IBM Targetprocess Reviews & Product Details

IBM Targetprocess, is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to the enterprise strategy in a single source of truth. IBM Targetprocess is a platform for enterprise agile planning (EAP) and strategic portfolio management (SPM) solutions that allows business and technology planners at all levels to dynamically plan and manage work, resources, investments, programs, and portfolios while ensuring continuous alignment to the enterprise strategy in a single source of truth. The combination of flexible architecture and Solutions Library helps to ensure the fastest time to value for every solution. IBM Targetprocess integrates directly with the financial management platform to provide financial insights into labor allocations, labor capitalization, and labor forecasts to improve how a company measures, plans, and invests in their workforce. Solutions: IBM Targetprocess' solutions-led strategy to make Enterprise Agile easier, allowing teams to take a building-block style approach to their agile transformation. Strategic planning solutions allow business leaders to capture strategy and OKRs in a single source of truth, and even update priorities with confidence that portfolio, product managers, and even autonomous Agile teams will see and align their work to the new priorities. Resource Management solutions allow portfolio and product teams to plan and forecast capacity and dynamically manage resources while minimizing risks and optimizing resource utilization. The Portfolio budgeting solutions enabled by IBM Targetprocess partners financial teams with product and portfolio managers to enable a shift to continuous product funding, and Program Management solutions ensure the successful execution of Agile programs across hybrid and strategic portfolios. Strategic Planning: Align work, labor, and investments to the strategic objectives of the business and maximize execution. • Capture and communicate corporate objectives in a persistent tool visible by the entire organization. • Link specific elements of execution to strategic objectives (i.e. initiatives, epics, features, teams, budgets, etc.). • View the split between Run-the-Business and Change-the-Business goals and pivot investments. • Easily track and view progress of strategic objectives. Portfolio Budgeting: Align with finance as you shift from annual funding of projects to continuous product funding. • View portfolio totals, actuals, OpEx, and CapEx, budgeted costs, and labor and non-labor costs in one place. • One source of truth to view portfolio budgets and their initiatives. • View the split between labor and non-labor actuals on a monthly basis. • Quickly change Funded costs and labor/non-labor costs in the initiative breakdown. Resource Management: Optimize resources, capacity, and demand to reduce risk and maximize utilization of headcount. • Monitor the impact of changes in real-time, with multiple views of reports to minimize inefficiency and overutilization. • Dashboards allow optimization of incoming demand against capacity. • Connect resource bill rates, team rates, and blended rates and utilization with automatic cost forecasting. Program Management: Digitize and automate quarterly business and program increment planning. • Seamlessly setup PI Planning with connected backlogs for Portfolio, Product, and Teams. • Visualize key metrics and flow of value with Flow metrics in a customizable dashboard. • Execute confidently by easily tracking progress in real-time, quickly identifying dependencies, and adapting to changes through the Program Board. Market Differentiators: - Flexible architecture: Targetprocess flexible architecture adapts to your organizations operating models – no matter how unique. - Time to value: Targetprocess Solutions Library minimizes administrative overhead and delivers rapid time to value for every solution. - Holistic financials: Targetprocess and IBM Apptio provide visibility to labor and non-labor costs for planning and managing investments.