CA Project & Portfolio Management - CA PPM 15.3 Key Benefits and Features

Sep 11, 2026

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CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) 15.3 modernizes project portfolio management for on-premises and cloud use. The solution enables teams to tailor projects to specific business units through drag-and-drop templates, start preconfigured projects in minutes, and manage budgets quickly using an Excel-style grid with drill-down cost details. With dashboard tiles, task boards, BI connectors (Power BI, Qlik), scheduling links, and in-app collaboration, it improves planning, tracking, resource balancing, and faster value delivery.

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At A Glance

Key Benefits

Key Features

Business Challenges

Solution Overview

Critical Differentiators

DATA SHEET CA Project & Portfolio Management At A Glance With the new CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) 15.3, you can tailor projects to any business unit with dragand-drop ease. Whether complex workflow for HR or simple task management for sales, workers now spin up projects in minutes—not days. Add in-app collaboration to eliminate redundant meetings, a familiar Microsoft Excel®-like grid to manage budgets, a new connection for third-party business intelligence (BI) tools to unearth answers, and you have the most modern project portfolio management app on the market today. KEY BENEFITS • Build libraries of reusable project templates tailored to business units. • Spin up projects in minutes. • Drill into the numbers and compare scenarios with a familiar financial tool. • Crunch numbers and share reports in your favorite scheduling or BI software. • Complete projects on target, on time and on budget with in-app team collaboration. KEY FEATURES • Configure project templates with drag-and-drop ease. • Track projects on dashboard tiles, with links to key gauges and modules. • Manage budgets and plans on an Excel-style grid. • Connect to Power BI, Qlik and other BI tools. • Link to scheduling software, including Open Workbench and Microsoft Project. • Organize and gauge team work on task boards. • Ask questions and find answers on the project, resource and task level. • Map resources and investments on any organizational level. Business Challenges Beyond IT, an entire business is looking for new ways to bring innovation to market. Teams have to work faster, act smarter and stay more attuned to customer demands in order to survive today. Juggling project ideas, resource capacity and detailed budgets, IT and business users grapple with the same questions: How do we capitalize on new opportunities? How do we deliver value faster? How do we maximize our resources? But without the proper project portfolio management solution, enterprise planning can be difficult. With information stored in emails and spreadsheets, decisions are based on unreliable data, progress lacks tracking and chance dictates the outcome. Solution Overview The new features in CA PPM 15.3—a simple, powerful and practical project portfolio management tool available on-premises and in the cloud—let you modernize the project management office. • Customize projects for any business unit—including IT, marketing and facilities—by dragging and dropping components onto the template. • Workers can spin up preconfigured projects in minutes. • Excel-style grid makes managing budgets fast and easy, with double-click access to the underpinning cost details. • Enhance your financial analysis with new connectors to your favorite BI tool and scheduling software. • A visual task list, the new task board helps you collect, prioritize and track work inan environment where all team members can contribute ideas and report updates. • With easy sharing and seamless collaboration, you can ask questions and solve problems on the project, resource and task level. CA PROJECT & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Critical Differentiators Keeping it simple with project blueprints. With drag-and-drop ease, you can configure the standard CA PPM project template to fit any team’s or department’s needs. While IT and HR may require multi-layered templates for global transformation projects, sales and marketing can often make do with basic task-management tools. Simply add project details, insert page sections, pick modules—such as conversations, tasks and documents—and select from a growing library of key performance indicator gauges. Project management for everyone. With only the required information, modules and dashboards displayed, any business user can spin up and onboard new projects in less than 30 minutes. On the project tiles is a snapshot of budget spent, tasks completed, next milestones and other KPIs. As projects mature, additio

FAQs

What is CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) 15.3 designed to do?

It provides a project portfolio management tool that helps modernize the project management office by enabling faster project setup, budget planning, tracking, and collaboration in on-premises or cloud environments.

How can teams customize and launch projects with CA PPM 15.3?

Teams can configure project templates using drag-and-drop components and start preconfigured projects in minutes. Dashboards and project tiles show budget spent, completed tasks, next milestones, and KPIs.

Which tools does CA PPM 15.3 integrate with for analytics and scheduling?

It connects to BI systems such as Power BI and Qlik and can link to scheduling software including Open Workbench and Microsoft Project.

Sep 11, 2026

Uploaded by Aurora