CA Technologies has announced that it has been positioned in the “Leaders” quadrant in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analysis Applications (IIPA)” report.
According to the Gartner report, “Leaders in the IIPA Magic Quadrant meet many portfolio management needs of multiple domains within IT. Thus, the products of the Leaders can, among other things, support many different IT portfolio scenarios and multiple IT domain roles, while interweaving these portfolios and scenarios through the identification of interrelationships and interdependencies.”
“To drive optimised business outcomes, CIOs need to make decisions based on a single of source of truth about IT services, applications, projects and assets. This makes IIPA critical for business success,” said Lokesh Jindal, General Manager, Service and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies. “We believe our leadership in this vital set of decision-making disciplines affirms the trust customers have placed in us by making us their strategic PPM partner.”
According to Gartner, “The IIPA market consists of vendors providing the integration of individual portfolios – for investments, projects, assets and IT services – to present a more holistic story regarding the true state of the IT portfolio.”
CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), helps customers improve their bottom-line performance by continuously aligning the allocation of their finite resources with their constantly changing business needs. It supports both execution-level PPM customers and project portfolio-level PPM customers and can be deployed on-premises or as a service.
In addition to CA Technologies placement as a leader in the Magic Quadrant, the company received a “strong positive” – the highest rating possible – in Gartner’s “MarketScope for Project and Portfolio Management Software Applications” report.