New Capabilities Connect Business Initiatives
to Development Work, Doubling Productivity and Driving 50 Percent
Faster Delivery1
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced new capabilities in
its Agile Management portfolio that allow organizations to deliver
value faster, from upfront planning to execution to customer
support.
“In today’s application economy, the most successful companies
differentiate themselves by sensing market opportunities and
responding more quickly and confidently than the competition.
Organizational agility of this order requires architecting the
whole business system for speed, steering and opportunity - a 21st
century operating system for getting things done,” said Angela
Tucci, general manager, Agile Management at CA Technologies.
“We’re seeing a strong shift in the cultural and organizational
behaviors of companies as they strive to become more nimble and
responsive to competitive market demands,” said Melinda Ballou,
program director, Application Life-Cycle Management and Executive
Strategies, IDC. “Adaptive, agile solutions – from business
portfolio planning to application creation, deployment and service
management – can deliver dynamic technology differentiators and the
opportunity for customers to speed and optimize delivery for
development and business operations.”
Expanded capabilities include integrations between CA Project
& Portfolio Management (CA PPM) and CA Agile Central (formerly
Rally), new persona-based approaches to PPM and IT Service
Management (ITSM) with CA PPM and CA Service Management, and new
features in CA Agile Central. The benefits of this expanded Agile
Management portfolio include:
Unique Combination of Agile Development and Enterprise
Portfolio Management Capabilities Drives Business Agility
The integrated solution of CA PPM and CA Agile Central helps
companies to effectively balance agility and governance by
connecting the work of agile teams to the enterprise portfolio. New
integrations between CA Agile Central and CA PPM allow the work
development teams are undertaking in CA Agile Central to be visible
to project managers in CA PPM, so resource allocations, funding,
and progress of business deliverables are more transparent.
Supporting an evolutionary approach to adopting agile, the
integrated solution allows companies to continue using traditional
methods, while growing agile adoption to deliver on portfolio
investments faster—with higher quality and predictable business
results.
CA's Persona-based Approach to PPM Delivers Improved Project
Performance
The new CA PPM solution gives modern project managers a
better way to connect with their teams through an intuitive user
experience, designed to simplify work and accelerate velocity.
Intuitive time entry and real-time support provide insights into
how teams are executing against strategy, and enable project
managers to keep team members motivated and drive better project
performance. A recognized PPM solutions provider, CA PPM was named
a leader for the fourth consecutive year in the 2016 Magic Quadrant
for IT Project and Portfolio Management Software Applications,
Worldwide.
“Keeping pace with business change in a highly dynamic
environment while maintaining a level of governance for financial
compliance has been a challenge and priority for our PPM team,”
said Becky Wilson, Senior Manager, Tech Portfolio, Corporate
Finance at Expedia, Inc. “We’re excited about CA PPM’s new
capabilities, which will help simplify the way we manage portfolio
data and increase user engagement.”
New CA Agile Central Capabilities Align Development Teams
with Business Value
Many agile teams face the same challenges -- they have too much
work in process, and not enough visibility into which work is the
most important work. Allowing teams to better connect strategy to
execution, CA Agile Central now offers enhanced capacity planning,
team planning and release tracking.
Key features include:
- Enhanced capacity planning
enables businesses and engineering leaders to match business
priorities to available team capacity so they can balance work
allocation during planning.
- Team planning gives visibility
into the prioritized set of features that teams will build. By
providing context and empowering teams to plan their work, users
create reliable release plans together to deliver optimum value to
stakeholders.
- Release tracking provides
visuals in real time for executing the work and release tracking
progress.
New CA Service Management User Experience Drives Faster
Response Times
CA Service Management empowers service desk analysts to
react and respond to high-priority work more quickly by providing
them a way to prioritize work, and the context to make decisions --
allowing analysts to substantially increase their first-call
resolution rates. Updates to CA Service Management help address
productivity demands, giving analysts a contextual understanding of
the work that needs to get done and why, including:
- Weather helps put an analyst’s
day in context via an at-a-glance view of the upcoming shift and
the IT environment.
- Heat prioritizes the analyst’s
work by scoring and presenting the importance of each
incident.
- Service genius provides analysts
a single text box where keywords drive actions and provide
intelligence to quickly resolve incidents.
- Story timeline helps analysts
easily pick up where they or others left off with a sequential view
of all activities associated with an incident.
- Suggested experts &
solutions present analysts the IT experts best rated to assist
on an issue and suggested solutions based on knowledge, similar
incidents and information from external sources.
Agile Management solutions capabilities are being demonstrated
at the Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2016, June 6-8 in
Orlando, Florida. For more information on CA Agile Management
solutions, visit: http://www.ca.com/us/why-ca/agile-management.html
or visit CA at Booth #200.
*Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio
Management Software Applications, Worldwide,” Daniel B. Stang,
Robert A. Handler, Teresa Jones, May 24, 2016.
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Resources
- Agile Management at CA
- Integrated Solution Overview: CA PPM
and CA Agile Central
- A CIO’s Guide: Five Steps to Business
Agility
- Business Agility Survival Guide
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels
transformation for companies and enables them to seize the
opportunities of the application economy. Software is at the heart
of every business in every industry. From planning, to development,
to management and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact, and communicate – across
mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe
environments. Learn more at www.ca.com.
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1 CA Technologies, “The Impact of Agile, Quantified,” 2015
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