CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 February 2010
Product News
New Class of Enterprise Planning Solution from Planview Empowers Organizations to Optimize Business Performance
Planview® announced a new class of enterprise planning solution that helps organizations improve productivity and operational performance within the constraints of today’s economy – the ‘new normal’ which places a premium on a company's ability to successfully manage the growth of demand against a backdrop of ever-constrained resources.
The new Planview Operational Planning Solution is the first enterprise planning solution to integrate three vital planning processes – strategic planning, financial planning, and operational planning. In many organizations these three disciplines are disconnected, limiting organizational agility and management visibility into performance. In today's new normal environment, which demands companies respond to change more nimbly than ever in order to thrive, the traditional siloed approach to planning leads to expensive inefficiencies and operational disconnects that erode competitiveness and brand value.
The Planview Operational Planning Solution, available with the upcoming new release of Planview Enterprise®, allows organizations to create a dynamic and consistently relevant operating plan – one that is integrated with established financial and strategic processes and that allows for in-flight updates to accommodate changing business conditions. With a cohesive, responsive operating plan developed collaboratively, management can ensure that all levels of the enterprise can transform a unified strategy into effective action.
Combining new capabilities with Planview’s portfolio management strengths, the Planview Operational Planning Solution reduces planning costs and increases accuracy by:
•Delivering an iterative and collaborative planning platform that engages all groups and functions within an organization
•Assessing demand among stakeholders and aligning it with strategy
•Balancing capacity with demand across multiple dimensions to make the most of existing resources and to optimally meet business objectives
•Gaining deeper and more accurate insights into the financial implications of decisions and plan changes, and the implications of financial targets on departments and lines of business
•Dynamically defining how strategies, products, programs, projects, services, and releases all combine to achieve operating goals, and communicating those insights throughout the enterprise
•Using leading market intelligence and analysis to enable the Voice of the Customer to influence operational planning decisions
The new solution integrates with industry-leading Planview Enterprise Ideation Management to ensure that the operating plan aligns with an organization’s key innovation initiatives.
Part of the Planview Enterprise portfolio management platform, the Planview Operational Planning Solution will be available with the next release of Planview Enterprise. To learn more, register for the upcoming Planview Product Expo at www.planview.com/getready, or contact market@planview.com.
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