The world’s leading software visualization company, iRise®, announced today that it has established an office in Washington D.C. to focus on the federal market. Many of these projects are at risk with cost over-runs, delays and missing features being commonplace, with federal IT spending topping $66 billion a year, according to the OMB’s own data. iRise’s visualization software puts an end to that waste by enabling stakeholders to fully experience applications before coding, eliminating confusion about what to build.

    To deliver thousands of application initiatives designed to improve citizen accessibility, operational efficiency, enhanced security and with strict compliance in a highly regulated environment, government agencies are under increased pressure. Often these applications have to be funded across fiscal years, further complicating the budgeting and approval process. Along with government integrators, many civilian and defense agencies are now turning to the lessons learned by commercial organizations to solve these problems.

    iRise offers a secure, collaborative visualization platform that gives government agencies a way to quickly articulate their needs for critical application initiatives and share fully functional simulations with all concerned stakeholders to speed feedback, consensus and delivery.

    Steve Meltzer, president of Meltzer & Associates and former director of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Computer Acquisition Center said: “The public sector does not buy IT for IT’s sake, but rather is driven by advancing the President’s priorities and providing citizens with easy accessibility to information”. “Additionally, project risk is a major concern, given that about one-third of projects in 2007 were added to the “management watch list” based on lack of performance measures, project management issues and security (source: OMB). iRise’s interactive approach to visualizing business applications helps to mitigate that risk. The software takes the risk out of application development projects because constituents can see the end application before it’s built, communicate the vision with other agencies via a secure portable simulation, an iDoc, and then rapidly gain agreement on what to develop.”