Accruent Adopts iRise Visualization

EL SEGUNDO, CA – June 22, 2009 – iRise®, the world’s leading enterprise visualization solutions company, today announced that Accruent, Inc., the leading provider of real estate and facilities management solutions, has selected iRise to improve the usability and streamline the delivery of new software solutions.

“We were looking for a tool that allowed us to easily simulate customer behavior and enhance the usability of our solutions,” stated Mike Ellis, senior vice president of product management at Accruent. “Using iRise we can create usage scenarios and more easily share ideas with customers, thereby advancing the collaborative process and enabling us to develop solutions that precisely meet their requirements.”

Over 100 screens of the Accruent application suite have already been redesigned by assembling iRise visualizations in advance of coding. The visualizations are used as a centerpiece of a new collaborative definition process that includes iterative feedback sessions directly with customers to validate designs and quickly gain consensus on the usability of the final result. The iRise visualizations along with the product functional specification are driving more focused development by giving the quality, documentation and training teams a head start on their work.

“Visualization is now a standard for accelerating higher quality software to market,” stated Maurice Martin, president, COO and founder of iRise. “Companies that design and deliver software with text will be left behind as they struggle to compete with their more nimble competitors.”

Software Visualization – The Ultimate Change Agent

iRise visualization software gives business and IT leaders a powerful way to “move the needle” and cost-effectively drive change in their organizations. iRise is the only enterprise grade, real-time collaborative software definition platform on the market today. By enabling global organizations to “test drive” and fully experience critical business systems early in the process, iRise is now an essential strategy to modernize their systems, consolidate applications, cut cost, accelerate delivery and leverage global sourcing partnerships without the usual confusion and risk.

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 success of global sourcing strategies; and,
Dramatically improve customer experience

About iRise

iRise is the world’s leading provider of 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, Wachovia, Manpower, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and many others use iRise to “test drive” their applications before building, which accelerates time to revenue, improves customer experience, and drives costs down. At iRise, our vision is 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.