GALILEO® SELECTS ACCEPT 360°™ TO EMPOWER DECISION MAKING AND ENHANCE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Visibility and Control with Integrated Requirements Management, Release Planning and Portfolio Management
Delivers the Right Product at the Right Time
Core News Facts:
- Galileo selected Accept 360° from Accept Software Corporation™ as its solution for requirements and product management.
- Galileo will use Accept 360° to manage the prioritization and delivery of key projects.
Fremont, Calif. and Maidenhead, UK – January 24, 2007 —Accept Software Corporation, the provider of collaborative enterprise-class product planning systems, announced that Galileo, a leading Global Distribution System (GDS) in the travel industry, has chosen Accept 360°™ to strengthen its product planning and product management. Galileo will use Accept 360° to define, prioritize and deliver new products to its network of over 44,000 travel agency customers worldwide.
“The travel distribution services industry is as diverse and as competitive as any industry you can imagine,” said David Hughes, chief marketing officer of Galileo. “We have a clear strategy for product development which is based upon industry and customer understanding coupled with extensive requirements gathering. Accept 360° will help to streamline the process of gathering those requirements and factoring all of this information into our product management process. Accept 360° will help us to analyze everything in the context of specific markets, customers, and our overall business objectives. Accept 360° will be key to the development and delivery of Galileo’s current and future product strategies.”
“We needed an application that could manage the relationships between planning elements - as specific as a contract commitment to a customer, and as general as a global strategy. With operations in over 130 countries, the application also had to be accessible to any user at any time. Overall, Accept 360° scored well against all our key criteria of functionality, performance, flexibility, and scalability,” stated Nigel Watson, Director of Business Systems, for Galileo in the EMEA, Asia, and Pacific region.
“Companies in Europe have been waiting quite a while for a fully integrated requirements management system. The selection of Accept Software by Galileo demonstrates the ability of Accept 360° to manage massive complexity in markets, customers, products, and geography. Existing point solutions just haven’t been up to the job,” said Chris Purrington, Accept Software, vice president of International. ”Accept 360° integrates product requirements with internal goals and strategies, customer needs, and market factors, that truly enables the strategic alignment of product management with the business.”
About Galileo
Galileo is a global technology leader. Its core business is providing electronic global distribution services for the travel industry through its computerized reservation systems, leading-edge products and innovative, Internet-based solutions. Galileo is a value-added distributor of travel inventory dedicated to supporting its travel supplier, agency and corporate customers and, through them, expanding traveler choice. Galileo, www.galileo.com, headquartered in Langley, UK, is part of the Travelport family of companies. Travelport is one of the largest and most geographically diverse travel companies, dedicated to creating the exceptional travel experiences the world demands.
About Accept Software
Accept Software provides a comprehensive web-based solution for enterprise product planning and innovation management. Leading software organizations throughout the world use the award-winning Accept 360° application suite to deliver better products to market faster. Accept Software is headquartered in Fremont, California and serves a growing customer base that includes Galileo®, Tekla Corporation, VozTelecom, BEA Systems, Symantec Corporation, Mercury Interactive, and Cadence Design Systems. For more information, visit www.acceptsoftware.com.
Accept 360° and the Accept logo are trademarks of Accept Software Corporation. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
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Cathy Liggett
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Accept Software Corporation
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