Successful organizations are those that can maximize business value, achieve balance, and align their overall portfolio with strategic objectives. The SAP Resource and Portfolio Management (SAP RPM) application helps you deliver on this, and helps you deliver on it more effectively.

SAP RPM addresses your organization's need for strategic and operational portfolio management. An enterprise-level solution for the management of a range of portfolios – including product innovation management (PIM), professional service portfolios, and enterprise IT – SAP RPM enables you to better control and innovate projects, processes, products, and services across their life cycles.

Powered by the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, SAP RPM "snaps-on" to existing heterogeneous IT landscapes and leverages data from disparate systems – including human resource, financial, project management, and desktop systems – enabling new, cross-functional business processes and providing ready insight into operations. For example:

• Prebuilt integration with SAP and non-SAP systems provides out-of-the-box transparency into project-cost actuals, forecasts, baselines, and other KPIs across your entire portfolio.
• Deep integration with your HR system, including visibility into the organizational structure to support both line and pool management, enables resource allocation and strategic capacity planning based on up-to-date information on skills, availability, and approval workflows.
• Flexible dashboards and sophisticated analytics drawn from disparate systems enable continuous monitoring of your portfolio's performance.

SAP RPM aligns activities, resources, and budgets with business priorities. So you can maximize the value of your portfolio and leverage your existing investments in IT systems, skills, and resources.

And, together with other SAP solutions tightly integrated by SAP NetWeaver, SAP RPM can support your new product development and introduction processes.