Portfolio management

IBM Rational® delivers enterprise product, project, and application portfolio management solutions to align investments with business objectives and to maximize business value, while maintaining a constant focus on customer and stakeholder needs.

These solutions provide deep analytical, collaborative, and measurement capabilities to ensure that investment due diligence results in value-driven outcomes with reduced risk and overall cost.

Product portfolio management
Driven by delivery of customer and business value, market analysis, and complete stakeholder collaboration, Product portfolio approaches result in a portfolio that balances the needs of the market with the strategic goals and profitability of product investments.

Improved decision-making using clear visualizations, guiding teams with best practice product lifecycle management processes, and continual validation through phase-gating allow organizations to re-prioritize as business conditions mandate with real-time cost and benefit information.

Project portfolio management
Leverage dashboards, best practice guidance, and asset lifecycle management capabilities that bridge the gap between business and development. Project portfolio management is designed to support model-driven, iterative development approaches within the context of industry standards, such as the Project Management Institute's Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and agile methods.

Application portfolio management
Rationalize and justify your application inventory and architecture by considering each as an investment. Understand the financial benefits of each application in comparison to the costs of the application's maintenance and operations. By measuring the business value, cost, and risk of software assets, organizations may make more informed decisions about where to allocate hardware, software, and human resources.

Solicit stakeholder feedback to ensure that the enterprise architecture plans align with business priorities. This solution enables increased organizational agility and alignment of business processes and systems to business objectives.