Product Portfolio Management

Create and communicate complex product and technical roadmaps with the push of a button.

• Product Roadmaps

  Visualize and communicate the outcomes and understand impacts for key launch dates – increasing awareness and improving proactive decision-making for all stakeholders in the product commercialization process.

• Component Roadmaps

  Connect product component roadmaps to cross-functional resources, investments, outcomes, milestones, and financials required to realize strategies.

• Technology Roadmap

  Connect technology investment plans to outcomes; Visualize dependencies, mitigate risks, and confirm priorities to successfully deliver smart, connected products and associated services.

• Integrated Roadmaps

  Examine the dependencies between the product roadmap and the technology, platform, project, and services components required to enable, launch, and evolve smart, connected products.

Centralize all the data and processes you use to identify, prioritize, and manage products and projects to gain a competitive advantage.

• Planview.Me

  Engage in a visually immersive, actionable, and personalized Planview Platform experience. Create unique views based on status, progress, and other data-oriented use cases you need to pinpoint where to focus, issues to address, and risks to mitigate. Take action, investigate, respond, and react with a single click inside a single curated view.

• Product Portfolio Mix

  Achieve your financial and strategic targets by evaluating and comparing multiple scenarios to ensure the best portfolio mix.

• Portfolio Risk Analysis

  Visualize the portfolio mix and balance to determine what changes, if any, should be made to properly align with risk tolerance.

• R&D Financials

  Increase R&D productivity and financial impact by assessing actuals and variances against what was planned or budgeted via an integrated system.

• Capex/Opex Categorization

  Plan, identify and track CapEx and OpEx work costs for each program, project, or product in the portfolio.

• Reporting & Analytics

  Eliminate spreadsheets, manual processes, and bad data. Get configurable workflows plus out-of-the-box reports and KPIs.

Generate and collaborate on innovative ideas for new products.

• Product Ideation

  Quickly and efficiently evaluate, score, prioritize, and advance the most promising ideas.

• Voice of Customer

  Capture the voice of the customer and collaborate on the most innovative ideas.

• Customer Requirements

  Capture customer requirements to fuel innovative ways to improve customer experience.

• Market Insights

  Map your product portfolio toward success using insights into product development industry trends, challenges, and risks.

• Mobile-Enabled Innovation

  Capture inspiration in real-time, access challenges, post ideas, vote, comment, collaborate, or perform other user activities on the go.

Ensure you have the right people with the right skills available when they are needed.

• Role-Based Planning

  Forecast resource availability to guarantee the right resources with the right skills are available.

• Multi-Project Allocation

  Track and manage aspects that impact potential allocation to projects (role, skill, region, cost rate, certification, and area of interest) to grow resource experience and improve employee retention.

• Resource Utilization

  Resolve resource overloads before they delay product launches using effective resource management tools.

• Forecast Capacity Requirements

  Ensure programs, investments, and staffing levels are balanced against capacity, taking dependencies into account to avoid costly decisions resulting in duplicate efforts or rework.

• Real-Time Resource Views

  Spot potential resource conflicts and gaps where human and production resources are needed to ensure that what matters most can be completed.

Embrace multiple ways of working to speed time-to-market and ensure on-time product delivery.

• Gated Process Automation

  Accelerate development projects and rapidly deliver the most innovative, profitable, and differentiated products – on time and on budget. Decrease cost by killing projects earlier in the commercialization process.

• Project Management

  Deliver new product development projects, on time and on budget, with gated project management software.

• Agile Stage Gate Model

  Support team working preferences with hybrid execution, combined with the project and portfolio visibility needed to synchronize delivery of what is most important.

• Project Team Delivery

  Enable project team members to work the way they work best with productivity-focused workspaces that include document management and integrated communication tools.

• Agile Team Delivery

  Empower Agile teams to visualize, prioritize and plan their work activities aligned to strategic priorities using Kanban boards that match their preferred work methodology and processes.

• Project Risks and Changes

  Catalog and manage all changes, risks, and issues that arise during the lifetime of a project via configurable approval lifecycles for scope management, auditing, and continuous improvement purposes.

• Stage Gate Process Dashboards

  Clearly visualize the stage of every project and utilize embedded dashboards to simplify and speed gate meetings.

Streamline key lifecycle stage processes with access to the right data and collaboration.

• Product Launch Planning

  Consistently hit product launch windows by ensuring everyone from marketing to legal and from sales to supply chain has completed their part of the process.

• Product Catalog

  Analyze performance data to make trade-off decisions regarding which products to develop, enhance, or sunset.

• Product End of Life

  Streamline end-of-life processes including product post-mortems, financial transitions, and other workflow tools required to pull a product from market and apply lessons learned.

• Planview Copilot

  Planview Copilot empowers employees from the team room to the board room with access, connection, and visibility into your organization’s data and the insights hidden within. Converse with and question your data using natural language to glean insights, derive recommendations based on best practices, and inform strategic decisions.

• Optimizations & Simulations

  Unlock scenario planning and dive into a realm of ‘what-if’ scenarios and trade-off analyses. Explore multiple avenues to pinpoint the most efficient and effective allocation of your capital and capacity for peak performance and strategic success.

• AI Help

  Unlock assistance on-demand with AI Help. Transform your Planview Platform experience with the AI Help in-app interface, providing plain text answers to your questions. Access thousands of pages of customer success center help articles and other product- or solution-specific documentation without ever leaving your screen.

• Sentiment Analysis

  Understand whether a product, project, or work item is truly on track by analyzing the emotional tone and sentiments of comment and status text as well as computational linguistics behind aggregated comments over time. Use the sentiment scores to reveal positive, neutral, or negative insights and make plan or work pivots before delivery is impacted.