August 19, 2024

To:         Clarity Customers

From:     Broadcom’s Clarity Product Team

Subject: General Availability Announcement for Clarity Release 16.2.3

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

New features for Clarity Release 16.2.3 include:

 Customer Voice

• Audit information is now separated into two tabs: Attributes and Per-Period Metrics to improve usability by providing a clear separation of unique and unrelated data
• To be more concise, renamed the ‘Team’ object to ‘Staff’ (new user experience only)
• PDF export now displays the instance Name for a Roadmap Timeline, Task Timeline, and Hierarchy (Investments) Timeline
• Views
  • Enable Administrators to control end user ability to share ‘Views’ with other people or groups *
  • Ability to share saved Views with groups or people from the Actions Framework *
• Quality of life improvement enabling users to drag & drop (via mouse) to remove a column from the Grid and when configuring Canvas Tables
• Updated user experience for the non-searchable drop-downs to auto size (horizontally) based upon its content (e.g., Actions for starting processes) *
• Optional ‘Help Text’ attribute available on all second-level Sub-objects in Blueprints, providing end users with additional instructions or guidance

Transforming Investment Management

• Ability to configure ‘Open for Time Entry’ for selected Assignments *
• Project and Custom Investment Task Timelines now provide a new Action to ‘Update Cost Totals’ *
• From within any Investment, compare a Cost or Budget Plan to another Cost or Budget Plan having matching Grouping Attributes *
• Risks, Issues, and Change Requests now consume a 'Restricted User' license (vs. Full Function) for Create, Edit, Edit - All, Delete, and Delete – All access rights (including XOG Access right)

Lifecycle & Workflow Management

• Introducing Action Item Proxy support in the new user experience *
• Business Rules
  • Control hiding or showing attributes, modules, or sections on second level Sub-objects

 Business Intelligence (includes Bigger Better Reporting)

• Canvas:
  • Conditionally format Table cells or rows, using background color with bold, italic, or strikethrough font style, when specified attributes meet a predetermined condition
  • The Bar widget can optionally display multiple metrics in a stacked or clustered format *
  • The Bar widget can optionally display per-period-metrics

Work for the Rest of Us (Checklists and Mobile)

• Ability to view and manage Conversations from the Clarity mobile app

 People-Centric Planning

• Resource Directory: (BETA)
  • Provide the ability to view resource relationships based upon ‘Booking Manager’
  • Resource card attributes can be configured using drag-n-drop
• Staffing workspace
  • The Allocation Timelines can now display the Actuals per-period metric *
  • In the Timeline view, staffing managers can quickly edit allocations without having to open the ‘Edit Allocations’ modal
  • To improve the user experience, pagination is available for each Staffing Timeline view: Allocations by Investment; Allocations by Resource; Assignments by Investment; and Assignments by Resource
• Skills *
  • With a new Skills object, create and maintain a Skills inventory
    • Includes the ability to import Skills using a CSV file (BETA)
  • For a Resource, associated multiple Skills via the Skills module
  • Automatically assign color badges to Skills associated with Resources
• Plans: (BETA)
  • Support for renaming of Investment OBS Plans
  • Improved user experience for switching between ‘rounds’
  • Ability to manage Plans with the inclusion of a ‘Current Round’ smart filter
  • Provide the ability to Version, Sync, and Recall Resource Plans
  • Introducing a Plan Blueprint to control Plan modules available to end users
  • Provide ‘View Page’ business rules to disable editing attributes; editing or deleting the Plan; hiding Actions, Attributes, Modules, or Sections

 OKR Management

• Administrators can configure custom third level Sub-objects associated with the Key Result Sub-object *
• Key Result attributes (Start Value, Target Value, and Current Value) now support up to two (2) decimal places

Strategic & Top-Down Planning

• Hierarchies
  • Ability to configure a process on the Hierarchy object, which can be initiated via On-demand or Auto-start
  • Create a new Hierarchy, update Hierarchy properties, and add or remove Hierarchy Investments via API

3 A’s of AI (Ask, Act, Advise) (BETA)

• Enhanced content generation with added support for ‘Parent’ context for Sub-object prompts
• Improve data quality with the capability to grade existing content based on a specific methodology

* 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.

This release includes improvements 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.

Update to Clarity Restricted User Licensing terms:

• To align with customer trends to adopt automated methods of cost accounting (includes time keeping), Broadcom is changing the definition of a Clarity Restricted user
• User definition: “User,” unless otherwise defined in any terms and conditions referenced in the Transaction Document entered into by Customer and Broadcom, means the number of specific individuals: 1) who are authorized by Customer to use the Broadcom Software on behalf of Customer; or 2) who are not authorized by Customer to use the Broadcom Software but for whom the Broadcom Software maintains a unique identifier and processes transactional data containing the unique identifier as a primary element of the relevant records.
• Restricted User definition: "Restricted Users (f/k/a Team Member user)" means Customer’s designated Users who have limited rights to the functions within the Broadcom Software licensed, and may only (i) view data and run reports in all licensed products; (ii) collaboratively participate in processes, discussions and document sharing and receive notifications in all licensed products; (iii) view project tasks and calendars, and report and approve time and project status; and (iv) enter and view status of ideas. For avoidance of doubt, a Restricted User may not modify the design of any report. Restricted Users also include Users who are not authorized to use the Broadcom Software but for whom the Broadcom Software maintains a unique identifier and processes transactional data containing the unique identifier as a primary element of the relevant records.
• Additional information on how we calculate the Restricted User can be found in our product documentation.

If you are an On-Premise customer, you can download your copy of Clarity Release 16.2.3 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 16.2.3 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.

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 16.2.3, all patch levels, all languages, will be discontinued as of November 30, 2026.

Please review the Clarity Release and Support Lifecycle Dates available at Broadcom Support.

Thank you again for your business.