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Ralph Szygenda Joins iRise
Industry veteran, CIO Hall of Fame member to drive market adoption of enterprise visualization
EL SEGUNDO, CA - February 8, 2010 - iRise®, the global leader in enterprise visualization solutions today announced that Ralph Szygenda, former global CIO for General Motors, Bell Atlantic and Texas Instruments, has joined iRise as a strategic consultant and member of the iRise Advisory Board. Mr. Szygenda will be heading up the creation of an exclusive CIO advisory council for iRise that will focus on transformation, business and IT communication and closing the gap between sellers and buyers. In addition, Mr. Szygenda will be leading content direction and speaker recruitment, as well as moderating selected events in the iRise executive roundtable series, a world-class platform for CIO networking and information sharing.
"iRise is revolutionary and the world needs to understand the power it brings to organizations that want to close the gap between business and IT," stated Mr. Szygenda. "The introduction of enterprise visualization is forever changing the process and stakeholder experience of software design and development."
Mr. Szygenda is known as a "transformation CIO" for business process change and global sourcing with multiple systems integrators. This experience is critically relevant as iRise drives the people, process and technology transformation for companies that build business software.
"Visualization enables CIOs to transform their IT organizations by fundamentally taking the risk out of global sourcing and application rationalization strategies," Mr. Szygenda continued. "The result is that the business is transformed as well."
"Furthermore, I believe that innovation is the new imperative for the next several years. There is pent-up demand for a partnership between business and IT that delivers innovation and drives new revenue opportunities. Many companies will have to rationalize and reboot their business processes in order to succeed with these initiatives. Visualization is the common theme that empowers companies to deliver faster, with less cost and risk."
Mr. Szygenda has a long history in different industries of developing and implementing Computer Aided Design (CAD) systems for hardware and software as a transformational strategy.
"CAD was a fundamental agent of change for manufacturing companies twenty years ago," he continued. "I see the same transformational opportunity for visualization in the world of IT by applying visualization. I foresee that Global 2000 firms, global systems integrators, and enterprise software companies alike will experience unprecedented improvements in productivity, innovation and time to market of business software."
"Visualization requires a people, process and technology transformation that has been driven from the global CIO down," he continued. "The iRise management team, its transformational products and potential compelled me to join the iRise team."
"We are honored and excited that a Hall of Fame CIO of the caliber of Ralph Szygenda has decided to help us introduce enterprise visualization to other world-class CIOs," said Emmet B. Keeffe III, CEO and co-founder of iRise. "He is an incredibly powerful voice that will help us get the word out to other world-class IT leaders that visualization is a transformational strategy to solve the endemic communication issues between business and IT."
Enterprise Visualization - The Ultimate Change Agent
Enterprise visualization software from iRise 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.
- Get to market twice as fast;
- Eliminate 30% of project cost;
- Ensure success of global sourcing strategies; and,
- Dramatically improve customer experience
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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