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Tame The Requirements Beast: Aligning Application Development and Business Goals
Application development is an inherently complex, and expensive, process that demands strong collaboration. Align business and technical stakeholders in your application development process. Obtain a disciplined approach and the requirements process in this NEW InformationWeek Analytics report — valued at $499 — FREE, for a limited time. Read the whitepaper »
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Optimize Global Sourcing
Too often, outsourcing application development doesn't deliver the savings CIOs expect. Using visualization software to give partners a clear picture of enterprise application requirements helps eliminate the risks and unexpected cost of globally sourced development projects while delivering the results that the business demands. Read the whitepaper »
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The Lowdown
The End of Long Development Cycles
Wondering whether iRise's simulation technology can really make a difference in your organization? Let the customers tell the story. See 15 major companies relate their eye-popping success stories to cut development time and defects. Watch the video (4:16 minutes) »
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Visualization Software is Key to Application Rationalization Projects
In this economy, many IT leaders are turning to application rationalization as a critical strategy to dramatically cut costs. Visualization software helps CIOs get these projects done faster, with complete buy-in from business stakeholders — and delivers results that delight them. Read the whitepaper »
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Application Definition Best Practices: Ten Tips for Getting Applications Right - The First Time
Today's market pressures are forcing a fundamental change in how business and technology teams partner to deliver innovation faster, with less cost and risk. Visualization is the key to a successful partnership. Learn how thousands of business applications have been successfully visualized using iRise, and get 10 tips that will enable you to get applications right — the first time. Download whitepaper. »
In-Depth Resources
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Application Consolidation: #1 Business Imperative
One of the biggest opportunities to cut costs now is application rationalization. But how do you get complex consolidation projects moving forward with the business and get these mission-critical initiatives done faster? Visualization is a proven strategy for getting a clear view ahead. Download whitepaper. »
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The Problem with Software Definition
Development efforts have crystallized around a sacred cow: the requirements document. Yet static documentation of specifications fails miserably in practice. What truly works? When business users test drive applications before they're ever built. Get a beautifully simple summary of the failures of today's software definition processes and a look at how dynamic visualization with iRise solves the problem. Watch the video (3:13 minutes). »
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UPS: Positioned For The Long Haul
Some quick-return projects are moving up the priority list, but much of the delivery company's $1 billion in IT spending positions it for an upturn. Read the article. »
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How Visualization Changes App Dev At UPS
It helps IT teams spot missed business requirements sooner. Read the article. »
RECOMMENDED READING
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The Problem with Business Software and How Visualization Can Fix It
Designing and building business software with the equivalent of outdated drafting boards used in other industries no longer makes sense. The road is littered with the wreckage of failed projects derailed by poor communication, delays, rework and missing features. Discover how visualization enables business and technology teams to partner and deliver innovation faster, with less cost and risk. The stakes are high. Isn't it time you visualized before you built? Download whitepaper. »
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Fred Killen, General Motors CTO Speaks Out on the Topic of Application Rationalization
Learn how GM used iRise visualization, along with revamped processes, to reduce the number of applications IT supported from 7,000 to 1,800. View the webcast (58 minutes) »
About the Sponsor | iRise
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Experience Eye-Popping ROI with iRise
Many customers have reported that iRise's simulation technology made such a profound improvement on development time and defects that it paid for itself the very first time they used it. Experience the advantage of fast, effective iRise software simulations for yourself.
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Ask the Expert
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Isn't application visualization really just a replacement for business analysts who understand how to document requirements thoroughly?
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Software can never replace the importance of business analysts. If anything, visualization empowers business analysts to conduct their job better by providing them a means to better communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to identify the solution that meets the exact needs of business. The typical tools that business analysts arm themselves with — text requirements documents, static screen shots, use cases, etc. — are often difficult to interpret for business stakeholders. Visualization software enables business analyst to build high-fidelity, fuly-interactive simulations of proposed applications so that stakeholders can "test drive" it prior to development. Nothing else really provides IT teams the ability to verify that what they intend to build or implement has the functionality, features, usability and other requirements demanded for by business end users. In 20 years no company will even dream of building software without going through the simulation process first. Learn more.
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