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Product Management Software

Product Management Software
FeaturePlan is product management software for software product managers.

It is a customizable software solution for administering the vast quantities of data that product managers content with during each step of a software product’s lifecycle.

From a value perspective, FeaturePlan will save your company time and money by automating and simplifying your product managers’ most time-consuming and tedious tasks so they can concentrate on innovation and the needs of the market.

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From a product management perspective, FeaturePlan is based on the Pragmatic Marketing® Framework but was designed to integrate with your company’s particular product management configuration.

FeaturePlan is a fully integrated, automated product management software tool that collects and centralizes your product’s data, brings together all of your stakeholders and gives you advanced reporting capability.

Watch our 5-minute FeaturePlan demo and download our overview for product managers.


The Product Management Software Solution
Poor data flow or data circulation within a company can be found as a contributing factor in nearly every problem related to Product Management.

Product data scattered across multiple departments that do not necessarily share or communicate with one another, severely limits product management’s ability to effectively harvest the company’s collective knowledge base when deciding which way to go. This kind of diffuse and decentralized situation hobbles your ability to make timely and important product decisions that are supported by facts rather than speculation.

FeaturePlan remedies this with our automated data collection process and integrated reporting capability.

Nine inputs constantly and automatically feed data into a customized database specifically designed for the needs of software product managers.

The advanced reporting tools are designed to greatly increase your data-mining capabilities while giving you greater flexibility and save you valuable time.

With your product’s data centralized in one place, reporting becomes a matter of keystrokes and mouse-clicks, making research time shorter, budgeting processes simpler, the analysis of opportunities quicker, market problems and trends clearer, preparation of market research documents and product requirements documents easier and the validation of ideas smoother.

All of your stakeholders are also plugged into FeaturePlan, resulting in a formalized information loop that ensures that important data never gets lost in the shuffle.


Nine Inputs
As a guiding principle, we believe that a report is only as good as the data that supports it. Therefore, FeaturePlan’s inputs are designed to capture a vast array of data from across your entire company so the reports you produce are based on irrefutable data.

The nine inputs feed the database in real-time, guaranteeing that your stakeholders are instantly appraised of any and all developments relating to their products, and ensuring that your reports are always current, complete and accurate.

They are:

    • Enhancement requests
    • Analysis reports
    • Market research
    • Win/loss reports
    • Customer relations data
    • Competitive analysis
    • Call reports
    • Contractual requirements
    • Incidents reports
Each input comes pre-formatted to best-practice standards but they are fully customizable for you to set up according to your needs. We believe product management software should serve you, not the other way around.


Reporting & Alerting
Reporting is one of FeaturePlan’s strongest assets.

It comes out of the box equipped with more than 150 reporting templates but you can easily create customized reports to drill down through your data as you see fit.

And because the inputs collect data from multiple sources across your company, the scope of your reporting will increase exponentially and enable you to view your product from a much broader and more detailed perspective.

For instance: enhancement requests traditionally come from the support and development departments. But sales and marketing also collect enhancement data of a different variety through their unique contact with the customer that sometimes does not make it into the enhancement process.

For companies that produce market-driven software products, this kind of disconnect can lead to missed opportunities.

With FeaturePlan, the centralization of all of your data into a single repository ensures that your reports provide you with the most complete answers.

FeaturePlan also reconciles the challenge of keeping your various stakeholders apprised of new or updated information during a product’s lifecycle.

By plugging them into a single product management software application, they are alerted whenever new and relevant data enters the database.

So if, for example, a component shared by three different product lines is slated to be changed in the next release of one of them, FeaturePlan will immediately alert the stakeholders in the other two and give them sufficient time to react.


Optimizing Product Management
Product management software's primary function is to improve your company's particular product management process.

FeaturePlan will streamline the most tedious and time-consuming aspects of your product management, reinforce your decision-making with facts and connect all of your stakeholders to a centralized information loop.

The combination of our specialized database, the nine inputs, the improved communications with your stakeholders and the enhanced reporting functionality will give you the ability to quantifiably and qualitatively improve your product management process.

Gone will be the days where important data buried deep within the company is discovered only after the decisions have been made and the wheels have started turning.

The end result will free up your product managers’ time and resources to be devoted to what your company does best: creating innovative software products that are in synch with the needs of the market.

A private demo is available upon request or watch our 5-minute FeaturePlan demo.


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