Are You a Product Management Executive,
Looking For a Better Way to Manage Your Requirements? |
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Excel™, Word™ & Wikis Are Often
THE WRONG TOOLS
For Managing Requirements, And Can Cause
Productivity Loss, Project Failures & Lost Customers...
Discover A Better Tool & Help Your Team.
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Why Excel, Word & Wikis Are Often Wrong Tools
And How They Can Harm Your PM Team |
| When it comes to managing your requirements, Excel, Word and Wikis are the easy choice. They are readily available and your team already knows how to use them. But they are often the wrong tools for this task. Why? Using such "general purpose" tools to manage your requirements can lead to: |
- Incomplete
Requirements
- As these are all general-purpose tools, it is very hard to gather requirements in a structured fashion. This often leads to incomplete requirements - one of the biggest reasons 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 which often cause project delays & failures.
- 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 can lead to PROJECT DELAYS, PROJECT FAILURES, 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...
Wrestling with tools like Excel, Word & wikis to manage requirements TAKES VALUABLE TIME AWAY from your team's higher-value activities, CAUSES UNNECESSARY STRESS and FRUSTRATES YOU...
This is why Engineering & Sales teams at most companies do NOT use Excel, Word & wikis 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 help your team prevent these losses and save valuable time by choosing the right tool to manage requirements. Here is how... |
How To Get The Right Tool For Your PM Team
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 starts at just $199/month. |
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P.S. Comparable enterprise-quality requirements software can cost 2-6 times the price of Accompa, depending on the number of licenses you need. Why is Accompa less expensive?
When you get Accompa - you get access to an enterprise-quality software, at an affordable price. |
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9 Reasons PM Teams Choose Accompa |
| Here are 9 key reasons product management teams 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 Management Teams
- Product Marketing Teams
- Related teams who gather, manage or consume requirements
- At Fortune-500 companies, as well as Startups (Testimonials follow)
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Proven & Reliable |
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More than 100 companies of all sizes (from Fortune-500 enterprises to growing startups) in 4 continents depend on Accompa 24x7x365. We've consistently delivered 99.95% uptime since our inception while scaling to meet rapid growth in user base, 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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Our Industry's ONLY
Unconditional Guarantee |
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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 cloud-based (SaaS) software and starts at just $199/month. We believe Accompa is the best value for your money - comparable enterprise-quality requirements software can cost 2-6 times as much (Why is Accompa less expensive?). |
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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 Structured Requirements Centrally |
 Store structured requirements in a central, web based database - instead of in unstructured 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, Firefox, Chrome or Safari) - without installing or maintaining any software.
- Access securely from anywhere (work, home or road) with any computer connected to the Internet.
- Enable all users to access up-to-date requirements at any time.
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2. Customize to Fit Your Needs |
 Customize Accompa right from your web browser, to fit the unique needs of your organization and users.- Create unlimited custom fields to capture and track all aspects of your requirements.
- Create custom views to manage requirements for multiple products/projects.
- Define custom user roles to implement access privileges based on a user's role in your organization.
- Integrate Accompa with other software used by your organization (such as bugtrackers, test case tools, in-house applications, etc) using Pre-built Integrations to popular tools as well as Accompa Web Services API. Implement Single-Sign-On (SSO) to integrate user login with your Active Directory or LDAP.
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3. Automate Gathering of Requirements With Custom Web Forms & Emails |
 Gather feature requests over the web using custom web forms called "SmartForms".- Gather feature requests via email using custom email addresses called "SmartEmails".
- Create unlimited number of SmartForms & SmartEmails for use in gathering requirements from customers as well as internal stakeholders such as Sales and Support teams.
- SmartForm and SmartEmail submissions are automatically converted into requirements using custom criteria to save you valuable time. Review these submissions easily and process them for further action.
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4. Track Changes & Dependencies Automatically |
 Track dependencies and relationships between requirements easily - and avoid missed requirements which often lead to project failures.- Perform quick impact analysis when changing, removing or deferring a requirement from a project.
- Meet your auditing & change management goals easily using baselines and automatic change history tracking.
- Ensure completeness of requirements in a project using features such as traceability matrix.
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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.
- Create and use requirements baselines to achieve powerful change management capabilities.
- Import from Excel with just a few clicks; Export 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 as 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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Enterprise Quality. Affordable Price. |
| When you get Accompa, you get enterprise-quality requirements management software at an affordable price. |
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| Enterprise quality features + Affordable, open pricing = Accompa |
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| We host it. No setup fees. No maintenance contracts. |
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| P.S. Comparable enterprise-quality requirements software generally cost 2-6 times the price of Accompa, depending on the number of user licenses you need. We're 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 only one thing - enterprise quality, cloud-based (SaaS) software. 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 industry averages. |
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As a result, you get enterprise-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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A special section if you're still unsure: |
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| "Accompa seems too expensive" - |
If you're like most companies, your current tools are likely ill-suited for managing requirements and may be costing you far more in project delays/failures, lost customers and other losses described above - these losses are simply "hidden from you". Furthermore, Accompa is far less expensive than comparable software which can cost 2-6 times that of Accompa. As you saw above, Accompa starts at just $199/month.
In addition, companies get an average of 17x return on their investment in Accompa - this means continuing with your current tools can cost you significant productivity gains. |
| "It may not work for my team" - |
| If you don't try it, you'll never know whether it works for your team and what benefits you could achieve. More than 100 companies of all sizes use Accompa every day (see testimonials above). They realize tremendous quantifiable benefits (17x return on their investment) from using Accompa. Furthermore, Accompa is backed by our industry's ONLY "90-Days-or-Free" guarantee - so it's 100% risk-free for you. |
| "I'll keep using Excel & Word for now" - |
While this is the easiest option, it's also probably the worst option, due to reasons discussed above. These general-purpose desktop tools have far too many shortcomings and may be causing project delays/failures and lost customers even as you read this. In addition - they also cause unnecessary stress for your team and take time away from your team's higher value activities, as these tools are ill-suited and inefficient for managing requirements.
Get Accompa by taking advantage of the 30-day FREE Trial - it will help you understand why using Excel & Word to manage your requirements is simply not the way to go. |
| "I'll use wikis or online spreadsheets" - |
| 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 #1 reason customers give for choosing Accompa is its ease-of-implementation and ease-of-use (see testimonials above).
You can get started with FREE trial in just 3 minutes or so. It takes about 10 minutes to set it up and get started. Your users will find it 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 - click the button below to try Accompa right now, it is 100% risk-FREE. |
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| P.S. If you've read this far, you probably realize why you should get Accompa for your team. 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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Improve your team's requirements management using these 7 practical tips,
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