Clarity Release 16.4.0: These Features Will Move You Forward!

In the final release of 2025, Broadcom has added a wide range of helpful features to the PPM software Clarity. With the ability to configure AI agents, Clarity 16.4.0 takes a major step toward more efficient workflows. Enhancements to metrics, charts, and formatting options deliver better visualization, visibility, and interpretation of data. Read on to discover the highlights you can benefit from.

1. Expanding to Projects and Products
2. People-Centric Planning
3. Artificial Intelligence in Clarity
4. Financial Transparency
5. Business Intelligence and Reporting
6. From Customer Voice to Clarity Standard

1. Expanding to Projects and Products

These optimizations in Clarity 16.4.0 improve both financial data transparency in roadmaps and communication within the tool:

• Plan new attributes (e.g., Budget, Actual Revenue, Profit Calculation, Actual Benefit, Net Benefit Calculation) in the roadmap and synchronize data from linked Investments
• Add comments on action items with the option to make them conditionally required – available on both desktop and mobile app

2. People-Centric Planning

What is a resource’s availability on specific days? What variance exists between allocation and actual hours? Thanks to new metrics and modules, many questions can now be answered at a glance.

• License type and last login are displayed in both the resource and users workspaces
• Quickly review one’s availability with a new Calendar module configurable via blueprint – includes options to view all details or only exceptions
• Edit financial fields and contact information directly in the resources workspace of Modern UX
• Introduction of per-period metric for variances and percentages in the following Clarity objects:
  • Staff object: allocation to actuals variance; allocation to actuals variance %
  • Investment object: allocation to actuals variance; allocation to actuals variance %
  • Resource object: remaining availability %

3. Artificial Intelligence in Clarity

With expanded Vaia functionality, you can now define AI agents at the workspace or object level to automate processes with even greater precision. Vaia’s name and image can be customized to match your corporate design.

4. Financial Transparency

Standardized, out-of-the-box attributes for critical financial variances such as profit and net benefit ensure consistent data across all modules – from reporting and data warehouse to field-level security.

5. Business Intelligence and Reporting

New features for more targeted data analysis, along with enhancements to charts and formatting options, now support the design and interpretation of your reports.

Report Viewer

• Popular reports provided as system-level out-of-the-box-reports that can be viewed, scheduled, and exported (PDF or PPTX)
• Configuration of time periods and units of measure, plus filter options in the report header
• Drill-down to supporting report information for further exploration

Report Designer

• Defining rules for conditional formatting in tables (including per-period and total metrics)
• New “line chart” widget for visualizing trends and changes over time
• Additional secondary dimension to further segment or categorize data in line, bar, and column charts
• Extensive new formatting options for tables, number tiles, or progress rings: e.g., show/hide borders, adjust font size, color selection, alternating row colors, and much more

Report Administration

Additional functions have been added to the reporting administration area to allow controlled deletion of reports and to export or import report designs.

6. From Customer Voice to Clarity Standard

Broadcom has listened once again and implemented many important improvements based on customer feedback in this release:

• Extended hierarchical nested grid functionality to Investments and associated sub-objects
• Enhancements to business rules:
  • Configuration of up to 50 rules per object and 250 rules per blueprint
  • Increased character limit for rule names from 80 to 256
  • Hide or disable the preview action on status reports
• OBS (Organizational Breakdown Structure) filter supports additional filter types: “Is Equal to”, “Is Not Equal to”, “Is Empty” “Is Not Empty”

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