Planisware Nova is strategic portfolio management for R&D and new product development. This solution overview shows how R&D and product leaders decide which products and technologies to fund, accelerate or stop, and whether they can be delivered with the resources and budget available.
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Planisware Nova is strategic portfolio management for R&D and new product development. This solution overview shows how R&D and product leaders decide which products and technologies to fund, accelerate or stop, and whether they can be delivered with the resources and budget available.
The challenge. Most R&D organizations govern execution well, but not the portfolio. Too many initiatives are funded in parallel, critical specialists are committed to several programs at once, and when demand, regulations or technology shift, the portfolio is rebalanced on opinion rather than data. The brochure shows how Nova closes that gap with one portfolio model, from idea to launch and beyond.
Where Nova fits. Nova does not replace your PLM or your ERP. It sits above the systems R&D teams already use and connects them to the decisions on what to fund. A value chain of 6 stages, from ideas to lifecycle, shows who leads each one, from the VP R&D and the chief product officer to finance, resource managers and program leaders.
4 pillars.
- Value-driven innovation investment: ideas captured and scored against strategic themes; business cases with a P&L from idea to concept to project; portfolio scenarios compared on cost, revenue, eNPV and resource load before leaders commit.
- Product portfolio management: products and product families as the unit of decision, with their programs, costs, time to market, market share and cumulative cash flow, and rationalization and cannibalization weighed in the product P&L.
- Innovation financial confidence: multi-year budgets and forecasts, development costs by product and phase with CapEx and OpEx, revenue, margin, NPV and payback in every business case, and what-if scenarios for budget cuts, cost inflation and delays.
- Predictable R&D delivery: phase-gate, waterfall, agile and hybrid programs in one portfolio view, with skill-based capacity planning that finds bottlenecks in critical shared roles before launch dates are at risk.
Built for the way your industry innovates. Nova ships with NPD dashboards, phase-gate workflows and scoring models for pharmaceuticals and chemicals, medical technology, automotive, consumer goods, aerospace and defense, and high tech and electronics.
AI built for innovation portfolio decisions. Digital agents, predictive models and AI assistants work inside the screens R&D teams already use. Planisware Prisma reads live data, opens the right screen and proposes the change, and every AI change is reviewed before it is written. No R&D or portfolio data is sent to a vendor-hosted model: bring your own LLM, with an MCP server and client.
Connected to the systems you already run. PLM for product data and lifecycle states; SAP, Oracle Fusion and JD Edwards for ERP and finance; Jira, Azure DevOps and Microsoft Project for delivery; Workday, SAP HCM and Oracle HCM for people and skills; Microsoft Teams, REST APIs, Power BI and Tableau for collaboration and data.
Customer results. Jazz Pharmaceuticals produces financial forecasts in less than 2 weeks instead of over 6. Spin Master raised efficiency by 55% and cut its master data backlog by 90%. Beam Suntory increased project delivery by 18% without adding headcount. Woodward cut the time spent compiling reports and aligning data by 75%.
Cloud and services. Planisware runs its own cloud, with 99.7% guaranteed availability and ISO 27001, SOC 1, SOC 2 and TISAX among its certifications, and supports each customer from the first workshop to everyday operations.
