JMP Product Management builds the vision and roadmap for the JMP family of products. The team is also a liaison between customers and R&D to stay in touch with how people use JMP today and how they want to use it better in the future. They maintain JMP Live instances and gather customer feedback; manage the Partner Program; lead product marketing, including consistent messaging and sales training; oversee JMP usability efforts; and much more.
For a full overview, check out the Product Management Library.
They ensure that:
- JMP products meet current and future market demands.
- JMP development receives customer feedback.
- JMP marketing knows how to promote our products.
- JMP sales knows how to show our products in the best light.
Year in Review
In 2021, the team focused on process, using systems like Confluence to keep track of projects and goals. They are dedicated to working with:
- Consistency – developing standard processes and best practices for working with customers, development and other groups internally.
- Transparency – documenting projects and how they align with JMP business goals.
- Accountability – staying on top of project status and completion, which is especially important because their projects involve many people in other groups.
“I’m impressed with the high-value, broad-impact initiatives the team has worked on this year, all of which will move us toward our goal of having 1 million users by 2025,” says Dan Valente, Manager of the Product Management team.
Get to know the team and their contributions
Dieter Pisot, Principal Systems Engineer (@dieter)
Assists sales teams with JMP Live technical questions.
Provides customer feedback to JMP Live and HTML development team.
Installs and maintains hosted customer JMP Live instances.
Maintains in-house JMP Live instance.
“My proudest accomplishment this year was helping our JMP Live 15 customers with their transition to JMP Live 16. We hit a few road bumps during the installations, but they are successfully publishing their reports to JMP Live 16 now.”
Sara Doudt, Product Marketing Manager (@saradoudt)
Develops sales enablement materials and training, for instance, Selling the Value of JMP Beyond the User.
Creates and maintains product knowledge documentation and resources.
Manages go-to-market strategies for core messaging and launches, as well as account expansion through programs like the Analytics Advocate Guide.
Helps position the value of our product to our core markets, like in these industry-specific webpages for chemical, pharma and biotech, consumer products and semiconductor.
Helps drive consistency of message, for example, through the JMP Analytic Workflow.
“2021 was a busy but exciting year. It was great to collaborate on so many different projects with so many different teams. From working with sales on developing training sessions to working with GTET on industry content and producing materials around the workflow and the launch with marketing – everything was a true team effort.”
Sam Gardner, Senior Product Manager (@SamGardner)
Evaluating the needs of current and future JMP users in Health and Life Sciences.
Working with development to improve JMP capabilities to meet those needs.
Developing and communicating product roadmaps to support the JMP vision across the JMP product family.
Partnering with development managers and engaging with key customers and thought leaders throughout the development cycle.
Monitoring the competitive landscape and making sure JMP products meet market expectations.
“I am very happy to back at JMP, and it has been a whirlwind of getting reacquainted with old colleagues, meeting new colleagues, learning our business systems, growing my understanding of JMP Clinical and Genomics, and working on the future roadmap for our HLS products. With the transition to becoming a new company, it is an exciting time, and I am looking forward to our future opportunities.”
Maanasa Thyagarajan, Associate Systems Engineer (@MaanasaT)
Facilitates relationship between JMP and our Partners, providing them with resources to get the most benefit out of the program.
Shows our users just how awesome JMP is by developing materials for JMP Days, customer meetings and Mastering JMP.
Mia Stephens, Principal Product Manager (@mia_stephens)
Manages the JMP Early Adopter (EA) program.
Helps develop and communicate product roadmaps to support the JMP vision across the JMP product family.
Partners with development managers and engages with thought leaders throughout the development cycle.
Develops and streamlines processes for consistency, transparency and accountability.
Manages the roadmap for STIPS.
Monitors competitive landscape; makes sure JMP meets market demands.
“We added so many amazing features in JMP 16, like Action Recording and the Enhanced Log, Sentiment Analysis and Term Selection, and Model Screening to name a few. JMP 17 is going to be even better, with features like the Workflow Builder, a new “JMP Search” utility, the innovative Design Space Profiler, Spectral Analysis and many more. Our customers tell us their pains and challenges, we listen, and more often than not we’re able to deliver!”
Dan Valente, Manager of Product Management (@Daniel_Valente)
Grows the product management team to meet the needs of the market and JMP.
Develops strategies to help us grow to 1 million users by 2025.
Creates and maintains product visions and roadmaps.
Monitors competitive landscape; makes sure JMP meets market demands.
The team is interviewing candidates for JMP UX Product Manager . This person will work on UX for all JMP platforms and JMP Live, as well as support the EA program. As you recall, during our organizationwide brainstorm session, JMP employees decided to make the UX of JMP a priority for 2022. This person will lead this effort in the new year.
What to Look for in 2022
In 2022, the PM team will be getting ready for a successful JMP 17 launch and rolling out initiatives to:
- Work to execute on a five-year vision for the JMP product family.
- Position JMP as an enterprise solution.
- Build out the sales training series.
- Get JMP Live in more accounts to drive account expansion and user growth.
- Evaluate hosting options to reduce costs and simplify the creation of JMP Live instances.
- Manage the STIPS roadmap.
- Continue projects to support account expansion, including the JMP Workflow, Analytics Advocates Guide and industry product marketing efforts.
- Plan for JMP 18 with focus on expanding data connectors, improving workflow building, growing JMP Live’s capabilities for data refreshing and scheduling server-side, and improving the UX and consistency within the product.
“As we look towards the future and our desire to grow our user base to 1 million by 2025, we need to focus on the big problems – problems that cross all the industries that JMP serves. Our customers need to easily access data no matter where it is, clean it up and get it ready for analysis,” explains Dan.
“They need to solve increasingly complex problems, including wide problems, and automate the entire process so they can focus on innovation, problem solving and discovering new things in an increasingly competitive and complex work environment. They want to be able to install JMP near their data – increasingly on cloud providers that offer nonpersistent application virtualization services. Or they prefer to use JMP on virtual machines that offer more RAM than typical desktop machines to solve bigger analytical problems.
“Product improvements alone will not get us to our 1 million user goal. To accelerate this growth, we must position the JMP Workflow, the value of JMP Live and how JMP solves problems in our customers’ industries. And we must strategically partner with organizations that want to solve problems and believe that analytics can help. By providing strategic interventions to analytics advocates in high-growth potential accounts, we can achieve user growth faster. By partnering with strong analytics advocates, we can accelerate account growth and work to maximize the adoption of JMP broadly across an organization.”
