ORLANDO, FL [from the IBM Rational Software Conference]– June 2, 2009 – iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced the immediate availability of iRise Connect for IBM® Rational Requirements Composer.  This integration, built on IBM’s scalable and extensible Jazz platform, will make high fidelity iRise visualizations instantly accessible from within the IBM Rational Requirements Composer™ product.   As a result, the combination of IBM and iRise now provides a richer requirements definition solution supporting a variety of elicitation and definition methods.  This integration is designed to eliminate wasteful cost overruns and delays by ensuring IT organizations are documenting and tracking the right business needs – the first time.

iRise Connect for IBM® Rational Requirements Composer is being demonstrated at the IBM Rational Software Conference in Orlando, FL at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Resort from May 31st through June 4th in the iRise booth 710.

“Interactive, immersive software visualization is an important component to solving the endemic problem with requirements on software projects,” said Michael Loria, vice president of business development, IBM Rational Software.  “iRise is leading the way with this capability, having proven the benefits of visualization across a broad set of industries and application types.”

iRise Connect for IBM Rational Requirements Composer gives requirements professionals the ability to embed live, high fidelity software visualizations directly into the Requirements Composer product by leveraging iRise SmartView™, a wrapper technology similar to popular YouTube video embedding.  Using iRise Connect, business analysts, business stakeholders, developers, projects managers and other IBM users can interact with ‘live’ visualizations and fully experience simulated pages, scenarios and masters directly within the Requirements Composer environment. The visualization assets are published in real time from iRise to the Requirements Composer repository and can be linked into the web of other Requirements Composer requirements artifacts.  

For the first time, fully functional, high fidelity visualizations now complement other definition assets contained and managed in the Requirements Composer environment, ensuring that the right application requirements are being captured, defined, traced, collaborated on and managed throughout the project life cycle.

“The combination of software visualization from iRise with comprehensive requirements definition and management from IBM is a powerful weapon in the fight to eliminate waste and cut risk on business application projects,” stated Emmet B. Keeffe III, CEO and co-founder of iRise.  “Fixing the requirements problem is a huge win for IT organizations that develop custom or packaged applications.   This complete visualization, requirements definition and management solution is the best way to eliminate the risk of project failure.”

IBM Premier Business Partner, Ascendant Technology, has widely adopted iRise and has developed preconfigured simulations for WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Commerce and Lotus Connections. “We are working to create the most efficient experience with our customers,” said Jim Deters, president of Ascendant Technology. “By leveraging iRise and Rational software tools, we have created a seamless execution process from initial vision and strategy through all stages of development and testing.”

Software Visualization – The Ultimate Change Agent
iRise visualization software gives business and IT leaders a powerful way to “move the needle” and cost-effectively drive change in their organizations. iRise is the only enterprise grade, real-time collaborative software definition platform on the market today. By enabling global organizations to “test drive” and fully experience critical business systems early in the process, iRise is now an essential strategy to modernize their systems, consolidate applications, cut cost, accelerate delivery and leverage global sourcing partnerships without the usual confusion and risk.

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

iRise Connect for IBM Rational Requirements Composer is available now.  Contact iRise for pricing information.

About iRise
iRise is the world’s leading provider of visualization software for business applications.    Visualization is quickly becoming a critical competitive advantage for businesses to more effectively communicate their needs to technology teams and give everyone involved the ability to 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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