MAJOR UTILITY EXTENDS RAVEN DEPLOYMENT

Emeryville, CA—April 5, 2010—Ravenflow, the leader in visual requirements definition software, today announced that a major utility in New England has extended their RAVEN usage to an enterprise deployment.

"Our client has a focused business strategy and a renewed commitment to serve their customers," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "Increasing the speed of their application development process and ensuring compliance with their regulated business practices is essential for their continuing growth. Our client decided to extend their use of RAVEN after a careful pilot program to ensure that the value RAVEN created was appropriate to the regulated business environment."

"The need to realize more business value from investments in information technology has never been greater," said Patricia Hill, chairman and CEO of Bay State. "The challenges to 'do more with less' and to deploy resources more efficiently drives our customers on a daily basis. By extending our partnership with Ravenflow we can help our government and commercial customers to meet these challenges and to achieve success in delivering high-quality IT services and integrated solutions."

The client operates one of New England's largest utility systems serving more than two million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. They are dedicated to this region, as well as the people, energy and technology so vital to its security, stability and economic strength.

About RAVEN
Based upon patented language processing technology, RAVEN allows business people to describe their needs in plain English, then automatically identifies missing requirements while generating visual process and use case diagrams that all stakeholders can understand. With its distinctive business orientation and process-based approach to requirements definition, RAVEN is uniquely suited for use on both enterprise process improvement and application development projects.

About Ravenflow
Ravenflow is the leading provider of visual requirements definition software that allows companies to gain better insight, clarity, and quality in their process improvement and application development projects. Leveraging a uniquely business-driven and process-based approach, Ravenflow transforms requirements definition by empowering business analysts to rapidly produce clear specifications of their business process workflows, business use cases, and business application needs. Ravenflow recently was named the fastest growing company in the requirements market, received the 2009 Jolt Productivity Award and the 2009 IBM Rational Partner of the Year Award, and was selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development."


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