Launch of Accolade 8.2

Embargoed Release: 07:00hrs, Wednesday 23rd January, 2013

SOPHEON PLC

("Sopheon" or the "Company")

Sopheon Delivers on Market Commitments with latest Accolade® Release

Sopheon, the international provider of software, expertise, and best practices for Enterprise Innovation Performance, announced today the latest version of its Accolade innovation management solution. Accolade 8.2 has a broad range of new and enhanced capabilities for all users and processes from executive management all the way through and across an organization. With Accolade 8.2 businesses are able, for the first time, to access "a single source of the truth" from a fully-integrated solution across the entire innovation management and new product development lifecycle. New functionality, improvements, technology advancements, and features, include:

• A new stand-alone Portfolio Center module with expanded portfolio management and optimization capabilities enabling portfolio managers to be more effective and efficient.

• A new Innovation Planner solution to help cross-functional business leaders collaborate to effectively define innovation plans that connect and align top-down and bottom-up plans across the business.

• New, expanded, and easier to use Resource Planning functionality for improved management, planning and optimization of resources for innovation and new product development initiatives / projects.

• Improved and additional support for project teams, extended search and classification, easier mass import functionality.

• Support for global teams with multiple international languages, and more efficient IT installation, operations, integration and maintenance capabilities.

With this release, Sopheon continues to extend the market leadership of the Accolade solution with expanded functionality for users and business processes. This new release demonstrates our commitment and belief that companies can achieve exceptional long-term revenue growth and profitability through sustainable product or service differentiation, by focusing on their enterprise innovation performance.

"I am proud of our 8.2 release for its advancement of Accolade's industry leading capability in Portfolio optimization and innovation team collaboration," stated Don Sarno, Vice President of Product Development at Sopheon. "Many of Sopheon's industry-leading customers were instrumental with their input driving the advancements represented in this release. We are excited to bring 8.2 to market with high expectations of driving the best results in the industry for our customers' Enterprise Innovation Performance."

Accolade® is a registered trademark of Sopheon.

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About Sopheon

Sopheon (LSE: SPE) partners with customers to provide complete Enterprise Innovation Performance solutions including software, expertise, and best-practices 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. For the first time, businesses can access a single source of the truth across strategic innovation planning, roadmapping, idea and concept development, process and project management, and portfolio and in-market management. Sopheon's solutions have been implemented by over 200 customers with over 60,000 users in over 50 countries. Sopheon is listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange and on the Alternext Exchange in the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.sopheon.com