WORLD -- CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA
Clarity™ 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 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* 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 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
www.ca.com.
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