Page title:Introduction to Rational Focal Point Introduction

Closed Captioning text:IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ is a web-based decision support platform that market-driven teams can use to plan and manage their products, IT portfolios and product portfolios. Teams can use Rational Focal Point to make collaborative, objective decisions to deliver market, customer, and business value. By understanding what matters most, organizations can respond to dynamic market conditions and deliver valued products and projects.

Page text: IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ is a web-based decision support platform for product management, product portfolio management, and IT portfolio management.


Page title:Preconfigured workspace templates Preconfigured workspace templates

Closed Captioning text:To manage your portfolios and products, you can use the preconfigured workspace templates that are based on best practices: the application portfolio management template, IT portfolio management template, product portfolio management template, and the product management template. By using these predefined configurations, you can realize the benefits of product and portfolio management and reduce the cost of implementation.

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Page title:Idea collection Idea collection

Closed Captioning text:To develop the right deliverable at the right time for the right market, you can automate tactical activities, such as collecting ideas in a central repository. For example, you might collect enhancement requests, competitive intelligence, market information, personas, customers, and win/loss reports. You can use your collection of information to support your decisions.

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Page title:Prioritization for decision making Prioritization for decision making

Closed Captioning text:To provide the best value, you must make strategic decisions. To support those decisions, you can use Rational Focal Point to compare and prioritize elements that are related to a decision. With the prioritization feature, you can prioritize elements according to one criterion at a time. Then, you combine the results to view a larger and more complete picture of the elements.

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Page title:Visualization of results Visualization of results

Closed Captioning text:You can display the results of prioritizations in various graphical formats to support your decisions. In the visuals, priorities are represented as bars, bubbles, and lines. You can also change the criteria scenarios and visualize the impact on the prioritization results.

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Page title:Financial analysis Financial analysis

Closed Captioning text:You can use the financial analysis capability to continually validate investments. Performing financial analysis can help you understand market benefits so that you can ensure investments are aligned to the business vision. To reduce risk and improve cost estimations of investments, you can model financial and market impacts and perform scenario, statistical, and financial analysis.

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Page title:Integrations Integrations

Closed Captioning text:Rational Focal Point supports integration with Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications such as IBM Rational Team Concert™ and IBM Rational Requirements Composer. With this integration, you can use the Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications to plan, execute, and deliver solutions. By using the Rational Synchronization server setup, Rational Focal Point can integrate with IBM Rational Change, IBM Rational DOORS®, and IBM Rational ClearQuest®. With these integrations, you can manage changes, requirements, defects, and other project management activities. You can also integrate with IBM Rational Publishing Engine so that you can create more versatile reports. To integrate Rational Focal Point with external tools, you can use the Web Services API, which provides access to information in Rational Focal Point.

Page text:Rational Focal Point can be integrated with:IBM Rational Team Concert™IBM Rational Requirements ComposerIBM Rational ChangeIBM Rational DOORS®IBM Rational ClearQuest®IBM Rational Publishing Engine


Page title:Summary Summary

Closed Captioning text:Rational Focal Point is a flexible tool that can be easily configured to suit your requirements. You can seamlessly incorporate Rational Focal Point with your business activities to make the right decisions to deliver business, customer, and market value.

Page text:Rational Focal Point is a flexible tool that can be easily configured to suit your requirements. You can seamlessly incorporate Rational Focal Point with your business activities to make the right decisions to deliver business, customer, and market value. To get started with Rational Focal Point, see the Getting started tutorial in the information center.