Rational Focal Point

IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ provides a comprehensive decision support system for market- and business-driven product, project and portfolio management, that can help executives and teams to make the right decisions in order to delivery business, customer and market value.

• Capture business inputs in the form of business and market requirements, customers, analysts, market research, and internal stakeholders.
• Utilize visualization, prioritization, and unique road mapping and planning capabilities to ensure than plans are both valuable and achievable.
• Bridge the gap between the business and engineering by centralizing information key to decision-making, status reporting and portfolio reviews.
• Prioritize and visualize customer needs to ensure most valuable capabilities are not minimized or eliminated through project delivery.
• Centralize information 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 the loudest voice in the room and use objective information to support decision making.
• Make enterprise architecture plans actionable and value-driven by assessing requests against business priorities, and road mapping alongside other initiatives.

View features and benefits