Oct 09 2008
Getting started with iRise in just 1 day
I hear from a lot of customers that find visualization a bit overwhelming at first. It’s a new way to explore business needs and hear directly from your stakeholders and customers before costly development begins. iRise is the market leader in visualization. Over 200 customers have improved their processes by visualizing their needs.
So to help you begin your first journey, I’ve decided to put together a getting starting guide for you.
- (5min) Browse the iRise Product Overview Video. Take a quick look at visualization and how it can benefit you. There are plenty of customer testimonials and product videos in the Media center if you are interested.
- (15min) Take the iRise Product Tour. Explore how iRise can help you based on your role in the company.
- (15min) Download iRise. iRise offers a free fully-functioning 30 day trial of the iRise Professional Edition product. Individual business analysts, interface designers and project managers can leverage powerful visualization techniques already in use by hundreds of corporate customers to get business critical software projects to market faster, with less cost and risk.
- (4+hrs) Take the iRise eLearning courses. iRise helps get you started with 2 free eLearning courses. iRise Overview, a self-paced, eLearning course designed to introduce iRise to anyone responsible for selecting and/or using iRise on a project and iRise Explained, a self-paced, eLearning course that covers an introduction to the basic capabilities of iRise and how to use such capabilities to elicit and validate requirements and designs for page flow, page layout, navigation, data, business logic, high fidelity user interfaces and dynamic user interaction using actions, events, alternate views, styles, templates and masters..
- (5min) Download the Common Samples iDoc. This iDoc can be opened in your trial version of iRise and gives you a number of useful visualization examples. Copy and paste what you need into your new project. Want to see how high definition, data driven visualizations are done? Use the Common Samples iDoc as a guide. Speed up learning and get your next project kicked off fast.
That’s it, you’ve developed a high level understanding of iRise and visualization. Now you have 29 days left on your trial, get visualizing!