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Carlson Wagonlit Travel Cuts Software Development Cost By 15% Using iRise Visualization
Global teams use collaborative platform to drive higher quality requirements, 50% less rework
EL SEGUNDO, CA - April 14, 2009 - iRise®, the world's leading visualization solutions company, today announced that Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), a global leader specializing in business travel management, has adopted iRise across a broad range of business software projects to drive lower IT cost and speed delivery of high quality applications. The collaborative iRise platform is being utilized by business leaders, product managers, business analysts and developers in different geographies to better coordinate requirements on IT projects and reduce confusion about what to build. CWT has cut an average of 15% of its software project cost when using iRise visualization; largely achieved by eliminating at least 50% of rework on these projects.
"With our team members spread around the globe, we simply couldn't get consensus fast enough without the iRise platform," stated Shawn Smith, vice president of global IT for CWT. "Visualization has allowed us not only to move faster, but to cut significant cost out of these projects by giving our business analysts the ability to drive high quality requirements to the rest of the team early in the process."
At CWT, business analysts in the U.S. use iRise to assemble visualizations of new or enhanced Web applications as part of a rapid, iterative development process. Working with product managers that often live in different countries, the U.S.-based business analysts are responsible for creating and refining iRise visualizations until they exactly mimic the look, feel and behavior of the final system. The visualizations enable immediate and valuable feedback early in the process since global stakeholders can immediately access and fully experience the visualizations before production code is created. Because of the streamlined process, CWT has experienced a 50% shorter requirements cycle time on projects, speeding critical business solutions to market.
"Cutting IT cost is the number one challenge facing every CIO," said Mitch Bishop, chief marketing officer for iRise. "Visualization is quickly becoming the enabling strategy for IT leaders to break the glass and deliver meaningful savings to their businesses. CWT is leveraging iRise in a unique global model that demands enterprise grade technology, people and process."
Software Visualization - The Ultimate Change Agent
The world's best run companies recognize that tough economies are exactly the right time to take bold steps to change the status quo and leap ahead of the competition. Consistently delivering innovative and highly usable business-critical applications is often the key to capitalizing on this kind of market opportunity. iRise visualization gives companies a powerful way to define applications right - the first time. By enabling global organizations to "test drive" and fully experience systems early in the process, iRise is an essential strategy to consolidate application portfolios, accelerate delivery and leverage global sourcing without delays and cost overruns.
- 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 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 and Deutsche Bank, and has sales offices across North America.
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