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Accept Participates as Silver Sponsor of Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit

Company to Showcase Latest Release of Accept360 with Next Generation Enterprise Portfolio Management Capabilities

Santa Clara, CA — June 15, 2011 — Accept today announced that it will showcase its latest release of Accept360 with enhanced enterprise portfolio capabilities (Booth E) at the Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit, which will take place June 20-22 in San Diego, CA.

News Facts

  • Accept Corporation will demonstrate how the newly released Strategy & Portfolio capabilities of its Accept360 suite enable executives to unify and align portfolio planning and execution across the enterprise through rapid top-down modeling and visualization.
  • Accept360's new capabilities address a significant business need to align strategic initiatives with execution priorities across the enterprise.
  • Global leaders like Nokia will share their experiences deploying next generation portfolio and R&D planning tools to enable transparency and increase speed of execution.
  • Executives from Accept Corporation will also share detailed findings from an original study completed this spring with the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM), which identified a growing gap between strategy setting and product portfolio management in the enterprise.
  • The joint Accept / AIPMM survey indicates a significant strategy and execution misalignment, as two-thirds of product executives are unable to reconcile top-down modeling with bottom-up plans and fail to make effective go-kill decisions.

Supporting Quote

"Too many companies still approach critical product decision making in silos, failing to link product strategy with overarching company objectives and they still rely on decades-old methods and techniques to make these business critical product decisions," said Bryan Plug Chief Executive Officer of Accept Corporation. "At the Gartner conference, we look forward to sharing some new, innovative ways to harness the latest in collaboration technology for managing innovation across the enterprise-by aligning corporate strategy with product development, production and execution."

Supporting Resources

  • Portfolio Management Toolkit: To learn more about how you can champion the Portfolio Management cause within your companies, download a complimentary 5 step success kit at http://www.accept360.com/resources/successkit
  • Survey Results: To learn more about Accept's joint Portfolio study with AIPMM, download the complimentary report at http://www.accept360.com/portfoliostudy

 

About Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit

The Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit focuses on specific, change actions to implement. IT organizations must re-focus initiatives and investments, deliver "real value"; and streamline decision-making, if they are to survive the current economic storm.

About Accept

Accept Corporation delivers The Product Innovation Management solution that technology-driven companies use to decide which products to bring to market for the fastest time-to-profit. The Accept360 Suite is the only complete end-to-end software solution that tightly links company and product strategy through ideation, portfolio planning, roadmaps, requirements and execution. For more information, visit www.accept360.com or call us at +1.866.423.8376

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