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NPD Accelerator Capabilities

The CA Clarity PPM Accelerator for New Product Development helps organizations shorten the time-to-market for new products. Use it to increase your rate of innovation, increase new product sales, and reduce new product development costs. Leverage the product development skills and resources at your organization for optimum strategic and financial impact across all product lines in all phases.

The Accelerator for New Product Development (NPD) add-in offers the following capabilities:

Portfolio Management

• Track specific product categories.
• Track the product or product type.
• Track products by brand, customer segment, and product line.
• Track competitor products.
• Move products through lifecycle phases.
• Analyze all products according to specific factors in a rating system.
• Manage a portfolio of products using the following convenience features:
  • a page layout for portfolios with product information.
  • a group that provides appropriate access for product managers.

Project Management and Stage Gates

• A gate scoring object to track and store all gate scores for each project stage.
• Automated gate submission processes that support each stage gate.
• A gate scoring page layout to provide metrics.
• Custom attributes and page layouts, including go, hold, and kill status.
• Project portlets that you can add to any of the project page layouts.
• Budget per phase.
• A built-in project template for the five-step stage-gate process.
• Support for deliverables and worksheets with a document folder structure.
• Project portfolio management including pipeline.
• Dashboards for executives, portfolio managers, and project managers to review projects before submitting them for gate approval.
• Separate user groups for portfolio managers, project managers, and team members.

Idea-to-Launch Management

• An idea vault to collect all ideas and facilitate your portfolio planning.
• An idea screening process that allows you to score the idea and turn it into a project.
• Custom attributes and page layouts for ideas.
• A gate scoring mechanism for gatekeepers to rate ideas against business goals.
• Enter new ideas, access idea scoring, and view pertinent projects.
• An Idea Management Dashboard that displays metrics and provides quick updates for users.
• A group that provides appropriate access to marketing managers.