Our consultants have already taken a closer look at the latest improvements to the PPM tool and have identified the highlights for you.
Our Highlights of the Latest Clarity Release 16.2.0
With the most recent release, Broadcom takes another step towards making your project and portfolio management with Clarity more efficient every day.
New in Top-Down Planning
Roadmaps
Create and manage Roadmap groups from multiple roadmaps and gain visibility into dependencies, agreements, key milestones, and Roadmap events.
Hierarchies
These changes within the Hierarchies module give you more possibilities when working with Clarity:
- Timeline layout to manage tasks across multiple investments
- Increased limit of up to 3,000 investments in a single hierarchy (except for SQL Server)
Plans in Workforce Modeling
These enhancements for Plans provide you with a better overview and an easy way to take changes to your OBS (Organizational Breakdown Structure) into account:
- New expandable tree layout to visualize parent/child relationships in the Plans workspace
- New function “Update Plan Structure from OBS” synchronizes changes from OBS
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Transforming Investment Management
With the new Clarity release, you can now benefit from more intuitive and enhanced investment management functionality, as well as a new layout option:
- Timesheet validation rules introduced (BETA)
- Copy tasks within an investment using a mouse right-click action
- Timeline layout added to the Tasks workspace
Reinventing Resource Management
Resource planning with Clarity becomes even more efficient thanks to optimized and expanded display options for key figures, among other things.
- Resource object supports processes and workflows
- Financial attributes (view only) on the Resource object
Audit Capabilities (Audit Trail)
- The configured unit of measure is displayed for old and new values: assignment ETC (Estimate to Complete), assignment actuals, and Roadmap item capacity
- Per-period metrics on the assignment object: ETC, actuals, ETC cost, and actual cost
Optimizing My Workspace and Mobile App
Checklists
Create and maintain sections within checklists to provide structure and overview for upcoming items.
Mobile App
New features for timesheets, administration, and “My Workspace” provide an enhanced user experience for the mobile app:
- Access “My Workspace” Smartlists via the app (view only)
- New function to “Add Tasks” to a timesheet
- Enter a timesheet note date
- Manage the Clarity mobile application with MS Intune (BETA)
Improvements from the Customer Voice
Once again, users actively used Broadcom’s open ear to make suggestions for improvements. These new functions and features are the result of the Customer Voice:
Main Navigation Menu Improvements
- Promote Custom Investments, Team Investments, Custom Objects, and Pages to the menu
- Reorder and hide menu items
- Assign or change menu icons selected from an icon library
Further Improvements
- Configure channels directing users to the Modern UX
- Configure Investment attribute labels and tooltips uniquely for each Investment type
- Display “Today” in the Investment Task timeline
- Horizontal and vertical display options for bar chart widgets
- CSV import supports Projects, Custom Investments, Ideas, and Team Investments
Insights into the Tool
The Innovations of Clarity 16.2.0
Webcast on the New Release
In Broadcom’s free webcast on Thursday, December 7th at 7:00 PM CET, you will get to know all the innovations of Clarity 16.2.0.
Release Notes
Details and full explanation of all changes of the upgrade to Clarity 16.2.0 can be found in the Broadcom release notes.
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As the largest Brodacom partner in Europe, we would be happy to give you a personal demonstration of the features of Clarity 16.2.0 as they relate to your specific application and provide you with the latest version.
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