RAVENFLOW AND IAG CONSULTING SIGN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
Companies to Deliver Complete Solutions for Rapid Requirements Definition
EMERYVILLE, Calif.—May 26, 2008—Ravenflow, the leader in rapid requirements definition, and IAG Consulting, the Requirements Experts, today announced a strategic partnership, whereby IAG becomes a Ravenflow reseller and will develop a RAVEN training and consulting practice to facilitate enablement of Fortune 500 customers.
Since 1993, over 600 organizations have used IAG’s Requirements Discovery Process and Best Requirements Practices to define and manage their business and software requirements. IAG provides world-class enterprise-wide requirements solutions to help clients achieve their business and software development objectives.
"IAG is one of the strongest players in the requirements arena," said Susan Boers, Ravenflow’s president and chief executive officer. “They champion the position that accurate and clear definition of true requirements is a key success factor in achieving superior IT delivery results. The consultants at IAG have been delivering requirements solutions for over a decade. Combining their deep requirements subject-matter expertise with Ravenflow’s award-winning rapid requirements elicitation, definition, and test-planning solutions, will be a catalyst to expand Ravenflow’s initiatives throughout North America."
“IAG recognizes Ravenflow’s excellence as a technology for business analysts that provides continuous feedback on the completeness, accuracy, and clarity of their written description of process flow while improving the timeliness of business requirements and testing documentation and quality of stakeholder collaboration,” said Keith Ellis, vice president of IAG Consulting. "IAG has conducted a comprehensive evaluation of requirements definition solutions and found that RAVEN offers unique technology to help business analyst teams define software requirements and generate comprehensive sets of tests. RAVEN’s integrations into market leading platforms such as HP's Quality Center eliminate risk, improve traceability, and substantially reduce project cost. IAG has aggressive plans for its partnership with Ravenflow."
About IAG
IAG provides world-class enterprise-wide requirements solutions to help clients achieve their business and software development objectives. We champion the position that accurate and clear definition of true requirements is a key success factor in achieving superior IT delivery results. IAG's senior consultants use practical and proven methods that rapidly and effectively deliver business value. IAG training and education services have been used to train in the order of 15,000 analysts around the world over the last 10 years. This program is used for larger-scale transformation of the performance of business analyst organizations. Companies well known for business analyst excellence like Bank of Montreal have used IAG’s training and education assets as a foundation for making consistent the skill bases of their company. For more information, please visit www.iag.biz.
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
Keith Ellis
Vice President, IAG Consulting
kellis@iag.biz