RAVENFLOW ANNOUNCES $1000 QUICK DRAW CHALLENGE CONTEST

Emeryville, CA—June 1, 2010—Ravenflow today announced a new contest to see who can create business process diagrams the fastest.

We're finding that many business analysts struggle to complete error-free process diagrams quickly," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "Our new RAVEN Cloud service improves a tedious and error-prone task from taking hours or days to mere minutes. Now, all business people can get stunning process flow diagrams without having to become drawing experts because RAVEN does the drawing for them. We are hopeful that the contest will help teach analysts a new fun way to perform their everyday tasks and give them additional confidence in producing an excellent work product."

The contest kicks off for the summer months and anyone can compete to win the $1000 Grand Prize. The winner will be selected September 15. To enter, users must submit a video of using RAVEN Cloud to document a business process and clock the time they did it in. Simply email videos to quickdraw@ravenflow.com. The Grand Prize winner will be selected based on the complexity of the diagram, the time it took to create and draw the process in the RAVEN Cloud, as well as creativity. Submissions become the property of Ravenflow. To help analysts get started, a sample submission is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIp-0x9ZS7E.

RAVEN Cloud is hosted on the Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform and features a highly attractive, easy-to-use web application interface based on Microsoft Silverlight. Based upon a patented language engine, RAVEN Cloud is the only natural language application that allows business people to describe their processes in plain English, and then automatically identify gaps and other errors while generating visual diagrams all stakeholders can understand.

The beta is free and available to everyone now at www.ravencloud.com.

About Ravenflow
Ravenflow is the leading provider of visual process and requirements definition software that allows companies to gain better insight, clarity, and quality in their process improvement and application development projects. Leveraging a patented natural language technology called RAVEN, Ravenflow transforms the way people analyze and visualize their business processes, application requirements, and system engineering needs. Ravenflow received the 2009 Jolt Productivity Award and the 2009 IBM Rational ISV Partner of the Year Award.


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