Are You A Product Management Professional,
Looking For a Better Way to Manage Your Requirements? |
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Tools Like Excel™, Word™ & Email
CONSUME TOO MUCH TIME
And Cause You
UNNECESSARY STRESS.
Discover A Better Tool & Help Your Team.
BE A HERO.
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Why Excel, Word & Email Are Wrong Tools
And How They Can Harm You |
| When it comes to managing your requirements, Excel, Word and Email are the easy choice. They are readily available and you already know how to use them. But they are the wrong tools for this task. Why? Using such "general purpose" tools to manage your requirements can lead to: |
- Incomplete
Requirements
- As these are general-purpose tools, it is very hard to gather requirements in a structured fashion. This often leads to incomplete requirements - a top cause for project failures in a large study by the Standish Group.
- Incorrect Requirements
- Requirements documents created using Excel/Word usually are stored on the author's computer, and are not accessible by others in real-time.
- This makes it harder to discuss, validate, and track changes - frequently leading to incorrect requirements.
- Lost Requirements
- Most importantly - it is very easy for requirements to drop through the cracks when using Excel/Word to manage them. Even critical requirements can be lost when the author forgets, is reassigned, or leaves your organization.
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 Incomplete, incorrect and lost requirements lead to PROJECT FAILURES, LOST DEALS and UNHAPPY CUSTOMERS WHO DEFECT - without you even knowing it is caused by the wrong tools. This is bad enough, but these tools are often even worse...
When you use tools like Excel and Word to manage your requirements, they TAKE VALUABLE TIME AWAY from your team's higher-value activities, CAUSE UNNECESSARY STRESS and FRUSTRATE YOU...
This is why Engineering & Sales teams at most companies do NOT use Excel, Word & Email to track their Issues and Opportunities. They use tools built for that particular task -- i.e. Bug trackers and CRM software, respectively. You too can prevent these losses and save valuable time by choosing the right tool to manage your requirements. Here is how... |
How To Get The Right Tool
And Prevent These Losses
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| Gartner, the leading independent market research organization, says the following: |
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"Requirements management can be simplified if initial requirements definitions are captured in a database-based tool to enable collaborative review... traceability and versioning/change control" |
Matt Light, Research Director, Gartner |
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| Accompa is the leading web-based requirements management tool that allows you to avoid the shortcomings of Excel & Word, and manage your requirements successfully using a central, customizable database. |
Accompa is an easy-to-use and proven software used by more than 100 companies
of all sizes to manage their requirements. It is customizable to fit your organization's needs. It is also very affordable - it costs just $25/month/user. |
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P.S. Comparable products start at $5,000 and generally cost 3-10 times the price of Accompa, depending on the number of licenses you need. However, Accompa costs just $25/month/user, the same as 2-3 cups of Starbucks per week per user. Why is Accompa so inexpensive? |
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9 Reasons You Should Choose Accompa |
| Here are 9 key reasons why you should choose Accompa to store, track and manage your requirements: |
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The ONLY Requirements Software with Unconditional Guarantee |
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Accompa is the ONLY requirements management software we know of that is backed by the unconditional 90 Days...Or Free guarantee. We assume all the risk so that you can try it risk-free for 90 days in real-world use. |
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Purpose-Built for Product Managers & Product Marketers |
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Accompa is specifically built to meet the needs of product managers, product marketing managers and project managers. This sets it apart from the vast majority of requirements software, which are built for engineers to track technical details. |
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| Who Uses Accompa Today |
- Product Managers & Product Marketing Managers
- Project Managers & Program Managers
- Related professionals who gather and manage requirements
- At Small Startups & Fortune-500 Companies (Testimonials follow)
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Proven & Reliable |
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More than 100 companies of all sizes (from 1-person companies to Fortune-500 enterprises) in 4 continents depend on Accompa 24x7x365. We've consistently delivered 99.9% uptime since our inception, so you can count on us. |
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Easy-to-Use |
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We designed Accompa from the ground up to be extremely easy-to-use. Your users learn it fast, and actually use it every day - rather than revert back to old ways such as Excel or Word, which is what happens often with more complex software. |
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Most Focused Feature Set |
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Of all the requirements management software we know of, Accompa has the most focused feature set. This leads to a design that is simple and efficient. Contrast this to most of our competitors who claim to have "the largest feature set". We've found this usually translates into very complex software, which scares away your users! |
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Highly Customizable |
