RAVENFLOW AND IONIDEA SIGN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

IonIdea to distribute and support complete solutions for rapid elicitation and definition of requirements in India

Emeryville, CA and Bangalore, India—November 5, 2008—Ravenflow™, the global leader in Rapid Requirements Definition™, and IonIdea today announced a strategic partnership whereby IonIdea becomes a Ravenflow reseller and develops a RAVEN training and consulting practice to facilitate enablement of India-based RAVEN customers.

Announcing the collaboration here on Wednesday, November 5, Mr. Muhammad Sarwar, VP and director of IonIdea India, said the company will provide marketing and support services for Ravenflow's award-winning RAVEN product. IonIdea will also build a center of excellence for requirements definition and use its consultant base to sell aggressively into the Indian market, Mr. Sarwar said.

To welcome customers and new prospects, both companies will be holding a joint webinar on November 20. Included in this webinar will be a live demonstration on the best practices of using the RAVEN solution for requirements definition. Registration for the webinar is available online at www.ravenflow.com.

"IonIdea is one of the strongest players in the development and consulting arena in India," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "The executives, consultants, and sales professionals at IonIdea have been implementing solutions for almost two decades. They have a strong focus on software engineering, enterprise applications, and independent testing and validation. Combining their deep requirements analysis expertise together with Ravenflow's award-winning requirements definition solutions will be a catalyst to expand both Ravenflow and IonIdea’s initiatives to our combined customers and prospects."

"Ravenflow's approach to requirements elicitation and definition is exceptional," said Mr. Muhammad Sarwar, VP and director of IonIdea India. "Ionidea planned to extend their solutions to include requirements definition and found the RAVEN solution offers outstanding technology to help business analyst teams rapidly define software requirements and find missing requirements upfront. Ravenflow's unique integrations into market-leading products such as Rational RequisitePro and Telelogic DOORS eliminate risk, improve traceability, and substantially reduce project cost. IonIdea has aggressive plans for its partnership with Ravenflow."

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 IonIdea
IonIdea started in 1991 in Fairfax, Virginia in the United States, and has solutions delivery centers in Fairfax, Bangalore in India, and Simferopol in Ukraine. It has a strong focus on software product engineering, enterprise applications, and independent testing and validation. Services offered include requirements analysis, software design and development, system and application integration, QA and testing, application maintenance, and production support. For more information, please visit www.ionidea.com.



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