What is the difference between a comprehensive Strategic Portfolio Management solution and a project portfolio management tool like Clarity PPM?
Project portfolio management tools like Clarity PPM provide teams and project leaders with the core capabilities to manage projects and resources. While helpful in planning, executing, and managing work, these tools can feel one-dimensional for organizations that need more than traditional project management.
Tools like CA PPM and similar project portfolio management software provide a service. They provide basic project and portfolio management capabilities – but they don’t address critical challenges organizations face, such as:
- Improving speed-to-value and market responsiveness
- Unlocking organizational capacity for propriety initiatives
- Increasing confidence in your strategic investments
To answer these problems, you need more than a project management tool. You need a comprehensive Strategic Portfolio Management solution that empowers your organization to drive transformation on your terms. A solution that offers equal support to Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall teams.
Planview’s Strategic Portfolio Management solution differs from project management tools from CA PPM and Clarity competitors. Planview’s SPM solution is built to support your growth and transformation journey by supporting multiple work delivery methodologies, integrating with your teams’ preferred work management tools, and providing support from the strategic level down to the teams who deliver the work.
If you’re looking for a solution that does more than simple project portfolio management, don’t partner with any Clarity competitor. Trust your portfolio with Planview and give your enterprise the support it deserves from a strategic partner that’s all-in on portfolio management and connected work.
What key capabilities should you look for in a Strategic Portfolio Management solution?
Looking for a SPM solution can be challenging. Clarity and some CA Clarity competitors may claim they offer Strategic Portfolio Management, but lack the core features necessary for accelerating growth and delivering business value. Below are some essential capabilities to look for when searching for an effective SPM solution:
- A wide range of integrations with enterprise applications and tools, including popular Agile, DevOps, and work management tools
- Flexibility and support for Agile, Traditional, and Hybrid ways to fund and execute work, so teams are empowered to plan and deliver their best work
- Outcome-focused planning and delivery through objectives and key results (OKRs) to ensure strategy and execution are connected
- Support for businesses that make the transition from a project to product-centric approach
- Support for empowered decision-making through real-time data that enables leaders to make informed decisions across the portfolio
- Real-time scenario planning that factors in goals, dependencies, constraints, demand, and capacity to improve planning agility
- End-to-end visibility into financial information, resources, risks, and capacity across all systems and teams
- Support for Agile and Hybrid team delivery, including Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and more
Another important factor to consider when looking for an SPM solution is whether your enterprise will get vendor support – not only when implementing the solution, but also as you continue to push your enterprise further.
Planview is the only Clarity competitor recognized as an industry leader in Strategic Portfolio Management, Adaptive Project Management, Enterprise Agile Transformation, and Value Stream Management.
Partnering with Planview for Strategic Portfolio Management ensures your enterprise has a true technology partner to support your need to drive transformation, maximize business value, and adapt to a new world of work.
We have teams that use Clarity Software. Can we integrate Planview’s Strategic Portfolio Management solution with Clarity PPM and other project portfolio management tools?
Absolutely. We understand the importance of empowering teams to do their best work, which is why our SPM solution integrates with CA PPM and a wide range of Clarity competitors.
A comprehensive Strategic Portfolio Management solution should support your enterprise, not force it into a technological ecosystem. Planview’s Strategic Portfolio Management solution allows teams to decide which Agile project management tools work best for them.
Best of all, integrating Planview’s SPM solution into your other tools has never been easier. We offer more than 60 no-code integrations (and growing) with popular business applications and project management tools. Whether your teams use Clarity or Broadcom’s Rally Software, Atlassian’s Jira Software, or Microsoft Azure DevOps, they can connect their tools to our solutions without disruption.