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You can customize Accompa right from your web browser to fit your organization's needs. We understand the fact that your organization has its own unique needs - so we've designed our product to be very customizable. |
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Friendly, Knowledgeable Support - FREE |
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While we don't provide phone support in order to continue offering you low prices, we provide friendly web and email support with a guaranteed 8-business-hours response. Often, we answer your questions within a few hours. For complex issues, we schedule a phone call or web conference with you promptly and resolve your issues. Plus, our support is always FREE. |
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We Constantly Listen & Enhance |
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We constantly listen to our customers and enhance our product to meet your needs. We have minor releases every month and major releases once a quarter. Thus we're more likely to meet your needs - current and future - than other vendors. |
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Affordable Price |
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Accompa is delivered as on-demand software and costs just $25/month/user. We believe Accompa is the best value for your money - comparable products start at $5,000 and cost 3-10 times as much (Why is Accompa so inexpensive?). |
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| 30-day FREE Trial. Start managing YOUR requirements in just 3 minutes. |
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Customers of All Sizes Trust Us |
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Features You Need, And Nothing More |
| Store, track and manage your requirements & feature requests with ease using the following FEATURES purpose-built for product management teams. |
1. Store & Manage Requirements Centrally |
 Store requirements in a central, web based database - instead of in documents and emails on the personal computers of many product managers.- Create, track & manage requirements and features for your products/projects right from your web browser (Internet Explorer or Firefox) - without installing or maintaining any software.
- Access securely from anywhere (work, home or road) with any computer connected to the Internet.
- Enable multiple users to simultaneously access up-to-date requirements.
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2. Customize to Fit Your Needs |
 Customize Accompa right from your web browser, to fit your product management organization's unique needs.- Create unlimited custom fields to capture and track all aspects of your requirements.
- Build custom reports to extract data of interest with ease.
- Create custom views to manage requirements for multiple products/projects.
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3. Gather Requirements Using Custom Web Forms |
 Gather feature requests over the web using custom web forms called "SmartForms".- Create unlimited customized web forms for use in gathering requirements from customers as well as internal stakeholders such as Sales and Support teams.
- SmartForm submissions are automatically converted into requirements using custom criteria to save you valuable time.
- Review SmartForm submissions easily and process them for further action.
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4. Track Changes & Dependencies Automatically |
 Keep track of change history of each requirement including: a) date of each change, b) who made the change, and c) what was the change.- Easily view change history for each field of a given requirement - such as "Description" or "Needed by Date" fields.
- Track dependencies between requirements using intuitive "Relationship Trees".
- Perform quick impact analysis when removing or deferring a requirement from a project.
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5. Share Requirements & Collaborate in Real-Time |
 Share requirements across different departments of your organization in real-time - securely over the web.- Collaborate via easy-to-use tools such as integrated discussion boards.
- Identify the most popular requirement themes using our powerful Social Tags.
- Get automatic email alerts on requirements, discussions, products and projects of interest to you.
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6. Prioritize Requirements Using Systematic Methodology |
 Prioritize requirements using repeatable, systematic methodology based on ROI (Return on Investment) metrics.- Create custom formula to calculate ROI of your requirements, to fit criteria important to your organization.
- Say goodbye to prioritization based on ad-hoc methods and judgment calls.
- Focus your resources on highest value requirements - instead of just requirements that seem interesting.
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7. Save Time & Eliminate Hassles Using Powerful Capabilities |
 Find requirements of interest to you instantly using Accompa's powerful, customizable "Search" function.- Group and manage requirements and features in a hierarchical fashion using interactive "tree" structure.
- Import your current requirements from Excel or CSV files into Accompa with just a few clicks.
- Export requirements with a single-click to Microsoft Word, Excel or HTML.
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8. Generate MRD & PRD Using Intuitive Wizards |
 Save time and reduce hassles involved in creating requirements documents such MRDs (market requirements document) and PRDs (product requirements document).- Create preliminary versions of MRDs and PRDs right from Accompa using intuitive wizards in just a few steps.
- Customize data included in these documents - choose desired requirements, data fields, relationships, discussions and more.
- Export with a single-click to Microsoft Word, HTML, or PDF document formats. Work on them further to fit your document templates, or use them right off the wizard.
