Know what to prioritize.
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Planview connects strategy to execution so R&D and product leaders can prioritize with clarity, align to capacity, and deliver on time, every time.

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Why modern R&D requires a new approach to portfolio planning

As product development across electronics, semiconductor, and industrial manufacturing becomes more interconnected and software-defined, R&D and product leaders face a growing gap between strategy, capacity, and execution—requiring a more adaptive, data-driven approach to portfolio planning.

Impact

Roadmap commitments made without real-time capacity visibility lead to overcommitment and delays. As milestones slip, market windows close—and in sectors like electronics and semiconductors, missing a launch cycle can eliminate revenue for up to 24 months.

Planview Solution

Planview connects roadmap commitments to real resource capacity in a single system, making overcommitment visible before programs are approved—not after delivery is already at risk.

Impact

Resource conflicts often remain invisible until they surface in status reviews—by which point schedule impact is already underway. Teams are then forced into trade-offs such as overtime, reduced scope, or delays, each with downstream risk.

Planview Solution

Planview’s AI-powered insights surface resource over-allocation and cross-program conflicts in real time before they cause schedule impact giving leaders time to rebalance proactively rather than recover reactively.

Impact

Inefficient prioritization drives decisions based on intuition and influence rather than data, making them hard to justify. This creates misalignment, erodes trust, and fuels ongoing friction across teams.

Planview Solution

Planview’s scoring and prioritization frameworks give portfolio leaders an objective, repeatable basis for funding decisions replacing gut feel with structured analysis against strategic value, financial return, resource feasibility, and risk.

Impact

Disconnected tools across PLM, project management, spreadsheets, and ERP force R&D teams to manually piece together portfolio insights. As a result, leaders spend more time reconciling outdated data than making timely, informed decisions.

Planview Solution

Planview’s unified data fabric integrates with 60+ connectors—including PLM, ERP, and project management tools—creating a single, real-time portfolio view that eliminates manual data assembly and gives leaders accurate, current information at the point of decision.

Impact

Unpredictable component availability forces R&D teams to redesign products mid-development to accommodate what can actually be sourced. These changes consume unplanned capacity, trigger re-verification and re-qualification, and amplify schedule risk across the portfolio.

Planview Solution

Planview provides portfolio leaders with the visibility to understand the full R&D impact of a component change across all affected programs and evaluate resequencing options that reduce cascading schedule risk before committing to a redesign.

Impact

R&D and product leaders may see active programs but often lack a clear link to the revenue and strategic outcomes they drive. Without this traceability, ROI is difficult to quantify, limiting accountability and making it harder to justify or rebalance investments.

Planview Solution

Planview connects program investments to projected revenue outcomes, financial business cases, and strategic objectives—enabling R&D leaders to articulate, justify, and optimize investment decisions in terms that resonate with CFO and CEO priorities.

Align R&D demand with what your teams can realistically deliver​

Most roadmap failures stem from poor visibility into capacity. Planview gives R&D and product leaders a unified, real-time view of work and constraints, so they can prioritize effectively, align demand with capacity, and adapt as conditions change.

Prioritize work with data

Prioritize the right programs using a consistent, data-driven framework that aligns investments to strategy, financial impact, capacity, risk, and timing—eliminating guesswork and reducing decision friction.

See end-to-end capacity

Make commitments with confidence by seeing the full R&D workload in one place. A real-time view of all demand ensures priorities align with actual capacity before decisions are made.

Gain real-time portfolio visibility

Make faster, better decisions with up-to-date insights into program health, resource utilization, and financial performance. Live dashboards ensure leaders always act on current, reliable data.

Identify dependencies & risks

Hidden dependencies and risks across all programs are surfaced automatically — so a design change, supply disruption, or resource conflict is visible before milestones are missed.

Align demand with capacity

Commit with confidence by ensuring roadmaps reflect what teams can realistically deliver. Planview highlights capacity gaps early, enabling leaders to rebalance priorities before delivery is at risk.

Analyze tradeoffs with AI

Adapt quickly to change with AI-driven scenario modeling and risk detection. Evaluate trade-offs and replan with confidence to keep critical milestones on track despite disruptions or design changes.

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See how Planview connects every demand signal to real capacity, replaces political prioritization with criteria-based decisions, and gives R&D leaders the AI-powered visibility to commit confidently, adapt instantly, and launch on time.​

  • What-if Scenario Modeling

    Maximize revenue and margin with “what-if” investment and capacity scenario models

    Scenario Modeling
    Understand the revenue impact of each scenario over time.

    Streamline your prioritization process and increase portfolio value by simplifying analysis of products and projects against criteria such as technical viability, financial impact, resource capacity, complexity, risk, and commercialization success.

