
Atlassian's Confluence collaboration platform picked up a nifty new tool today with the announcement of iRise visualization technology integration.

Enterprise visualization software company iRise has released version 8.10 of its visual prototyping platform this week. In response to increasingly high user expectations and "consumerization of IT" trends, iRise says that it has produced a means of creating ultra-realistic visual simulations of new iPad and Android apps.

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Users could be encouraged to "kick the tyres" on new iPhone apps, make suggestions and give feedback long before a single line of code is ever written -- a process which could (arguably) reduce the pains and stresses of poorly requested requirements in the first place.

While iRise's "democratizing of development" catch line may cause a little recoil with development purists who see dumbed down application controls being put in the hands of laymen (and laywomen), there is an argument here suggesting that users could be encouraged to "kick the tires" on new iPhone apps, make suggestions, and give feedback long before a single line of code is ever written — a process which could (arguably) reduce the pains and stresses of poorly requested requirements in the first place.

If you have an idea for a new smartphone application, then you might be pleased to learn that iRise Studio App prototyping software has now arrived on Mac systems. iRise Studio has been designed to enable ideas for the next block buster smartphone application to be drafted together to enable investors and designers to get a much better idea of whats involved before fully committing.

Enterprise application developer iRise has brought its iRise Studio to the Mac, enabling rapid prototyping of mobile apps that can be tested on-screen early on in the development process rather than towards the end.

iRise wants to change the way companies build software. The old waterfall development paradigm has failed so frequently that a new approach is needed. In the view of iRise, the problem is that words are insufficient to describe what business people want.

This new software from iRise will help companies deal with ever- shorter business application development cycles. This latest release will be a part of the iRise suite of tools, which will create visual prototypes, well before a single line of code is written. The new software will create a prototype that will not only look but also act like the real thing.

When you want to get IT to build an application for you, what hoops do you have to jump through? iRise makes it easy to visually model your desired application along with simulating how it behaves … what happens when a key is pressed, when the mouse passes over an element, when data is changed … all of those events and behaviors can be modeled and a report and model generated for reference purposes.

In a move that helps companies cope with ever-shorter business application development cycles, iRise® today announced the immediate availability of iRise CodeGen™ 2.0, offering a variety of new template and coding shortcut enhancements. The new software is part of the iRise suite of tools, which creates visual prototypes of new software projects that look and act like the real thing—long before a single line of code is ever written.

Instead of requiring sophisticated programming skills just to design a mobile application, a smarter prototyping technology divorces design from coding, allowing business analysts to create demonstration apps before IT programs them.

Speeding the processes towards visualizing what it's like to use new applications before they're coded, iRise includes special features to speed app development for the iPhone, iPad, and other mobile platforms.

Since mobile applications have entered and quickly dominated the mobile market, regardless of the benefits they provide, they also set a new precedent for companies that challenge them to meet new expectations. As companies cope with the growing needs for businesses and government demanding to meet the expectations raised by mobile platforms like the iPhone (News - Alert), iPad and laptops, many organizations are left struggling to meet the requests for easy-to-use mobile apps. iRise, a provider of enterprise visualization software for business applications, has come up with a solution for this growing issue, with the launch of its latest version of the company’s popular software prototyping and visualization platform.

Visualization software allows you to be involved with the development process and make changes while there's still time to customize the products to meet your needs.