UNICOM® Focal Point™ is a flexible, web-based solution enabling you to perform product and portfolio management driven by market needs and your business objectives.
Focal Point is fast to get up and running and adapt to how you work with your methods, processes, and workflows. You can quickly start prioritizing and selecting the right investments, balance change with business demands and align resources to deliver the right products at the right time. Now your executives and teams can make decisions that deliver greater value to your customers and your business.
With Focal Point you can perform:
Focal Point allows you to visualize and manage the flow of new features and capabilities within your application, product, and project portfolio – from ideation to analysis, implementation, and release using Kanban charts and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods.
Drive the needs of your business using Focal Point's product and portfolio management features.
Team-oriented
Single repository
Prebuilt templates
Easily customizable
Dashboard analysis
Investment analysis
Harvest applications, technologies, standards, systems and data from a variety of sources of record.
Harvest information
Analysis techniques
Dashboard charts
Central repository
Customizable metamodel
Integrations via OSLC and REST
Understand what applications, systems and technologies are deployed in your organization, along with their value.
Portfolio monitoring and reporting
Pipeline prioritization
Delivery planning
Overcome typical challenges experienced with application portfolio management.
Continuously assess applications with APM
APM enhanced by enterprise architecture
APM feeding project portfolio management
Capture new investment ideas and demands from stakeholders in a central repository.
Demand management
Delivery management
Integration with other tools in the DevOps delivery lifecycle
Gain visibility into expected project costs, timelines, resources, benefits, and interdependencies with other projects in the portfolio.
Determine the optimal projects
Web-based team contributions
Trade-off analysis
Resource management
Make informed decisions on what products and features to build, and develop product roadmaps based on customer priorities, competitor functionality, and market conditions.
Prioritize enhancements
Develop new products
Develop roadmaps
Perform product portfolio analysis
Quickly understand how changes to your IT landscape will affect business owners, processes, services, and capabilities.
Application portfolio management
Technology portfolio management
Project portfolio management
| Hardware | Requirement |
| Memory | 1 GB minimum, 8 GB recommended *Note: 16 GB minimum, if you are installing Focal Point and Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) applications in the same system.* |
| Disk Space | 10 GB minimum, 80 GB recommended |
| Display | Minimum resolution 1024 x 768 on a client computer |
Platform
One of the following operating systems must be installed:
Supported platforms in the client computer to access Focal Point:
One of the following application servers:
CAUTION: If you set up a clustered environment then make sure that the system time on the different servers is synchronized and differs by less than one second.
Relational DatabaseOne of the following databases must be installed in the production environment:
Server:
You can use these browsers to log in to Focal Point:
UNICOM License Technology 8.200a
