IBM Rational® Portfolio Manager helps business executives and IT leadership align IT investments with business goals. It helps project teams efficiently plan and execute projects. It provides a collaborative workflow environment for project and asset management, insight into resource capacity planning, and oversight of project financials. Rational Portfolio Manager?s marriage of top-down portfolio analysis with bottom-up project management best practices provides a comprehensive on demand capability - from initiative identification and investment prioritization through project execution and closure. It's about achieving the desired return for your IT investment, while balancing fiscal expenditures.

This tool provides support for the activities of the following team members: Project Manager.

To gain the full benefits from this tool, users need to have the following skills:-

• Project Management

Training for this tool can be found in the following courses:-

• Essentials of the Rational Unified Process

IBM Rational Portfolio Manager automates portfolio and project management so you can:-

• Visualize and balance your portfolio via dashboards
• Balance workload and manage demand
• Quickly ramp projects with reusable methods based on best practices
• Optimize resource leveling and scheduling
• Improve effective collaboration between business and technical stakeholders
• Actively manage risks and issues
• Calculate cost variances in real time
• Automate time and expense capture and forecasting