iRise Partners With Advanced Concepts Center

iRise®, the world's leading application visualization software company today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Advanced Concepts Center (ACC), a consulting and learning solutions company. As iRise customers adopt visualization as a strategy for better communication of business needs, ACC can offer a suite of skills enhancement services focused on knowledge transfer for business, management and information technology professionals. ACC is now part of the iRise Alliance Partner program, which enables companies to use, promote and co-market iRise application visualization products along with their service offerings, enhancing client satisfaction and cutting project risk.

El Segundo, Calif. and Roswell, Ga. (PRWEB) January 30, 2008 -- iRise®, the world's leading application visualization software company today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Advanced Concepts Center (ACC), a consulting and learning solutions company. As iRise customers adopt visualization as a strategy for better communication of business needs, ACC can offer a suite of skills enhancement services focused on knowledge transfer for business, management and information technology professionals. ACC is now part of the iRise Alliance Partner program, which enables companies to use, promote and co-market iRise application visualization products along with their service offerings, enhancing client satisfaction and cutting project risk.

"As an Alliance Partner, ACC is able to integrate iRise's application visualization software with our process and education offerings, thereby enhancing the services and solutions that make a difference to our clients," said Dave Bieg, ACC Managing Partner. "In turn, this partnership will improve business analysis efforts, minimize the risk of rework costs and strengthen our client relationships by producing a tangible return on their IT investment. We look forward to a collaborative working relationship with iRise and the value and enablement we'll bring to our clients."

"As part of our partner ecosystem, ACC brings best practices and methodologies to adopt iRise," said Sherrick Murdoff, vice president of business development for iRise. "We share the same end goal - helping companies dramatically improve how they are visualizing business applications."

ACC is also an IBM Rational partner and can help clients build an integrated suite of iRise and Rational products. Last year, iRise announced iRise Connect for IBM Rational, a real-time, bi-directional product integration with IBM Rational RequisitePro.

About Advanced Concepts Center (ACC)

ACC is a consulting and learning solutions company focused on educating information technology, business analyst & management professionals via a broad range of powerful knowledge transfer services that rapidly assess and improve employee productivity. ACC maintains a broad curriculum of education including business analysis, object-oriented & UML, project management and numerous others and services that include process, strategy & workflow consulting, mentoring, skills assessments, and other related offerings that enable the effectiveness of your associates.

For more information, e-mail holly.adams@acclearning.com or call, toll-free 1-800-438-7246 or visit http://www.acclearning.com.

About iRise

iRise software is used by business analysts and usability professionals to create high impact visualizations of custom and packaged applications early in the definition process. Over 160 companies like Wachovia, CompuCredit, UPS and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center use iRise visualizations to speed up application definition and virtually eliminate confusion between business and IT. iRise visualizations accelerate application delivery with dramatically less cost and risk, especially when global sourcing is a strategy. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., iRise is backed by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and has sales offices across North America.

To learn more about iRise's Alliance Program, visit http://www.irise.com/alliances/.

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