Rational Focal Point

产品和产品组合管理

IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ 针对市场和业务驱动产品和产品组合管理提供了全面的决策支持系统，可以帮助执行主管和团队制定正确决策，从而为业务、客户和市场提供价值。

  • 从客户、分析师、市场调查和内部涉众的角度捕获信息，并根据能否提供最高的业务价值来划分优先级。
  • 利用虚拟化、优先化、唯一路线映射和规划功能，确保规划有价值且可实现。
  • 将对决策制定、状态报告和产品组合检查至关重要的信息集中起来，避免在电子邮件、文档和电子表格中管理数据时出现混乱，加速对不断变化的市场和业务条件的响应。
  • 克服个体意见的影响，使用客观的信息支持决策制定。
  • 通过模拟财务和市场影响并执行场景、统计和财务分析，降低风险、改进投资的成本估算工作。
  • 将企业架构规划和项目执行整合到产品组合管理中，确保企业和项目级决策与财务和市场需求保持一致。
  • 利用基于最佳实践的预定义配置迅速实现产品和产品组合管理的收益并降低实现成本。
  • 支持的操作系统：Linux、Solaris (Sun Microsystems)、Windows。

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…

This page summarizes the operating systems, databases, Application Servers, and Web browsers, that are supported by IBM Rational Focal Point, version 6.5.


System requirements
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
Server Machine:

• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

• Sun Solaris™ 9 or 10		 Databases:

• PostgreSQL 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4

• Oracle® 10g Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition

• Oracle® 11g Enterprise Edition

• IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.5 & 9.7

Application servers and web browsers:

• Apache Tomcat 5.5.28

• Websphere Application Server version 7.0.0.9

• Internet Explorer® 7 or 8

• Mozilla Firefox® 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6		 Display: 1280 x 1024 minimum resolution

Disk space: 15 GB minimum, 100 GB recommended

Memory: 4 GB RAM minimum, 16 GB RAM recommended

For detailed information on system requirements for Rational Focal Point, please use the following link: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27019945

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