Wellspring Worldwide

Accolade

Composite Score

7.8 /10

CX Score

8.2 /10

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What is Accolade?

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

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Accolade Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Accolade?

0% Negative

7% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Trustworthy
Caring

Feature Ratings

Average 76

Polls & Voting

Workflow Capabilities

Multi Tenancy

Implementation Management

Communication Manager

Idea Ranking & Evaluation

Analytics and Reporting

Ideation

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Collaboration Channels

Trend Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features

Accolade Reviews

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Food and Beverage
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

User friendly for end users and Admins

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

Trustworthy
Efficient Service
Effective Service
Caring

Simon M.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Chemicals
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Intuitive to use & great fit with PPM processes.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Accolade from other similar products?

1:1 fit to Stage Gate processes and Portfolio Management. Supports established processes for chemical industry and manufacturing on both sides, the front-end (discovery & development) and the back-end (launch & execution). The service and product development capabilities are incredibly exemplary and suit almost always our needs and interests.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Accolade is an integrated enterprise solution that includes the complete Innovation Governance System from ideation to project management to portfolio management to strategic planning. It provides high business value by analyzing data and information and supports the preparation of strategic decision options that makes it possible to steer strategic and operational project portfolios globally.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Changes on established process models (additions or extensions) could be easier. Pre-designed layouts providing all necessary linking to process models, metrics, reports, ... would be helpful. Resource management could be even more intuitive.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you have innovation management processes like Stage-Gate, Portfolio Management, Roadmapping, etc. already established or are interested in implementation of such, Accolade is THE supporting, value creating, time-saving software you need to to become more efficient and get the most out of your project business.

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

Kiersten D.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Chemicals
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Great Product! Easy to Implement and Configure.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Accolade from other similar products?

The support team is tremendous.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Compliance controls can be put in place with gate conditions.

What do you dislike most about this product?

No ability to see configuration management of change log

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Get Stake holder buy in internally before starting configuration. Having a well planned architecure makes for a smooth implementation.

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Respectful

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Accolade Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Accolade?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Polls & Voting Ability to select which users contributors can vote on what motion.

Workflow Capabilities​ The vendor provides configurable, rules-based workflow capabilities based on applicant disposition (such as lead, enrolled, rejected etc.).​

Multi Tenancy Software works in tandem with hosting system and the management of the multiple systems running in the same environment with appropriate levels of segregation.

Implementation Management Ability of the software to assist end-to-end process of the project life cycle and implementation of ideas through project tracking or integration.

Communication Manager Ability of the software to seamlessly facilitate stakeholder discussion, and role-based access revolving the project.

Idea Ranking & Evaluation Capability of the software enables user to rank each idea based on the score it receives for various factors or criteria and consolidate findings.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Ideation Ability of the solution to support the ideation process where users generate ideas and solutions through sessions, challenges or posed problem questions.

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing System recommends automated similar ideas, idea clustering, automated personalized user recommendations on content, and more.

Collaboration Channels Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time e.g. discussion channels.

Trend Management Ability to collect and monitor research on micro, macro or industry trends.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Accolade Reviews

User friendly for end users and Admins

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Simon M.

Intuitive to use & great fit with PPM processes.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Kiersten D.

Great Product! Easy to Implement and Configure.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Feature Ratings

Polls & Voting

Workflow Capabilities

Multi Tenancy

Implementation Management

Communication Manager

Idea Ranking & Evaluation

Analytics and Reporting

Ideation

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Collaboration Channels

Trend Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Ease of Customization

Ease of Implementation

Availability and Quality of Training

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Usability and Intuitiveness

Quality of Features