Planview Process Accelerators Enable Adoption, Control, Tracking, and Audit of Processes within the Portfolio Management Framework

The new extensible process management product line, Planview Process Builder with Process Accelerators, empowers organizations to speed time to market and drive revenue by automating process execution, compliance audits, and requirements management

Austin, TX — September 17, 2009 — Planview®, the leading independent provider of enterprise-wide portfolio management solutions, today introduced Planview Process Builder™, an extensible process management product line featuring two new and one enhanced Process Accelerators™. These new Process Accelerators enable enterprises to embed modeling and management of enterprise-wide processes into their portfolio management framework. This product line provides customers with increased adoption, control, tracking, and audit capabilities in key process areas, such as requirements management, product development, quality management, financial compliance, meeting regulatory requirements, and IT governance.

The Planview Process Accelerators are pre-configured best practice templates, each developed to support specific business needs:

Planview Requirements Manager Process Accelerator

The enhanced Requirements Manager Process Accelerator provides the functionality to capture, manage, link, route, trace, and audit product requirements through their lifecycles, from concept to delivery. Planview customers who leverage this Process Accelerator are seeing an increased ability to track requirements to pass audit reviews, improved confidence that the products they bring market meet customer expectations, a cut in costs related to tracing requirements, more visibility into which features are included in the product roadmap, and reduced risk of losing needed functionality.

Planview Gate Manager Process Accelerator

Applicable to Stage-Gate®, PACE® PRTM®, and internally developed gated processes, the new Gate Manager Process Accelerator helps product-centric and application development teams to manage, automate, and monitor gate-driven, development processes. Using this Process Accelerator, Planview customers are able to significantly reduce time and costs associated with chasing down gate status from various, often geographically distributed, team members, and by automating their gate processes. Customers who have implemented this Process Accelerator report seeing decreased risk by ensuring only qualified projects pass gate reviews, improved visibility into status of processes and associated regulator documents, and reduced compliance and audit costs.

Planview Assessment Manager Process Accelerator

The new Assessment Manager Process Accelerator empowers project and process teams to make project assessments and audits visible throughout the enterprise. This is critical for organizations focused on regulatory matters such as Sarbanes-Oxley-related requirements, which need to model processes in accordance with both users' needs and regulatory requirements. Planview clients who have implemented this Process Accelerator have recognized a decreased cost of compliance tracking, improved compliance through the tracking of assessment metrics, reduced training spend by modeling processes in the Process Accelerator, and a cut in audit costs by having a clear and easy method by which to trace the audit trail for all processes and related decisions.

The Process Accelerators leverage the Planview Process Builder platform which provides critical capabilities of:

• Process Design: Processes can be simply defined, modeled, and modified with easy-to-use configuration tools, and may be branded within the organization's look and feel
• Process Automation: Planview Process Builder creates a comprehensive view of business processes across applications, and operational efficiencies are realized through the capability to automate routine tasks
• Process Measurement: Users can track the level of compliance to processes and report information including how well processes are being followed, as well as capturing exceptions for analysis and audit purposes
• Process Auditing: A common, user-friendly interface to model and manage processes supports adoption, and business processes change from static documents to active guides to drive the consistency of outcomes

"As portfolio management continues its enterprise-wide expansion beyond its roots within IT and the PMO, we have heard from our clients an escalating desire to integrate and automate PPM capabilities within broader, core business processes," said Patrick Tickle, executive vice president of products, Planview. "Planview Process Builder and its Process Accelerators pay off that demand, to help our customers model and manage processes across the enterprise with the goals of driving revenue, managing costs, and mitigating risk."

Planview Process Builder with the Planview Process Accelerators is available immediately. Visit www.planview.com/process to learn more.