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ACCEPT EXTENDS PRODUCT PLANNING CAPABILITIES IN LATEST RELEASE

Enhanced integration and traceability enable product teams to capture input from wider array of sources and improve visibility across entire product portfolio

 

SOFTWARE MARKETING PERSPECTIVES, NEWTON, Ma.—May 24, 2007 - Accept Software Corporation™, the leading provider of product planning and innovation management systems, today announced the general availability of Accept 360° v4.5. The latest release of Accept 360° enhances the ability to capture broader “voice-of-the-market” data and better manage that information through the development lifecycle. The new functionality delivered in version 4.5 is suited specifically to companies that manage a portfolio of products with many interdependencies and those that build complex products involving thousands of requirements. With Accept’s latest version of Accept 360°, companies can maximize the financial return of product investments, better align resources and time, map specific features to strategic goals, and ultimately deliver more successful products.

“Accept 360° v4.5 is invaluable to Tekla. We can now break down strategic themes into sub-themes and then down into requirements, with the ability to analyze and instantly compare alternative enhancement sets to the competition and overall corporate objectives,” said Ragnar Wessman, Director, Product Management, Tekla Corporation. “We had been using a home-grown spreadsheet-based planning methodology to manually track requirements for a complex product portfolio. Accept 360° takes the uncertainty out of our decision-making and helps us make better-informed product decisions. Accept 360° v4.5 enhances Tekla’s unique model-based technology to cut design times, reduce errors and ensures that infrastructures can be managed more efficiently thought the product lifecycle.”

“Innovation and product development is a collaborative process that not only involves gathering internal feedback, but increasingly must envelop marketplace knowledge,” said James Davies, CEO, Accept Software. “With Accept 360° product teams are able to better tap into the voice of the marketplace and translate that intelligence into market-driven, actionable plans.”

Accept 360° v4.5 Enhancements

With Accept 360° v4.5, companies:

• Drive Innovation –
• Capture the voice of the market through integration with other applications where customer feedback is stored
• Increase the overall users experience with the many productivity enhancements
  
• Make The Right Decisions –
• Report on the level of investment by themes, customers, market segments and competition with improved analytics
• Rollup fixed and resource cost across theme and requirement hierarchies with advanced investment management capabilities
• Gain More Control –
• Identify dependency constraints and the project risk or release risk
• Define and trace relationships between multiple levels of hierarchical requirements - down to the lowest level of engineering or systems
  

Accept 360° is available either as a hosted solution or can be installed on-premise.

About Accept Software

Accept Software provides a comprehensive web-based solution for enterprise product planning and innovation management. Leading product and service 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 BEA Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Galileo, Mercury Interactive, Symantec Corporation, and VozTelecom. 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. 

Press Contact:
Heidi Groshelle
Groshelle Communications
415-563-1893
heidi@groshelle.com   

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