Press Release

iRise Offers Remote Instructor-Led Visualization Training

Flexible training delivery model expands options for iRise customers

El Segundo, Calif. – February 11, 2009 – iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced that its popular instructor-led training classes are now available to be delivered remotely.  iRise offers a wide range of online and instructor-led training courses designed to speed adoption of its market leading application visualization products.  The new delivery model for instructor-led training gives iRise customers more flexibility in scheduling classes and a lower cost of delivery since both instructor and participant travel expenses are eliminated.

“We’re making it easier for larger groups of people to get trained on iRise with a minimum of cost,” stated Jacques Marine, executive vice president of services for iRise.  “Having the option of remote, instructor-led training just makes sense when every company is looking for ways to cut cost but drive effectiveness at the same time.”

In addition to the usual on-site delivery model, the following iRise instructor-led courses are now available to be delivered remotely, both publically and privately:

iRise Experienced
iRise Experienced is a course emphasizing hands-on exercises designed for new users to iRise that covers an introduction to basic capabilities.  Topics covered include:

• how to elicit and validate requirements
• page flow, page layout, navigation
• data interactions, business logic
• high fidelity user interfaces and dynamic user interaction
• templates and masters

iRise Expert
iRise Expert is a course with hands-on exercises designed for experienced users of iRise.  Topics covered include an introduction to the advanced capabilities of iRise and how to use such capabilities to better elicit and validate requirements and application designs. The course also includes best practices for all of the capabilities of iRise for common project situations such as custom applications vs. package applications, web applications vs. non-web applications and development vs. enhancements.

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.

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 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 Venture Partners, and Deutsche Bank, and has sales offices across North America.

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