Why Business Analysts Are So Important!

It’s Business Analyst appreciation month at CIO.com and Forrester – and it’s a great time to be a business analyst as they are definitely a HOT commodity according to a recent research report.
Thomas Wailgum of CIO.com wrote an article last week titled “Why Business Analysts Are So Important for IT and CIOs“.  In the article, Thomas references [...]

Success Through Visualization – From SandHill.com

Emmet Keeffe, iRise CEO and Co-founder, had an opinion piece published this week in SandHill.com.  SandHill.com is the premier destination online destination for strategic information on the software business. The site and its newsletters are read by thousands of top software industry executives every week.
Emmet talks about “The Requirement Challenge” and why “Accurate Specs are Key”.  [...]

Win $15,000 in the iRise Commercial Contest!

We are very pleased to announce that the first annual iRise “Visualize the Prize” Commercial Contest starts today and has a total cash prize of $20,000.
Why are we doing this? According to chief marketing officer, Mitch Bishop, “We know we have passionate and creative users, and we want to let them share their passion with us [...]

Making Software Simpler

Is your software simple and usable?
There was an interesting opinion piece at Sandhill.com last week titled “Simplicity: What’s Next in Business Software” by Anthony Deighton of QlikTech.
Anthony pointed out that the gap between what software users experience in their workplace and in the rest of their life is widening while the line between work and [...]