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A review of how Northern Trust integrates financial systems with Clarity PPM bilaterally, providing the Finance organization crucial information, and NT Project Managers with a birds-eye view of project financials. Utilizing the Rego Data Extractor and the Rego Data Processor, these information exchanges help Portfolio and Project Managers eliminate their manual and redundant efforts, solidify their overall data accuracy, and dramatically improve the content provided to their Execs for decision-making. -
By its very nature, the shift to Product Funding is going to require that tracking of that funding. Agile tools do not have much, if any, financial capabilities, so it is important to create an eco-system that can support this value stream—from funding, through delivery, and finally to tracking the realization of financial value. Learn how Rally and Clarity PPM do this very well together. -
The Turn off Notifications process disables all Email, SMS and Alerts notifications for all users. This process is helpful if users would not like to receive emails from the system regarding actions items, timesheet submissions, etc. The script may be modified to include all users or all users that have been created within the last day. -
The Update Email Ids workflow sets all users’ email addresses to non-working by appending a “ZZZZ” to the end of the email address. This process is used for when there are refreshes to your Development or Testing environments and do not want emails going to users. When complete, the log will display the total amount of email addresses updated. A second process is included in this workflow that will revert the email addresses to remove the “ZZZZ” added in the first workflow. In some instances, the process may be run in error, or you may want to send emails from a Development or Testing environment; using this second process you will be able to enable all emails again. -
The Time By Resource and Investment - PM portlet shows time spent on projects where the logged in user is the project manager. This portlet is used to get a snapshot of investments and the time that has been put against them at the individual resource level for the projects that user has access to. This portlet is used for determining what resources have put time against specific investments and can be used to see where resources are spending their time or to help rationalize ETCs for remaining work for planning purposes. The portlet may be filtered by time-scale, date, resource or investment to narrow the search results. -
The Projects That Should Be Closed portlet displays all projects that have been created before the specified filter date and has had no new time, tasks, or risks/issues updated after the dates specified in the filter. This can assist in identifying projects that are completed or cancelled and should be closed. The table below describes the available columns in the portlet. Column Label Description Project Name Name of the project PM Manager of the project Created Date Created Date of the project Start Start Date of the project Finish Finish Date of the project Created Date Check Identifies if the project meets the Created Before (Days) filter Risks/Issues Check Identifies if the project meets the Risk/Issues – Days Back filter Task Check Identifies if the project meets the Task – Days Back filter Time Check Identifies if the project meets the Time – Days Back filter Project Check Identifies if the project meets the portlet filter Criteria id Internal code used by the query -
The Project Cost Plan Variance displays the variance between the budget and cost plans for projects the logged in user has security rights to view. The total for the Cost Plan that is marked as the Plan of Record for the project (Current Cost Plan Total), alongside the total for the current approved Budget Plan (Current Budget Plan Total). These two values are then compared in order to generate the total current Variance for the project. A positive amount in the Variance column indicates the project is under budget, while a negative amount indicates the project is over budget. Results may be filtered by: Project ID, Project Name, Manager, and whether the project is Active (Yes, No, All). By default, the portlet will display only Active projects. -
The Job Schedule Details portlet shows al jobs and displays all of the scheduled and non-scheduled information for those jobs – including the months, days, hours, and minutes. It also displays the last time the job was updated and whether or not the job was custom or a CA job. The portlet will help the administrator understand the current job schedule configuration. The table below describes the available columns in the portlet. The first 10 are configured in the default view:Column Label Description Name Name of the Job Description Description of the Job CA Job? Whether this is CA Job? Yes or No Scheduled Scheduled Status of the Job. Yes or No Months Months the Job is scheduled to run Days Days the Job is scheduled to run Hours Hours the Job is scheduled to run Minutes Minutes the Job is scheduled to run Active Status of Job. Active or Inactive Last Updated Date the Job was Last Updated Code Unique internal Code of the Job Created By Name of Resource who created the Job Date Created Date the Job was created Executable Executable of the Job Job Code Unique Code of the Job Schedule Date Scheduled date of the Job run Type Type Updated By Name of Resource who updated the Job -
The Job Schedule Details portlet shows al jobs and displays all of the scheduled and non-scheduled information for those jobs – including the months, days, hours, and minutes. It also displays the last time the job was updated and whether or not the job was custom or a CA job. The portlet will help the administrator understand the current job schedule configuration. The table below describes the available columns in the portlet. The first 10 are configured in the default view:Column Label Description Name Name of the Job Description Description of the Job CA Job? Whether this is CA Job? Yes or No Scheduled Scheduled Status of the Job. Yes or No Months Months the Job is scheduled to run Days Days the Job is scheduled to run Hours Hours the Job is scheduled to run Minutes Minutes the Job is scheduled to run Active Status of Job. Active or Inactive Last Updated Date the Job was Last Updated Code Unique internal Code of the Job Created By Name of Resource who created the Job Date Created Date the Job was created Executable Executable of the Job Job Code Unique Code of the Job Schedule Date Scheduled date of the Job run Type Type Updated By Name of Resource who updated the Job -
The Capacity Graph portlet displays Availability, Allocations, Actuals and Assignments for a Clarity user in a single view. This portlet pulls data from timeslices, and allows the user to filter on a weekly, monthly or quarterly data. The Estimated Time to Complete (ETC) and Allocation data will only show for projects that are active. This portlet provides a Clarity user with a simple way to analyse their: Allocations vs. Availability, Allocations vs. Actuals, Allocations vs. ETC and ETC vs. Availability. The graph allows the user to determine where areas of improvement may exist and quickly identify potential areas of constraint.

