Product Management Application – Ryma Technology Solutions

by Andrew Manuel on February 28, 2010

Per my previous introduction to Product Management Applications, this writeup summarizes the Ryma Technology Solutions.

Ryma Technology Solutions - provides 2 on-demand software applications:  Ryma FeaturePlan and Ryma IdeaScope.

Ryma FeaturePlan

Automates core product management by:

  • Providing a central information repository
  • Allowing users to capture market data using Market Sensing techniques and best practices along with tools like IdeaScope, as well as capturing and managing problem data
  • Giving users capability to make product prioritization & roadmap decisions based on validated market demands and market opportunities
  • Being able to run multiple “what if” scenarios, present findings and the corresponding business cases to executive management that’s backed by real customer data, and transparently show trade offs that are being made
  • Having built-in requirements traceability so users can see what problems are associated with requirements, which requirements are associated with a product release, and which requirements are dependent to each other in the same or different product release
  • Providing analysis and reporting tools to analyze current plans especially when new sets of data are entered that may change the current path.  Reports are customizable.
  • Providing portfolio management allowing the user to take data collection and analysis up a level and look at groupings of related products, analyze the portfolio of products in the marketplace and looking at each product on its individual strengths

Click here to view the FeaturePlan online demo, although the text on the screenshots are unreadable.

Ryma IdeaScope

Automates market feedback sourcing by:

  • Allowing product managers to design and execute market surveys to support the collection, prioritization and analytics of visionary ideas
  • Giving customers a place to submit feedback and ideas any time
  • Allowing for anonymous feedback, when appropriate, encourages more honest and critical feedback
  • Setting up surveys with point distribution ranking so that customers opinions can be captured as precisely as possible and the most important ideas become obvious as their scores push them top of the list
  • Allowing customers to collaborate with each other in an anonymous way allows ideas to be refined and elaborated
  • Allowing the product manager to guide the discussions and break up the ideas into subsets so that each set of feedback is quick and easy to answer
  • Providing internal reporting on ideas and surveys, letting the submitters of ideas track how their ideas are being rated by the user community at large
  • Being able to set user role types called Advisor Role and Participant Role, and create custom user role types as well for whatever classification and weighting the situation requires
  • Having collected types of idea and feedback data defined and organized into hierarchical idea categories, and giving custom fields as necessary for capture and filtering that fits any unique situation

Click here to view the IdeaScope online demo.

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