February 9th, 2026

To:         Clarity Customers

From:     Clarity Product Team

Subject: General Availability Announcement for Clarity Release 16.4.1

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 16.4.1 is now available for On-Premises and SaaS customers. 

With the release of Clarity 16.4.1 we have made enhancements to the following capabilities:

Customer Voice

• Ability for an Instantaneous aggregation of calculations of custom Aggregate Calculated Attribute on the parent from children without the need for page refresh.
• Introducing TSV 'Per-Period Metric' fields for labor resources of the Actuals, Estimates (ETC) and Total Usage values rolled up from Assignments.
• The start date of a new task will be set to the start date of the parent task or investment.*
• Ability to filter for audit records based on the attribute name (supports relabeled name)*
• View Options is enhanced to allow selecting ‘Prior Period’ to End Period and ‘Next Period’ to Start Period*
• In Report Designer, Viewer, and Scheduler, when using “Days” in “Periods”, the Standard Calendar now has the smart options for Current, Previous, Next Time Periods

3 Stages of AI: Generative, Agentic & Predictive

• Vaia is now GA. We have removed the beta tag from Vaia capabilities.
• All previous AI Actions listed under “Enabled AI” are moved to “AI Agents”. 
• AI Agents can be used for generating and summarizing information.
• AI Agents definition will support using documents as a data source.
• Vaia will now support Gemini API with API Keys.
• Several other general usability enhancements to Vaia.

Foundations for Future Insights (fka Business Intelligence)

Enhancements to Data Warehouse

• Several new attributes are added to Data Warehouse schema 
• Ability to see Actuals from the Timesheet object in the DWH as a SQL Curve
• Hierarchies and Roadmap data in DWH now supports row level security 
• Minor enhancements are made to the Instantaneous Load Data Warehouse functionality.

Enhancements to OData Service

• OData Service is available to our OnPremise customers
• OData Service will support Clarity deployed on Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server.
• OData Service will support row level security

Enhancements to Data Providers

• Ability to associate lookups to query attributes within a data provider query.
• Ability to filter query data, within data provider query, based on logged in user’s resource ID, user ID, UU ID, user name, locale, and language.
• Ability to choose periods from the standard calendar, in addition to the fiscal calendar, in the data provider preview grid.
• Ability to create new Calculated Dimensions and Metrics in data providers.

Enhancements to Report Designer

• Enhancements to Attribute groups widget
• Ability to breakdown dimensions for Bar/Column/Line even when periods are off.
• New advanced chart types: Bubble, Split Packed Bubble, and Gantt
• Ability to perform Max/Min/Average aggregation for Pie and Donut
• Usability enhancement when returning from a drill down report back to the main report. We will bring the user back to the original location of the main report.
• Ability to perform date comparison in filter that allows users to compare data between two selected date ranges or specific dates 
• Table widget column picker is moved to table properties to improve usability.
• Ability for the user to customize how Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) data is displayed, grouped, and filtered within reports
• Ability to display Resource-level Availability and Remaining with Investment Staff Allocations

Enhancements to Reports

• General usability improvements for Report Scheduling and Publishing
• General enhancements to exporting attribute group
• General enhancements to autofitting multiple tables, charts and attribute groups
• General enhancements to managing report filters
• Report migration functionality now supports updates and deletes (BETA).
• "Object Grouping" labels will not be displayed in headers of Table widgets oft reports
• Option to exclude the Tab placeholders in Scheduled Report Exports
• Ability to copy existing Report Schedules 

General Enhancements

• Enhanced Time Slicing Sync Job to allow customers more control of SQLCurve Data 
• Ability for OnPremise customers to register their Clarity instance
• New “Read Only” user for Clarity database
• Ability to update user groups and other user attributes as part of the SAML request.
• New job to perform database cleanup

* 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 & 2.2 A, 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).

If you are an On-Premises customer, you can download your copy of Clarity Release 16.4.1 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 16.4.1 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. 

End of Service Announcement for Clarity 16.4.1

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 terms and conditions, guidelines, and parameters of Broadcom’s support program, documented in the Broadcom Maintenance Policy Handbook, please consider this communication your written notification that support for Clarity Release 16.4.1, all patch levels, all languages, will be discontinued as of November 30, 2028.

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

Third Notice: End of Life announcement for CA Business Intelligence (e.g., Advanced Reporting powered by Jaspersoft)

In accordance with the Broadcom Software Maintenance Policy Handbook, please consider this letter your written notification of the End of Life for CA Business Intelligence. This offering will no longer be enhanced, maintenance & technical support will be discontinued, and the SaaS version of this offering will no longer be accessible effective September 30, 2026.

Clarity SaaS customers

• For Clarity SaaS customers, CA Business Intelligence for Clarity (Clarity Advanced Reporting powered by Jaspersoft) will be removed as part of the production 16.4.3 upgrade scheduled for September 11, 2026.

Clarity on-premises customers

• Clarity on-premises customers, having installed CA Business Intelligence (e.g., Advanced Reporting powered by Jaspersoft) prior to September 30, 2026, can continue to contact Broadcom Support (Level 1) after September 30, 2026, for basic administration, configuration, usage, and trouble-shooting of CA Business Intelligence on an "as is" basis if installed in conjunction with a currently supported Clarity version. 
  • Jaspersoft-based reporting will no longer be available via Reports & Jobs. 
  • The Advanced Reporting console will no longer be available to run the following:
  • Jaspersoft Studio Reports
  • Ad hoc Views/Reports
  • Dashboards
  • Domains
  • Classic Object Actions that call Jaspersoft-based reports will no longer function.
  • Modern UX Channels that point to Jaspersoft-based reports will no longer function.
• If a workaround cannot be determined, the customer understands that their problem will be deemed "irresolvable." 
• Extended Support contracts are not specifically available for CA Business Intelligence (Advanced Reporting powered by Jaspersoft). Customers do NOT need to make any specific request to receive this Level 1 Support after September 30, 2026.
• Finally, with the release of Clarity 16.5.0 (November 9, 2026), please be aware of the following conditions:

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

Thank you again for your business.