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Accept Software is a provider of a Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") solution for Innovation Process Management ("IPM"), a sub-sector within Product Lifecycle Management ("PLM"). The Company's product suite delivers tools to automate product conception, product planning, and product portfolio management, and includes powerful enterprise reporting and role-based dashboards, all through an "on demand" web-interface. The software helps customers to increase new product revenue, drive competitive advantage, maximize returns on R&D investment, and improve productivity for product marketing, development managers, and senior executives. The software is mainly targeted at businesses both in the mid-market (companies with $200 million to $2 billion in revenues) and large market ($2+ billion) with large distributed product management organizations. The Company has a strong, experienced management team with previous success in building and selling enterprise software solutions.
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Jon Hamm
John Hamm brings to Accept Software a wealth of experience from several high-growth companies, including Whistle Communications, where he served four years as president and CEO. His prior experience includes EVP and general manager of advanced storage products, a $450M business division at Adaptec (NASDAQ:ADPT) and executive positions at Western Digital both in the U.S. and Europe. John started his professional career at Hewlett-Packard.
John has a diverse background that ranges from venture capital investor to adjunct professor at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University to leadership coach and advisor/board member to dozens of technology companies. Hamm has served on the boards of IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco), Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD), SiliconStor (acquired by LSI Logic), Documentum (acquired by EMC), Truveo (acquired by AOL-TW), and many others. John was named a Top 100 Venture Capitalist of the USA for 2009 by AlwaysON.com
A prolific author, John has been published in The Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Business 2.0, Business Week, Fortune, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal. His latest work, "Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills for the Practice of Great Leadership", was published in February, 2011 by Jossey-Bass, an imprint of Wiley. John graduated from Purdue University with a dual degree in Engineering Management and Engineering Physics.
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PrivateStarVest Company Since:
September 2009StarVest Partners II, L.P. led a Series B financing
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2002Contact Info
Accept Software Corporation
42840 Christy Street, Suite 201
Fremont, CA 94538
Blog
Our Newest LinkedIn Poll: How agile is your enterprise to changing market conditions?
01.18.2011Take a few minutes to participate in our newest LinkedIn Poll: How agile is your enterprise to changing market conditions? We would like to know if you think you are proactive or reactive to changing market conditions!
Accept Customer Shares Innovation Tips
10.21.2010An Accept customer, David Wagner from Solution Labs, was recently kind enough to share his experiences in innovation in a webinar and press release as well as a guest blog here today on The Innovation Jam. Solution Labs delivers analysis and reporting solutions that enable organizations to make intelligent forward-looking decisions on capacity planning and performance of IT. They’ve been able to triple revenues, boost productivity 25 percent and beat out much larger competitors. In a recent post Hari referred to innovation as a sort of ubiquitous religion in the high-tech field. Like religion, there’s hundreds if...
Are You Reducing the Risk? Transforming Innovation Into Profit.
10.19.2010It's that time of the week again - webinar time! The New Innovation Economy webinar this week features Hector del Castillo from AIPMM and our own Hari Candadi, discussing risk reduction and turning innovation to profit. As companies begin to look beyond the latest global economic crisis, many are refocusing on growth and innovation has once again become a priority. The approach companies use to generate ideas and turn them into products and services has changed little since before the global economic crisis. In the past few years the core barriers to successful innovation haven’t changed, yet companies have made...
Innovation Management Priorities and Challenges Breakfast Briefings
10.18.2010We've concluded of the 2011 Innovation Management Priorities and Challenges survey we recently conducted with AIPMM and are currently compiling the results. We be sharing the findings, as well as best practices and insights into what leading companies are doing (and their plans) in the coming year at special West Coast (San Francisco Bay Area) and an East Coast (Boston Area) Breakfast Briefings. The West Coast briefing is being hosted in Fremont, CA at Mentor Graphics on Tuesday 26 October 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. The East Coast briefing will be hosted at Cadence Design Systems,...
Competition, Compression and Communication
08.23.2010There is a simple reason why we must change the way we innovate: Survival. The Great Recession has spawned competition from some unexpected places. Countries that were never considered as sources of innovation are now uncovering new markets and creating solutions to real business problems. Technology is not only making the world flatter, it is making it smaller and more responsive. Business downturns are happening more frequently and causing more disruption, including jobless recoveries. With this compression of the business cycle comes shorter product lifecycles and the imperative to make the entire product planning and development process more agile. Finally, the silo approach...
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11.14.2011 (6 months ago)AcceptSoftware: Want to Improve your effectiveness as a Prod Mngr? Free '3 Tips' webinar w/ Greg Geracie Thurs 11/17 10am PT http://t.co/TN5hsMT3 #prodmgmt | Read more...
11.01.2011 (7 months ago)AcceptSoftware: Visit us @ booth 401 #PIM11 - come see Accept360 in action! CEO John Hamm in Solutions Provider Theatre today @ 12:35 pm @PDMA | Read more...
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09.21.2011 (8 months ago)AcceptSoftware: Thanks @visionexecution! Strategies & Tools for Successful #ProdDev Replay available at http://t.co/3XfOXIEO #prodmgmt #360webinar | Read more...