RAVENFLOW AND CLEARVISION SIGN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

Clearvision to distribute and support complete solutions for Rapid Requirements Definition in the UK

EMERYVILLE, CA and Southampton, UK.—September 8, 2008—Ravenflow™, the global leader in Rapid Requirements Definition™, and Clearvision today announced a strategic partnership whereby Clearvision becomes a Ravenflow reseller and will develop a RAVEN™ training and consulting practice to facilitate enablement of UK-based customers and prospects.

Clearvision is the leading independent change and configuration management specialist in the UK. They also have a broad, deep knowledge of application lifecycle management implementations, being one of IBM’s most valued partners in Europe. The Clearvision team has overseen hundreds of development projects for customers, including government and defence, banks, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and telecoms, such as Ericsson, Siemens, and Samsung.

"Clearvision is one of the strongest players in the software change and configuration management arena," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "The executives, consultants, and sales professionals at Clearvision have been implementing solutions for over a decade. Combining their deep SCCM subject-matter expertise together with Ravenflow’s award-winning requirements definition solutions will be a catalyst to expand both Ravenflow and Clearvision’s initiatives to our combined customers and prospects."

"Ravenflow’s approach to requirements elicitation and definition is exceptional," said Neil Butler, Clearvision’s Managing Director. "Clearvision already work with a large number of customers to implement effective requirements management solutions and processes. We found the RAVEN solution offers outstanding technology to help business analyst teams rapidly define software requirements and find missing requirements up front. Ravenflow’s unique integrations into market-leading products such as Rational RequisitePro and Telelogic DOORS eliminate risk, improve traceability, and substantially reduce project cost so will offer significant benefit for existing and new customers. Clearvision has aggressive plans for its partnership with Ravenflow."

Ravenflow and Clearvision will be hosting a free joint solution webinar to welcome existing customers as well as interested prospects on October 16. They will also be jointly exhibiting at the Telelogic User Group Conference at the Heathrow Sofitel Hotel on November 3-4, and jointly holding a free hands-on RAVEN Evaluation Workshop on November 5. Registration can be completed online for all events at www.ravenflow.com

About Ravenflow
Recently named the fastest growing vendor in the requirements field, Ravenflow software enables business analysts to quickly build stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduce the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduce developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly link requirements and testing. Business analysts and stakeholders across all industries depend on Ravenflow's award-winning RAVEN to quickly visualize and validate software requirements. RAVEN integrates with IBM Rational and Telelogic applications, Microsoft Visual Studio and HP Mercury. Ravenflow is based in Emeryville, CA; for more information, please visit www.ravenflow.com.

About Clearvision
Established in 1997 and the first UK tier one IBM partner, Clearvision is now the leading independent Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) consultancy with offices throughout Europe and the USA. Clearvision specialise in consulting, training, and integration products for the major SCCM solutions including IBM Rational, Atlassian and Subversion. The Clearvision customer base covers a wide range of companies and industries throughout the world including government and defense, banks, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, and telecoms. Customer size ranges from small start-up companies to established multi-national corporations. For more information, please visit http://www.clearvision-cm.com.



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