August 21, 2023

To:         Clarity Customers

From:     Broadcom’s Clarity Product Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for Clarity Release 16.1.3

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

New features for Clarity Release 16.1.3 include:

Top-Down Planning

• Roadmaps
  • Create swimlane groups in the Timeline
  • Collapse & expand swimlanes & swimlane groups in the Timeline
  • Single-select lookups available as Badges on the Timeline
  • Create events from Roadmap Item dates (independent of a linked Investment)
  • Canvas support now available, including Table and Chart Widgets
  • Schedule sync for linked investments *
• Hierarchies
  • Enhanced Card Configuration in the Tree View
  • Tasks module available including Calendar, Board, & Grid layouts with configurable visual widgets
  • Additional Investment attributes for configured Sub-Object Modules
  • Parent & Level attributes for configured Sub-Object Modules
• Plans in Workforce Modeling (BETA)
  • Generate a Plan by Investment OBS with support for FTE, Hours, & Days
  • Administration configuration tools to control which attributes are included in a selected Plan
  • Ability to synchronize a Plan with underlying Investments & Staff

Transforming Investment Management

• Enable users to copy Custom Investments & Ideas *
• Risks, Issues, and Change objects name field length increased to 256 characters
• Timesheet/Time Entry Note Date
• Extended Canvas support for Advanced Visualizations
  • Status Report: Updated to leverage enhanced Chart & Table widgets and additional Target Objects (e.g., Tasks, Risks, Issues, Changes, Staff, Financials, To Dos, & Investment Custom Sub-Objects)
  • Investment: Additional Target Objects (e.g., Staff, Financials, & Status)

Reinventing Resource Management

• Supporting the evolution to Perpetual Teams
  • Teams: Existing Teams converted to Investments and available in a new workspace
  • Teams: Convert Teams Flyout to Staff (from Resources)
  • Teams: Reorder & group Team tiles with Copy & Create from Template support
• Staffing
  • Allocation Timeline split into separate work areas with the names of ‘Allocation by Investment’ and ‘Allocation by Resource’ *
  • Introducing new work areas for ‘Assignments by Investment’ and ‘Assignments by Resource’ (includes Actuals & ETCs) *

Providing Financial Transparency

• Visibility into all cross-investment transactions in a new Posted Transactions workspace

Lifecycle Management (incl. Demand Mgmt.)

• Process Action Items in Augmented Audit
  • Option to provide end users with a navigation link to the Modern UX
• Notifications in Smart Automation
  • Email and Bell notifications include a navigation link based on the target object (including Sub-Objects)
  • Added ability to notify a To Do Owner or Task Assignees

My Workspace & Mobile

• Checklists
  • The ability to add a Note to a To Do
  • Conversation feed grouping in My Workspace
• Mobile
  • Introducing Checklists

Clarity Connections (Clarity-Rally)

• OKR Management
  • Option for OBS security on Objectives
  • Custom Sub-Object support for Objectives
  • To-Dos support for Key Results
  • Pre-configured display mappings for the OKR attributes
    • Objective: Confidence Score
    • Objective: Progress
    • Key Result: Progress
  • Introducing a hierarchical (or nested) Objectives and Key Results grid view
• Continued work in Advanced Visualizations
  • Introducing a Hierarchy for Objectives (includes Parent attribute)
  • Canvas support now available, including Table and Chart Widgets

Customer Voice

• Ability to share a saved view in the form of a URL link for others with required access to data *
• Picklists: Introducing a security right to delete picklists (even if you did not create them) *
• View Options: Ability to pick 'x' number of periods based on Start Date *
• Improved ‘View Options’ user experience for Per-Period Metrics converting the selection from a lookup to a toggle
• Rich Text capability extended to support Images & Tables
• Optional ‘Help Text’ attribute available on all Blueprints providing end users with additional instructions or guidance
• Create from Template capability extended to Agreements, Custom Objects, & Objectives
• Ability for administrators to configure Blueprint Properties for both out-of-the-box and Custom Sub-Objects for end-user consumption *
• Introducing a hierarchical (or nested) Custom (Master) Object grid view
• Persist Board column and swimlane collapse/expand state per user
• Field Level Security has been modified to secure Active & Template attributes for edit access only
• Introducing the capability to inform a user when master object data in view has been updated by another user
• Introducing the new API to manage Links in the Modern UX
• 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 16.1.3 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 16.1.3 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 “FINANCIAL PLANS” MODULE: Broadcom is announcing the deprecation of the Project Financial Plans module and is scheduled to be removed in the May 2024 release (16.2.2). The Project Financial Plans module will no longer be enhanced, and maintenance and technical support will be discontinued effective May 20, 2024. Customers should use the Project Financials module 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 16.1.3, 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.