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Broadcom Clarity vs Planview PPM Pro comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.0
Broadcom Clarity's customer service is praised, but technical support feedback varies; 24/7 availability is appreciated despite documentation issues.
Sentiment score
8.8
Planview PPM Pro's customer service is generally helpful, but experiences vary with responsiveness, offshore support, and complex issue resolution.
Customers receive 24/7 support as long as they have a license.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
3.9
Broadcom Clarity needs a more intuitive interface, better integration, flexibility, customization, responsiveness, and enhanced mobile and predictive features.
Sentiment score
5.0
Planview PPM Pro requires improvements in reporting, integration, interface, resource management, and lacks efficient "What If" planning capabilities.
We are having difficulty using the Broadcom mobile application, which is not compatible with our network and inflow settings.
Broadcom Clarity could improve by adding artificial intelligence and reporting capabilities.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Broadcom Clarity offers scalable, adaptable solutions for diverse user counts, efficiently supporting small to large enterprises with easy integration.
Sentiment score
6.9
Planview PPM Pro offers scalability, effective mostly for SMEs, but faces challenges with large organizations and real-time global usage.
We have customers ranging from 50 users to 100 to 200,000 users.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Broadcom Clarity offers competitive pricing with various licensing models, potential discounts, and flexibility depending on organizational needs.
Sentiment score
4.9
Planview PPM Pro's flexible licensing offers value for large organizations, though costs can be high for smaller entities.
The least price works out to about fifty dollars per month per user.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Broadcom Clarity is stable, with minor issues, reliable SaaS uptime, but customizations and upgrades occasionally cause brief disruptions.
Sentiment score
7.9
Planview PPM Pro is stable but faces occasional update disruptions, with most users praising its reliability and customer support.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
7.7
Broadcom Clarity excels in resource, project, and portfolio management with strong integration, reporting, and customization for improved efficiency.
Sentiment score
8.4
Planview PPM Pro excels in reporting, customization, integration, and resource management, enhancing visibility, planning, and decision-making capabilities.
The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity are the roadmap feature and the hierarchy feature, which allow rolling up all the projects into programs and portfolios.
The valuable feature is the portfolio management, which includes project management and status reporting, managing the projects and programs at a portfolio level.
 

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Clarity
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
3rd
Ranking in Project Management Software
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
142
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Planview PPM Pro
Ranking in Project Portfolio Management
7th
Ranking in Project Management Software
16th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Project Portfolio Management category, the mindshare of Broadcom Clarity is 11.1%, up from 10.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview PPM Pro is 7.2%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Portfolio Management
 

Featured Reviews

Lowell Wetzel - PeerSpot reviewer
A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful
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.
Prateek Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
Notifications of approaching project deadlines help us plan and also avoid delays
Scenario planning is the most important feature. You can easily align strategic management and the portfolios within your organization. It helps you visualize all your strategic plans and the KPIs. It provides that information on a unified dashboard, in which you can track all your resources and the portfolios. It helps senior stakeholders and executives with clear reporting about project intake and demands, in real time. It also has some built-in, reusable templates and you can modify them according to your requirements. You can also create templates and workflows from scratch, so that you can plan things accordingly. The team collaboration is nice compared to other tools. You just add your team members, provide them access and, according to the user's level, they are able to use the application. For example, when we create a new project, we create work streams, timelines, and the sub-tasks. Then we have to think about how many team members are required—the skills of the developers, testers, QA teams, consultants, and marketing. We add those team members to that project and provide them access to their tasks so that we can track their progress in the real time. That really helps us. We might have 35 to 40 team members in different locations using this product simultaneously. In addition, the task management features are useful when you have timelines for project completion and for progress. It shows you any gaps or timelines that you have breached. Task management is very useful, and that would be true in any project management tool. Another helpful feature, because we define timelines in the grant chart for each project, is the time tracking. It is very crucial for us to complete a project on time and meet the deadlines for our clients. The way PPM Pro tackles these is great. It provides a notification to us when a timeline or a sub-task within it is approaching the deadline. Integration with PPM Pro is fine. It provides APIs and the integration mechanism for third-party tools and applications, like Microsoft Office and Microsoft Project. We have only integrated it with Microsoft Excel because we generally capture the requirements and the timelines offline. Because the solution doesn't work offline, in situations where the internet is not available, or we are on-the-go with a client, we capture the requirements in Excel. The integration means we get the data from Excel into PPM Pro.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
66%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Government
4%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Broadcom Clarity PPM?
While Clarity is highly customizable, it could be better delivered as an agile solution out of the box. However, Broadcom has a separate agile tool called Rally.
What is your primary use case for Broadcom Clarity PPM?
Clarity is used for financials, resource management, project planning, and portfolio planning. I work with companies in the United States and abroad across various industries, utilizing Clarity as ...
What do you like most about Planview PPM Pro?
The product's deployment is straightforward.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Planview PPM Pro?
Licensing costs are competitive enough. The price is reasonable given that the solution is geared towards large companies.
What needs improvement with Planview PPM Pro?
The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well.
 

Also Known As

Clarity PPM, CA Clarity, CA PPM, CA Clarity PPM
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Sample Customers

Toyota Financial Services, GameStop, Polycom, Sky, Qantas, Cox Enterprises, Banco Mercantil, Borealis
The Weather Channel, corcs, Crayola, Scan Health Plan, Vermont, Bank of the West, North West Company, University of Southern Mississippi, Jeffries, Purdue University, Chesterfield County Virginia, City of Memphis
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