Name: Accolade
Rating: 4.4 (32 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Accolade?

Accolade is a software developed by Sopheon that supports enterprise innovation and portfolio management processes. The software offers capabilities for strategic planning, idea management, product development, and lifecycle governance. It enables organizations to align innovation initiatives with business objectives, manage project portfolios, track performance metrics, and facilitate cross-functional collaboration. Through structured workflows and configurable dashboards, the software assists users in evaluating project proposals, optimizing resource allocation, and improving visibility into ongoing projects. Accolade is used to address business challenges related to streamlining the product development process and enhancing decision-making for investments in innovation and new product introductions.

Overall experience with Accolade

Logistics Support Executive

500M - 1B USD, Retail

FAVORABLE

“Best Coordination Of Tasks”

4.0

Jan 11, 2020

Accolade is that tool that has given us enough task tracking ability without any setbacks. We tend to enjoy it especially in monitoring and tracking all team operations ensuring the best effectiveness in overall.

Director Energy R&D

10B - 30B USD, Energy and Utilities

CRITICAL

“Good software for supporting innovation project portfolio management.”

3.0

Dec 16, 2021

we are in the process of deploying accolade for innovation product development management PPM (not IT projects). Accolade is a good tool that allows configuration of our work processes.

About Company

Company Description

Sopheon, a global company, assists organisations to achieve sustained revenue growth and profitability. It leverages its proprietary software solutions - Acclaim and Accolade, providing essential InnovationOps services. These services support product and project executives, and innovation leaders, in the overall management and successful execution of their duties. The company's software, dedicated to innovation management, helps organisations launch products faster, increase success rates, gain a competitive edge, and implement strategies more efficiently. Its all-encompassing approach to innovation and product development aids in enhanced decision making that is faster, smarter, and more profitable. Sopheon also provides tools for the governance and execution of strategies, significantly contributing to the successful operation of an organisation's innovation lifecycle. These tools cover areas such as product management, idea management, and project management.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

1999

Head office location

Minneapolis, United States

Number of employees

51 - 200

Website

http://www.sopheon.com

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Accolade Likes & Dislikes

There is eough promptness in the customer support response. I like that. Likewise, we discovered it's one of the easiest planning and tracking tool.

Once instructed on how to use the tool it is easy to use. UI is clear, navigation for user relatively simple. It is a good technical tool.

There are 2 things i liked the most. First one is that there is a big variety of charts and reports from which you can create your own format for your project type and work style. It is very flexible and creating such reports doesnt take too much time.. Dashboards are also very customizable in direction of project needs. Second one is that there are different workflows for different types of projects and programs so you are not stuck with the same workflow, deliverable type or same gates.

For us, it's a satisfactory performance that it has offered. No dislikes.

We tried to use the Sopheon consultancy services for deployment but this turned out to be a waste of time and money in our case. In our experience Sopheon is good in building software and helping you use it. We were disappointed in their help on improving our actual stage gate and portfolio management work processes. We use their software and technical advice on how to confure our processes in it but do design and modification of workprocesses and deployment by ourselves. The software is expensive and during procurement we were faced with irritating focus on selling more and more licences and consultancy hours.

When there is a real amout of data of product specifications or price or sales informations system slows down and sometimes doesnt open the desired screen or doesnt calculate the operation you want

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10B+ USD

Energy and Utilities

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Good software for supporting innovation project portfolio management.

50M-1B USD

Retail

Best Coordination Of Tasks

Engineer

1B-10B USD

Consumer Goods

Great for coordinating projects and keeping track of the outcomes

Nov 27, 2019

This tool provides a very good example of project management and process tracking for companies. For the projects where there are too many people in the team from very different departments it is very difficult for the project manager to keep inline the project, the deliverables and deadlines. This tool helps a lot to the project managers because you can see all at once all the deliverables, team members, deadlines, gate meeting notes so far and so forth. Especially for the stage and gate project management type it is very convenient interface. Creating product models, gathering sales forecasts and thus calculating BCC or do the feasibility is flawless with this tool.

Project Engineer

Great for project management

Dec 17, 2019

Sopheon Accolade is a program for project management which works really well. This program helps their users to tracking all project management processes. You can access necessary information such as deadlines, team members, meeting notes etc. Its interface is also good and convenient.

Corporate Strategy Manager

Manufacturing

Implementation was relatively stright forward. Change management is the real challenge.

Apr 17, 2019

Overall the Sopheon team has been very easy to work with and very accommodating. What has worked well is having a dedicated team of both internal and Sopheon resources utilizing a bi-weekly sprint process to build out the configuration. What has been more challenging is putting in place a more centralized process as part of the implementation. In addition, we have had some challenges with a fairly stringent testing process that requires configuration changes to be promoted across multiple environments and documented thoroughly.