New product development requires extensive product and marketing requirements planning. Factors such as product design, engineering aspects, market research and competition analysis need to be considered. New product requirements planning involve coordinating with different teams such as the Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Finance teams. Another prerequisite is to stay updated with competitors, new market entrants and their products. Organizations need a software application with powerful features which facilitates effective strategic planning. Such a system should provide easy to use templates that help simplify tasks such as collaborating marketing requirements and defining new product requirements. All related vital information and documents should be available at a central location thereby speeding up the activities involved in the planning process, which otherwise take up longer time.

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