Press Release

ACCEPT EXTENDS SUPPORT FOR AGILE DEVELOPMENT IN NEW RELEASE

Product teams can now automate agile processes to improve collaboration, decision-making and speed to market

 

FREMONT, CA.— May 14, 2008 — Accept Software, the expert in innovation management solutions, today announced availability of Accept version 4.6, the newest release of its award-winning SaaS innovation management suite. Major enhancements in this latest release include native support for the full range of agile development methodologies and processes. Agile software development is a conceptual framework that promotes development iterations throughout the lifecycle of the project. New agile capabilities build on prior Accept releases designed to help companies get the right products to market faster, while making it even easier on everyday users to manage complex product cycles and dependencies.

Software development organizations already practicing iterative planning and development techniques can leverage the new functionality delivered in version 4.6 to augment agile’s speed and quality benefits. Organizations still evaluating the shift to agile may find that version 4.6 not only helps ease their transition, but also shortens their time to benefit.

“Competitive advantage is increasingly defined by a company’s ability to meet critical market windows with the right products,” said Mike Marfise, vice president, Product Operations, Accept Software. “This new release gives our customers yet another suite of capabilities that help ensure strategic alignment even for large, complex projects and empower teams to make better, faster decisions to deliver what their customers want and need.”

Specific agile enhancements in this release include support for:

• Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Feature-Driven Development, Agile Unified Process, Extreme Programming, and others
• Agile development processes, including iterations, stack-ranked backlogs, user stories, and others
• Agile project management, including velocity and burndown reports and a centralized repository of artifacts that facilitates reduced documentation

Additional enhancements include:

• Significant usability improvements including an updated user interface that makes it easier to use and manage filters and more intuitive to create implementation estimates
• Extended release hierarchies to support larger projects that consist of multiple sub-projects
• More robust Outlook integration enabling users to create suggestions and other elements directly from emails

About Accept

Accept helps companies create tomorrow’s winning products and drive sustained competitive advantage. Forward-thinking businesses increase new product revenue, drive competitive advantage, maximize R&D investment, and improve productivity with Accept’s award-winning Innovation Management Solution. Uniquely comprehensive, Accept conceived of and delivered the first solution to combine innovation business processes and a single system of record with the voice-of-the market, portfolio and product planning and management, enterprise reporting, and role-based dashboards. With Accept, companies gain visibility and control, align corporate and product strategies with market needs and successfully execute strategies and plans. Accept Software was recognized by the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) in 2006 and 2007 with the Excellence in Product Management Award. Accept’s growing customer base includes BEA Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Galileo, and Hewlett-Packard. For more information, visit www.acceptsoftware.com

 

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Eastwick Communications
(650) 480-4039
esimmons@eastwick.com

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