Configure CA Clarity to Deliver Dynamic,Personalized Content with CA Clarity Studio

CA Clarity™ Studio

Configure CA Clarity to Deliver Dynamic, Personalized Content

The CA Clarity Studio module makes it easy for you to create a work environment in which information is delivered, and actions are taken, in ways that make the most sense for your organization. Typically, personalizing project management software requires IT resources or costly consultants. With CA Clarity Studio, however, your business users can build and personalize the CA Clarity system with a set of intuitive and easy-to-use tools.

Our portal technology gives users a single place to obtain personalized content and a standard, easy-to-use interface. CA Clarity Studio makes it possible for administrators and users to create and deploy personalized portals, pages, menus and business objects that adapt the software to your business process, not the other way around.

With CA Clarity Studio, you gain the ability to:

	Provide users at all levels with real-time information through role-based dashboards.
	Reduce the need for training and speed new user adoption through tailored CA Clarity
	menus, pages and views that use familiar language and processes.
	Easily tailor business objects, such as portfolios, projects, resources and ideas, without
	programming or customization.
	Measure IT success based on key performance indicators
	Improve productivity by enabling users to individually personalize their work environment,
	adding and customizing pages with content, views and graphics.

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Combine chart and table portlets onto personalized pages to
convey real-time information.

Create Portlets and Dashboards

CA Clarity Studio allows your power users and administrators to assemble and publish portal pages to users across your enterprise. Each portal page is comprised of a set of portlets--small windows of information presented as graphs, tables or web page snippets--that appear automatically to-users with the appropriate access privileges. Users can then personalize their portal pages by deciding which portlets to show or hide and where to show them on the page.

Information within the portlets comes from the CA Clarity environment, other databases within the enterprise and external sources available in HTML, such as business news and network status information. Users can populate their portlets with graphs, tables, workflows, best practices, documents and forms--all updated and available in real time without the need to execute and review reports.

Once created, a portlet's content and presentation can be easily changed using point-and-click configuration settings available to both administrators and end users. This allows your staff to:

	Show information graphically in bar, bubble, column, funnel, line, pie and scatter charts.
	Use Gantt chart and progress bars to visually communicate schedules, progress and phase-
	gate status for items such as project tasks, program durations, and asset and application
	lifecycles.
	Build scorecards by segmenting continuous data into groups and applying status icons such
	as red-yellow-green stoplights, approved-unapproved checkmarks, and leading-steady-
	trailing performance indicators.
	Create simple or complex filters that show just the information that is important to the
	viewer.
	Provide real-time, drill-down links from portlet contents to business objects, such as
	portfolio investments, resources, projects and ideas.

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In three simple steps, build portlets to deliver powerful business intelligence.

Personalize the CA Clarity Environment
Besides creating powerful dashboards with custom portlets, CA Clarity Studio allows administrators to easily configure and extend the user interface and navigation features to improve productivity, reduce training and support costs and provide real-time personalized content. Through the point-and-click browser interface, administrators can:

	Add new pages to the system and choose what information gets displayed, who has access
	to it, and how they can act upon it.
	Personalize the main menu navigation by organizing and labeling menu items to match your
	organization's terminology and processes --in multiple languages.
	Apply a distinctive design to the CA Clarity user interface to align it with the look and feel of
	your company's other applications.

PowerMods Configurations allow you to tailor CA Clarity to your needs.
CA Clarity Studio provides you with a method for configuring and extending business objects through the PowerMods framework. Here administrators can define and lay out forms with a mix of standard and user-defined fields, specify validation rules and default values, create list views with filters and sorts and establish hyperlinks between objects.

Custom fields created with PowerMods are distributed to all CA Clarity interfaces, including the web-based user interface, the Workbench client application, Microsoft Project, the Process Manager workflow engine, and the CA Clarity XOG (XML Open Gateway) for application integration.

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