CA Clarity integration adapter development and deployment for Fortune 500 utility
Client Profile
The client is a Fortune 500 energy services company that develops energy infrastructure, operates utilities, and provides related products and services to more than 25 million consumers worldwide. The company uses the CA Clarity suite of products to manage the many complex projects that it undertakes to deliver value to its customers.
Business Situation
The client uses CA Clarity to manage all its project work but uses SAP as its system of record for financial management around resource allocation and project costing. The client required a reliable mechanism to integrate CA Clarity with SAP to move project resource utilization information into SAP. Further, any additional hours logged over above the regular pay period hours were expected to be pro-rated to the regular pay period hours.
Solution
Radiant designed a solution to extract information from CA Clarity on a periodic basis and
post information to the SAP system. Radiant leveraged its internally developed Radiant
Clarity integration adapter service to use the CA Clarity XML Open Gateway (XOG) to support
the extraction of data from CA Clarity. The adapter service works as an independent service
that uses Java messaging service (JMS) to interact with CA Clarity. The extracted resource
hours are parsed through a rules framework that corrects the hours extracted from Clarity to
conform to the business rules defined by the client.
Benefits
- Improved efficiency and accuracy of moving data by eliminating manual processes.
- Automatic proration of hours and allocation of hours to programs based on the rule framework implemented.
- Radiant Clarity Integration Adapter Service allows the movement of other objects to and from CA Clarity.
Direct and indirect benefits include addressing the immediate needs of integration CA Clarity with SAP as well as aiding future needs.