El Segundo, Calif. – December 2, 2008 – iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced the imminent availability of iRise Connect for IBM® Rational Requirements Composer.  This integration, built on IBM’s open Jazz technology platform will make high fidelity iRise visualizations instantly accessible from within the IBM Rational Requirements Composer™ product.   As a result, IBM and iRise now provide a complete requirements definition solution supporting a variety of elicitation 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.

“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 the market leader 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 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 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.”

Software Visualization
iRise offers a powerful way for businesses to quickly visualize and “test market” applications before a single line of code is written.   For the first time, business software definition professionals can validate what they need, and then communicate their ideas to others using visualizations that replicate the exact look, feel and behavior of the proposed solution, taking the guesswork out of application definition.  Just as computer-aided design (CAD) tools transformed the automotive, aerospace and semiconductor industries iRise is now transforming the global business application market.  

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 shorten application consolidation projects.

iRise can be used to visualize any software that has a user interface: new Web applications, portals, enhancements to existing systems, customizations to packaged implementations, as well as mobile applications.

Pricing and Availability
iRise Connect for IBM Rational Requirements Composer is targeted to ship in Q1 2009.  Pricing for this product has not yet been determined.

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 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 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.

iRise is a registered trademark of iRise. All other companies and products mentioned are trademarks and property of their respective owners.