RAVENFLOW INTRODUCES FIRST LOW-COST SOLUTION FOR BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION

Award-winning RAVEN Express now available as standalone solution to provide high-value, low-price entry point in the requirements definition market

Free 30-day evaluation version available at www.ravenflow.com

EMERYVILLE, CA—April 7, 2009—Ravenflow™, the leader in Business Requirements Definition™, today announced the standalone release of RAVEN Express, the industry's first requirements definition product that is integrated directly into Microsoft Word. Priced under $500, this new version of RAVEN Express will offer the highest-value and lowest price entry-point in the requirements definition marketplace.

RAVEN Express offers business analysts who write requirements documents and describe business processes in Microsoft Word the ability to easily add visual diagrams that help find missing requirements without leaving the familiar Word environment. Unlike other requirements tools, RAVEN Express does not require the business analyst to learn a new application or graphical modeling tool. By leveraging the power of RAVEN directly within Microsoft Word, analysts are able to communicate more clearly with stakeholders and subject matter experts, resulting in accelerated time to specification signoff, increased customer satisfaction, decreased project costs, and better project outcomes.

"Our customers and prospects have been asking us to provide a lower cost, entry-level solution and Ravenflow responded. RAVEN Express will demonstrate an immediate ROI to business analysts who can then justify to their management upgrading to RAVEN Professional and our RAVEN Collaboration Space for larger, more complex projects," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "Not only does RAVEN help cut costs by helping users find missing requirements to deliver applications faster, but now RAVEN Express is the only requirements definition product on the market that provides immediate improvement for Word users. The entry-level price is extremely attractive to new users and organizations looking to transform their requirements process."

For more information about RAVEN Express or to download a free 30-day evaluation, visit www.ravenflow.com or call 877-557-2836.

About Ravenflow
Ravenflow is the leading provider of business 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 Award for Productivity, and was selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development."


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