IBM Rational Focal Point: Features and benefits

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 politics, pet projects, gut feel and 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

Among other things IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ is/consist of:

• Completely web based
• Extreme configurability and flexibility
• Workflow support
• Role based access
• Full history with audit trails
• Integration possibilities
• Excel import/export
• Prioritization support
• Visualizations
• Built-in calculations
• Filtering capabilities
• Versioning and base-lining
• Report generation (Excel, PDF, RTF)
• Homepage / Dashboard
• Word import
• Views and filtering
• Time Grid
• Investment Analyzer
• Traceability views
• Trend charts
• Gantt charts
• Notifications
• Mail importer
• Statistics views
• Release planning support
• Review process support
• Built-in roll-ups
• Financial Planning
• High availability – server redundancy
• Single Sign-On
• And more…