MAJOR ANALYST FIRM NAMES RAVENFLOW THE FASTEST GROWING OF TOP REQUIREMENTS VENDORS

EMERYVILLE, Calif.—Mar. 31, 2008—Ravenflow, the leader in rapid requirements definition software, today announced that market analyst firm IDC has named Ravenflow the fastest growing vendor in its first assessment of the Requirements Definition and Management software market.

"IDC research continues to show flawed requirements as a leading cause of failure in new applications," according to the report. "The compound annual growth rate for requirements definition and management is more than double that for other categories of traditional software change management tools."

"We expect to see robust growth in 2007 and thereafter, throughout the forecast period, as the need for requirements and governance, services support, and improved software development team productivity drive ongoing demand for requirements tools that enable business stakeholder and IT collaboration," said Melinda Ballou, IDC program director, Application Life-Cycle Management.

"Ravenflow’s remarkable growth is due to the importance our clients are placing on improving their requirements processes," said Susan Boers, CEO of Ravenflow. "Having stakeholder acceptance up front before the start of any development project is paying off in the long run. We will continue to experience rapid growth due to increased pressure from the market to be more efficient in producing quality deliverables."

The full report is available from the IDC website at www.idc.com. The report is titled "Worldwide Requirements Definition and Management Software 2007–2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares: Market Coalesces."

About Ravenflow
Ravenflow accelerates application project time-to-market by reducing the time required for all stakeholders to approve requirements, reducing developer rework due to requirements errors, and by generating test cases automatically. Business analysts and stakeholders across all industries depend on Ravenflow's award-winning RAVEN to quickly visualize and validate software requirements. RAVEN integrates with Telelogic, HP Mercury, Microsoft Visual Studio and IBM Rational platforms. Ravenflow is based in Emeryville, CA; for more information, please visit www.ravenflow.com.


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