Broadcom Clarity vs OpenText Project and portfolio Management comparison

Broadcom Clarity vs. OpenText Project and portfolio Management

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Clarity

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

142

Ranking in other categories

Project Management Software (9th)

OpenText Project and portfo...

Ranking in Project Portfolio Management

11th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Broadcom Clarity is 10.8%, up from 10.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Project and portfolio Management is 1.9%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Project Portfolio Management

Featured Reviews

Farshad Farhadieh

National Practice Manager - Enterprise Work Management at Ampion

Efficient project management with roadmap and hierarchy features

I use Broadcom Clarity for end-to-end project and program portfolio management Every customer has achieved a return on investment within the first six months of implementation with Broadcom Clarity. The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity are the roadmap feature and the hierarchy feature,…

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Mahmoud NourElDin

ITSM Consultant at Vodafone

Saves significant time on demand management and helps accelerate delivery

The ease of customization of the tool means I can support multiple departments in our company. Our users find it easy to use the service and the forms. And the Project Management module is one of the best modules that they work on. It is very important that the platform gives us a single place where we can measure progress toward goals, as we have weekly meetings with the CTO. We present these consolidated overviews and dashboards to him so that he has an overview of all the projects and can see the status of all the problems that we have and we are working on.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It's definitely improving our ability to make better decisions, and improving the quality of data that we have, to make the decisions for the strategic good of the company."

"The interfaces for project management, portfolio management, and reporting services are always helpful."

"It allows me to keep track of the projects, residual location, it gives me the ease of getting status reports out, and checking risks and issues."

"It is easier to use than most other products that are out there."

"It is very intuitive. Even if you do not have training documents or anything, you can start feeling your way around pretty easily."

"The app style of the new UI is absolutely fantastic. It's the right way to go. Our users will love it."

"I enjoy the Risks/Issues section.I use that to raise things before they happen."

"The solution is technically fine and user friendly."

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"The data provided by PPM is trusted and is available almost immediately; without trusted data there is very less scope of any tool to be successful."

"Overall, they have a very strong workflow management capability. That's a very strong feature because then you can model any process easily. Whether it is a demand management process, a pipeline management process, or your project delivery methodology, it is much easier because of their workflow management capability."

"Micro Focus PPM is flexible and easy to use. It's simple to customize and configure workflows."

"Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) has a very strong workflow engine."

"It is very important that the platform gives us a single place where we can measure progress toward goals, as we have weekly meetings with the CTO. We present these consolidated overviews and dashboards to him so that he has an overview of all the projects and can see the status of all the problems that we have and we are working on."

"There are so many different pieces of functionality, and we use almost every single piece from deployment to demand, project, resource, and time management."

"Scenario comparison is the feature most valuable to us and the reason why we decided to choose HPE PPM over other portfolio management products."

"It's a very detailed tool. As far as an enterprise is concerned, it gives you the flexibility to manage everything: portfolios, projects, finances, proposals, resources, and time... It takes care of even the minor details that need to be captured. The project management functionality is configured really well within the tool. That stands out."

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Cons

"I want to see integration for SMS functionality."

"One of the things that have always been a bit painful is the integration with reporting utilities. The current integration is with Jaspersoft, and there are a number of difficulties with that. If you're using out-of-the-box fields and everything, it is a bit slow and clunky. It has a drag-and-drop interface for the users. On the backend side, there is a report designer. They haven't given or allowed me any training on it yet. So, it has been a bit limited in its features. On one of the earlier report utilities, they had one called Actuate, which had VBA as its base programming language, and you could do quite dynamic things behind the scenes, whereas the Jaspersoft interface seems rather locked. So, you're limited in your options. Being a programmer, you like to have room to be able to invent and create rather than just being limited to a few selection boxes."

"The solution could improve the way the workflow is developed. I think they could be more dynamic because they are in a way static. They're very powerful, but they don't have any interaction with end-users."

"In the timesheet UX, you can't do things like splitting time, managing overtime versus regular time, very easily. That would be helpful."

"Build more capability and unification into the reporting."

"We're looking at adding the Agile piece to it. I want to make sure that that integration is very smooth."