    • Compare What-If Scenarios. Evaluate multiple scenarios reflecting different business conditions to respond quickly and take advantage of market shifts.
    • Reduce Portfolio Risk. Visually illustrate portfolio mix and balance to determine what changes, if any, should be made to properly align with risk tolerance.
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  • Planview.Me® PLATFORM EXPERIENCE

    Redefine how work gets done

    Planview.me Platform Interface
    Break down organizational data silos with comprehensive visibility across your strategy, planning, and delivery data. Redefine how work gets done with personalized views that highlight insights, performance, and potential risks.

    Engage in a visually immersive, easy-to-use, streamlined Planview Platform user experience, tailored to you and the information you need to see.

    • Create unique views based on status, progress, and other data-oriented use cases needed to pinpoint where to focus, issues to address, and risks to mitigate
    • Bring data and insight transparency into all decisions and to all decision-makers within your organization
    • Power-up your productivity with the ability to action, investigate, respond, and react from a single screen and with a single click
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  • Strategic Roadmapping

    Measure and communicate progress across multiple product roadmaps and project plans

    Portfolio Timeline
    Use product roadmapping to communicate complex product and technical roadmaps with the push of a button.

    Empower your organization to easily visualize and communicate roadmaps and key launch dates – increasing awareness and improving proactive decision-making for all stakeholders in the product commercialization process.

    • Prevent Product Delays. Utilize out-of-the-box performance indicators for instant visibility to track status and address issues.
    • Understand Dependencies. Examine the dependency between products and technology, platform, project, and service components required to launch and evolve smart, connected products.
    • Share the Roadmap Vision. Eliminate the manual struggle of developing roadmaps via slideware. Instead, quickly slice the portfolio roadmap into exportable views for engineers, executives, supply chain, and even customers.
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  • Resource Capacity Planning

    Apply resources to the most profitable products; ensure availability prior to approval

    Resource Capacity Planning
    Generate greater ROI from your product portfolio by leveraging the right resources.

    Identify gaps, manage dependencies, and balance resource capacity across the entire product portfolio.

    • Focus Resources on Higher Value Work. Shift resource time and effort from low-value, below-the-radar sustaining projects to strategic breakthrough innovations to drive revenue growth.
    • Predict Resource Bottlenecks. Forecast resource availability to guarantee the right resources with the right skills are available at the right time and at the correct rate for on-time and on-budget product delivery.
    • Reduce Cost Through Improved Estimating. Leverage historical actuals to better assess when resources will be needed to avoid underutilization of expensive resources.
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  • Product Portfolio Dashboard

    Powerful analytics to understand performance across your entire portfolio

    Stage Gate Dashboard
    Stay in sync across every stage of your product portfolio performance.

    Take advantage of hundreds of out-of-the-box analytics, reports, and dashboards proven to drive positive product portfolio outcomes. Get industry-tested product analytics and metrics to manage every aspect of the product development process and drive business outcomes.

    • Measure Business Outcomes Easily. Pick from more than 200 out-of-the-box reports and in-product dashboards specifically designed to help calculate and improve product pipeline performance.
    • Enjoy Reporting Your Way. Generate highly configurable reports online, via mobile devices, or in Microsoft® applications through Planview’s flexible reporting options tailored to each user’s preference. Choose from simple out-of-the-box reports or build your own to key stakeholder questions – no report development skills required.
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What customers say about Planview​

“Planview allows us to align our efforts optimally with market and customer requirements. We can answer questions such as: Which projects will allow me to increase my profitability, or how can I achieve my profit goal? And we can verify whether our running projects are within budget,”

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Kornel Scherrer

Global Product Management Manager, ABB Electrification – Distribution Solutions

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“With Planview Portfolios, we have made a real quantum leap in our planning and analytics. It is now much simpler to collaborate on, coordinate, and codify project resources, finances, and global development.”

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Paul Hoch

IT Manager, Zumtobel Group

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Proven success across industries

Explore how leading organizations accelerate product delivery and improve time-to-market with Planview.

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By standardizing R&D portfolio data and centralizing planning across product development programs, Thermo Fisher Scientific improved decision-making visibility and reduced manual reporting by up to 95%, enabling leaders to evaluate investments faster and keep innovation moving.

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Conagra Brands connected global product development teams on a single platform, improving visibility across initiatives, strengthening cross-functional coordination, and accelerating the delivery of new products to market.

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NuVasive unified visibility across complex medical device development programs, enabling better coordination across engineering teams, improved resource planning, and more predictable product delivery timelines.

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Seqens gained greater visibility into its R&D portfolio and development cycles, helping leadership improve planning accuracy, reduce delivery uncertainty, and accelerate product innovation timelines.

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Zumtobel centralized product portfolio planning and governance across the organization, enabling clearer prioritization of product initiatives and more efficient coordination of development work.

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See Planview in action

Watch a 10-minute on-demand demo to see how Planview helps R&D and product leaders:

  • Prioritize NPI, platform investments, and sustaining work based on strategic value
  • Align tape-out schedules and launch timelines to what can actually be delivered
  • Respond to supply disruptions and design changes without derailing the roadmap
  • Give finance and R&D a shared view of investment, capacity, and outcomes
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