CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

24 May 2007

Product News

Accept Extends Product Planning Capabilities in Latest Release

Accept Software CorporationT 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.

Become a member of the CIMdata PLM Community to receive your daily PLM news and much more.

Tell us what you think of the CIMdata Newsletter. Send your feedback.

CIMdata is committed to your privacy. Your personal information will never be sold or shared outside of CIMdata without your express permission.

Subscribe