http://www.irise.com/blog A forum for iRise employees, customers, and anyone interested in learning and sharing information about application simulation. Thu, 15 May 2008 22:45:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What are Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and how can your organization use them? Maurice Martin, iRise President, COO and Founder, wrote an article recently that answered these questions for Hotel Business Review Executive magazine. I’ve summarized some key points below and you can get a copy of the article from the iRise Website. “RIAs ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/15/adopting-rich-internet-applications/ SOA or service-oriented architecture is a chronically hot topic - and there are as many opinions about it as there are IT vendors.  According to Wikipedia, SOA is "is a computer system's architectural style for creating and using business processes, packaged as services, throughout their lifecycle. SOA also defines and provisions the ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/13/visualize-soa-with-irise/ Everything looks better on a Mac, right?  And iRise is no exception.  While iRise is not 'officially' supporting iRise on the Mac yet, people are already using iRise Studio and iRise Reader on the Mac.  So don't think that you can't experience the power of visualization on iRise because you are a Mac user, because you ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/09/attention-mac-users-irise-runs-on-the-mac-too/ Interop and Software 2008 at Mandalay Bay Convention centered just wrapped up last week. James Maguire from Datamation filmed a "virtual booth crawl" with 30 second pitches from select vendors - most of whom were being awarded for innovation in software. You can check it out here or watch below. Yours truly happened ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/08/interop-and-software-2008-booth-crawl/ Do you Twitter yet?  Do you even know why you should?  Do you know what Twitter is? What is Twitter?  According to the Twitter website, " Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/07/do-you-twitter/ The iRise Professional Services team has created a tremendous resource that is a must download for all iRise Users.  This new iDoc, called the iRise 6 - Common Samples, is comprised of 53 iRise examples covering a wide range of data functionaliy, RIA and advanced interactions.  A few of the documented Samples include: accordian panes, ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/02/irise-common-samples-idoc-a-must-download/ We announced the immediate availability of the iRise simulation template for the iPhone at the Interop and Software 2008 conferences yesterday. “iRise for iPhone”™ gives business analysts, user experience (UX) professionals and others a way to quickly prototype the look, feel and behavior of iPhone applications by making available pre-defined visualization widgets ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/30/irise-and-the-iphone/ I meet with CIOs, application development groups, business analysts and architects all the time.  Our initial conversation always goes the same way; I explain what visualization is and why it's important.  Within 60 seconds everyone, and I do mean everyone, GETS it.  You can SEE the light bulb go on.  ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/26/why-doesnt-irise-generate-code/ It's Business Analyst appreciation month at CIO.com and Forrester - and it's a great time to be a business analyst as they are definitely a HOT commodity according to a recent research report. Thomas Wailgum of CIO.com wrote an article last week titled "Why Business Analysts Are So Important for IT and CIOs".  ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/23/why-business-analysts-are-so-important/ Emmet Keeffe, iRise CEO and Co-founder, had an opinion piece published this week in SandHill.com.  SandHill.com is the premier destination online destination for strategic information on the software business. The site and its newsletters are read by thousands of top software industry executives every week. Emmet talks about "The Requirement Challenge" ... http://www.irise.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/21/success-through-visualization-from-sandhillcom/