CA Announces SaaS Delivery Option for its Leading Enterprise-Class PPM Solution

CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery option for its leading enterprise-class PPM solution, CA Clarity Project & Portfolio Manager (PPM). By extending the availability options for its award-winning CA Clarity PPM product, CA now provides CIOs and business executives with best-in-class functionality through a flexible SaaS delivery model.

With CA Clarity PPM On Demand, organizations of all sizes and maturity levels can now "buy once-buy best” with a proven, scalable and feature-rich solution that delivers value now and over time. Organizations with immediate requirements can benefit from a streamlined PPM deployment and the option to seamlessly leverage new capabilities as their needs mature. Those with established project management and IT governance processes can implement the full functionality of CA Clarity PPM On Demand right away, an option not previously available from upstart PPM SaaS vendors with limited capabilities.

"Firms are recognizing that balancing business demands with constrained IT budgets requires strong project portfolio management processes and an application that meets their needs now and over time,” said Daniel Stang, principal research analyst at Gartner. "SaaS-based PPM software can help meet this need while reducing upfront risk.”

CA Clarity PPM On Demand allows leaders of businesses, government agencies and non-profit organizations to easily and quickly get the visibility they need to improve portfolio, demand and project management, all of which help them better align IT with their organization’s business objectives. With CA Clarity PPM On Demand, enterprises benefit from faster implementation and reduced up-front costs, speeding up the time it takes to receive value from enterprise-class PPM.

"With the launch of our award-winning CA Clarity PPM solution in a SaaS delivery model, enterprises that prefer the flexibility and ease of SaaS can now leverage the most powerful PPM software on the market,” said Helge Scheil, corporate senior vice president and general manager, Governance Group, CA. "Delivering CA Clarity PPM On Demand is a reflection of our commitment to provide our customers with the best value and most complete capability of any PPM system on the market. With CA Clarity PPM On Demand, customers no longer need to compromise on functionality to get rapid value. They can buy once and buy the best.”

One customer that is already benefiting from CA Clarity PPM SaaS is Kellogg Company, a leading producer of cereal and convenience foods. To achieve greater governance over a multi-million Dollar HR software implementation, the company leveraged CA Clarity PPM On Demand. Kellogg was using spreadsheets to track and manage resources and realized it needed to quickly replace that approach with an enterprise-class solution. Kellogg was drawn to CA Clarity PPM On Demand due to its robust functionality and straightforward, streamlined interface. In just 10 days, Kellogg implemented the CA Clarity PPM On Demand solution and trained end users with the CA Productivity Accelerator, an industry-first personalized training tool for CA Clarity PPM.

"To support our business, it was vital to keep our multi-million dollar HR software implementation on time and on budget,” said Sheila Bridge, senior director, IT Global Compliance and Controls, Kellogg Company. "Working with CA, we were able to rapidly standardize processes on a single, scalable platform that gives us visibility into mission-critical resources. In a matter of days, CA Clarity PPM SaaS erased the burden of managing resources on multiple spreadsheets, keeping our project in order with a dynamic and flexible solution.”

CA Clarity PPM On Demand is one of three SaaS offerings from CA announced today. CA On Demand solutions offer industry-leading functionality with faster implementation times. Customers can achieve cost savings, realize faster time to value, free up scarce IT resources for other priorities and reduce risk by leveraging CA’s state-of-the-art secure hosting facilities. Over 1,000 customers worldwide use CA SaaS and hosted solutions to improve IT economics. For more information about CA On Demand offerings, visit www.ca.com/ondemand.

CA Clarity PPM On Demand is another example of how CA Enterprise IT Management solutions help organizations drive business value from IT and effectively improve IT economics. With CA solutions in place, such as CA Clarity PPM On Demand, customers are able to respond more quickly and efficiently to changing conditions and capitalize on emerging business opportunities. The on-demand solutions CA is announcing at CA World 2008 help lower the total cost of ownership of IT by providing faster time-to-value and reducing IT costs through better integration, automation and control.

For more information about CA Clarity PPM On Demand, visit www.ca.com/clarity/ondemand.

About CA Clarity PPM

CA Clarity PPM, the industry-leading project and portfolio management solution, enables public and private sector IT organizations to achieve world-class performance by improving the quality of their engagement with their stakeholders and enhancing their ability to run at peak efficiency. The CA Clarity PPM system features integrated IT portfolio planning, demand management, project management, resource planning and time, cost and earned value management. More than 800,000 users at more than 900 companies depend on CA Clarity PPM to govern IT and, increasingly, to manage new product development (NPD). For more information on CA Clarity PPM, please visit www.myclarity.com. For a brief demonstration of CA Clarity PPM for IT governance, click here.

About CA

CA (NASDAQ: CA) is the world's leading independent IT management software company. With CA's Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision and expertise, organizations can more effectively govern, manage and secure IT to optimize business performance and sustain competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.ca.com.

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