"The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is as difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements, including all the interfaces to people, to machines, and to other software systems. No other part of the work so cripples the resulting system if done wrong. No other part is more difficult to rectify later."

—Frederick Brooks, No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering, 1987.

Ravenflow enables enterprises to deliver applications faster.

The award-winning RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition quickly builds stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrates requirements and testing.

RAVEN integrates requirements elicitation and definition with the application lifecycle management platforms from IBM Rational, Telelogic, HP Mercury, and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Ravenflow was founded in 2000 and is based in Emeryville, California. The company is privately funded, and investors include Alloy Ventures, Palomar Ventures, and The Roda Group.