At this year’s 2007 iRise Partner Summit in Las Vegas, pre-cursor to the Fusion 07 User Conference, iRise proudly awarded OneSpring the 2007 Partner of the Year! I gave out the award along with Emmet B. Keeffe, CEO & Co-Founder, during the Partner Summit Reception on Wednesday night (photo here). The award recognizes OneSpring for an outstanding year in helping to introduce iRise and the benefits of simulation to several large customers while providing application definition consulting services to assist companies in achieving the these benefits.

OneSpring was started just 2 years ago by two innovative people, Scott McDowell and Jason Moccia, on the foundation of doing application definition better than anyone else. OneSpring started out as an Select level in the iRise Alliance Advantage program  and has grown significantly and advanced in the program every year, reaching the highest alliance level (Strategic) this year. OneSpring has worked with many F500 iRise customers, including Delta, Intercontinental Hotels and Sprint and has adopted iRise as its primary solution for defining business applications. I have found that OneSpring has made a name for itself within the iRise community through sponsoring and speaking at both the 2006 and 2007 user conferences (see OneSpring presentation here) and maintaining the first ever iRise Blog at www.iriseonline.com.

Summary of all the 2007 iRise Alliance Advantage Partner Awards:

• Partner of the Year:  OneSpring
• Partner Pipeline Development Award:  Deloitte
• Partner Marketing Award:  IBM Rational 
• Partner Enablement Award:  Xede Consulting

Please join me in congratulating our 2007 Partner Award winners!