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Accolade  Core

Connect and Power Your Entire Growth Innovation System

Accolade Core is the nucleus of the Accolade platform, connecting strategic planning and innovation execution through secure, real-time data infrastructure.

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Accolade Core

With Accolade Core, Enterprises can:

Define custom data fields, metrics, and KPIs
Build and visualize dashboards, reports, and roadmaps
Automate processes, governance, and workflows
Seamlessly integrate tools across your tech stack
Ensure secure, role-based access to all innovation activities

Accolade Core connects strategy, coordination, and execution 
into a single operating system for growth innovation.

Trusted by Global Corporations Worldwide

Innovation Management
 Software That Gets Results

Accolade has a proven track record for reducing time-to-market while driving revenue growth. 
A recent Forrester Consulting study on Accolade users found the following:
25% Increase in revenue 
from new products
15% Acceleration in 
time to market
10% Savings in project management spend
1% Increase in profit margin 
from improving products
“With Accolade, we are more successful by a factor of 20% to 30%.”
Head of Project Management
Manufacturing
“About 40% of our portfolio right now are projects that were created in the last 12 months. That is a far more agile, reactive, and dynamic portfolio than we ever had in the past.”
Global Commercialization Lead
Consumer Packaged Goods
“We bring all of our actual data into Accolade. That allows you to start to identify where you’ve got underperforming products versus what you planned.”
Global Commercialization Lead
Consumer Packaged Goods

The Challenges Accolade Core 
Is Built to Solve

The Growth Innovation Blind Spot


Enterprises invest heavily in innovation, yet leaders often lack clear, trusted insight into what is driving growth and what’s not. 

Innovation data is fragmented across portfolio tools, financial systems, operational platforms, spreadsheets, and presentations. Without a unified foundation, it’s difficult to understand how innovation efforts connect to strategic priorities or business outcomes. 

Accolade Core eliminates this blind spot by integrating innovation, financial, and performance data into a single, consistent intelligence layer.

Fragmented Metrics and Inconsistent Decision-Making

When teams calculate metrics differently, confidence in the data erodes.
Without a centralized calculation engine, organizations rely on manual formulas, disconnected spreadsheets, and static reports that quickly become outdated.

Accolade Core standardizes how innovation performance is measured by defining shared metrics, indicators, and calculation logic that are applied consistently across dashboards, reports, alerts, and governance processes.

Strategy That Cannot Be Operationalized at Scale

Innovation strategies are often defined during planning cycles but can be difficult to embed clearly in day-to-day processes and decision-making, especially as enterprises evolve through reorganizations, new brands, geographic expansion, and acquisitions.

Many innovation systems translate strategy into rigid structures that quickly fall out of sync with the business. Accolade Core embeds strategic logic directly into configurable data models, performance metrics calculations, and governance controls, enabling organizations to adapt their innovation strategies as business needs and operational structures evolve over time.

Governance That Fails to Scale

As innovation portfolios grow, maintaining consistent governance becomes increasingly difficult.

Manual reviews, ad-hoc approvals, and informal standards lead to inconsistency and risk. Accolade Core allows organizations to design governance models that scale, automating policies, approvals, and controls while maintaining flexibility where it matters. 

Governance becomes repeatable, auditable, and embedded in the system rather than dependent on oversight.

Accolade Core Software Capabilities

Accolade Core provides the foundational intelligence, logic, and enterprise platform capabilities that Accolade’s domain-specific modules build upon.

It acts as the central nervous system for Wellspring’s growth innovation platform, integrating data, applying calculation logic, enabling configurability, and providing the secure infrastructure required to operate at enterprise scale.

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Accolade Core Feature

Matrix Intelligence Engine

Unify everything & measure anything

At the heart of Accolade Core is a powerful engine that allows enterprises to source, integrate, and activate data from across the organization and surrounding ecosystem, and measure performance. This includes innovation portfolio data, financial data, operational data, business performance data, application data, marketplace data, and emerging technology data.

