“This is one of those products that generates a ‘why didn’t we think of that?’ response.”
–Butler Group

Insight and opinion in our business innovation blog

Press Release

ACCEPT SOFTWARE EXPANDS EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM TO DRIVE WORLDWIDE GROWTH

SAP and Telelogic Veterans Bring World-Class Sales and Partnership Expertise to Innovator of Distributed Product Planning and Requirements Management

FREMONT, CA —December 13, 2006 —Accept Software Corporation™ today announced that it has expanded its executive team to increase its worldwide presence. Kenneth A. Maier joins Accept Software as vice president of alliances and Stephen Turner joins as senior vice president of sales. The new executives, each with over twenty years’ experience in building sales, solid alliances and strong brands, join Accept Software to develop relationships and sales opportunities worldwide.

Accept 360° is a software platform for managing innovation and product planning, for both current and future products. The system allows distributed product teams, including product managers, strategic planners, and product engineers to collaborate in making and implementing the best decisions about which products to build and which features to include. Accept 360°’s capacity to manage requirements and cross-product dependencies in the context of products, portfolios, competitors, and resources give Accept Software’s customers unparalleled abilities to make intelligent decisions about how to improve today’s products and to identify tomorrow’s.

“Real-world requirements management experience has demonstrated to me and many others that it is painful to support strategic and tactical product planning processes,” said Stephen Turner, Accept Software senior vice president sales. “Accept addresses this pain like no other solution and the customer feedback is so positive and enthusiastic that I jumped at the chance to join the team.”

“I welcome Ken and Stephen to our team,” said James Davies, CEO, Accept Software. “Their experience within our core markets of requirements management and product road-mapping help Accept prepare for and ultimately accomplish tremendous growth.”

“Accept Software fills the large gap between companies’ needs for intelligent innovation and the products and services available to meet those needs in the market,” said Accept Software vice president of alliances, Ken Maier. “It’s critically important to recognize the relationship between Requirements, Customer Needs, Strategic Planning, and Portfolio Management. Everything involved in product planning is inter-related; from building alliances to product development. My goal is to make sure that our partners and customers use Accept 360° to secure an unfair competitive advantage and capture their markets.”

Biographies

Kenneth A. Maier, vice president of alliances
Ken Maier joins Accept Software to manage and drive global alliances from Telelogic, where he was Director of Customer Needs Management Solutions. He was responsible for the development and implementation of Telelogic’s global alliance program, including alignment and coordination of all internal and external business development activities with sales, marketing, and professional services. Prior to Telelogic, Maier was vice president of alliances at Vizional Technologies, a pioneer in the delivery of collaborative commerce solutions that enable distributed inventory and order visibility to Global 1000 companies. Maier has over 20 years of technology sales and alliance building experience. His career includes tenures at Oracle Corporation and Synon Corporation, where he increased channel sales by 40% and reduced sales cycles by 50%.

Stephen Turner, senior vice president sales
Bringing deep executive knowledge of Field Operations from his tenure at Epiance / MeasureLive, Stephen Turner joins Accept Software to expand sales. Turner has spent just shy of 20 years delivering over-quota for companies such as ASK Computer, SAP America and Allegis Corporation, where he increased revenue by 400% over 3 years. At SAP Stephen ran a vertical organization responsible for the U.S. manufacturing sector.

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.

Sales Contact:
Cathy Liggett
Senior Product Sales Evangelist
Accept Software Corporation
866-423-8376
cliggett@acceptsoftware.com

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