OneSpring, a company built on iRise consultation, implementation, and customer development achieved the level of strategic partner, first ever for any iRise partner. Scott McDowell of OneSpring spoke about “The Anatomy of an iRise Project” at today’s partner conference, Fusion ‘07, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The two-day user conference begins tomorrow.

OneSpring are the authors of the first iRise blog, iRise Online, as a community for people to learn about iRise toos. OneSpring are also the first to develop STREAM™, a application agnostic methodology that integrates business analysts, user experience, and simulation.

McDowell advised other partners that their job is to build momentum within their customers’ organizations. That means being the culture architect getting key stakeholders passionate and excited about the process change that application simulation brings about. That job requires being an educator, mentor, and evangelist.