Demand Management Software
UMT360’s Demand Management tool makes it easy to capture innovative ideas from anywhere and standardize business cases
Key Features
UMT360 helps bring order to the chaos of demand management, enabling you to generate standardized business cases that align demand with strategy and help ensure that you’re not simply choosing the best from a bad list of ideas.
Capture & Consolidate All Demand
Capture new initiative requests from anywhere within the organization to ensure that the right initiatives are being evaluated and approved on a continuous basis.
- Capture ideas directly in UMT360 or import from other sources
- Align ideas with key strategic objectives, products, services and more
- Capture the appropriate level of detail at each stage of your intake process
- Summarize, segment and access ideas using configurable views
- Approve ideas to a formal business case
Generate Standardized Business Cases
Move away from disparate sources of business case information like Excel, Word and Powerpoint to better govern and standardize all demand and improve decision making.
- Standardize governance and automate approvals using flexible workflows
- Use basic or advanced scorecards to help prioritize demand
- Capture time-phased cost estimates
- Capture resource estimates for individual role or team
- Forecast expected benefits
- Manage key milestones and dependencies between entities
- Look ahead by capturing potential risks and issues associated with your demand
More Effective Prioritization & Decision Making
Powerful capabilities enable organizations to more effectively gain visibility across all projected benefits/outcomes. Quickly and easily establish benefit targets for each portfolio and run analysis to optimize payback timelines.
- Easily prioritize requests using a variety of dimensions, such as strategic value, risk, probability of success, architectural fit and more
- Visualize key milestones and enforce dependencies when making decisions on your demand
- Create and compare a variety of plans using what-if scenario analysis tools without impacting your underlying data:
- Effectively model capital planning scenarios by establishing and visualizing top-down budget constraints
- Maximize benefits and conduct target analysis
- Optimize portfolio payback timelines
Roadmaps help you model the impact of all demand
Powerful and interactive roadmaps help you model the effect of any portfolio change and quickly sort through all demand.
- Create, share and automatically maintain beautiful roadmaps in minutes
- Choose from Portfolio Timelines or Boards roadmap templates
- Intuitively filter out data to focus only on the information relevant to the task at-hand
- View all demand in a time-phased view to gain a clearer understanding into the relationships and dependencies between all requests
- Classify, change status and more with a simple drag-and-drop in configurable Board views
Manage and visualize project & portfolio dependencies
Use roadmap to gain a clearer understanding into the “six degrees of separation” between all investments.
- Establish and keep track of key project milestones and deliverables
- Manage and visualize project, program, and portfolio inter-dependencies
- Quickly identify at-risk project milestones and portfolio dependencies
- Visualize and share key portfolio events within the roadmap
Dynamic Analysis/What-If Scenario Modeling
Conduct what-if scenarios – in just a fraction of the time – to show the impact of any proposed change to your project and program portfolios across costs, resources, benefits, value, timeline and more. Quickly and easily respond to any possible question about your portfolio, proactively triage today’s problems or even model and predict possible future problems.
See UMT360 Demand Management Software in Action
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Quick & Easy Integrations
UMT360 portfolio management solutions tightly integrate with a wide variety of work management ERP, and other critical systems within your enterprise.
Get the strategic project portfolio management capabilities you need, quickly and easily
Every UMT360 Accelerator is designed to be implemented quickly with a minimum amount of consulting or configuration. Leveraging best practices garnered from years of successful client engagements, these powerful Accelerators provide precisely the capabilities you need, without weeks or months of configuration.
Portfolio Roadmapping
This Strategy Accelerator adds the powerful roadmapping capabilities you need to create, maintain and share beautiful Roadmaps and Boards in minutes.
Resource Management & Capacity Planning
Add this Strategy Accelerator to quickly and easily master resource management and capacity planning to maximize resource utilization.
What-If Scenario Planning & Analysis
Generating what-if scenarios and modeling potential outcomes based on ad-hoc questions used to require teams to stay late and manually crunch numbers. But what if you had the tools to respond to any possible question about any portfolio with just a few clicks?
Demand Management
Capture disruptive and innovative ideas from anywhere within the organization to help ensure that the next great idea doesn’t fall through the cracks. Move away from disparate sources of business case information like Excel, Word and Powerpoint to better govern and standardize all demand and improve decision making.
Benefits Realization & Outcome Management
Establish and define the right financial & non-financial metrics for each strategy and set targets to ensure that outcomes can be measured. Quickly decompose strategy into the right initiatives needed to drive transformation, and assess portfolio sufficiency to ensure that outcome targets can be met or exceeded
Cost Management & Capital Planning
Corporate capital planning software provides a top-down view of all projected costs to support both traditional annual planning and dynamic/continuous planning. Consolidate and streamline the standardized capture of cost estimates across a wide variety of dimensions.
Application Portfolio Rationalization
Application Portfolio Rationalization is critical component to help you assess and streamline your software environment to improve efficiency, reduce risks and create a foundation for future evolution.
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Application Portfolio Management
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Provides the models, visualizations and linkages to other architecture disciplines you need to quickly gain valuable insights across your organization from a variety of business-centric perspectives.
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E&C Portfolio Management
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Part of UMT360’s comprehensive strategic portfolio management platform
Need a specific Portfolio Management Accelerator right now? Let’s get started! Each one delivers powerful stand-alone capabilities that you can have up and running in just a few days. And since they all complement each other, it’s easy to add additional capabilities – in any order you’d like – whenever you’re ready. Best of all, each is part of UMT360’s comprehensive Strategic Portfolio Management Platform. Which means that with every Accelerator you add, you’re that much closer to having all the capabilities you need to align all investments with strategy and ultimately accelerate digital transformation.
The Importance of a Comprehensive What-If Scenario Planning Software Solution
Strategic Portfolio Management can help you provide the what-if scenario and portfolio analysis capabilities that are essential to forecast and model the impact of any proposed change to your project and program portfolios.
Regardless of your industry, whether you’re an executive; an enterprise or departmental PMO; a portfolio, program or product manager; or anyone in between – the ability to develop the right recommendations with insight into the implications, dependencies and limitations of any decision is crucial. Understand more about this critical capability by reading our guide to Strategic Scenario Planning (What-If Analysis).
Why You Need A Robust Demand Management Platform & Business Case Tool
Demand can come from anywhere. Strategic Portfolio Management software can help you provide the the right tools to help you standardize and manage it so it’s all aligned with strategy.
Most organizations are trying to deal with the dual challenge of controlling the amount of demand and where it’s coming from, and the ability to analyze and prioritize that demand. Effective strategic portfolio management enables you to address both of those issues.
Ready to Unleash Your Business Agility?
Business agility is impossible without strategic portfolio management, and strategic portfolio management is what UMT360 does. In fact, we wrote the eBook on it. And it’s something we can help you deliver – with culture, focus, process, education and yes, a little bit of integrated software. So, let’s get started!
