Planisware Nova gives R&D and product leaders a strategic control tower for innovation portfolios, helping them decide which products and technologies to fund, accelerate, or stop, and whether they can realistically be delivered with available resources and budget.
Unify product portfolios, ideas, roadmaps, resources, and financials in one continuously steered environment built for New Product Development.
Most R&D organizations have strong execution governance, but weak portfolio control. Stage-Gate, Agile, and PLM tools manage delivery. But when leadership asks which products will drive growth, where R&D is over-committed, or how the portfolio affects P&L, the answers are stale spreadsheets and one-off status reports.
This creates three compounding risks: misallocated innovation investment, hidden resource bottlenecks, and portfolios that can't adapt to market shifts.
Planisware Nova is purpose-built for R&D and New Product Development. It connects product portfolios, ideas, business cases, development programs, resources, and financials into a single portfolio model so leaders can make faster, more confident investment decisions.
Capture ideas, build business cases, and prioritize the initiatives most likely to deliver strategic and financial value.
Manage what you sell, not just how you build it. Planisware Nova treats products and product families as the primary unit of strategic and financial reasoning, not as a by-product of projects.
Model product lines, platforms, variants, brands, and lifecycles across markets and geographies. Connect current programs to future product generations and technology roadmaps. Link R&D investment to product-level growth, margin, and lifecycle economics.
Give R&D and Finance a shared, trusted view of innovation investments. Planisware Nova brings financial rigor to the portfolio with multi-year budgeting and forecasting, development cost tracking by product and phase, and clearer visibility into expected returns.
Model the impact of budget cuts, cost inflation, delays, or strategic pivots with what-if scenarios before committing. Connect portfolio plans to ERP and finance systems so Finance, Strategy, and R&D work from the same view of spend, value, and portfolio balance.
Nova connects portfolio ambition with real delivery capacity through governance and resource planning. Skill-based capacity planning surfaces bottlenecks in critical shared roles (e.g. regulatory specialists, system architects, clinical leaders) before launch dates are at risk.
Nova ships pre-configured with New Product Development (NPD) dashboards, Stage-Gate workflows, scoring models, and business logic shaped by 30 years of R&D portfolio expertise across Life Sciences, Automotive, FMCG/CPG, A&D, and High-Tech. Implementation starts close to your needs, not from a blank platform.
For Automotive
Manage vehicle, platform, and powertrain portfolios across long development cycles, shared engineering resources, and hardware-software convergence. Model trade-offs across electrification, regulation, and future product generations.
Key Benefits:
For Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
FMCG/CPG innovation means managing thousands of SKUs across brands, categories, and markets. The challenge isn't running individual projects — it's governing which innovations to pursue, how to sequence launches by market, and when to rationalize the portfolio.
Key Benefits:
For Aerospace & Defense
Manage large-scale, multi-year programs with full traceability, risk control, and cross-organizational alignment. Planisware supports engineering-heavy environments where precision, compliance, and coordination are critical.
Key Benefits:
For Medical Technology
Medical device companies must balance innovation with strict regulatory requirements. Planisware provides the visibility and governance needed to ensure compliance while accelerating development.
Key Benefits:
For Pharmaceuticals & Chemicals
Pharma organizations face high-risk pipelines, long timelines, and strict regulations. Planisware enables data-driven decision-making, helping teams prioritize the right investments and bring treatments to market faster.
Key Benefits:
For High-Tech & Electronics
Manage portfolios with rapid generation cycles, platform reuse, and tight hardware-software-firmware interdependencies. Balance investment between sustaining current product lines and next-generation platforms as time-to-market pressure intensifies and technology obsolescence accelerates.
Key Benefits:
Build and manage detailed project plans with full visibility into dependencies, milestones, and critical paths, ensuring on-time delivery across even the most complex product programs.
Enable teams to collaborate in real time using intuitive boards that track progress, manage tasks, and adapt quickly to change - keeping innovation moving forward.
