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Corporate Sopheon Corp. 3050 Metro Dirve Minneapolis, MN  55425 USA Main: 952-851-7500 Fax: 952-851-7599 http://www.sopheon.com

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.

Key Features

• Process automation: Automates any phase- or gate-based product development process
• Process accelerator: Compresses implementation time and speeds process adoption
• 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
• Product planning and roadmapping: Makes it easier to develop and analyze product roadmaps and product release schedules
• Idea management: Allows objective evaluation of the strengths, weaknesses and risks associated with a product idea
• Resource planning: Provides details and analysis of project resource demands across the developmental pipeline
• Document routing and approval: Tracks and records the progress of project documentation through review and approval processes
• MS Project integration: Provides tight integration of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 into Accolade