Certified iRise Modeling

As a Certified IRise Modeler, Square One works on behalf of iRise to provide training and mentoring services to their fortune 500 clients.  We meet with them and demonstrate tools, tips, best practices and processes around how to successfully visualize software requirements.

To be successful at visualization, you need three main ingredients:

• Analysis skills
• Technical skills
• User Experience Design skills

Square One can show you how to best combine these skills across a team of resources to produce the best results.  Analytics skills allow a modeler to listen to users and translate their request into a software requirement in iRise.  Technical skills allow a modeler to add functional fidelity to a simulation. 

These are key ingredients, but the most important piece is the user experience design.  This skill ties together the analysis and technical aspects of a simulation into something elegant and easy to use.

Custom Widgets with the iBloc API

Square One is part of a small group of key partners who have created custom widgets for iRise Studio using the iBloc API.  The iBloc API allows companies to create any widget they can imagine and use it in their iRise simulations.  We currently have the following widgets available for free from the iRise website:

• Annotation Widget -- Square One has developed a ground-breaking way to mark-up and provide feedback about a simulation.  With the annotation widget, simulation viewers can draw lines, circles, squares, arrows, and enter text to provide comments about the simulation.  It is the perfect way to give modelers the feedback loop needed to refine and improve software requirements.
• Paging / Sorting Widget -- Before the birth of custom widgets, if a modeler wanted to add sorting and paging to a table of information, it took days and multiple headaches to achieve.  With our new widget, it takes 30 seconds to add this functionality to any table in a simulation.  Our widget automatically creates paging based on your desired page size and automatically make each column in the table sortable. 
• RSS Feed Widget -- Modelers can now add any RSS feed of information to their simulation.
• iFrame Widget -- With the iFrame widget, modelers can display the contents of any web page on the internet within their simulation.
• Twitter Feed Widget -- Add a touch of the social web into any simulation using our Twitter Feed widget.  Modelers can choose the Twitter user account to pull tweets from and specify the number of tweets to return.

Integrating Simulation Data with the iConnect API

Square One is working with iRise to find new and unique ways to leverage information inside a simulation.  iRise recently announced the iConnect API, a set of web services that will send simulation data into any system as XML.  Square One is utilizing these web services with their new requirements management tool called Verametric.  Now users will be able to pull all text-based requirements from a simulation and track them in a database, giving them the ability to report on completed requirements with complete traceability.