| Sopheon have the released Accolade Version 7.0, the most extensive
and significant product release in Sopheon’s history.
Accolade 7.0 represents a new standard of excellence in
the automation of new product development (e.g.,
Stage-Gate® or PACE®)
and portfolio management business processes. This
release will bring important added value to every
Accolade user in your organization, from executives and
process managers to team leaders, team members, resource
planners and administrators. And it’s available
immediately. Version 7.0 offers more than 40 new
features and enhancements, including the following
capabilities:
- More
powerful models that make it easy to extend Accolade
to new applications
- Capture all classes of product-related intelligence
including patents, competitors, regulations, and other
business data critical to effective product
decision-making
- Take Accolade beyond product development to also manage
portfolios of projects in capital development, Six
Sigma, IT and more
- Added ways to reuse knowledge, reducing double entry
and administrative effort
- Find valuable projects and documents faster with
powerful new search capabilities.
- Automatically reuse textual data via “Smart” Microsoft®
Word deliverables
- New capabilities for evaluating process effectiveness
to drive continuous improvement
- Benefit from measurement and traceability features that
enable earlier detection and elimination of process
bottlenecks
- Increase the value of gate meetings and post-launch
reviews by automatically tracking project histories,
including what decisions were made and why
- Increased levels of transparency and flexibility
that improve decision-making
- Improve range management, making it easier to plan for
and manage investment decisions associated with product
variants
- Increase the visibility of relationships among product
components and product variants, streamlining the
planning process
- Define, visualize and analyze interrelationships among
networks of programs, projects, products and ideas
- Strengthened infrastructure that improves performance, scalability and global
support
- Support many more projects, up to 100,000 on a single
server
- Improve security to promote collaboration and protect
intellectual property
- Forecast and manage financial data in multiple
currencies
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