Comprehensive Project Portfolio Management Software
Accolade PPM software empowers you to align every project in your portfolio with your goals, across all development stages. Effectively prioritize projects, build dependable roadmaps, connect project participants with comprehensive real-time data, and monitor your portfolio with project-specific KPIs.

Level Up Your Project Portfolio Management
Accolade was purpose-built to transform innovation into enterprise growth. This project portfolio management tool helps your organization realize three key innovation needs:Articulate innovation growth targets within Accolade, and prioritize every idea and activity around them. Set KPIs and metrics that keep innovation on track.
Align every innovation decision within the context of a portfolio-level growth plan and your organizational strategies and goals through strategic reports, ensuring that every activity is coordinated.
These three principles catalyse growth innovation, a management philosophy that turns your innovation pipeline into a source of predictable growth. With Accolade, you can tie ideas to the OKRs they would support from the beginning and use historic and predictive data to build business cases for them. Once ideas are greenlit, you can track their progress through the pipeline and into the market—giving you a complete picture of how your ideation practices contribute to your strategy.
To learn more about growth innovation, download our free ebook The Growth Innovation Trifecta: A New Philosophy of Innovation Management.
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Accolade Project Portfolio Management Software Capabilities
Level up your strategic execution. Accolade enables you to set targets and continuously monitor your project portfolios to guarantee consistent alignment with your goals at every step.

Define project portfolio success
Set strategic OKRs, custom labels, and KPI metrics based on your enterprise's needs. Accolade lets you create custom fields, targets, constraints, and metadata at any level, whether it's for an individual task or for your entire project portfolio.

Track your project portfolio
Monitor progress using classic metrics, or create your own. Accolade lets you track OKRs, project portfolio health, product performance, pipeline progress, and resource availability—along with any custom metrics and indicators you choose.

Optimize your project portfolio for anything
Set your own targets and constraints to optimize for, and link every activity to the OKRs it supports. With Accolade, you can define the optimal project portfolio, forecast and compare different possible scenarios, and choose actions that align best with your strategy.

Orchestrate your project portfolio
Build your own governance into your innovation management platform. Accolade's automated workflows keep your activities compliant with your organization's procedures and policies for project process, approvals, reviews, and more.

Visualize your project portfolio
Custom dashboards, labels, and KPIs. Inter-portfolio roadmaps. Filtered views. Accolade opens up your innovation project portfolio, giving every stakeholder access to the information they need, when they need it.

Document project portfolio activities
Break down information silos. Accolade creates an audit trail for innovation activities, and allows you to tag and label portfolios, roadmaps, projects, and initiatives with institutional knowledge documents, so everyone has access to the cross-functional insights they need.

Anticipate your project portfolio’s needs
Catch snags before they become major issues, forecast resource needs, mitigate bottlenecks, and more. Accolade's forecasting and scenario modeling engine lets you plan for the future and prepare for the unexpected as you orchestrate your project portfolio.

Connect everything in your project portfolio
Innovation projects don’t happen in a vacuum. Accolade links strategic initiatives, ideas, development projects, and product performance together, refreshing data automatically so that the right information gets to the right place on time every time.

Seamlessly Integrated with Your Innovation Ecosystem
Set up your tech stack to pull relevant innovation data from Accolade—with no rate limits.
Edit and update Excel sheets in Accolade, tie Outlook emails to projects, collaborate on Teams—Accolade blends with the Microsoft tools you already use.
Accolade integrates with your whole tech stack
Free Ebook: PPM vs. Growth Innovation
Project portfolio managers invest significant time and effort in improving their portfolio management techniques and launching projects more efficiently, but that doesn’t necessarily create the organic growth enterprises desperately need.
In "PPM vs. Growth Innovation: How Project Portfolio Management Is Evolving," we examine how growth innovation and Accolade software enhance traditional PPM by addressing growth challenges.
Everything you need for Innovation Process Management and More
Your Accolade setup will be unique to your enterprise, but if you’re using Accolade for innovation process management, you’ll probably use some mix of the following modules.

Accolade Core
Get the right things done, faster
Orchestrate your entire innovation project portfolio. With Accolade, you can track innovation activities at every level, from projects to programs to entire portfolios.
Streamline your pipeline
Orchestrate your production activities with elegance. In Accolade, you create a digital representation of your NPD methodologies, so your pipeline reflects and enforces your processes for creating, manufacturing, and commercializing new products.
Refine your approach to production
Visualize initiatives to improve your enterprise’s approach to manufacturing, test alternatives, manage manufacturing dependencies, and prioritize projects based on their contributions to strategic objectives. Enterprises use Accolade to optimize their manufacturing operations for efficiency, sustainability, and strategic organizational integration.
Prioritize the right innovation investments
Keep your innovation investments aligned with OKRs and constraints. Accolade’s scenario modeling tools enable you to conduct cost-benefit analysis on every capital investment project, and custom criteria and workflows keep decisions within your enterprise’s strategic, financial, and risk parameters.
Align new technology development with strategy
Plan and execute the research and development of new technologies. Accolade connects every R&D project to organizational objectives, strategic constraints, planned projects, and SKUs, giving managers the full picture of timelines, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
Optimize for your own targets and constraints
Define success and optimize for it. Accolade’s strategic innovation management modules allow you to define your own targets, constraints, and KPIs across your innovation ecosystem, and scenario modeling tools allow you to assess different courses of action against your strategy, then choose the right move.
Strategic Planning
Revenue Stream Planning
Sustainability
Accolade Ideas
Tech scouting
Visualize your innovation operations
Accolade creates Gantt charts for any collection of innovation activities—so you can track progress from the portfolio level down to individual projects. Quickly locate pinch points and see how every project’s progress affects the rest of your portfolio with built-in dependency management tools and advanced roadmapping capabilities.
Learn more about Accolade Integrated Roadmapping >>
Mobilize people and assets for success
Put the right people on the right projects at the right time. Enterprises use Accolade to track resource skill development, search their workforces by skill, experience, and other custom labels, and manage workflows to avoid bottlenecks and burnout.
Learn more about Accolade Resource Planning >>
Growth Innovation Consulting Services
Our technology consultants will guide you through the implementation process, ensuring your enterprise is set up for success with the suite of Accolade modules you choose.
But our consulting services go beyond that: we’ll help you convert your innovation pipeline into a machine for predictable enterprise growth.
Implementing growth innovation best practices is a change management project, and our team of seasoned industry experts is available to help you structure and execute the process of transitioning not just to a new idea management system, but to a whole new innovation management philosophy.
The Definitive Project Portfolio Management Software
Accolade’s project portfolio management software provides real-time transparency, keeping teams focused, projects on track, and priorities aligned with enterprise objectives. Discover how Accolade can upgrade your portfolio management.