CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
15 January 2011
Implementation Investments
Avira GmbH Selects Accept360™ Product Innovation Software
Avira GmbH is a leading German software vendor offering antivirus and security management solutions for workstations, file, mail and web servers, PDAs, smartphones and embedded devices.
Avira GmbH selected Accept Corporation's Accept360 SaaS solution as the standard for product portfolio and execution management to provide product requirements prioritization, traceability, organizational flexibility and visibility.
Accept360, by Accept Corporation, is the only end-to-end product portfolio management and execution solution that tightly links company and product strategy with execution to deliver the right products to the right customers at the right time.
Avira GmbH selected Accept360 to capture enhancement requests and ideas from multiple internal and external constituents, prioritize product requirements, provide full traceability of features to ensure contract compliance, and enable cross-organization visibility into common processes for product, portfolio and development management.
Accept360's common repository and best practices process flow enable product managers, business analysts, customers and partners to have access to critical end-to-end information and to adopt a broader solution perspective to Avira's product offerings.
Avira GmbH joins more than 80 leading companies around the world who use Accept Corporation's solutions to drive faster-time-to-revenue and increase product development profitability by linking product development with company strategy through market-based portfolio analysis, requirements prioritization, cross-organizational collaboration, executive visibility, and real-time analytics, including firms such as Oracle, Cadence Design Systems, Activant, Ultimate Software, Iron Mountain and Alcatel-Lucent among others.
Supporting Quotes
"Successfully protecting our more than 100 million business and consumer customers against ever-changing and sophisticated security threats is a hallmark of Avira and the reason for over twenty years of consecutive growth," said Jeroen Oostendorp, Chief Strategic Operations Officer, Avira GmbH. "Accept360 will help us to bring innovative solutions for all types of computing platforms and environments to market faster and more profitably."
"The fast paced market of packaged security and anti-virus solutions demands continuous product innovation and the ability to efficiently bring new products and features to market," said Bryan Plug, President and CEO, Accept Corporation. "Avira recognized early on that end-to-end product portfolio management was the fastest, most efficient way to drive the product ideation and requirements management process to meet market share objectives."
Supporting Resources
Avira GmbH products and information at http://www.avira.com/en/company-about-avira
Accept Corporation information at http://www.accept360.com
Accept360 product information at http://www.accept360.com/solutions
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