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CA Clarity PPM Accelerator for NPD Capabilities

CA Clarity PPM Accelerator for New Product Development (CA Clarity PPM Accelerator for NPD) helps organizations shorten the time-to-market for new products, increase their rate of innovation, increase new product sales, and reduce new product development costs. To achieve the aim, organizations require balancing all product development skills and resources for optimum strategic, financial, and operational impact across all product lines in all product lifecycle phases.

CA Clarity PPM Accelerator for NPD offers the following main capabilities:

• The Portfolio management includes the following features:
  • The ability to track specific product categories.
  • The ability to track the product or product type.
  • The ability to track products by brand, customer segment, and product line
  • The ability to move products through lifecycle phases.
  • A rating system that uses specific factors to provide product analysis.
  • The ability to perform portfolio management of products.
  • The ability to track competitor products.
  • A page layout for portfolios based on product information.
  • A group that provides appropriate access for product managers.
• Pipeline and project management includes the following features:
  • A gate scoring object to track and store all gate scores for each stage that a project goes through.
  • Automated gate submission processes that support each of the Stage-Gate gates.
  • A gate scoring page layout to provide metrics on gates for projects.
  • Custom attributes and page layouts, including status tracking of go, hold, and kill-based on gate scores.
  • Tracking of budget per phase.
  • A built-in project template for the stage-gate five-step process.
  • Support for deliverables and worksheets with a document folder structure.
  • The ability to perform project portfolio management.
  • A group that provides appropriate access for project managers.
  • An Executive Dashboard.
  • A Stage Review Dashboard available for project managers to review projects before submitting them for gate approval.
  • Extra project portlets available to be added to any of the project page layouts.
  • A Portfolio Management Dashboard available for portfolio managers to view everything.
  • A group that provides appropriate access for portfolio managers.
  • A group that provides appropriate access for team members.
• Idea-to-launch management includes the following features:
  • An Idea Vault to collect all ideas and allow portfolio planning.
  • The idea screening process that allows you to score the idea and turn it into a project.
  • Custom attributes and page layouts for ideas.
  • A gate scoring mechanism for gatekeepers to rate ideas against business goals.
  • The ability for non-Clarity users to enter new ideas, access idea scoring, and view pertinent projects.
  • The Idea Management Dashboard that displays necessary metrics and provides quick updates for users.
  • A group that provides appropriate access to marketing managers.