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Accolade

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.

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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: 
Growth

Articulate innovation growth targets within Accolade, and prioritize every idea and activity around them. Set KPIs and metrics that keep innovation on track.

Visibility
Centralize all innovation data in Accolade’s flexible database, so that stakeholders always have access to the critical, timely information they need at every step of the innovation process.

Orchestration

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.

Trusted by Global Corporations Worldwide

Enterprise PPM Software That Drives Real Value

Accolade’s project portfolio management software has transformed innovation processes for leading enterprises across the globe. A recent study by Forrester Consulting 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
“Before Accolade, we needed 20 to 50 people to plan for projects. And now I think we are down by 50% or even more. Everything is transparent, and we can communicate better than before.”

Head of Project Management
Manufacturing

“[Accolade] came in and were incredibly impressive, not just on what the software could do but also how well they listened to what we needed, how well they internalized and reflected a highly configurable solution for us.”

Director of Portfolio Management
Manufacturing

“The reality is, every time we miss a window — especially if we’re talking about the automotive market — sometimes that could be in the millions of dollars. Because if you miss a launch to qualify a particular product, that’s the order of magnitude — it would be in the millions.”

Director of Portfolio Management
Manufacturing

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.  

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ACCOLAde Project Portfolio management software capability

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.

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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.

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ACCOLAde Project Portfolio management software capability

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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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ACCOLAde Project Portfolio management software capability

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.

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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.

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Seamlessly Integrated with Your Innovation Ecosystem

Accolade connects 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.

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

Accolade is a modular growth innovation management platform. Accolade customers use a custom mix of solution modules built on the core engine, so you only pay for the features you need. (And you can always add more modules later.)

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.
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Accolade Core

A single, dynamic source of truth
The Accolade Core’s advanced tagging and linking solution allows you to manifest all your innovation management data in ways that reflect how you already run your operations. Accolade Core connects every moving piece of your innovation ecosystem together, and dynamically refreshes data in real time. Every roadmap, project, program, and dashboard are connected, so when one data point changes, Accolade automatically updates the rest of your portfolio.
 
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Accolade Projects

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.

New Product Development

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.

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Manufacturing Innovation

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. 

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Innovation CAPEX Management

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. 

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Technology Innovation

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.

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Strategic portfolio management modules

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

 

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Integrated roadmapping

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 >>



 

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Resource planning

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.