With our experience in project management and CA Clarity it is natural that we provide Clarity services. We provide multiple services and are happy to customize an offering to meet your needs for Clarity implementation, configuration, maintenance, integration and reporting.
CA Clarity Offerings
| Project Management | Please contact us if you need help planning or executing your Clarity implementation project. We are happy to work as your Clarity project manager and coordinate with the CA Client Services Project Manager. We can also perform all implementation tasks if requested. |
| Architecture/Design | We can assist in gathering requirements, determining the optimal architecture for your Clarity instance and documenting the design in preparation for configuration. |
| Configuration | We can assist configuring Clarity to the requirements, and testing to ensure compliance with the requirements. We recommend working with the users in JAD (joint application development) sessions to gather the richest possible feedback. |
| Portlet Development | Portlets are a powerful means to deliver information on demand and especially useful in creating dashboards at all levels. We can assist in documenting requirements, developing SQL and NSQL, building the portlet, and testing to ensure compliance with the requirements. We recommend working with the users in JAD (joint application development) sessions to gather the richest possible feedback. |
| Reporting | Clarity provides Portlets and Portlet Pages to delivery information online but there are times where printed reports are desirable. We strongly believe that the information presented in portlets must be consistent with the data presented in reports. For this reason, we follow a model of using SQL functions and views to provide the data to both portlets and reports. This improves code reuse, reduces maintenance costs and guarantees data consistency. We can assist in documenting requirements, developing SQL, building the report, and testing to ensure compliance with the requirements. We recommend working with the users in JAD (joint application development) sessions to gather the richest possible feedback on the reports. |
| Data Extraction | We recognize that often our clients prefer to develop their own reports but need assistance with extracting the data necessary for the reports. We have extensive knowledge of the Clarity tables and can create SQL as well as SQL Functions and Views to provide the required data. You may find the data you need in the Business Objects Universes but if not please give us a call and we can create the SQL required to extract your data. |
| Integration | There are many situations where data needs to flow to and from Clarity from other systems. Clarity offers an API for many data objects or direct DML (data manipulation language) may be executed directly against the Clarity tables. The recommended approach is to the API but this is not possible in all cases. Interfaces are typically developed in JAVA but we have also found value in using C#.NET when tight integration with a desktop or Windows environment is required. |
| Generic Interfaces | There are some tasks that are common across installations and we have a library of JAVA and C#.NET code for some of these requirements. There are some such as the generic export interface that can be used without modification and others that require modification for your specific purposes. Please contact us if you feel that you have a common need that could be met with our existing tools. |