the"surfman"R schreef:
ff uit de oude doos.(zal unilever accolade gebruiken??)
Accolade for R&D support
Anglo-Dutch company Sopheon, best known for software that aids medical personnel in diagnosis and prompts them to follow best practice, has a new product, Accolade, which has attracted much interest from those who develop products for consumer healthcare giants, Shan Kelly reports.
Information World Review Staff, Information World Review 01 Dec 2000
Companies such as Unilever and SmithKline Beecham spend fortunes developing recipes for whitening toothpaste, cold remedies and haircare products. Consumer healthcare research and development cost an estimated $186 billion last year, according to Sopheon's vice president of business development James McFarlane.
Sopheon believes Accolade, a newly launched knowledge management product, can speed up the research process and so help cut development costs dramatically.
"We are entering virgin territory. This market is enormous, yet there is virtually no software available to automate support for research and development," claims McFarlane.
Accolade was developed after oil products producer Penzoil, an existing Sopheon customer, found out that Sopheon was working with two Canadian academics, Professors Coopers and Edgett, who have developed widely accepted theories about KM in new product development.
Penzoil had been using Cooper's and Edgett's theories and was excited to hear that Sopheon believed it could create a software package based on them. Penzoil paid $200,000 to help develop Accolade, which Sopheon launched in October.
www.vnunet.com/articles/print/2083047ron