August 11, 2025

To:         Clarity Customers

From:     Clarity Product Team

Subject: General Availability Announcement for Clarity Release 16.3.3

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

New features for Clarity Release 16.3.3 include:

 Expanding to Projects and Products

• Frictionless Cost Accounting (aka Frictionless Time)
  • Provide users with the ability to visually determine if a Timesheet entry was automatically populated (e.g., sourced from Rally) or manually entered.
  • Administrators have a new Auto-submit Timesheets job to automatically Submit an individual's Timesheet – the job processes all Timesheets matching selected job parameters having an open or returned status
  • Administrators have a new Auto-approve Timesheets job to automatically Approve an individual’s Timesheet- the job processes all Timesheets matching selected job parameters having a submitted status
  • The license portlet is updated to capture and report consumption of Frictionless Cost Accounting teams
• Improved navigation between Clarity and Rally with an interactive ‘Formatted ID’
• Mobile (in support of Frictionless Cost Accounting)
  • End-user option to create Timesheets for Investments w/o the need to allocate Staff or create Assignments (e.g., support Time Entry for Unstaffed Resources attribute)
  • View and submit financial work type Timesheet entries (e.g., Time entries automatically created from Rally)
  • New Time Entry user action, Add Assigned Tasks (with ETC), which will automatically populate Timesheets from Assignments

 People-Centric Planning

• Introducing a Resource > Investment module, configured via Blueprint, which displays a filtered listing of all Investments for which a resource is allocated *
  • The Investment module can be accessed by selecting either a resource from the Investment > Staff module, from the Resource workspace, or from the Resource Directory
• Provide investment managers the ability to aggregate ‘default allocation percentage’ within a single investment or across investments *

 Providing Financial Transparency

• For multi-currency enabled environments, Roadmap users can view all roadmap item ‘money’ fields using a selected currency *
• Improved user experience providing the ability to modify (or edit) Cost and Budget Plan Details after initial creation *
• Business Rule support for Cost Plans, Budget Plans, and Benefit Plans and Details
• Enable Source (e.g., Manual or Populate Action) attribute on Cost and Budget Plan Details rows

Business Intelligence (Includes Foundations for Future Insights)

