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Web development & consulting firm joins iRise Alliance Partner program
iRise, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced that RIIS (Research Into Internet Systems), a Detroit-based custom Web development firm has posted a record 400% growth in its business in 2008 due largely to the use of iRise visualization. RIIS focuses on building custom Web solutions for growing companies and has adopted visualization from iRise as a core competency to drive increased sales and improved client relationships. RIIS has also joined the iRise Alliance Partner program and will partner with iRise on application development projects in the region.
“The growth in our business has been dramatic and much of it can be directly related to our ability to communicate more effectively with our clients using iRise,” said Godfrey Nolan, founder and president of RIIS. “Visualization is a game changer for consulting firms that now have the ability to build stronger relationships with clients starting with proposal pursuits and continuing right thorough successful delivery.”
Some of the projects that RIIS has been successful delivering using visualization include:
- the development of a new, Web-based insurance tracking system that was prototyped in iRise and is now being developed;
- Java development for an interactive marketing agency;
- a variety of projects for a global telecom provider, including the development of a new eCommerce portal; and
- migrating law enforcement agencies from legacy systems onto a suite of Web-based records management tools.
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African Bank Cuts Project Cost by 20% with iRise Visualization
iRise, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced that African Bank, one of South Africa’s leading financial firms, has successfully adopted visualization as a strategy to dramatically cut application consolidation project cost and accelerate delivery of critical business systems. By visualizing the final product before coding, African Bank measured a dramatic reduction in late stage rework on a new accounts receivable system, which translated into an overall project savings of 20%. As a result of this project success, visualization is now being mandated for all large projects at African Bank.
“Text-based requirements simply don’t work for fast moving companies in competitive industries like ours,” said Anthony Gischen, senior IT manager. “Using iRise we can now agree on business needs in real time; no wasted motions or confusion about what to build. The result has been transformational for our organization. We get more done with less cost and have happier business customers.”
With iRise, business analysts and developers at African Bank quickly visualized and tested a consolidation of two separate accounts receivable systems in only one month. The team measured a 40% drop in late stage rework as compared to the previous application definition process which relied heavily on ambiguous text based requirements. Due to the success of this project African Bank is currently in the process of making iRise training a standard component of the business analyst and developer on-boarding program, something that underlines their commitment to making visualization a standard within their software development process.
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iRise Labs Launches Beta Program for Extending iRise Enterprise Edition
iRise today launched a private beta program for the iRise Extension API, an interface definition that will enable third-party development of a broad spectrum of integrations and extensions to the iRise Enterprise Edition platform. iRise customers and alliance partners will be able to leverage the iRise Extension API to extend the capabilities of the iRise platform and more tightly integrate it into their unique development processes and environments. At the same time third-party developers will also be able to create innovative commercial offerings for the iRise ecosystem; solutions that may then be co-marketed by iRise. The private beta period begins today.
iRise is seeking go-to-market partners to deliver commercial offerings in all of these areas, and others. Customers, ISVs and web developers interested in participating in the iRise Extensions API beta program should contact beta@irise.com for more information.
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Feb 04, 2009 PRESS RELEASE ::
NaviNet Healthcare Communications Solutions Incorporate iRise Visualization
iRise today announced that NaviMedix, a national leader in real-time healthcare communications, has chosen to incorporate iRise visualization solutions into the application definition and development processes for its NaviNet® solutions and services. By using iRise solutions, the NaviNet development team can view interactive and immersive models of proposed software applications, dramatically streamlining product delivery.
“More than 700,000 physicians and clinicians, as well as leading insurers across the country rely on NaviNet for online healthcare communications,” said Joe Terranova, senior software engineer at NaviMedix. “Using iRise to define NaviNet solutions during the development stage will enable our development team to be even more agile and responsive in delivering solutions that address the specific pain points of our rapidly growing customer base.”
With the adoption of iRise visualization solutions, the NaviNet product management team can quickly model requirements for new applications and rapidly change requirements based on payers’ and providers’ communications needs. The development and quality assurance teams can get a head start on building the application, minimizing the risk of re-work and cost overruns. As a result, NaviNet solutions can be brought to market much faster. The company will also use simulations to refine usability testing in order to improve customer experience and to visualize conceptual designs for new and existing products.
“NaviNet is one of a growing number of solutions that are developed using visualization as a standard way of defining applications,” said Mitch Bishop, CMO for iRise. “In the healthcare industry, customers’ needs shift based on trends, regulations and unique challenges. Visualization empowers companies like NaviMedix to innovate faster, with less cost and risk, which is imperative in today’s economy.”
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Feb 03, 2009 PRESS RELEASE ::
iRise Partners With Symphony Services to Accelerate New Visualization Product Delivery
iRise today announced that it has partnered with Symphony Services, the leader in global product engineering services, to drive new visualization product solutions to market faster. Under the terms of the partnership agreement, Symphony will augment the product engineering and quality teams already in place at iRise with offshore resources that will focus on delivering visualization product and content solutions over the next few years.
“Our agreement with Symphony gives us a tremendous opportunity to listen to our customers and innovate faster than anyone else,” said Maurice Martin, president, COO and founder of iRise. “Our customer and partner ecosystem is growing very quickly and that’s creating exciting opportunities for new kinds of visualization capabilities and content solutions. By expanding our product engineering team in a global model, we can be incredibly responsive to customers, accelerate innovation and are positioned to extend our leadership position in the market.”
Symphony’s dedicated product development team in India will extend the capability and scalability of the iRise global development team. Together, the integrated groups will focus on enhancing and extending the capabilities of iRise’s flagship products: iRise Studio and iRise Definition Center. Acting as a virtual extension of the iRise development organization, Symphony will also support select content solution and quality initiatives.
“We’re singularly focused on fundamentally transforming the product engineering process by arming our world-class development teams with the most leading edge technology available,” said Gordon Brooks, CEO, Symphony Services. “Our partnership with iRise illustrates our commitment to always evolving and improving our processes for the betterment of our clients’ business and we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership.”
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