Product and portfolio management

IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ provides market - and business-driven product and portfolio management - helping executives and teams to make the right decisions to deliver business, customer and market value.

  • Capture inputs from customers, analysts, market research, and internal stakeholders and prioritize on which ones will provide the most value to the business
  • Utilize visualization, prioritization, and unique road mapping and planning capabilities to ensure that plans are innovative, valuable and achievable
  • Centralize information key to decision-making, status reporting and portfolio reviews to escape the chaos of managing data in emails, documents, and spreadsheets; speeding the ability to respond to changing market and business conditions
  • Overcome the influence of the loudest voice in the room and use objective information to support decision making
  • Reduce risk and improve cost estimations of investments by modeling financial and market impacts and by performing scenario, statistical and financial analysis
  • Integrate enterprise architecture plans and project execution into portfolio management to ensure enterprise and project-level decisions are aligned with financial and market needs
  • Quickly realize the benefits of Product and Portfolio Management and reduce costs of implementations by utilizing pre-defined configurations based on best practices
  • Operating systems supported: Linux, Solaris (Sun microsystems), Windows family

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Empowering the CIO: Enabling smarter decisions with Application Portfolio Management (904KB)

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