February 20, 2023

To:         Clarity Customers

From:     Broadcom’s Clarity Product Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for Clarity Release 16.1.1

On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that Clarity Release 16.1.1 is now available for On Premise and SaaS customers.

New features for Clarity Release 16.1.1 include:

Transforming Investment Management

• Board views
  • Investment and Task Boards updated to v2.0 which provides the ability to view data in columns and swimlanes, along with the ability to configure card layou
• Canvas improvements for Advanced Visualizations
  • Flexible column layout
  • Ability to include visual widgets
  • Custom Investments
  • When a new Custom Investment (CIT) is defined, a CIT instance lookup is automatically created
• Starred for Tasks, including when adding tasks to timesheets
• Timesheets
  • Current, Next, and Previous periods are available as smart filters
• Custom Subobjects
  • Create from Template for Investments (Project, Idea or CIT) and Copying Projects will also copy custom 2nd & 3rd level subobjects*

Reinventing Resource Management

• Staffing Timeline
  • Minimize/maximize workspaces
  • Staff allocations over & under colorization
  • Easier add of investments and/or resources/roles/teams
  • Additional visibility to easily see unstaffed investment
• Staffing Grid
  • Navigate to Staff module by clicking Resource Full Name
• Teams
  • Ability to see team members in Staff Details panel

Lifecycle Management (incl. Demand Mgmt.)

• Originating Idea (convert Idea to Project) now linkable in Projects grid
• Action Items
  • Introducing the ability to define Action Item library in Modern UX
  • Send via business rules
  • Custom master objects module
  • Separate Action Item delete from Process delete
  • New job to purge Action Items
• Smart Automation expansion of business rules
  • Simpler ways to take actions in sequence or together
    • Allow setting a field value based on another field change*
    • Make record read only or editable
    • Hide actions, sections, modules
    • Make field required
    • Send action item
  • Augmented Audit
    • Audit module available for all blueprint-able objects*
    • Changed Date displays Date & Time (not just date)
    • TSV & several OOTB MVL attributes available
    • User groups & assigned resources

Business Intelligence & Mobile

• Act on Action Items on the go using the Mobile App

 Providing Financial Transparency

• Additional attributes to compare budget vs. plan vs. actual*
• Relabeling & tool tips for Cost Plan Detail & Benefit Plan Detail attributes
• Multiple lines per grouping attribute combination*
• Transactions REST API (Inbound)
• Resource API to Update Resource Financial Attributes

Checklists & To Dos

• My Workspace: Introducing new workspace for Action Items
• Investment Manager filter in “All” To Dos grid and Smartlists
• Improved Link Navigation in To Do Tasks, Risks, Issues, & Changes workspaces
• Filter groups available in the cross-investment Tasks workspace

Top-Down Planning

• Roadmaps
  • Roadmap Item Boards updated to v2.0 which provides the ability to view data in columns and swimlanes, along with the ability to configure card layout
• Hierarchies
  • Agreements and connector lines in Timeline
  • Key milestones as Timeline Events
  • Export Timeline to PDF
  • Option to configure subobject modules in Details flyout
• Plans in Workforce Modeling (BETA)
  • Import resources to populate base totals
  • Aggregated views by Role, Employment Type, and Investment Category with additions & reductions
  • Hierarchy plan navigator

Clarity Connections (Clarity-Rally)

• OKRs: Sync Owner, interim targets & actuals
• Rally visual indicator for Portfolio Items and OKRs created from Clarity

Customer Voice

• Update Custom Master Object boards to v2.0
• Update string filters with option to be lookups*
• Expose previously hidden “prefilters” as Required filters
• Custom objects & subobjects name field length increased to 256*
• Copy custom objects & subobjects*
• Separate custom object Navigate right from other rights*
• Preview and error handling for custom master object CSV import (BETA)
• “Not Securable” filter in Attributes grid
• Modern UX User Settings for Conversations & Sharing Notifications
• Widgets: Honor Required Filters
• Enhancements related to the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard with the inclusion of numerous foundational accessibility improvements encompassing Visual design (e.g., color, contrast, visible focus), Responsive Design (e.g., pop-up windows, text areas, and browser zoom), Keyboard (e.g., key input, tab order, & focus), and Screen readers (e.g., semantics, hierarchy, & pages structures) in view of WCAG 2.1 AA requirements

* Key improvements delivered through the Clarity Customer Innovation Panel process

BETA - This is a beta feature and may contain bugs, errors and/or other issues. This feature is provided “AS IS, WITH NO WARRANTIES.” Broadcom does not guarantee the availability of this beta feature, and any outages or downtime of the beta feature will not count towards service credits pursuant to Broadcom’s service level agreement. There is no guarantee, representation, or obligation that the beta feature will ever be made generally available in future releases of the product.

If you are an On-Premise customer, you can download your copy of Clarity Release 16.1.1 online at Broadcom Support where you can also utilize Broadcom’s case management system. To install your product, follow the installation procedures for your product at Tech Docs. If you are a SaaS customer, your environment will be automatically upgraded to the new release at a scheduled time following the 16.1.1 GA release date. Customers can expect a follow up communication with additional details related to automatic upgrades. If you have any questions or require assistance, please contact Broadcom Support.

Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features or implementing this latest release, our implementation services partners can help. Please contact your CA account representative for more information on how they can help. To connect, learn, and share with other customers, join and participate in our Clarity Broadcom Community.

For a list of free Education courses, please visit Broadcom Academy. We update courses based on functional impact as well as high demand; therefore, courses created from previous releases may apply to the current release.

NOTE ABOUT THE “STAFFING PLAN” WORKSPACE: With the release of Clarity 16.0.2, Broadcom announced our plan to deprecate the Staffing Plan workspace. The Staffing Plan workspace will no longer be enhanced, and we plan to remove the Staffing Plan workspace from the product in the 16.1.2 release scheduled for May 2023. This advance notice is being provided to allow your organization to plan a smooth transition to the new Staffing workspace.

END OF SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: In keeping with evolving software industry practice, Clarity Product Management now communicates the End date for each release at the time of release. This change allows customers greater flexibility in your upgrade planning process. In accordance with the Broadcom Service/End of Life Policy within the “Working with CA Support” guide available at Broadcom Support Online, please consider this communication your written notification that support for Clarity Release 16.1.1, all patch levels, all languages, will be discontinued as of November 30, 2025.

Please review the Broadcom End of Service / End of Life Policy within the “Working with CA Support” guide available at Support by navigating to the Broadcom Support Policy and Terms link.

Thank you again for your business.