Structure your development process with clear stages, gates, and decision points - ensuring alignment, compliance, and control from idea to launch.
Bring together Agile, Stage-Gate, and traditional planning in a unified environment, so different teams can work their hybrid way while staying aligned at the portfolio level.
Planisware AI agents offer personalized, context-aware guidance, automate reporting and scheduling, perform tasks, execute workflows, answer user questions, and validate project data.
Build confidence and robustness in your planning by leveraging AI predictive modeling to assess outcomes, timing, or risks.
![[Enterprise][25Q3] AI Risk Generation](/sites/default/files/2025-10/%5BEnterprise%5D%5B25Q3%5D%20AI%20Risk%20Generation.png)
Transform how your teams interact with project data through the power of conversation. Accelerate onboarding and ensure robust adoption.
![[Enterprise][25Q1] AI Help Assistive](/sites/default/files/2025-10/%5BEnterprise%5D%5B25Q1%5D%20AI%20Help%20Assistive.gif)
No R&D or portfolio data sent to a vendor-hosted model. Bring your own LLM via Azure OpenAI, Copilot, etc.
![[Nova][25Q3] Project Overview Dashboard](/sites/default/files/styles/call_out/public/2026-01/%5BNova%5D%5B25Q3%5D%20Project%20Overview%20Dashboard.png?itok=wGQLmTUn)
To make optimal decisions, combine various information from your application ecosystem directly within your solution. For instance, integrating data coming from your ERPs, accounting systems, agile tools, PLM, and other third-party sources.
Planisware provides dozens of native connectors as well as a robust REST API framework to integrate data seamlessly.
Planisware Nova is the enterprise control tower for product innovation. It is a Product and Strategic Portfolio Management platform designed for R&D and New Product Development, helping leaders connect product portfolios, ideas, programs, resources, and financials in one continuously steered portfolio so they can make better investment and delivery decisions.
Project tools and spreadsheets can help teams track delivery, but they rarely provide a trusted portfolio-level view across products, resources, risk, and financial outcomes. Planisware Nova is built to help R&D and product leaders decide which initiatives to fund, accelerate, rebalance, or stop, and to test those decisions against real budget, capacity, and strategy constraints.
Typically, no if those systems already exist. Planisware Nova sits above the systems your teams already use and makes their data meaningful at portfolio level. It integrates with PLM, ERP/Finance, Agile, project, and BI tools so leadership can connect execution reality to strategic decisions without forcing every team to change how they work. Planisware Nova can serve as your PLM, Agile, project, or BI tool if needed.
Yes. Planisware Nova is designed for modern R&D environments where hardware, software, digital services, and regulated work often run in parallel. It supports Stage-Gate, Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid programs in one portfolio view, making it easier to align governance, milestones, dependencies, and reporting across different teams and delivery styles.
Planisware Nova helps organizations plan around the real constraint in R&D: scarce specialist expertise. It provides skill-based resource and capacity planning across functions, sites, and partners, making it easier to spot bottlenecks early, compare staffing or sequencing options, and build portfolios that are realistically deliverable, not just strategically attractive on paper.
Planisware Nova gives R&D and Finance a shared view of innovation investment. Teams can manage multi-year budgets and forecasts, track development costs by product and phase, connect spend to expected revenue and margin where data is available, and model the financial impact of portfolio changes before committing to them.
Planisware Nova includes AI-assisted capabilities across core portfolio workflows, including idea scoring, prioritization recommendations, early risk signals, portfolio trade-off analysis, WBS generation, and automated status insights. Its architecture is designed for enterprise environments, with support for bring-your-own-LLM and MCP-based connectivity so customers can keep control of models, data governance, and security.
Planisware Nova is built for R&D-intensive organizations that need stronger portfolio control across product development and innovation. Typical stakeholders include VP R&D, Heads of Innovation, Chief Product Officers, EPMO/NPD governance leaders, resource managers, Finance and Strategy leaders, and IT teams that need enterprise-grade security, integration, and governance.
