Using visualization as a proven strategy for getting a clear view ahead and transforming not only IT but business itself.

iRise

Center for CIO Leadership Summary

In this series of articles published by iRise, authors discuss strategies for cutting and containing IT costs through not just hardware consolidation, but also application rationalization. They discuss strategies for getting these complex consolidation projects moving forward with the business and getting them done faster and using visualization as a strategy for getting a clear view ahead and fundamentally transforming IT and the business itself.

With application visualization, companies can quickly simulate the end-state of a proposed reference application early in the process and business users around the world can see and interact with the full functional visualization and get aligned behind a common vision. In this way, companies can downsize their application portfolio faster and produce better outcomes for the business and customers.

This series of brief articles includes:

• Visualization: The Essential Strategy for Application Consolidation
• Case Study: UPS Bolsters Web App Development Process with Simulation Tool
• Vision Validation (excerpts of real world experience with visualization)
• Rational Vision (an interview with iRise CEO Emmet B. Keeffe)
• Federal IT Project Failures: Proposed Legislation Aims to Stop the Insanity
• Prototyping Tool Eases Design of iPhone Apps

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