"CA Communities need a lot of improvement."

"They need something so that if we, say, send some sheets to users, or for the scenario where not everybody has access to Clarity, but are part of planning; those people should be able to upload data directly to Clarity."

More Broadcom Clarity cons

"The user experience of the product needs to be improved"

"They can make its UI better. Currently, the UI is a bit clunky."

"We constantly put in requests for some of the things we need. One of those is being able to export just our standard request type to PDF."

"The solution can sometimes be a little inflexible and a bit caustic."

"User interface continues to be poor. The product does not have a similar view in the different modules, e.g., staffing vs financial management, it looks like you are working with a different product and it is not easy to use or intuitive."

"Currently, HPE PPM does not allow “Project” approval, but only simple “Demand Request” approval (mobility)."

"We had a couple of issues with stability or performance degradation about a year ago, around the time of the initial rollout. Since then, we've only had two unexpected outages that were quickly resolved."

"There are some limitations when it comes to attaching receipts. For example, if we are going to buy some non-labor-related assets such as hardware, we are not able to attach the receipts in the Financial Management module in version 9.41."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Broadcom Clarity PPM costs us $500K, and that's only for the installation and kick off within the first year. For each succeeding year, it could cost $200K."

"We're also moving to the latest version for less than $20,000 for a major corporate system. It's just amazing."

"It is hard for them to say, "I have a person on my team who is going to be available, I am going to move that task to them". That requires a project management license, it doesn't require a team member license, so the licensing model does not sometimes support the way the business world is going."

"The licensing costs are a little bit high, and unfortunately, it has been a while since I've had that paperwork in front of me. I don't remember how much it was, but it seemed like it was fairly high. It is probably comparable to some of the other solutions because I do know that, for example, on a lot of the AWS stuff, they found that the costs wound up being higher than having some on-prem solution. Comparatively, Clarity is within the price range of other solutions."

"In recent times, I have been involved in the purchase of the license for this solution. However, the process of procurement changed and the option to buy individual licenses was no more available. The new subscription model was introduced, as a followed-up trend in the industry. The subscription costs put us in shock because it was double what we paid in the past as the yearly maintenance. We negotiated and the price was dropped. But this incident made me observe a lack of transparency from Broadcom in terms of licensing expenses. This isn't unique to Broadcom but seems to be a broader industry issue."

"Pricing is flexible, depending on the customer and the region."

"For all the functionalities of the solution, the price is in the market range, since it is a product which offers governance issues and supports the digital transformation, which is where we will go in the next year."

"There are different licensing models with Broadcom Clarity PPM. With the software as a service model, you pay as you go, and if you are on-premises, you can buy a perpetual license and an annual fee for maintenance."

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"A large organization will find Micro Focus PPM affordable, but it may be a bit costly for a small or medium-sized company. The license is based on the number of users."

"We have an annual license, and it is fairly priced in comparison to that of other solutions."

"It is SaaS without a base fee."

"There is an additional cost for product support"

"HPE PPM SaaS model is comprehensive, however, the base fee component has customer resistance to its recurring setup,"

"Support and license management are two hurdles for us. Every time we purchase new licenses, it has taken us half a year to implement those."

"Now, we also received an increase in the support license prices, without any advanced notice. At this point, switching to unify all our licensing under HPE and customer support has been poor."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

68%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

36%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

11%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Broadcom Clarity PPM?

The product is flexible.

What needs improvement with Broadcom Clarity PPM?

Broadcom Clarity could improve by adding artificial intelligence and reporting capabilities, which they are already working on.

What is your primary use case for Broadcom Clarity PPM?

I use Broadcom Clarity for end-to-end project and program portfolio management.

Any experience with Strategic Project Portfolio Management Solutions?

Hi, @Cheryl Joseph Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management solution could be a good candidate, see my review on this product, or if you may need more information to drop me a message. You can...

What do you like most about Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)?

Micro Focus PPM is flexible and easy to use. It's simple to customize and configure workflows.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)?

A yearly subscription needs to be procured for the SaaS version of the product, and the on-prem version is available through perpetual licensing. There is an additional cost for product support, wh...

