RAVENFLOW CEO TO PRESENT AT INAUGURAL IEEE SYSTEMS CONFERENCE

Dr. Joe Marasco to Participate in Session on Radical Productivity Improvement

EMERYVILLE, Calif.—April 4, 2007—Ravenflow, the only company delivering automated requirements validation for application development organizations, today announced that CEO Joe Marasco will present at the first IEEE Systems Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Honolulu, Hawaii on April 10, 2007. Marasco will participate in the session on "Radical Productivity Improvement" along with Jaime Borras, Vice President and CTO of Motorola and Dr. Gopal Raghavan of Nokia.

"Ravenflow is gratified to be recognized by the IEEE as an industry leader in providing pragmatic solutions to real problems in systems development," said Dr. Marasco. "This conference brings together the best minds from industry and academia working towards achieving 10X increases in productivity, and we are glad to share our insights with the rest of the community. The IEEE Systems Conference has increased the priority placed on the requirements development process in order to achieve radical productivity improvement."

The theme of the IEEE Systems Conference is "Engineering Complex Integrated Systems and Systems-of-systems - Implications for Systems Engineering, Systems Integration, and Systems Thinking." The event serves as an interactive forum for the advancement of the practice of system design, development, and management-across the multiple disciplines and specialty areas associated with the engineering of systems. The conference provides a venue for systems engineering practitioners, managers, researchers, and educators to exchange innovative concepts, ideas, applications, and lessons learned addressing applications-oriented topics, research opportunities, as well as systems engineering, education, standards, process and methodologies for the system-of-systems environment. More information can be found at: http://www.ieeesystemscouncil.org/conference-2007/sysconference2007.asp.

Marasco is a 35-year software industry veteran and author of The Software Development Edge: Essays on Managing Successful Projects, published in 2005 by Addison-Wesley. Prior to taking the helm at Ravenflow, he served as senior vice president of Rational Software Corporation until it was acquired by IBM in 2003.

About the IEEE Systems Council
The IEEE Systems Council facilitates interactions among communities of interest on system-level problems and applications. The Council addresses the discipline of systems engineering, including the issues and complexities of system-level and system-of-systems applications, focusing on the total systems effectiveness of complex integrated systems of national and global significance. More information can be found at: http://www.ieeesystemscouncil.org.

About Ravenflow
Award-winning Ravenflow is revolutionizing the way that software requirements and business processes are developed and validated. Because requirements errors are the primary cause of project failure and budget and schedule overruns, enterprises need to detect and correct requirements errors early. Ravenflow's Requirements Authoring and Validation Environment (RAVEN) automatically generates visual models from plain English text. Customers across all business sectors, including ADP, Charles Schwab, Citco, Kaiser Permanente and the World Savings Bank are using RAVEN to deliver software developed for the most valid and precise business requirements.



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