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Superb Charting Software for NPD Portfolio Management

 

PortViewTM

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for Visualizing Product Development
PortView is easy-to-use software that provides superb bubble charting for new product development portfolio management.  It is simple and it is straightforward.

What users say about PortView..."Very low cost compared to other options. MS should have this tool's capability but they do not. Ease of use is very good, easy to manage and update, easy to drill for details...  Did I say it is very affordable!"   Intel

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PortView is design to help companies begin portfolio management and, as a visualization tool, to support those that are well along the way.

PortView enables rapid creation of insightful charts and analysis of NPD Portfolios by placing particular emphasis on strategic grouping metrics.  It is designed to integrate metrics and views for multiple project decision-making.  The software includes templates and data formats for dozens of Best-In-Class NPD portfolio management views.  PortView reads your data directly from MS Excel. Graphics are placed in MS PowerPoint for detail editing (if you wish), distribution and web publishing.  PortView incorporates numerous features to enable users to quickly set up views, draw lines, add text, filter data, label bubbles, create zoom-in charts, expose high level strategic grouping views and share output effortlessly.

Product Development Portfolio Management

       Priced to put on a credit card, not in a capital budget plan.

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Using PortViewTM 
PortView reads the data from its source (e. g., an MS Excel spreadsheet) and puts it into its own memory. Users then assign the variables or data fields to how they wish to view them. With each assignment, user may watch how the data appears.  Once the view looks the way the user wishes, they simply save it, print it, or create a PowerPoint slide from it. Because PortView creates Microsoft Windows Metafiles (wmf -  the same vector graphic type that PowerPoint uses), users also have full editing capabilities over every detail of views from within PowerPoint... ungroup, resize, group, change fonts, recolor and even publish to the web. 

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For those who learn on their own, PortView has an extensive help system. Yet, the user interface is so intuitive, that anyone who knows what a spreadsheet looks like can be an expert with PortViewTM in just a thirty-minute explanation over the phone.

If you wish, you may download and install PortView, and be up and running in minutes.  Simply request a download of the demo.  Its free.    Get Demo

    Company after company have joined PortView's extensive list of users.

Some users include: Coca Cola, Intel, Hershey, Johnson and Johnson, Hewlett Packard, Chevron, Ralston Purina, ICI, Novartis, General Motors, Pfizer, Dow Chemical, Access Business Group, Dupont, Sprint, BASF Corporation, Sunbeam, Markem, Algonquin Auto, Micro Encoder, Silicon Graphics,  Air Products, Dana Corporation, Appleton, Omnova Solutions, Square D, Datex-Ohmeda, NOVA Chemicals, BNY Clearing, Pharmacia, Timken, Cerner, Johnson Controls, Harris Corporation, Porter-Cable, US Filter, Lubrizol, Grace, Omnova, Reichold, and Alcoa 

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Product Development Portfolio Management

 

 

New Product Development Portfolio, Project Flow and Platform Management Workshop

 

 

PortViewTM offers many easy-to-use features, 
creating a superior approach to NPD Portfolio Visualization

Direct creation of MS PowerPoint slides. Also enables insertion of views into MS Word for full text reports.

Ease-of-use, with many pre-established and optimal defaults

Handling and filtering of metrics, with no restriction on the number of projects included. 

On-screen display of "drill down" project metrics and information. 

Zoom for closer-in views. Axes and all variables instantly adjusted. 

Reads a data source into array (in your computer’s memory) for extremely fast data manipulation. Data source is not disrupted. Quick changes made to data within PortView may be saved as a separate data file. 

Enables plotting of Strategic Groups, such as target markets, project types and technology platforms 

Enables charting of Strategic Buckets and their statistical summaries. 

Direct-to-chart display of labels (names next to each bubbles)… built-in algorithmic separation of text so that there is no overlay of labels Fast and easy use of templates. 

Simply click on next month’s data for next month’s view. 

Setting and using Strategic Bucket or grouping values as axes (categorical axes). For example, using “stage of development” along an axis.

Dividing data fields into ranges of “n-tiles” (e.g., quartiles). 

Displaying calculated data on Strategic Buckets (means, data ranges, etc.) into both views and data tables. 

Using data to show “Projection Vectors” that visually communicate dynamic changes over time (e.g., this project is moving in this direction) 

Conditional screening of metrics (for example: show projects from one specific business unit… click and show projects from another business unit) % profit, Marketing as % of FTE, % growth rate) 

Extremely fast editing of views with MS office style "undo" to help correct mistakes 

PortView is a Trademark of The Adept Group Limited, Inc.

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