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Also Known As

Clarity PPM, CA Clarity, CA PPM, CA Clarity PPM

Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), HPE Project and Portfolio Management, HPE PPM

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Broadcom

OpenText

Overview

Clarity is the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution created by Broadcom. The platform aims to help medium and large organizations to manage products and services. Clarity features scoreboards, financial analysis tools, and more.

The platform facilitates the delivery of projects and programs and can accelerate an organization’s digital transformation. It allows users to create initiatives, add budgets and projects with a few clicks, and assign and track teams. It shortens the time to make changes to projects to minutes instead of days.

Broadcom Clarity PPM features in-app collaboration and timesheets accessible via mobile devices. Users can access the platform via desktop or mobile. The platform can be deployed on premises or as a cloud-based service with a hosted or SasS delivery.

How does it work?

Clarity’s Strategic Portfolio Management enables planning and prioritizing of work to fit customer demands and business needs, managing the value stream from concept to cash.

Broadcom Clarity PPM Key Features

Strategic roadmaps: Clarity’s multidimensional road maps effectively eliminate organizational fatigue. It includes useful features such as drag-and-drop capabilities. It also allows you to map risks and dependencies and track project progress.
Project financials: Clarity integrates with Power BI and Tableau with business intelligence solutions. The platform uses Microsoft Excel charting and grouping functions to keep a familiar feel to project and financial reports. You can customize your projects according to investment types and fiscal periods.

Collaboration features: Broadcom Clarity PPM provides a central view of each employee’s projects, schedule, and status. You can assign tasks to teams with pinning features without time-consuming filters.

Resource management: Clarity enables you to filter available resources and investments to the department level. Doing this allows for managing labor and non-labor resources with ease.

Other features include:

One-click charts
Staffing and resource management
To-do boards
Investment hierarchies
Business widgets

Broadcom Clarity PPM Benefits

Quick setup: The platform is easy and fast to configure and deploy. It also includes migration services to help customers move to the cloud.
Lower cost: The SaaS version is a user-based subscription service that eliminates the need for infrastructure investment.
Constant updates: Updates are rolled automatically and included in the subscription to ensure the user always has the latest version.
Strong security: The Clarity infrastructure constantly updates identity-centric intrusion detection services. It features data protection capabilities on desktops and mobiles, including protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).
Scalability: Its load-balanced environment enables users to scale up or down to match spikes in project-based activities. It also features pay-as-you-use.
Integrations: Integrates with financial apps, executive dashboards, HR software, ERP systems, etc.
Configurability: You can adapt Clarity PPM to your organization’s requirements.
Reporting and business intelligence: Clarity’s features include a built-in data warehouse and BI platform.
User-friendly: It features an intuitive user interface and interactive communication options.
Project management options: You can manage your project with Agile, classic, or hybrid methods inside Clarity PPM.

Broadcom Clarity PPM Use Cases

Organizations use Clarity PPM for a variety of use cases:

Time management
Product management
Resource management
Financial management
Project portfolio management
Reporting services
Project management
Ticket and change management
IT service desks
Financial services

Reviews from Real Users

"Broadcom Clarity PPM is a high-value product that helps users become productive. It's a very stable, scalable, and fast platform, even from a self management perspective," says Mohammad J., Senior Clarity PPM Technical Consultant at Al Rajhi Bank.

A Director of Operations at a tech services company adds that "It's very good out of the box, without configurations required."

Sergio C., Service Delivery Manager at Syntech, says, "The most valuable feature is the portfolio functionality because we have the ability to work with different scenarios and many kinds of financial management. We can integrate with ERP, and with other solutions from third-party vendors. The financial model in Broadcom Clarity PPM, it's the most valuable aspect."

OpenText Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) combines workflows and data to align investments with strategy. Top-down and bottom-up analytics power this strategic portfolio and project management tool.

Sample Customers

Toyota Financial Services, GameStop, Polycom, Sky, Qantas, Cox Enterprises, Banco Mercantil, Borealis

Bank Simpanan Nasional, Smart Communications, Aareon AG

Broadcom Clarity vs. OpenText Project and portfolio Management