Rational Focal Point

Product, project, and portfolio management

IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ provides a comprehensive decision support system for market- and business-driven product, project and portfolio management, that can help executives and teams to make the right decisions in order to delivery business, customer and market value.

  • Capture business inputs in the form of business and market requirements, customers, analysts, market research, and internal stakeholders.
  • Utilise visualisation, prioritisation, and unique road mapping and planning capabilities to ensure than plans are both valuable and achievable.
  • Bridge the gap between the business and engineering by centralising information key to decision-making, status reporting and portfolio reviews.
  • Prioritise and visualise customer needs to ensure most valuable capabilities are not minimised or eliminated through project delivery.
  • Centralise information to escape the chaos of managing data in emails, documents, and spreadsheets, speeding the ability to respond to changing market and business conditions.
  • Overcome the influence of the loudest voice in the room and use objective information to support decision making.
  • Make enterprise architecture plans actionable and value-driven by assessing requests against business priorities, and road mapping alongside other initiatives.

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IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ provides market - and business-driven product and portfolio management - helping executives and teams to make the right decisions to deliver business, customer and market value.

  • Capture inputs from customers, analysts, market research, and internal stakeholders and prioritize on which ones will provide the most value to the business

  • Utilize visualization, prioritization, and unique road mapping and planning capabilities to ensure that plans are innovative, valuable and achievable

  • Centralize information key to decision-making, status reporting and portfolio reviews to escape the chaos of managing data in emails, documents, and spreadsheets; speeding the ability to respond to changing market and business conditions

  • Overcome the influence of politics, pet projects, gut feel and the loudest voice in the room and use objective information to support decision making

  • Reduce risk and improve cost estimations of investments by modeling financial and market impacts and by performing scenario, statistical and financial analysis

  • Integrate enterprise architecture plans and project execution into portfolio management to ensure enterprise and project-level decisions are aligned with financial and market needs

  • Quickly realize the benefits of Product and Portfolio Management and reduce costs of implementations by utilizing pre-defined configurations based on best practices

Among other things IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ is/consist of:

  • Completely web based
  • Extreme configurability and flexibility
  • Workflow support
  • Role based access
  • Full history with audit trails
  • Integration possibilities
  • Excel import/export
  • Prioritization support
  • Visualizations
  • Built-in calculations
  • Filtering capabilities
  • Versioning and base-lining
  • Report generation (Excel, PDF, RTF)
  • Homepage / Dashboard
  • Word import
  • Views and filtering
  • Time Grid
  • Investment Analyzer
  • Traceability views
  • Trend charts
  • Gantt charts
  • Notifications
  • Mail importer
  • Statistics views
  • Release planning support
  • Review process support
  • Built-in roll-ups
  • Financial Planning
  • High availability – server redundancy
  • Single Sign-On
  • And more…

This page summarizes the operating systems, databases, Application Servers, and Web browsers, that are supported by IBM Rational Focal Point, version 6.5.


System requirements
Operating SystemSoftwareHardware
Server Machine:

• Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition

• Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 5

• Sun Solaris™ 9 or 10		 Databases:

• PostgreSQL 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4

• Oracle® 10g Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition

• Oracle® 11g Enterprise Edition

• IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 9.5 & 9.7

Application servers and web browsers:

• Apache Tomcat 5.5.28

• Websphere Application Server version 7.0.0.9

• Internet Explorer® 7 or 8

• Mozilla Firefox® 3.0, 3.5 or 3.6		 Display: 1280 x 1024 minimum resolution

Disk space: 15 GB minimum, 100 GB recommended

Memory: 4 GB RAM minimum, 16 GB RAM recommended

For detailed information on system requirements for Rational Focal Point, please use the following link: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27019945

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