With its unique business orientation and visual approach, RAVEN is uniquely suited for both process improvement and application development projects. Regardless of project type, business analysts, requirements specialists, solution consultants and other users can rapidly elicit, visually specify and then easily validate requirements with the entire project team using RAVEN’s collaboration features.

Process Improvement Projects

Ravenflow helps you overcome the challenge of defining business processes so business and IT stakeholders have a common understanding of how processes can be optimized to increase efficiency, reduce cost and improve customer satisfaction. The specific problems we solve include:

• Processes are too difficult to define, forcing business analysts to become modeling experts.
• Processes are not defined in a consistent format that all project stakeholders can understand.
• Processes can’t be validated effectively, making it tough to gain stakeholder agreement.
• Processes cannot be freely shared and reused between business and IT counterparts.
• Processes are very hard to document completely, thus leaving out important details

RAVEN’s unique language-based approach makes it much easier to define and model business processes compared to today’s costly and overly complex BPM and EA tools. This allows business analysts to get started quickly and focus immediately on defining the process and collaborating with others on how to improve it.

Application Development Projects

RAVEN dramatically improves the content, quality and speed of defining requirements so you can avoid application projects that suffer from poor success rates, missed schedules, cost overruns, and outright cancellation after significant investments have already been made. The specific problems we solve include:

• Requirements are of poor quality, including missing, ambiguous and “gold-plated” requirements that exceed the real business need.
• Requirements are defined inconsistently, making specifications hard to follow and understand.
• Requirements documents are unwieldy and thus often go unread by project stakeholders.
• Requirements are not validated by all stakeholders prior to implementation, resulting in longer development cycles and greater rework costs.
• Requirements continue to evolve over the course of a project, making it difficult to track and distribute changes.

Unlike today's Requirements Management products that specialize in tracking application requirements through the development lifecycle, the primary focus of RAVEN is Requirements Definition—or getting requirements right in the first place. It does this by visually linking requirements directly to the business processes being transformed, thus ensuring project investments are aligned from the start and deliver the expected business value.