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22 March 2011

Product News

Accept Corporation Improves Social Ideation, Strategic Planning and Agile Execution; Announces Accept360(TM) Spring 2011 Release

News Facts

Accept Corporation introduces a set of new capabilities in Accept360. New features enhance collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, while bolstering Agile tools for productivity, resource management and integration with popular third-party enterprise applications including Oracle® CRM On Demand.

New features in the Accept360 Spring 2011 Release include:

    • Improved Agile Taskboard delivers real-time operational planning for fast-paced resource optimization and capacity planning. The expanded Accept360 Agile Taskboard provides a compact view of tasks and user stories to improve sprint management and daily scrum planning.
    • Advanced resource management capabilities help executives and product decision makers make better, faster decisions about their product investments and resources. New features in the Spring 2011 Release allow users to define organizational reporting structures and hierarchies for both individuals and teams to optimize resource allocation and focus them on the highest priorities.
    • Integration with Tasktop provides users with direct access to Accept360 through Eclipse or Visual Studio environments providing unparalleled project management capabilities and enabling developers to take advantage of Accept360's single source of truth for development tasks with the familiar look and feel of their favorite development tools.
    • Integration with Oracle CRM On DemandIdeation capabilities from the Accept360 Ideas module are embedded throughout Oracle CRM On Demand, transforming it into a community-based, social CRM system that improves a company's ability to capture and prioritize customer feedback on its products. Sales, marketing and product management benefit from a streamlined process for managing critical customer ideas and feedback to achieve a true full 360 degree view of the customer.The integration of Accept360 Ideas with Oracle CRM on Demand has achieved the Oracle Validated Integration status from the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) and is also available for Oracle PRM On Demand."

The Accept360 integrated innovation management suite serves as a single system of record that captures enhancement requests and new product ideas from multiple internal and external constituents, prioritizes product portfolio investments and translates them into requirements that are developed into new features and products with full cross-enterprise visibility and traceability across ideation, portfolio planning and execution.

Accept Corporation's customers include firms such as Avira, Cadence Design Systems, Activant Solutions, Ultimate Software, Landis+Gyr, Symantec and Alcatel-Lucent among others.

Join Cadence on a webinar at http://www.accept360.com/Spring2011 on March 30, 2011 at 10:00am PT for more details on the Accept360 Spring 2011 Release.

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