iRise Definition Center

Collaboration Accelerates Innovation

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Collaboration is the key to success for business application projects. The iRise Definition Center is where teams defining software meet. By working more effectively together in a shared workspace, application definition teams:

• Improve productivity by bringing together geographically disperse work forces to quickly iterate to the right definition answers
• Eliminate the risk of miscommunication that can lead to expensive rework
• Create a high efficiency model that ensures projects finish on time – no matter where on the planet simulations get created and reviewed
• Define applications that delight end users
• Eliminate surprises in the development process

Whether extending existing ideas, reusing existing definition assets or creating in new directions, the iRise Definition Center provides the shared platform where people can innovate quickly and effectively.

Teamwork

Creating business applications is a team sport, and cooperation encourages creativity. By keeping team members connected – working in real time within a shared virtual workspace – teams defining today’s complex business applications can collaborate together regardless of location, time or even organization.

For those times when they must be disconnected, the iRise Definition Center provides teams with check-in / check-out capabilities. This lets authors continue to work on their projects in disconnected environments while reviewers continue to interact with the latest version of simulations – providing useful feedback and moving projects forward.

Acceleration

A shared workspace reduces the amount of time required to define business applications by literally getting everyone on the same page. Instead of separate teams that document requirements, create mock-ups and elicit feedback, analysts and stakeholders can now work together at the same time, quickly iterating to the right answer. Using iRise in a shared environment dramatically cuts the time it takes business and IT to agree on what to build – getting critical business systems to market faster.

Feedback

The iRise Definition Center also acts as a centralized repository for feedback from a variety of stakeholders. Designated reviewers log in to the iRise Definition Center to “test drive” simulations by using a standard Internet browser. Walk-through notes ensure they stay on the right path. Intuitive context-sensitive feedback management gathers their thoughts, requests and suggestions – making them available to the authors of the simulation in real time. Rapid feedback is invaluable in ensuring projects finish on time, with all the features needed by stakeholders.

Single Source of Truth
Without iRise, projects are defined with multiple kinds of documents – text descriptions, static screen shots and flow diagrams. This can lead to confusion on the project team as each of these documents can easily become inconsistent with each other. Version control also becomes difficult to manage. With the iRise Definition Center definition teams are assured that the right and current requirements are available - in real time.

Access Control
By leveraging a central and secure repository, the iRise Definition Center provides access to authorized teams to the most current set of simulations and definition assets in their organization. Security is granular and permissions may be assigned depending on a person's role in defining software – ensuring secure interactions with business partners, client/customers and other external entities. Furthermore, iRise Definition Center supports user authentication via LDAP, allowing user name and passwords entered during login to be validated against a centralized, corporate LDAP server. Therefore, all security policies established on your LDAP server (e.g. password reset scheduling) will be enforced for iRise use as well.