Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) includes three primary business processes: product planning, product development and product management through the end of its lifecycle. Planning is the last major functional area to be automated, now that product management and product development applications, such as ERP and CAD/CAM purchases, are in place for many corporations.
A core activity for planning that is vital to product success is collaborative roadmapping, an essential but missing component of Product Lifecycle Management that allows a company to map their long-term product, market and R&D requirements over time, ensuring that the products they develop meet their business expectations.
The demand for an effective product roadmapping practice is driven by industry consolidation and globalization. Because large enterprises are under intense pressure to anticipate and address the enormous opportunities and risks associated with globalization, each business initiative requires the company to be in excellent control of its worldwide planning activities. Extended operations are therefore required to communicate effectively about a common product plan, and must be able to effectively maximize operational resources of the company and its partners.
Alignent is the leading provider of collaborative roadmapping software. Alignent’s flagship roadmapping software, Vision Strategist, allows stakeholders and management to access and integrate a central planning repository of key planning information, aligning multi-disciplinary operations and enabling an organization to reach its business objectives.
Vision Strategist is used and relied upon today by leading global manufacturing companies, enabling an enterprise to collaboratively create and manage global product planning roadmaps that identify, balance and closely track product plans, R&D, assumptions and risks related to business strategy, changing market requirements, and evolving technology.
Alignent’s roadmapping solution is currently enabling a
marquee list of the world’s largest R&D-driven enterprises to dynamically and collaboratively centralize, visualize, and optimize their future product and technology directions, while aligning their overall business strategy.
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