iRise 8.7 will soon be available for download. This new release improves on the iBloc API in a variety of ways.

Update Highlights:

• iBloc Authors can refer to the Jquery library that ships with iRise, which means they don’t have to worry about including that in their iBlocs.
  

• iBlocs can be incorporated into the tab sequence on a page.
  

• iBloc authors can include meta data in their iBlocs which can be used to guide users to support resources.
  

• Studio users can see a list of iBlocs contained by the current project.
  

• iBloc Authors have more control over how iBloc widgets look when a Studio user resizes them.
  

Rapid changes in business processes and technology demands professionals who know how to help organizations respond to those changes. More importantly, organizations need new recruits to be able to enter their companies ready to contribute. iRise is dedicated to helping top universities and colleges fulfill this mandate by providing them with full versions of iRise at no cost.

The iRise on Campus program helps to develop the visualization skills of students enabling them to provide the right solution in real time. The program provides select undergraduate and graduate university programs with the opportunity to use cutting edge requirements visualization technology in computer science, human-computer interaction, IT and entrepreneurship courses. Using the iRise visualization solution in these courses provides students with practical experience that translates directly to the workplace and enables young innovators to express their ideas. Professors will have the ability to quickly present interface design concepts and demonstrate effective requirements elicitation. Schools like Carnegie Mellon, Harvard Business School, Indiana University and MIT Sloan School of Management are implementing visualization into their curriculums to prepare their students. Click here for the iRise on Campus list.

We are actively looking to connect with faculty members at Boston College, Columbia University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Georgia (Athens) and the University of Toronto. If you have faculty contacts at one of these schools, please refer them to this educational opportunity and send their contact information to academic@irise.com. Do you know other schools that could benefit from the iRise on Campus program? Would you like iRise to be integrated into the curriculum at your alma mater? For more information, contact the iRise on Campus team at academic@irise.com.

American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington D.C has joined the successful iRise higher education outreach On Campus program. Students studying business process and requirements analysis at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are currently using the software—the same deployed at many of America’s leading corporations—to better understand enterprise application development, including work on real client projects.

Last fall, a group of Kogod graduate students used iRise’s software, which enables users to create working previews of complex enterprise-level applications, to present a simulated Web-based immigration visa application system. The simulation allowed representatives of various consulting firms like Deloitte, Computer Sciences Corporation, IBM and Unisys, and other organizations like Marriott and Adventist Hospital to see and experience the students’ proposed solution to implement an application to modernize the application process with the goal of reducing application backlogs and wait times.

“iRise visualization software is state-of-the-art. It gives our students a rare and invaluable opportunity to gain experience with the most current innovation in enterprise software requirements planning,” said Professor Alberto Espinosa, instructor for the business analysis class. “By becoming proficient in the use of iRise, our students learn how to complement conventional process flow diagrams and specification documents with an interactive alternative that non-technical business people can understand, thus enhancing the quality of communications with a client, leading to a more accurate elicitation of business requirement to build effective applications.”

Qualified higher education institutions may gain access to iRise products through the iRise On Campus program. Send an email to academic@irise.com for more information.

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