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iRise partner OneSpring has updated their popular “SimDK for iPhones” and graciously allowed us to post the new iDoc as “iRise for iPhone” for download on the iRise site. This iDoc gives iPhone developers the ability to visualize iPhone applications early in the process. Functions simulated include the ability to quickly prototype the look, feel and behavior of iPhone applications, including screen transitions, typing and sliding.
To download the free iRise for iPhones iDoc, click here.
iRise for iPhones is a complete toolkit for the design of custom iPhone applications. It was built using visual elements and artifacts directly from Apple’s SDK, to which only approved Apple developers have access, thus allowing business analysts and interface designers who do not have access to Apple’s SDK to model app behavior early in the process.
iRise for iPhones offers a template guide that matches the form factor of the iPhone to help ensure designs can be accurately reproduced with the Apple SDK. iRise for iPhones includes:
o iPhone iDoc visualization template with guides;
o Menu icons w/ buttons;
o Custom button template;
o Slider and button action behaviors; and,
o Multi-touch actions.
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We just posted a new iRise iDoc for free download that contains 1,000 16×16 icons for use in iRise visualizations. Since all of the icons are maintained in a datasheet, you can easily add your own. Searching and tagging make it easy and fast to find the icon you need. Import the iDoc to your Definition Center so everyone can use it. To get the free iDoc, click here.
NOTE: This iDoc contains icons and other images created by Mark James and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Your use of any of these icons and images is governed by that agreement. Additional information is available here: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/. This iDoc and any of its content is provided AS-IS. By downloading this iDoc you acknowledge and agree that neither iRise nor any iRise licensor makes any warranty whatsoever regarding this iDoc or any of its content, and iRise and its licensors hereby disclaim all implied warranties, including without limitation any implied warranty of non-infringement.
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PRESS RELEASE ::
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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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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Today, iRise announced the release of iRise Professional Edition, a single user version of its popular team-based software visualization authoring tool. For the first time, individual business analysts, interface designers and project managers can now leverage the same powerful visualization techniques in use by over hundreds of corporate customers to get business critical software projects to market faster, with less cost and risk. Read more about iRise Professional Edition here.
iRise Professional Edition is available now for purchase and also can also be downloaded for 30 day free trials directly from the iRise Web site.
In addition, you can download useful iRise iDocs from the iDoc Library page or view iRise ”Product QuickTake” videos from the Media Center.
Enjoy!
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We are proud to announce the winners in the iRise “Visualize the Prize” Video Commercial Contest. The 15 semi-finalists received more than 4,500 votes during the two weeks of voting that ended on June 20th, and it was a pretty tight race.
The winning entry was “iRise Recipe” submitted by Brian Palatucci of Santa Monica, California. Brian wins $15,000 for his video which depicts a man preparing dinner for his girlfriend while asking the question, “What if there was a way to learn from your mistakes without ever having to make one?”
There were 2 runners-up entries that each claimed a prize of $2,500.
“Foresight is 20/20” by Michael Beeson of Great Falls, Montana – This video looked at iRise from the perspective of a spectacle manufacturer which lost its focus before trying iRise. “It’s made painful hindsight a thing of the past because thanks to iRise, foresight is now 20/20.”
“A Celebration of iRise” by Ron Rogers of Healdsburg, California – This video compared the process of developing company Web sites to the wine industry which doesn’t reveal the finished product until the very end. “Now that calls for a celebration!”
Visit the official contest website to check out the semi-finalists and all contest entries.
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Forrester analyst Carey Schwaber published a blog post this week titled “Which Vendors Have Made A Difference In App Dev?” - and iRise was nominated as one of her 5 difference-making vendors.
Carey started out her post by wondering which of the vendors she covers have had a broad-reaching impact on changing the way development works:
Forget which vendor’s tool has the best bells and whistles. Which vendor has really made the most difference? Which vendor has delivered products or services that have really improved project outcomes? Or resulted in worse project outcomes? Not just a single project outcome, but hundreds or even thousands of project outcomes.
iRise was nominated by Carey for:
Waking the market up to the limitations of textual requirements and providing an accessible and effective alternative.
In addition to mentioning iRise partner IBM Rational, Carey also nominated Sun (Java Platform), Junit (test-driven development) and Thoughtworks (agile practices pioneer) as game-changing vendors.
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This is a reminder that there is just 1 week left to vote for your favorite videos in the iRise “Visualize the Prize” video commercial contest. There are 15 semi-finalists and you may vote once per day.
Cast Your Vote on the Official Voting Page
You may also watch all of the contest entries here.
The semi-finalists include (in no particular order):
As Al Capone once said, “Vote early and vote often”.
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Are you having a slow Wednesday? Tired of playing computer solitaire? Come on over and check out the entries in the $20,000 iRise Video Commercial Contest.
There are now 29 entries in the contest which closes tonight at midnight, and we expect a few more to trickle in over the next few hours. Some of them will make you laugh, some will make you cry, some will make you cringe, some of them will make you say ‘uh?’ and some are actually pretty good.
After tonight, an internal iRise team will evaluate all of the entries and select 10 semi-finalists. Starting on Friday, we will start the public voting part of the contest which runs through June 20th. Everyone can vote once per day for their favorite semi-finalist and the video with the highest number of votes will win.
The winning videos will be announced before the end of June.
We’ve learned some things along the way. Running a video contest is a lot like participating in an eBay auction – all of the action happens at the last minute. Our first official entry came in less than 2 weeks ago and traffic to the website was up almost 10x yesterday compared to the daily average for most of April and May. Overall, we’re pleased with the both the participation and submissions.
Check out the contest website today and tomorrow to see all of the entries, and check back on Friday and start voting for your favorite video.
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iRise Now Available In 9 Countries Outside of United States
Good news if you live in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, India, Brazil or Mexico because iRise is now immediately available for purchase in your country.
According to Maurice Martin, president, chief operating officer and founder of iRise, “Business software projects have suffered for years with poor communication of needs and requirements – and these issues are not isolated to North America. We’re seeing strong demand for visualization from all over the world as a strategy to finally solve one of the last great problems in software delivery and we’re excited to be able to begin the process of offering iRise globally.”
Digital River helped us set up an online shopping portal for outside the US. They will act as our ‘merchant’ and will be able to take credit cards for international orders. The iRise Inside Sales team can now easily respond to international inquiries and will provide access to the site.
The press release announcing this capability is available from the iRise website.
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