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Accolade

Drive Strategic Growth with Innovation Portfolio Orchestration

Project management is table stakes. Manage innovation as a lever for growth and turn your product pipeline into a predictable engine for market success.
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Trusted by Global Corporations Worldwide

Orchestrate Your Innovation Portfolio for Strategic Growth

Accolade revolutionizes innovation management. By streamlining processes, aligning strategies, and unlocking portfolio potential, innovation teams are empowered to turn ideas, whether groundbreaking or incremental, into measurable success.

Learn all about how Wellspring's Innovation Management product Accolade helped fuel innovation growth for our customers in the Forrester Study. *

 

*Source: The Total Economic Impact™ of Accolade, a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Wellspring  (formerly Sopheon). Results are for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.

 

The Value of Accolade

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Reduced Time-to-Market
Full transparency: Meet launch dates, secure competitive advantage, and reduce time to market by 15-30%
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Increased Product Success
Deliver on financial targets like volume, revenue, and profit, and increase product success rates up to 50%
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Optimized Value
Align and optimize strategic investments with operational execution and increase portfolio value 75-100%
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Improved Efficiency
Automate processes to improve pipeline throughput for an efficiency improvement of 10-20%

Beyond a Simple Project Management Tool

Eye Progress on the Fly

Most innovation management tools are designed for project oversight, not for strategic orchestration across the portfolio. This leads to siloed data, preventing a clear view of your full innovation landscape.

Without integrated insights, organizations struggle to align innovation efforts with strategic goals, leaving substantial growth potential untapped. 

In fact, learn all about how Wellspring's Innovation Management product Accolade helped fuel innovation growth for our customers in the Forrester Study.

 

ACCOLADE CORE

The Innovation Management Platform Designed for Growth

Accolade Core isn’t just another tool—it’s the heartbeat of your innovation strategy. Think about how hard it is to manage data, align teams, and drive meaningful insights in today’s competitive landscape. What if you had a platform that not only streamlined your processes but also empowered your teams to innovate smarter and faster?

The Core of Innovation Data Management

AI/ML-powered data processing that works like your personal innovation engine—automating workflows, unlocking real-time insights, and ensuring your intellectual property is secure every step of the way. Whether it’s benchmarking against industry standards, dynamic visualizations that simplify complexity, or seamless API integrations, Accolade Core doesn’t just support innovation—it drives it.

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Confidence AND Control

Accolade Core enables real-time auditing, role-based workflows, and built-in governance tools, ensuring compliance while keeping your teams productive and aligned. It’s innovation with guardrails—letting you move faster without sacrificing precision.

Accolade is your decision command center for innovation management, new product development, and R&D

Visibility. Transparency. Growth.

Gain complete visibility to your organization’s innovation process, make smarter decisions, and improve your time-to-value. Accolade® is the innovation management product that empowers organizations to consistently identify, evaluate, and execute against the right strategic priorities.

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Govern Efficiently and Deliver More Commercially Successful Products

Finely tune strategic innovation programs, optimize portfolio mixes and automate your new product development processes. Reduce confusion and improve time-to-market by effectively working any practice, such as waterfall, agile, lean, phase gate, or a hybrid approach. We help many of our customers combine methodologies to create and automate what’s best for them.

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Ensure R&D and Product Investments are Focused on the Right Programs

Connect business to strategy and focus on fewer, bigger, and better innovation investments. With up-to-date data insights illuminating gaps and opportunities, you can steer product and brand portfolios to meet your short- and long-term strategic goals. And when plans change, so can your portfolio mix.

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Accolade Streamlines Your Innovation Process

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AI-Powered
Insights
Smarter, powerful data-driven decisions
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Advanced Data Orchestration
Unified data and streamlined workflows
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Real-Time
Decision-Making Tools
Fast, efficient, and more agile execution
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Strategic
Alignment
Aligns innovation activities to growth goals

Accolade is the backbone for global organizations driving successful, sustainable innovation and growth

What if your innovation pipeline could deliver a... 

50% Increase in Product Success Rate
30% Reduction in Time-to-Market
READ WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY

Partnering with Accolade Empowers Global Innovation Teams to Achieve Measurable Impact and Exponential Growth

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Elizabeth Edblom, Ph.D.Director, Corporate Research & Development, Global Strategy & New Growth | 3M

"Accolade’s unique portfolio management capabilities provide business leaders with planning and performance insights required to govern the millions of dollars 3M invests in innovation.”

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Andre Dias Alves da SilvaDirector Innovation I2M | Mondelēz International

“The beauty of this Accolade implementation is that we really are creating one single source of truth, not only for having all our products, but also for managing our portfolio resources in the same location.”

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Michael BretzHead of Innovation Management & Strategic Controlling | BASF SE

“At BASF, Accolade enables data-based steering of individual R&D projects as well as whole innovation portfolios.”

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Elizabeth Edblom, Ph.D.Director, Corporate Research & Development, Global Strategy & New Growth | 3M

"Accolade’s unique portfolio management capabilities provide business leaders with planning and performance insights required to govern the millions of dollars 3M invests in innovation.”

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Andre Dias Alves da SilvaDirector Innovation I2M | Mondelēz International

“The beauty of this Accolade implementation is that we really are creating one single source of truth, not only for having all our products, but also for managing our portfolio resources in the same location.”

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Michael BretzHead of Innovation Management & Strategic Controlling | BASF SE

“At BASF, Accolade enables data-based steering of individual R&D projects as well as whole innovation portfolios.”

Our Solutions

Let Accolade Manage the Process So You Can Focus on Innovating for Growth

Accolade supports this shift from a micro to macro perspective by providing a comprehensive innovation management platform that integrates and aligns efforts across the entire organization.

 

It’s time to think differently about how you turn breakthrough ideas into results—and we’ll show you how.

Full Innovation Management Visibility

Accolade is the backbone for global organizations driving successful, sustainable innovation and growth.
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Centralized Innovation Portfolio
Accolade helps organizations consolidate all innovation initiatives into a unified portfolio, providing a clear, holistic view of ongoing projects, priorities, and results. Increased transparency leads to greater productivity.
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Strategic Alignment
Accolade ensures that innovation efforts align with overarching business goals, allowing teams to not be siloed, but zoom out and see how individual projects contribute to broader, long-term strategic growth.
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Data-Driven Insights
By consolidating data and providing integrated analytics, Accolade offers a macro-level perspective on performance, market trends, and expansion potential, helping clients make informed decisions.

Accolade Features

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Innovation
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Project
Roadmapping
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Portfolio Planning & Management
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Process Governance & Automation

Ready to Discover How Accolade Can Help Drive Growth Innovation at Your Organization?