EMERASOFT TO DISTRIBUTE RAVEN IN ITALY

Turin, Italy and Emeryville, CA—June 15, 2009—Ravenflow™, the leader in Business Requirements Definition™, today announced a new partnership agreement with Emerasoft to distribute the award-winning RAVEN software in Italy. Emerasoft provides a wide range of technological solutions and services to companies to make their business processes more efficient and agile. Emerasoft is also a partner of Sparx Systems with Enterprise Architect.

"We are committed to seeking and using agile methodologies and tools that facilitate the growth of more effective business models and that lower development costs," said Luca Bassini, cofounder and CEO of Emerasoft. "We have selected RAVEN for business requirements definition because it is innovative and easy to use. With RAVEN, it is possible to achieve concrete results and satisfactory compliance with high quality standards."

"The Emerasoft team has gained expertise in many fields of business information," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "Their experiences are reflected in the ability to address diverse and complex problems in a professional and qualified manner. Their expertise in requirements was a key benefit in moving ahead with this partnership."

Emerasoft's customers are Italian companies looking for modern and innovative technological solutions in order to optimize productivity and business processes at a reduced cost. Emerasoft has collaborated with many important Italian companies in the fields of telecommunications and media, technology, science, research and development, defense, engineering, consulting, aerospace, electronics, petrochemicals, publishing, insurance, engineering and automotive, and banking. Sample customers include Fiat Auto, Ferragamo, Ferrero, Finmeccanica, and Telecom Italia.

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 or to download a free 30-day trial, 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 the 2009 IBM Rational Partner of the Year Award, and was selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development."


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