DPL Portfolio - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

DPL Portfolio's modeling environment is based on a decision analysis tool. It leverages DPL's intuitive graphical Influence Diagram/Decision Tree modeling interface for developing decision models. With the non-portfolio versions of DPL, the focus is most often on analyzing one or more decisions for a single project, asset or business situation. With DPL Portfolio, the focus shifts to analyzing decisions both at the project/asset-level and at the portfolio-level for a set of projects or assets within a portfolio.

At the heart of a portfolio analysis in DPL Portfolio is a set of DPL influence diagram/decision tree models. That is, DPL Portfolio uses the same modeling environment, ideas and methods as do all the other versions of DPL. DPL Portfolio contains all of the features and capabilities of DPL Enterprise (which itself builds on DPL Professional's features and capabilities) plus portfolio-analytic capabilities.

A portfolio in DPL is a hierarchical representation of a set of projects or assets to be considered using portfolio-analytic techniques. For example, the set of projects represented by a DPL Portfolio may be a set of projects a company is considering pursuing as a part of its research and development (R&D) or new product development (NPD) efforts. Or the set of projects might be various business development activities that a company is considering pursuing. In the situation where the DPL Portfolio represents a set of assets, these assets may be financial instruments under consideration in a portfolio of stocks, bonds, etc. Or they may be physical assets that will return a gain or loss to the company. Alternatively, the DPL Portfolio could represent a set of environmental cleanup activities. Broadly speaking, a DPL Portfolio can be used to represent any set of activities designed to maximize some objective and which are competing for the same pool of limited resources.