iRise® Updates Visualization Integration to Support HP Quality Center / ALM 11

October 12, 2011

Tools

Integration of enterprise platforms reduces requirements risk, promotes traceability and facilitates change management

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- iRise^®, the global leader in enterprise visualization solutions, today announced the immediate availability of version 2.0 of iRise Connect for HP Quality Center, an integration of the application visualization capabilities in iRise with the robust requirements management and testing capabilities of HP Quality Center, now with support for ALM 11.

“We see that many of our customers are in the process of upgrading to HP ALM 11 to take advantage of the enhanced requirement management features,” stated Jacques Marine, EVP of Services for iRise. “As an HP AllianceONE partner committed to supporting the HP Quality Center platform, and in order to provide the best possible product to our customers, we have upgraded our Connect integration product to support HP ALM 11.”

iRise Connect for HP Quality Center enables business analysts to combine the powerful application visualization capabilities in iRise to elicit and validate requirements for business software with the robust requirements management traceability capabilities in HP ALM 11 to track and manage requirements throughout the application development cycle. Specifically, using the integration, any text-based requirements captured in iRise can be exported to HP ALM 11 along with a link back to the interactive visualization in iRise and any associated screen flows and screen shots. Once in HP ALM 11, the requirements can be reviewed, revised, tracked and managed along with releases, tests, and defects. If needed, the business analyst or other users of HP ALM 11 can link to the iRise visualization directly from HP ALM 11, empowering them to resolve business requirements quickly and easily during projects. By eliminating requirements confusion early, software projects are accelerated and expensive downstream rework is avoided.

Additionally, any text-based requirements captured in HP ALM 11 can be imported into iRise along with any associated attributes. Once in iRise the requirements can be reviewed, revised, and visualized. If needed, the business analyst can click on the requirement in iRise to view associated attributes from HP ALM 11.

“We continue to hear from our customers about the importance of integrating their enterprise tools to reduce requirements risk, promote requirements traceability and facilitate change management,” continued Mr. Marine. “The integration of iRise visualization with the requirements management and testing capabilities of HP ALM 11 makes these goals a reality.”

Enterprise Visualization – Accelerate Business Transformation

Enterprise visualization software from iRise gives business and IT leaders a powerful way to visualize and fully experience business transformation. Forward thinking organizations use iRise to visualize the future of their business systems at light speed, accelerating time to revenue with lower cost and improved quality.

iRise is the only enterprise grade, real-time collaborative software definition platform on the market today. With iRise, critical stakeholders can “test drive” and fully experience critical business systems early in the definition process, without any coding and ten times faster than with previous methods. With thousands of projects completed successfully, the value of visualization has proven to be enormous for businesses in highly competitive markets:

Get to market twice as fast;
Eliminate 30% of project cost;
Ensure the success of global sourcing strategies; and,
Dramatically improve quality and customer experience.

Pricing and Availability

Version 2.0 of iRise Connect for HP Quality Center is available immediately and works with both HP Quality Center 11.00 and HP ALM 11.00. Pricing is available upon request.

About iRise

iRise is the world’s leading provider of enterprise visualization software for business applications. Visualization has become a critical competitive advantage for businesses to more effectively communicate their needs to technology teams and give everyone involved the ability to interact with and fully experience applications before they are built. Companies of all sizes like General Motors, UPS, FedEx, Haworth, Manpower, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and hundreds of others use iRise to “test drive” their applications before building, which accelerates time to market, improves customer experience, and drives cost down. At iRise, we believe that by 2020, all business software will be visualized before being built, the same way that every car, airplane, and building is visualized today. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., iRise is backed by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, and Deutsche Bank, and has sales offices across North America and in London.

iRise is a registered trademark of iRise. All other companies and products mentioned are trademarks and property of their respective owners.