A sweet solution from Sopheon

Cadbury Schweppes, an international confectionery and beverage company  has implemented a new portfolio and process management system aimed at increasing growth from innovation companywide.

The company has chosen Sopheon's Accolade product development solution in a deployment spanning 45 countries and 2,400 users in product development, marketing and commercial strategy.

The system will be used to support product portfolio management and to automate and manage the company's implementation of Stage-Gate, a widely used product development process methodology. The software will serve as a central repository for product information within business units and across the company.

"Cadbury Schweppes' stature as an innovator reaches back over 200 years," says Christine Connelly, chief information officer at Cadbury Schweppes. "We are determined that this commitment to innovation will be as much a part of our future as it has been our past. To maintain our market-leading position, we have outlined an organic growth strategy that relies upon our ability to innovate well and achieve high levels of return on our innovation investments. This solution will give us the process uniformity and performance consistency we need to enable the sharing of knowledge and expertise across a common process and system platform, ensuring faster time-to-market with winning products."