Companies choose RAVEN because they have application development or process improvement challenges and find that RAVEN’s business-driven and process-based approach is the best way to address them. These are companies who value process excellence and who depend on software applications to run their businesses. With RAVEN, they have found a single product that can transform requirements definition by empowering business analysts to rapidly produce clear business requirements specifications that get everyone on the same page.

Accelerate time to market for high-value business applications.
Customers using RAVEN to define and validate business requirements are cutting months off development schedules compared to previous methods.

Increase business satisfaction and reduce risk of project abandonment.
By producing business requirements specifications that stakeholders can understand and validate, RAVEN enables early buy-in and greater participation in the project.

Reduce application development and rework costs.
Since application development costs are directly tied to personnel costs, time saved using RAVEN translates into budget saved and greater ROI.

Streamline and optimize business processes through elimination of wasteful activities.
RAVEN enables full visibility into “as-is” and “to-be” processes so customers can explore alternatives for achieving maximum value.

Enable intelligent sourcing and effective offshore development to optimize resource utilization.
RAVEN process and use case diagrams helps clarify understanding and increase effectiveness of offshore development teams.

Value to Application Development Projects

RAVEN dramatically improves the content and quality of your business requirements so you can avoid application projects that suffer from poor success rates, missed schedules, cost overruns, and outright cancellation after significant investment 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.

Value to Process Improvement Projects

Ravenflow helps you overcome the challenge of defining core 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.