IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ is
a comprehensive portfolio planning solution for market-driven teams.
With Rational Focal Point,
teams can make collaborative, objective decisions to deliver market,
customer, and business value. By understanding what matters most,
your organization can respond to dynamic market conditions and deliver
valued products and projects.
Rational Focal Point reduces
the chaos of managing information in emails, documents, and spreadsheets
by providing a collaborative environment for centralizing requirements,
products, and project data.
You can use the prioritization and visualization capabilities for
these purposes:
- To maximize customer value in relation to development costs
- To make better decisions faster
- To plan and monitor activity
Rational Focal Point also
provides the capabilities to maintain a balance between resources,
budgets, time to market, and business value. By modeling financial
and market impacts and analyzing scenarios, statistics, and financials,
you can reduce risk and improve cost estimations of investments.
To ensure that enterprise architecture and project plans align
with financial and market needs, you can integrate plans with portfolio
management. By using predefined configurations that are based on best
practices, you can realize the benefits of product and portfolio management
and reduce the cost of implementations.
Pre-configured workspace templates
Rational Focal Point includes
three pre-configured workspace templates. While setting up a workspace,
you have an option to create a workspace using any of these templates
and customize the workspace according to your requirements.