IIBA RECOGNIZES RAVENFLOW AS AN ENDORSED EDUCATION PROVIDER

"Writing Effective Business Use Cases" training course recognized and certified by IIBA

EMERYVILLE, CA—May 18, 2009—The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) today announced that it has certified Ravenflow as an Endorsed Education Provider.

The IIBA is an independent, nonprofit professional association serving the growing population of Business Analysts in the workforce. The IIBA identifies education providers who offer business analyst training courses that are aligned with the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®). Prospective Endorsed Education Providers must go through a rigorous evaluation process. Providers offering business analysis courses that meet specific criteria are designated as "endorsed" and become members of the Endorsed Education Provider (EEPTM) Program.

Ravenflow is the first and only requirements product vendor to be endorsed, with the acceptance of its course entitled Writing Effective Business Use Cases. This course, developed by Marcia Stinson and edited for compliancy by Tim O'Connor, both senior consultants at Ravenflow, has been Ravenflow's most popular training course. Professional business analysts representing hundreds of companies have attended this course over the last 12 months.

"Writing Effective Business Use Cases was the best training we have conducted on business requirements definition," said Joanna Mangiante, lead business analyst at TriNet. "Improving business requirements is the most direct way to reduce application development time and costs."

Students who complete Writing Effective Business Use Cases receive credit toward IIBA's CBAP professional certification. Writing Effective Business Use Cases, along with all of Ravenflow’s products and training offerings, promotes the best practices for requirements definition as outlined in the BABOK.

"Many of our customers have expressed appreciation for helping their business analysts learn why they should be improving their processes and what the impact can mean to their company's overall success," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "Our courses focusing on best practices provide a clearer vision to producing better quality of requirements, and we are proud to be the first requirements product vendor to become an Endorsed Education Provider by the IIBA."

Ravenflow is widely known for its award-winning RAVEN product for business requirements definition. Using RAVEN, business analysts and other team members can rapidly visualize and validate requirements, build team consensus, and produce clear specifications of their business process workflows, business use cases, and business application needs. 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.

For more information about RAVEN and Ravenflow's course offerings, please 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."

About the IIBA
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) is the independent, nonprofit professional association serving the growing field of business analysis to the international business community. The organization is comprised of more than 9,000 members around the globe in fields ranging from requirements management and requirements analysis to project management and consulting. IIBA® has chapters in over 40 countries worldwide and is committed to developing and advancing standards for the practice of business analysis and for the certification of practitioners.


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