Product Concept and Design eRoom

The EMC Documentum Product Concept and Design eRoom helps you address a critical fact: 70 percent of all product costs are locked in during the conceptual design phase. This eRoom helps you create new products—the lifeblood of your organization—more efficiently.

Reduce time-to-market for new products in order to respond to competitive threats. Capture first-mover advantages and increase the profitability of each product release. Help your product managers contend with wide-ranging challenges that threaten to derail product development efforts including tight schedules, shrinking budgets, late feature changes, and resource limitations.

Product Concept and Design eRoom key benefits

• Single workspace — Unite process management and project scheduling within a single workspace, providing all participants with process visibility.
• Global collaboration — Engage with globally distributed functional groups and business partners to execute projects efficiently.
• Consensus-building — Connect internal and external participants to drive consensus on design decisions and project milestones.
• Workplace templates — Develop process-specific workspace templates to standardize product development methodologies and facilitate repeatable processes.
• Phase-gate methodology — Define deliverables and required approvers for each phase in the process, ensuring that all criteria are met before additional development costs are incurred.
• Project plan schedule — Manage project schedules according to the phase-gate process model to track progress against defined milestones and across parallel project efforts.
• Enterprise roll-ups — Provide top-down dashboard visibility into status, issues, and opportunities across a portfolio of ongoing product development efforts.
• Best practices — Streamline process methodologies to facilitate adherence to best practices.

Product Concept and Design eRoom users

• Product managers
• Product marketers
• Engineers
• Product designers
• Suppliers
• Production planners
• Manufacturers