CA Technologies introduces SaaS-Based iPad App

CA Technologies has announced a mobile app "CA Clarity Playbook" that empowers CXOs to strategically manage their organization’s technology investments in the context of their high-level business goals and objectives from their iPads.

Delivered via a SaaS model, this app also makes it easy for CXOs to quickly collaborate with the key process stakeholders and respond more quickly to changing business needs anywhere, any time. The app integrates with CA Clarity PPM and other systems of record to provide CXOs with the intuitive dashboard-style mobile workspace.

Lokesh Jindal, General Manager, Service and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies, said, "IT and the business have to work hand in hand to create new revenue streams and deliver a differentiated brand experience – even in the face of finite structural and human resources.CA Clarity Playbook enables this critical coordination by giving executives the ability to nimbly adapt plans, activities and priorities."

Cameron McNaught, Senior Vice-President & Head of Cloud and Strategic Solutions, International Business, Fujitsu, said, "With CA Clarity Playbook, CA Technologies is directly responding to this confluence of complexity and criticality with a solution that gives corporate managers much-needed control of technology resource allocation and performance."

The app can draw from information sources both in the cloud and across the enterprise to keep strategic initiatives on track and aligned to organizational goals.

Users can access CA Clarity Playbook workspace from an iPad app or from a tablet or desktop running an HTML5-compatible web browser.