RAVENFLOW’S RAVEN INTEGRATES WITH IBM SOFTWARE TO SIMPLIFY AND IMPROVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Award-winning RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition has been validated for integration with IBM Rational RequisitePro 7.1

Orlando, FL, at the Rational Software Developers Conference.—June 2, 2008—Ravenflow, a leader in Rapid Requirements Definition™, today announced its RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition has been validated for integration with IBM Rational RequisitePro v7.1. RAVEN has received Ready for IBM Rational software validation.

IBM Rational RequisitePro provides better communication and management of software project requirements in order to deliver software on time, within budget, and above expectations. Software development projects that start with well executed requirements management result in delivering better software to the market.

Recently named as the fastest growing vendor in the requirements field, Ravenflow software enables business analysts to quickly build stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly links requirements and testing.

“Accurate and rapid requirements definition is essential to quality software development,” said Michael Loria, vice president of business development, IBM Rational software. “RAVEN has been validated with IBM Rational RequisitePro to provide customers with a leading integrated requirements definition and management solution.”

"Our joint customers are seeing the value of integrating requirements definition with requirements management which has resulted in higher returns on investment and increased customer satisfaction. We intend to continue our development and integration strategy with IBM as we see great capability and value to our customers.” said Susan Boers, Ravenflow’s President and CEO.

“In the software engineering world, an investment in improving requirements has tremendous payback as you go downstream,” said Austin Klahn, CIO of Jeppesen. “We’re looking for tools and capabilities and processes that can help us build better requirements on the front end. The combination of RAVEN and IBM Rational RequisitePro can help do that.”

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 HP Mercury, Microsoft Visual Studio, and IBM Rational and Telelogic platforms. Ravenflow is based in Emeryville, CA; for more information, please visit www.ravenflow.com.



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