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RAVENFLOW LAUNCHES PARTNER PROGRAM, ANNOUNCES MORE THAN 20 NEW MEMBERS

Mix of Systems Integrators, Resellers, and Consulting Companies to Leverage Ravenflow's Solutions and Expertise in Speeding the Software Requirements Process

EMERYVILLE, Calif.—May 19, 2008—Ravenflow, the leader in rapid requirements definition, today announced the official launch of the Ravenflow Alliance Partner Program, designed to drive successful, cooperative business relationships with leading systems integrators, resellers, consulting companies, and complementary technology providers. More than 20 partners have signed on to the program to date, ranging from international system integration consultancies like CIBER Inc., to technology innovators such as Ivar Jacobson Consulting.

"Quality requirements are essential to turning out successful IT projects," says Eric Naiburg, vice president of sales and marketing at Ivar Jacobson Consulting. "Ravenflow's innovation in enhancing the precision of requirements and speeding the entire requirements definition process helps us improve project time-to-market for our clients, which is critical to our ability to help our clients be successful."

"Systems integrators and consultancies that include the development of software requirements as a core competency need tools and expertise to streamline this process," says Susan Boers, president and chief executive officer of Ravenflow. "Ravenflow's partner program is designed to help these types of organizations more easily leverage our requirements solutions and domain expertise to win new business and deliver for clients on time and on budget."

Through product training, sales tools, and co-marketing programs, Ravenflow enables partners to actively leverage the company's award-winning RAVEN solution for requirements elicitation and definition in-house, through reseller arrangements, or during client engagements.

"Leveraging the RAVEN solution, we are able to improve collaboration among key project stakeholders and quickly outline the business and system requirements," says Kieran Doorley, Director of Technology of CIBER, Inc. "This capability is essential to our understanding of how applications need to work end to end."

For a complete list of Ravenflow partners, visit: www.ravenflow.com/partners.

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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Press Contacts:

Adam Frankl
Vice President, Marketing, Ravenflow
adam.frankl@ravenflow.com

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