Accolade Release 11.0

SOPHEON PLC

("Sopheon" or the "Company")

Sopheon's Accolade 11.0 Enables Enterprise

Transformational Change Initiatives

Sopheon, the international provider of software, expertise, and best practices for Enterprise Innovation Management, announces today the latest version of its Accolade® Enterprise Innovation Management solution.

Working hand-in-hand with some of the world's largest and most innovative companies has allowed Sopheon to deeply understand the value that software can play in enterprise strategy realization. The importance and role of enterprise-grade software was recently validated by Gartner in its 2016 2016 Market Guide for Strategy Execution Software. It is this learning that has driven much of the new capabilities in Accolade 11.0 with its ambition to favorably impact the realization of corporate initiatives.

Accolade 11.0 introduces:

• Dramatic new capabilities enabling quick and easy dynamic information management. Sopheon is empowering customers to quickly and easily self-configure their users' work environment, dramatically increasing their ability to dynamically manage the information they need for faster and better work process and decision-making.

• New support for transformational change. New capabilities introduce new levels of agility and velocity by expanding the power of the Accolade software to map both enterprise process change and operational changes.

• Advancements in security making it easier and safer to embed intellectual property-intensive activity with suppliers and partners within the same enterprise system, without compromise. Additionally, Accolade's security has been further expanded to assign the most qualified knowledge workers to initiatives without risking compliance with data restrictions or regulations based on role or location.

Andy Michuda, CEO, stated: "The constant pull between 'responsible, safe, secure' and 'speed, ease of use, smart' is evident in every client who is evolving new operating models to compete in today's digital market. We feel good about the user community excitement in support of our vision and Accolade roadmap in addressing these evolving challenges."

Sopheon® and Accolade® are trademarks of Sopheon.

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About Sopheon. Sopheon (LSE: SPE) partners with customers to provide complete Enterprise Innovation Management solutions including software, expertise, and best practices, that enable them to achieve exceptional long-term revenue growth and profitability. Sopheon's Accolade solution provides unique, fully-integrated coverage for the entire innovation management and new product development lifecycle, including strategic innovation planning, roadmapping, idea and concept development, process and project management, portfolio management and resource planning. Sopheon's solutions have been implemented by over 200 customers with over 60,000 users in over 50 countries. Sopheon is listed on AIM, operated by the London Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit www.sopheon.com.