El Segundo, Calif. – February 3, 2009 – iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, 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.”

Software Visualization – The Ultimate Change Agent
The best run companies in the world recognize that tough economies are exactly the right time to take bold steps to change the status quo and leap ahead of the competition. Consistently delivering innovative and highly usable business-critical applications is often the key to capitalizing on this kind of market opportunity.  iRise visualization gives companies a powerful way to define applications right – the first time.  By enabling global organizations to “test drive” and fully experience systems early in the process, iRise is an essential strategy to consolidate application portfolios, accelerate delivery and leverage global sourcing without delays and cost overruns.

With thousands of projects completed successfully, the value of visualization has proven to be enormous for businesses in highly competitive markets:

• Get to market twice as fast;
• Eliminate 30% of project cost;
• Ensure success of global sourcing strategies; and,
• Dramatically improve customer experience

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for iRise starts at $6,995 for iRise Professional Edition; a standalone version of the popular team-based iRise Enterprise Edition.  Mid-market pricing is also available for smaller companies.  iRise Professional Edition is available for a free 30-day trial by clicking here: http://www.irise.com/ .

To speed adoption, free iRise eLearning is available from the iRise Website.  For more information, click on: http://www.irise.com/services/training_elearning.php .

About iRise
iRise is the world’s leading provider of visualization software for business applications.  Visualization has become a critical competitive advantage for businesses to more effectively communicate their needs to technology teams and give everyone involved the ability to interact with and fully experience applications before they are built.  Companies of all sizes like General Motors , UPS , Wachovia , Manpower , M.D. Anderson Cancer Center , and many others use iRise to “test drive” their applications before building, which accelerates time to revenue, improves customer experience, and drives costs down.  At iRise, our vision is that by 2020, all business software will be visualized before being built, the same way that every car, airplane, and building is visualized today.  Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., iRise is backed by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners , and Deutsche Bank , and has sales offices across North America.

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