
	SAP® Consulting Leverages iRise Visualization Fully immersive visualizations to be used in all phases of client engagement model
	SAP (NYSE: SAP), the world’s leading supplier of business software, today announced that SAP Consulting in North America will adopt enterprise visualization software from iRise to engage with clients from initial proposal pursuit through solutions delivery. “Visualization allows us to accelerate the delivery of business software with low risk,” stated Ross Wainwright, executive vice president for North America Field Services, SAP America, Inc. “Companies of all sizes rely on SAP to run their businesses. Today, customers are even more focused on implementation duration, time-to-value and the overall simplification of SAP’s roadmap. By adopting visualization from iRise, we can provide this simplification and assist our clients in clearly capturing their vision. In turn, we help mitigate risk and implement in the shortest time possible.” SAP will use iRise to assemble fully functional, high fidelity visualizations of extensions to SAP applications during the proposal pursuit process. By engaging collaboratively with clients early in the sales cycle regarding their requirements, SAP Consulting will speed up the process of consensus around real business needs. Read More

Customer News

Haworth Transforms Application Definition with iRise Visualization

Haworth, a $1.6 billion global manufacturer and designer of organic workspaces and office furniture, has transformed its application definition process on business critical software projects by using iRise to visualize solutions before development. iRise visualizations have already been used in a major redesign of the www.Haworth.com website, the release of an Apple iPhone application and a large SAP project that is being coded with offshore resources. Haworth experienced dramatically shorter requirements cycle times on these projects and improved communication between business and IT, resulting in faster time to market, lower project cost and improved software quality.

“We wouldn’t dream of designing workspaces or furniture with text, so why would we design mission-critical software without visualizing first?” asked Ann Harten, CIO for Haworth. “iRise empowers our global organization to fully experience projects early in the process, eliminating confusion about what to build. Now that we’ve proven that visualization saves us time and money, we’ve mandated the use of iRise on dozens of new projects.” Read More

Manufacturer Looks To iPhone To Help Boost Sales
Haworth's success using iRise to help build an iPhone app, while using Facebook and Twitter to drive customers into its showrooms is detailed in this InformationWeek article. Read More

Customer News

Evoco Accelerates Time to Market for New Software with iRise

Evoco Inc., one of Canada’s fastest growing companies and a leading provider of project management software solutions for construction and facilities management, is now using iRise visualization to speed up the design and delivery of next generation products. By using iRise early in the process, Evoco expects a significant drop in project cost and accelerated time to market. “Our investment in iRise has paid back multiple times over,” stated Brian Reimer, Vice President of Product Management & Design for Evoco. “iRise has made it easier for our team to ensure a common vision for our solutions, validate market requirements early in the process and improve usability.” Evoco’s flagship product Evoco Workspace is used by more than 25,000 people worldwide to manage more than 29,000 construction and facility projects.

Customer News

BuzzBack Market Research Speeds New Products to Market with iRise

BuzzBack Market Research, an award winning consumer market research firm, has adopted iRise to define and deliver its newest innovative market research tools. BuzzBack has standardized on iRise to create visualizations of new Web-based product ideas early in the definition and development life cycle, speeding up understanding, eliminating rework and providing a platform for testing the product ideas directly with research staff and prospective market research customers. “Getting new kinds of interactive experiences to market quickly is our competitive advantage,” said Kevin Kelly, chief information officer for BuzzBack. “iRise has been pivotal in providing a collaborative platform that helps us speed up the whole process of defining and delivering the kind of engaging consumer experiences that BuzzBack is known for.”

iRise Web Seminar

Requirements Best Practices from Haworth; Creating 'The Agency Within'

Brad Ruiter, Global ACTi - Haworth, Inc.
Thursday, Sept. 23rd at 10:00am PDT/ 1:00pm EST

The landscape of web and software development in corporate environments is often complex and many times a siloed effort. In this web seminar we look at how to bridge the gaps between marketing and development organizations using visualization to speed the delivery of business applications by providing new cohesive levels of understanding and rapid developer adoption.
We’ll discover how the “agency within” model can be successfully implemented with visualization bridging normally siloed teams and creating new and productive workflows.

To find out more and to register: Click Here

Contributed Article

Paper is for Napkins, Not Complex Software

iRise president, COO and founder Maurice Martin published a contributed article in Insurance Networking News this month. Here’s an excerpt:

"Insurance industry CIOs know that modernizing and consolidating legacy applications is a key strategy for streamlining channels and improving efficiency. According to the latest Forrester Research "State of Enterprise Software: 2009" survey of more than 2,200 IT professionals, modernization is the No. 1 priority across many industries. But with more than 68% of all software projects failing to deliver, according to the latest 2009 Standish Group CHAOS Report, how can insurance industry IT leaders make sure these projects come in on time, on budget and with all the features needed by employees, brokers and customers?"

August Newsletter Contest Details

CONTEST QUESTIONS:

1. The last paragraph of this InformationWeek article on Haworth's use of iRise says "The furniture company is considering mobile applications that assist personnel with_______."? (fill in the blank)

2. The iRise User Group meetings are going to be held in what 6 cities?

3. On the September 23rd web seminar registration page, what is the last bullet point (under 'In this webinar you will find out how:')?

4. At the end of this SAP® Consulting Leverages iRise article, iRise CEO Emmet B. Keeffe III says: “SAP projects are by definition __________" (fill in the blank)

CLICK HERE to submit your answers (sends email to dci@irise.com). One reader who answers all four questions correctly will be chosen at random as the winner. Answers must be submitted by August 14th. Winner will be notified by September 20th. Good luck!

We are looking for a handful of beta testers for our soon-to-be-released XML-based model export file data format. The output can be used to transform iRise visualization model information into other assets like test scripts, UML, process models, HTML and even code. Please submit details of your beta program participation request to beta@irise.com

To celebrate the re-launch of the iRise newsletter, we're giving away an 8gb iPod Touch this month to one lucky reader. All you have to do is send us the answers to the four questions listed at the bottom of the newsletter. The answers can be found in this edition of Visualize, and the associated links.

Scroll down to the bottom of this newsletter to find the questions. Your answers must be submitted by September 14th. One entry per person. Good luck!


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