iRise allows you to innovate, it allows you to explore different ways of doing things. The words 'what if' or 'if we did it that way' – you can't build that into a functional specification, but you can certainly build it into the Agile style dialogue that iRise enables.

We have been leveraging computer-aided design tools for years to simulate the design of our race cars and accelerate their manufacture. It makes perfect sense that iRise would empower our IT organization to do the same for software design and delivery.

Someone would draw or sketch out an idea, and then they’d go off for a few days—or weeks—and then come back with something that we could look at.

CIOs everywhere are focused on cutting application development cost, SAP Consulting will leverage the iRise enterprise visualization platform to help achieve this goal as we apply it throughout the entire implementation lifecycle. Visualization allows us to accelerate the delivery of business software with low risk.

We estimate that iRise saves us 20-25% off the design phase, which is a huge expense reduction. So not only are we building the right product but we’re doing it faster and better.

Interactive, immersive software visualization is an important component to solving the endemic problem with requirements on software projects. iRise is the market leader with this capability, having proven the benefits of visualization across a broad set of industries and application types.

The biggest problem we have with software development projects is ensuring the requirements identified up front match the requirements at the point of delivery. Traditional functional requirements documents and static screen shots do not provide either the consumers or the developers with sufficient granularity, which bogs down the requirements process and often leads to unexpected late-stage rework. We first learned about the ability to accelerate software development projects with iRise in 2011 and have already leveraged visualization to accelerate critical development projects in our Agile development lifecycle. Our goal is to improve on-time delivery of our racing-related software which will be intuitive and of immediate benefit to its users, and iRise is a mission-critical element of our strategy to achieve that.

Applying this expertise to visual modeling of software enables GM to deliver increasingly collaborative, innovative and user-centric products to our employees and customers.

iRise provides Fortune® 1000 organizations with visual blueprints from which they can build their business applications and speed time to market. I look forward to collaborating with them on their vision.