• The Reporting workspace has been upgraded to General Availability (GA) status (removed the BETA label)
• Additional capabilities have been incorporated in the new ‘Reporting’ workspace supporting the Report Designer, Report Scheduling, Report Viewing in terms of export capabilities, including Data Provider design and Data Warehouse updates
• Report Viewer
  • View and use report-level filters (when enabled by the Report Designer)
    • Filter modifications are maintained while in a browser session
  • Users can now export reports to PDF and CSV (data table extraction format only), in addition to PPTX
  • A new 'data extraction (CSV)' report layout format is available which allows for export to a grid (e.g., Table widget) to CSV
  • A notification banner informs the user a selected export format is being generated and that a notification will appear under the ‘bell’ icon
  • New report content now incorporated in either PDF or PPTX formats
    • Text, Link, Image, & Line widgets
    • Widget border padding & Table grid cell spacing
    • Widget styling such as font size; left, right, center alignment; bold, italics, underline, strikethrough; text color, and fill color options
    • Column and Row per-period metric orientation settings
    • Groups expanded or collapsed settings
    • Group count display setting
    • Chart, Bar, or Column colors configured to use Studio display mapping
    • Standard calendar per-period metrics
    • Attribute groups containing metrics and values with decimals
    • Display attribute types; Value, Display range description, & Display range description and Value
  • All report Tabs are exported, to either PPTX or PDF, regardless of the report being generated is via schedule or ad hoc manner
  • When using filters, the system now retrieves all lookup values (e.g., static, static dependent, and dynamic) and metadata from the source transactional lookup in terms of data, security, auto-suggest, value sorting, and filtering criteria
• Report Scheduling
  • Users can email reports to one or more individuals with an option to provide a report as an attachment or a direct link to the report library
  • Users can view scheduled reports in a report library with an option to download
  • Users can view report scheduled delivery status with Log details related to start, complete and additional comments within the report fly-out
  • Users can notify individuals or groups of report scheduled delivery status such as ‘notify on completion’ or ‘notify on failure’
  • When configuring filters, the system now retrieves all lookup values (e.g., static, static dependent, and dynamic) and metadata from the source transactional lookup in terms of data, security, auto-suggest, value sorting, and filtering criteria
• Report Designer
  • Ability to create drill down reports which offer navigation one-level down from one widget to another
  • The ability to create and save multiple report-level filters and name each
  • Option to provide report-level saved filters to the Report Viewer
  • Improved report design with ability to add widget to a canvas using drag-and-drop
  • Ability to incorporate Text, Link, Image, & Line widgets in a report canvas
  • Control Widget border padding & Table grid cell spacing
  • Ability to display per-period metrics is a vertical (row) orientation (in addition to horizontal (or column) orientation
  • Option to display all groups expanded or collapsed
  • Option to display group counts
  • Option to display Chart, Bar, or Column colors using Studio display mapping
  • Option to use display attribute types; Value, Display range description, or Display range description and Value
  • In support of the Reporting workspace upgrade to General Availability (GA) status, numerous user experience improvements have been included related to table auto-fit use, preview mode, widget movement or placement in design mode, default per-period metric settings for column and bar charts, adding/removing columns from table widgets, etc…
  • When configuring filters, the system now retrieves all lookup values (e.g., static, static dependent, and dynamic) and metadata from the source transactional lookup in terms of data, security, auto-suggest, value sorting, and filtering criteria
• Data Providers (building blocks for the new reporting solution)
  • When configuring filters, the system now retrieves all lookup values (e.g., static, static dependent, and dynamic) and metadata from the source transactional lookup in terms of data, security, auto-suggest, value sorting, and filtering criteria
• Data Warehouse (DWH)
  • Continued improvements to the DWH providing a standard approach to identify when a lookup is NULL or NOT NULL by offering the end user filtering tools such as ‘Is Empty’ and ‘Is Not Empty’
  • Deliver ‘Day’ per- period-metric support in addition to years, quarters, and months
  • Continued improvements to the DWH option to refresh the DWH instantaneously

 Customer Voice

• Introducing an expandable tree option for the Task grid view in the Investment > Task module *
• Parent Task details are now available when using the configurable filtering capabilities from either the Task timeline view or expandable Task tree grid view in the Investment > Task module *
• Field Level Security (FLS) has been expanded to control updates to the Assignment object *
• The Assignment object ‘ETC’ scalar field is now an editable field in the new user experience *
• The OWB and MSP Scheduler actions are removed, to streamline the Investment > Task module Actions menu, when the Investment Manager configures the ‘Scheduler Format’ to ‘None’ *
• Updated the Task object with a new ‘Has Dependencies’ attribute with Dependent Task Status, Dependent Task Start, and Dependent Task Finish fields available from the task fly-out *
• The 'Update % Complete' job now includes parameters for Investment Name, Manager, Investment OBS, OBS Mode, and Include Milestones when Updating Task Status
• Administrators can selectively disable access to Clarity’s Classic user experience by granting access to certain security groups *
• Resolved several Modern UX data refresh issues caused by frequent data updates, business rules, or process updates
• API enhancements to address specific use cases and integration capabilities:
  • Ability to overwrite auto-numbering when creating an investment from a template
  • Ability to retrieve resource’s avatar
  • Ability to discover Transactions externalID
  • Ability to discover an MVL attribute within the Attributes listing

* Key improvements delivered through the Clarity Customer Innovation Panel process

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 16.3.3 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 16.3.3 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 for Clarity 16.3.3

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 16.3.3, all patch levels, all languages, will be discontinued as of November 30, 2027.

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

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.
  • 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:
    • 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.

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

Thank you again for your business.