This integrated intelligence layer enables leaders to model growth strategies, analyze portfolio performance, monitor pipeline execution, and assess progress against business objectives, using advanced analytics and enterprise intelligence applied directly to innovation data. Any combination of data from the the matrix intelligence engine can be used to build custom metrics, indicators, and performance models. These calculations can be applied consistently across dashboards, reports, system alerts, and process logic, ensuring that all decision-making is grounded in the same underlying data and business rules.

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Accolade Core Feature

Solution Studio

Configure everything

Accolade’s market-leading configurability is enabled by Solution Studio, which provides full flexibility to design governance models, process workflows, and screen-by-screen user interfaces.


Solution Studio powers Accolade’s Process Execution modules while also allowing enterprises to extend the platform to reflect their unique business structures, methodologies, and innovation models. This ensures Accolade can adapt as organizational needs evolve, without requiring custom code.

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Accolade Core Feature

Enterprise Platform

Run everything, securely and at scale
Accolade Core delivers the enterprise-grade platform trusted by leading global organizations to support long-term growth and competitiveness.
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Enterprise platform capabilities include

Data
 Security
ISO-certified and FedRAMP-authorized, capable of meeting the most rigorous global security and compliance requirements
User Access Controls
Granular system-wide roles, permissions, and privacy controls
Platform Scale & Stability
Proven architecture designed for reliability, uptime, and performance at enterprise scale
APIs & Integrations
Secure, scalable APIs and pre-defined integrations to connect seamlessly with other enterprise systems
Document Management
Native creation, storage, and versioning of supporting documents, fully integrated with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams for embedded collaboration

Seamlessly Integrated with Your Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem

Accolade Core connects all your innovation management data, forming a single source of truth for your innovation organization—but it doesn’t stop there. 
Core also integrates with the tools you already use, so your innovation data flows where it needs to.
RESTful
API

Set up your tech stack to pull relevant innovation data from Accolade—with no rate limits.
Native MS Office integration

Edit and update Excel sheets in Accolade, tie Outlook emails to projects, collaborate on Teams—Accolade blends with the Microsoft tools you already use.

Trusted by Global Corporations Worldwide

Accolade Powers Growth Innovation

For too long, enterprise innovation has been a black box: nobody knows how long projects will take, or how they’ll contribute to OKRs.

Accolade changes this. By linking strategy to execution through a unified data layer, Accolade Core delivers the infrastructure for growth innovation. Define your enterprise goals, connect every initiative to those goals, and track progress and performance across your entire portfolio, all within the same system.

It’s the only innovation management platform that fully integrates strategic priorities with day-to-day execution, enabling you to manage your entire portfolio as a unified business case for enterprise growth.
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Built to Support a Modular

Growth Innovation Platform

Accolade Overview

Core

The foundation of every Accolade system
Accolade Core provides the unified data foundation, operating model, and configurability that connect all Accolade modules into a single enterprise system.
It ensures visibility, accountability, and real-time data flow across the entire innovation lifecycle.
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Strategic Innovation modules

Plan and optimize innovation around enterprise growth priorities

Strategic Innovation modules help leadership teams define strategy, model future growth, and align innovation investments to the outcomes that matter most.

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Enterprise Coordination modules

Align resources, timelines, and dependencies across the enterprise

Enterprise Coordination modules ensure innovation initiatives are properly resourced, sequenced, and coordinated across teams and portfolios.

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Process Execution modules

Execute innovation with rigor and consistency

Process & Execution modules support the day-to-day management of innovation initiatives, ensuring governed, repeatable execution from concept to launch.

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Backed by Innovation Experts

Our technology consultants guide you through implementation, ensuring your enterprise is set up for success with the Accolade modules you choose.

But our services go beyond implementation. We help you convert your innovation pipeline into a system for predictable enterprise growth.

Implementing Growth Innovation best practices is a change-management initiative, and our team of seasoned industry experts is available to help you structure and execute the transition, not just to a new innovation management solution, but to a new innovation management philosophy.
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Enterprise Innovation Management
 That Drives Growth

Accolade’s collaboration tools and data visibility have enabled global enterprises to enhance profit margins, expedite time to market, increase new product success rates, and expand portfolio value.

See how Accolade can transform your innovation management practices from top to bottom.
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