As PPM becomes increasingly important in NPD projects, numerous PPM vendors have extended their offerings in this area. Organizations looking for a PPM solution for their NPD projects should consider the PPM vendors below.
Niku's Clarity solution provides the tools that are necessary from the decision stage to the development and delivery stages of NPD. Niku provides reporting tools (bubble diagrams and histograms), as well as collaboration and decision support applications to support PPM for NPD and R&D projects. Key to Niku's offering is its People Powered Innovation concept, which provides companies with tools to facilitate collaboration and to gain increased visibility into people-related processes such as idea development, resource capacity planning, and project staffing.
Planisware's OPX2 NPD solution targets NPD projects based on Stage-Gate� best practices. OPX2 NPD offers a single system with four strategic tools for product development. These include project management, NPD process management, collaboration, and project information management tools. Planisware plans to include its Project Intelligence application, which improves predictability, collaboration, and visibility of NPD projects, as a part of OPX2 NPD in the future.
Pacific Edge's NPD solution seeks to align NPD projects with corporate strategies. At the core of its solution lies the Pacific Edge Mariner product. Pacific Edge Mariner provides users with a Web-enabled solution built on portfolio management functionality. For NPD projects, Pacific Edge adopts a stage-gate approach, providing tools to monitor lifecycle, resource, financial, and project data in an integrated decision support framework where trade-offs are examined, impacts are analyzed, and performance is tracked and optimized.
Artemis Software's NPD solution focuses on the manufacturing, high technology, life sciences, and consumer goods markets. Artemis for NPD delivers PPM, lifecycle management, financial management, idea management, project management, and resource management components. Artemis also incorporates stage-gate processes, and has recently introduced an idea management module to capture, manage, and route multiple ideas for NPD projects.
Augeo Software handles the production side of R&D projects with Augeo 5, its NPD solution for the pharmaceutical, automotive, and high technology sectors. For NPD, Augeo's PPM solution focuses on resource allocation and project lifecycle functionality. However, Augeo lacks functionality in the areas of idea generation and product launching.
Sopheon is a best-of-breed vendor that offers a PPM solution uniquely for the NPD market. Sopheon Accolade integrates the stage-gate process (as well as other phase-based processes) into its offering to allow tracking of NPD projects from both a day-to-day activity and a business strategy point of view. Sopheon delivers dashboard technology, customizable portals, centralization of project phase data, and alignment monitoring functionality.
Realization offers a PPM solution that is specifically designed for NPD in the IT, defense, and manufacturing sectors. Realization's product, Concerto Engine>, adopts the "critical chain" concept, factoring in the uncertain elements that are prevalent when managing multiple projects. Concerto Engine facilitates management by level loading resources based on the pipeline of projects and providing buffer management to calculate unscheduled time and resources when uncertainties arise during project execution. This is all achieved in a single relational database.
Niku's Clarity solution provides the tools that are necessary from the decision stage to the development and delivery stages of NPD. Niku provides reporting tools (bubble diagrams and histograms), as well as collaboration and decision support applications to support PPM for NPD and R&D projects. Key to Niku's offering is its People Powered Innovation concept, which provides companies with tools to facilitate collaboration and to gain increased visibility into people-related processes such as idea development, resource capacity planning, and project staffing.
Planisware's OPX2 NPD solution targets NPD projects based on Stage-Gate� best practices. OPX2 NPD offers a single system with four strategic tools for product development. These include project management, NPD process management, collaboration, and project information management tools. Planisware plans to include its Project Intelligence application, which improves predictability, collaboration, and visibility of NPD projects, as a part of OPX2 NPD in the future.
Pacific Edge's NPD solution seeks to align NPD projects with corporate strategies. At the core of its solution lies the Pacific Edge Mariner product. Pacific Edge Mariner provides users with a Web-enabled solution built on portfolio management functionality. For NPD projects, Pacific Edge adopts a stage-gate approach, providing tools to monitor lifecycle, resource, financial, and project data in an integrated decision support framework where trade-offs are examined, impacts are analyzed, and performance is tracked and optimized.
Artemis Software's NPD solution focuses on the manufacturing, high technology, life sciences, and consumer goods markets. Artemis for NPD delivers PPM, lifecycle management, financial management, idea management, project management, and resource management components. Artemis also incorporates stage-gate processes, and has recently introduced an idea management module to capture, manage, and route multiple ideas for NPD projects.
Augeo Software handles the production side of R&D projects with Augeo 5, its NPD solution for the pharmaceutical, automotive, and high technology sectors. For NPD, Augeo's PPM solution focuses on resource allocation and project lifecycle functionality. However, Augeo lacks functionality in the areas of idea generation and product launching.
Sopheon is a best-of-breed vendor that offers a PPM solution uniquely for the NPD market. Sopheon Accolade integrates the stage-gate process (as well as other phase-based processes) into its offering to allow tracking of NPD projects from both a day-to-day activity and a business strategy point of view. Sopheon delivers dashboard technology, customizable portals, centralization of project phase data, and alignment monitoring functionality.
Realization offers a PPM solution that is specifically designed for NPD in the IT, defense, and manufacturing sectors. Realization's product, Concerto Engine>, adopts the "critical chain" concept, factoring in the uncertain elements that are prevalent when managing multiple projects. Concerto Engine facilitates management by level loading resources based on the pipeline of projects and providing buffer management to calculate unscheduled time and resources when uncertainties arise during project execution. This is all achieved in a single relational database.
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