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by Chris Chiappinelli, MA Editorial Staff   | Abstract: | Visual mapping software brings constituents together for early requirements phase of deploying enterprise applications. |
| Keywords: | Visual mapping software |
iRise Corp., founded as a consultancy in 1996 and rebranded as a software provider in 2002, is the company behind iRise Studio, a simulation tool that lets companies test-drive enterprise applications before devoting money and time to their build-out.
A manufacturer with plans to tailor an SAP or Oracle ERP package to its particular needs, for example, must bring together three important constituents: the business user who will interact with the software, the software developers who will customize the application, and the business analyst who will act as liaison between the two.
The conventional tool of the business analyst is paper-based requirements documents. iRise's answer: an application that visually simulates the processes and user interfaces of the software package while the business analyst sits in a room or interacts online with the business users. Once the two parties settle on the proper configuration, that visual spec becomes the template the developers use to modify the software.
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