RAVENFLOW AND CENTERLINE PARTNER FOR REQUIREMENTS LEADERSHIP

Centerline to offer services around the award-winning RAVEN requirements definition solution

EMERYVILLE, CA AND BEVERLY, MA—December 12, 2008—Ravenflow™, the global leader in Rapid Requirements Definition™, and Centerline Partners, a leading management consulting firm focused on requirements management, program and project management, and business analysis, today unveiled a new partnership whereby Ravenflow's award-winning RAVEN offering will be an enabling technology incorporated in Centerline's Rapid Requirements Management (RRM^SM) service. The agreement equips Centerline to leverage RAVEN as a strategic solution to clients as part of this service, driving accuracy and quality earlier in the application development lifecycle.

Centerline's RRM service helps clients capture and document their requirements with a higher degree of accuracy, quality, and speed. A primary tenet of RRM is to be able to articulate validated business requirements to both the business and IT owners in their respective languages. RAVEN enables fast and accurate definition and visualization of requirements, as well as detection of missing requirements at speeds not previously achievable by other means.

"As a management consulting firm focused exclusively on requirements management, Centerline Partners bridges the gap between process owners and IS," said Andy Simon, cofounder and partner at Centerline. "Centerline Partners selected RAVEN as a strategic partner based on the rigor of its structured use case syntax and real-time diagramming and visualization capabilities. RAVEN's rigor forces consistency across all project participants and provides us with an industry-changing enabler to our Rapid Requirements Management methodology and services."

"Centerline has an innovative approach and a well-respected team of requirements experts, and we are delighted that they have chosen Ravenflow as their primary partner for upstream business requirement definition," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "By combining their design approach with the power of RAVEN, Centerline will be able to deliver validated requirements faster."

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. Ravenflow is based in Emeryville, CA; for more information, please visit www.ravenflow.com.

About Centerline Partners
Centerline Partners is a management consulting firm focused on requirements management, program and project management, and business analysis for business, operations, and IT organizations. Centerline Partners' deep experience allows the company to blend these core capabilities to deliver the rapid creation and management of requirements with superior speed, accuracy, and focus.



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