From the birth of products as ideas to their retirement from the marketplace, Sopheon's Accolade provides a complete view of your product portfolio. It enables effective, early-stage decision-making about which concepts to advance and which to kill, which products to fund and what types and levels of resources to invest. It instills process discipline by embedding best-practice methodologies, guidelines and implementation support for the content of each stage and deliverable while supplying a central workspace where project teams can collaborate, communicate and complete project assignments.
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Key Features
- Portfolio management: Provides a predefined process model and guidelines that enable easy tracking and assessing of the status and viability of projects based on key performance metrics
- MS Project integration: Provides tight integration of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 into Accolade
- Process accelerator: Compresses implementation time and speeds process adoption
- Resource planning: Provides details and analysis of project resource demands across the developmental pipeline
- Product planning and roadmapping: Makes it easier to develop and analyze product roadmaps and product release schedules
- Document routing and approval: Tracks and records the progress of project documentation through review and approval processes
- Idea management: Allows objective evaluation of the strengths, weaknesses and risks associated with a product idea
- Process automation: Automates any phase- or gate-based product development process
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Target Business Size
- Large (1000+ employees)
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Platform
- Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP
- Microsoft Vista
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Database
- Microsoft SQL Server
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CORE CAPABILITIES
- CAD Visualization
- Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
- Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
- Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP)
- Digital Design Management
- Document Management
- Engineering
- Engineering Change & Configuration Management
- Formulation
- Product Data Management
- Product Information Management
- Product Lifecycle Collaboration
- Product Variant Configuration
- Production & Event Simulation
- Project, Program & Portfolio Management
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Industries
- Textiles and Apparel
- Consumer Packaged Goods - Food Products
- Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Consumer Packaged Goods - House, Health, Beauty Products
- Consumer Packaged Goods - Beverage, Tobacco
- Chemicals
- Plastics and Rubber Products
- Hi-Tech (Computers, Communications, Office)
- Pulp and Paper
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Countries
About Sopheon Corp.
Sopheon is an international provider of software and services that help organizations improve the business impact of product innovation. Sopheon's Accolade system automates and governs the innovation process, enabling companies to increase revenue and profits from new products.