Join the iRise for Mac Alpha Program
Due to the amazing response we’ve received from the Mac Alpha Program, we're extending the enrollment period. If you are running Snow Leopard version 10.6 and are interested in testing iRise Studio on the Mac, you can request an invitation here. As an Alpha tester, you'll be trying Mac versions of iRise Studio and iRise Reader that aren't quite ready for the masses. We expect you'll find a few things that don't work perfectly (and we hope you do!). We rely on your feedback to help make iRise for Mac great.

Review iDocs on a Mac
As a Mac user, receiving iDocs can be frustrating. Until now, they could only be reviewed on a Windows computer. Today we’re happy to announce the public Alpha release of iRise Reader for Mac. If you are a Mac user, go to www.irise.com/macreader and download the iRise Reader for Mac today.

Please make sure to visit the new iRise Community and give us your thoughts on both programs. The more feedback we get, the faster we can bring them to market.

School Specialty is a leading education company that provides innovative and proprietary products, programs and services to help educators engage and inspire students. They've utilized iRise to design and deploy improvements to its website, an Oracle-based eCommerce portal that enables customers to browse and purchase products online. By visualizing the enhancements before building, School Specialty was able to deliver the new portal functionality with very limited change orders.

“Visualizing software before it’s built simply makes sense as a strategy to cut cost and accelerate new systems delivery,” stated Bob Grawien, CIO at School Specialty. “We have seen first-hand the change that visualization can bring to our organization. We’re now integrating visualization as a standard practice into our web application development.”

With iRise, business analysts at School Specialty are able to quickly assemble working previews of solutions like the eCommerce portal in a matter of hours that exactly mimic the look, feel and behavior of a proposed system, cutting confusion and accelerating requirements cycle times. “The people responsible for approving our web application design really appreciate the ability to see the changes” continued Mr. Grawien. “Everyone prefers to test drive enhancements and new capabilities versus just reading a text description.”

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Congratulations to our new additions to the iRise on Campus program!

• DePaul University
  

• Georgia Southern University
  

• University of Western Ontario
  

These schools are dedicated to developing professionals who are able to help organizations respond to rapid changes in business processes and technology. More importantly, they prepare new recruits to hit the ground running after graduation. iRise has joined with these universities to fulfill this aim by providing them with full versions of iRise at no cost. Do you know a college program that could benefit from iRise? Would you like iRise to be integrated into the curriculum at your alma mater? All universities and colleges are welcome to participate, however we are actively looking to work with Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Georgia Tech (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Click here for more information about the iRise on campus program.

We can be contacted directly at academic@irise.com.

New iRise Training Dates Announced

iRise training classes are designed to empower stakeholders and users with the knowledge and experience to quickly become proficient with iRise.

Discounts available. You’ll receive your iRise Experienced Certificate upon completion. To learn more about iRise training classes: Click Here