Press Release

iRise Ships Application Visualization Integration with HP Quality Center

Full application definition lifecycle automation speeds time to market and improves software quality

EL SEGUNDO, CA - July 19, 2010 – iRise®, the global leader in enterprise visualization solutions, today announced the immediate availability of iRise Connect for HP Quality Center, an integration of application visualization capabilities in iRise with the robust requirements management and testing capabilities of HP Quality Center. iRise and HP Quality Center customers can now automate and integrate the application definition and development lifecycle, where the right business requirements are captured and managed from the very start of the project and the right solution is delivered the first time, with little or no requirement changes or development rework. With this integration, delivery of high quality software projects can be accelerated at dramatically lower cost.

iRise Connect for HP Quality Center enables business analysts to combine the powerful application visualization capabilities in iRise to elicit and validate requirements for business software with the robust requirement traceability capabilities in HP Quality Center to track and manage requirements throughout the application development cycle. Specifically, using the integration, any text based requirements captured in iRise can be exported to HP Quality Center along with a link back to the interactive visualization in iRise and any associated screen flows and screen shots. Once in HP Quality Center, the requirements can be reviewed, revised, tracked and managed along with releases, tests, and defects. If needed, the business analyst or other users of HP Quality Center can interact with the iRise visualization from directly within the HP Quality Center environment, empowering them to resolve business requirements quickly and easily during projects. By eliminating requirements confusion early, software projects are accelerated and expensive downstream rework is avoided.

Additionally, using iRise Connect for HP Quality Center, any text based requirements captured in HP Quality Center can be imported into iRise along with any associated attributes. Once in iRise the requirements can be reviewed, revised, and visualized. If needed, the business analyst can click on the requirement in iRise to view associated attributes from HP Quality Center.

Finally, using the integration, any requirement additions, changes, or deletions made in either iRise or HP Quality Center can be synchronized with the other system. This way, the business analyst can focus on capturing and managing the right business requirements rather than worrying about keeping requirements up to date.

"The evidence is overwhelming that application visualization solves the endemic communication issue between IT and business," stated Maurice Martin, COO, president and founder of iRise. "We are now extending visualization to downstream organizations that need clarity around requirements in order to speed up delivery of complex business software without compromising quality."

Enterprise Visualization - Accelerate Business Transformation

Enterprise visualization software from iRise gives business and IT leaders a powerful way to visualize and experience business transformation. Forward thinking organizations use iRise to visualize the future of their business systems at light speed, accelerating time to revenue with lower cost and improved quality.

iRise is the only enterprise grade, real-time collaborative software definition platform available today. With iRise, key stakeholders can "test drive" and experience mission-critical business systems early in the definition process to eliminate confusion and ensure that the right system gets built - the first time. Best of all, visualizations are assembled in hours, without any coding - speeding up the definition process by ten times over previous methods. With thousands of projects completed successfully, leveraging enterprise visualization has proven to be indispensable 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 HP Quality Center is available immediately. Pricing is available upon request.

About iRise
iRise is the world's leading provider of enterprise 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, FedEx, BP, Manpower, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and many others use iRise to "test drive" their applications before building, which accelerates time to market, 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 and in London.

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