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Notice how we do NOT have unnecessary features like integrated bug trackers or project planners. This makes Accompa simple & really quick-to-learn and easy-to-use every day.
Don't just take our word for it, click the button below to try it for yourself. We remove all your risk with our UNIQUE 90 Days...Or Free guarantee. Try it now. |
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| FREE for 30-days. Start managing YOUR requirements in just 3 minutes. |
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Affordable & Best Value For Your Money |
| We believe Accompa is the best value for your money of all the requirements management software that we're aware of. |
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Affordable, "No Tricks" Pricing |
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| No setup fees, No "minimum user" limits, No long-term contracts - No tricks! |
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(When you purchase more than 10 licenses, you get deep discounts on "Read Only" licenses.
To qualify, start Free Trial now.) |
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| P.S. Comparable products start at $5,000 and generally cost 3-10 times the price of Accompa, depending on the number of user licenses you need. But Accompa costs you just $25/month/user, the same as 2-3 cups of Starbucks per week. We are able to offer you these affordable price levels due to two reasons: |
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We've carefully optimized our business model to focus on affordable on-demand software for managing requirements. We do not build or sell anything else. |
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We efficiently operate our entire company. For example, our Marketing & Sales expenses are well below that of our competitors as well as industry averages. |
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As a result, we're able to offer high-quality software and delightful service, even though our price is very affordable.
Don't just take our word for it - click the link below to try Accompa yourself. We're confident that you will agree with us once you try us. |
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| 30-day FREE Trial. Start managing YOUR requirements in just 3 minutes. |
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Customers Of All Sizes Love Us |
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| FREE for 30-days. Start managing YOUR requirements in just 3 minutes. |
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A special section if you're still unsure: |
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| "Accompa seems too expensive" - |
We'd like to respectfully submit that your current ill-suited tools may be costing you far more in lost customers and other losses as discussed above - these losses are simply "hidden from you". Furthermore, Accompa is far less expensive than comparable software which start at $5,000 and generally cost 3-10 times that of Accompa. As you saw above, Accompa costs just $25/month/user - the same as 2-3 cups of Starbucks per week.
In addition, companies get an average of 17x return from their investment in Accompa - this means continuing with your current tools can cost you far more in lost gains. |
| "It may not work for my team" - |
| More than 100 companies of all sizes use Accompa every day (see testimonials above). They not only find that Accompa really works - but they actually realize tremendous quantifiable benefits (17x return on their investment) from using Accompa. Futhermore, Accompa is backed by our industry's ONLY "90-Days-or-Free" guarantee - so it is 100% risk-free for you. If you don't try it, you'll never know what benefits you could achieve for your team. |
| "I'll keep using Excel & Word for now" - |
| While this is the easiest option, it is also probably the worst option, as explained above. These general-purpose desktop tools have far too many shortcomings and may be causing project failures and lost customers even as you read this. In addition, they also cause unnecessary stress for your team due to the difficulties in managing requirements using these ill-suited tools. The net result is that your team and your company are being hurt by these tools. |
| "I'll use online spreadsheets or wikis" - |
| While these tools are better than Excel & Word because they can be easily shared over the web - these general-purpose tools suffer from all the other disadvantages of Excel & Word discussed above. Although they seem like a better option than Excel & Word - they're in fact only marginally so. The net result is - these ill-suited tools could hurt your team and your company far more than they can help. Why take this risk? Especially when you can try Accompa risk-free, right now. |
| "It may be too much work to switch to Accompa" - |
The biggest reason customers choose Accompa is its ease-of-use (see testimonials above). You can get started with your 30-day FREE trial in just 3 minutes or so. It takes about 10 minutes to set it up fully. Your users will find it very easy to learn, and easy to use every day - our design is laser focused on making it so. Most of our customers see dramatic improvement in a mere 30-90 days.
See for yourself - try Accompa right now, it is 100% risk-FREE. |
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| P.S. If you've read this far, you know there is no valid reason not to try Accompa. Wouldn't it be nice to manage your requirements without all these problems and unnecessary stress? Click here to get started... |
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| P.S. Start right now while this idea is still fresh on your mind. Each day you delay is another day you may be suffering losses due to ill-suited tools, without even realizing it. Save your team and your company from these losses. Click here to get started - FREE Trial... |
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