May 22, 2023

To:         Clarity Customers

From:     Broadcom’s Clarity Product Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for Clarity Release 16.1.2

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 16.1.2 is now available for On-Premise and SaaS customers.

New features for Clarity Release 16.1.2 include:

 Transforming Investment Management

• Enable users to copy Tasks between Investments or within an Investment*
• Represent more complex Task Dependencies in the Details Fly-out*
• Configure which Investments can be mapped to a Parent Investment
• Project Tiles page includes the ability to filter for Starred Projects
• Continuing work in Advanced Visualizations
  • All Chart Widgets expand to display more values
  • Canvases have new Table Widgets and Widget configuration options, such as the ability to expand or increase display size within the canvas.
  • Configuration capabilities to reorder & group tiles in the Custom Investment & Custom Object workspaces
  • Export all canvases to PDF.

 Reinventing Resource Management

• Staffing - Allocation Timeline
  • Configure percentage over/under allocation thresholds
  • Support for Hard allocations (e.g., filtering, columns)
  • Filter for Starred Investments and Resources
• Resources
  • Blueprint enabled, with Custom Sub-Object and Channel support*

 Providing Financial Transparency

• Visibility into all unposted transactions originating from any source in a new Transactions workspace

 Lifecycle Management (incl. Demand Mgmt.)

• Notifications in Smart Automation
  • A new Library is available to create General Notifications for Master Objects and associated Sub-Objects
  • Configured Send Conditions for Notifications
  • Improved user experience for notifications accessed from the Bell icon
  • User configuration settings for General Notifications (Alert, Email, and SMS)
• Augmented Audit
  • Visibility for Record name & ID and Grandparent name
  • Enabled for Investment Financial Plans and Details
  • Enabled for 3rd Level Sub-Objects (e.g., Assignments)

 Business Intelligence & Mobile

• Timesheet level notes
• Return own timesheet
• View future time periods for My Timesheet
• App Branding options
• User Settings page

 Top-Down Planning

• Roadmaps
  • Updated the default selection when Syncing Linked Items from “Without Events” to “With Events”
  • Option to sync Parent & Type fields
  • Timeline View Options for “Snap to Period” (BETA)*
• Hierarchies
  • Hierarchy visual Layout Options (Horizontal, Vertical, Tree, Double Line, Compact)
  • Introducing Canvas functionality, including Table and Chart Widgets for Investments, Staff, Risks, Issues, Changes, Status, Financials and Custom Sub-Objects
• Plans in Workforce Modeling (BETA)
  • Support to manage “working copy” vs. “version copy”
  • Additional Resource & Investment dimensions
  • Ability to associate the Plan object with an OBS

 Clarity Connections (Clarity-Rally)

• Foundations for OKR Management
  • Introduction of out of the box Objectives & Key Results, with Targets and Actuals
  • The new OKRs integrate with Rally

 Customer Voice

• Additional grid support for multiple ‘Group By’ (up to 3)
• Option to hide or show Totals row aggregation values without using ‘Group By’ in all grids*
• Display an asterisk on the Properties module & Details flyout for business rule required attributes
• Custom (Master) Object support for TSVs with CSV import
• Separate navigation rights for each Administration Tile*
• Boards: Automatically hide the "None" column and swim lane when empty
• Option to prioritize Access Rights over Field Level Security (FLS)*
• Checklists: Granting Co-Ownership when Moving Checklists, Creating from Templates, and Converting Ideas to Projects
• Checklists: Retaining To Do Status on Idea Conversion to Project
• A visual indicator identifying an unsaved state for a new row in the grid (in addition to color)
• Clarity’s ‘wrap text’ capability updated to break in between words for both column headers & grid cell content
• 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 16.1.2 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 16.1.2 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 May 2022 release of Clarity 16.0.2, Broadcom announced the plan to deprecate the Staffing Plan workspace. The Staffing Plan workspace will no longer be enhanced, and the Staffing Plan workspace is being removed from the product in the 16.1.2 release in May 2023. Customers should use the Staffing workspace in lieu of this functionality.

NOTE ABOUT THE “FINANCIAL PLANS” MODULE: Broadcom is announcing the deprecation of the Financial Plans module within Projects and is scheduled to be removed in the May 2024 release (16.2.2). The Financial Plans module within Projects will no longer be enhanced, and maintenance and technical support will be discontinued effective May 20, 2024. Customers should use the Financials module within Projects in lieu of this functionality.

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 16.1.2, 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.