Aerospace and defense companies are facing increasing complexity of programs and projects. Most organizations have built an ecosystem of third-party alliances to form global virtual teams that cover multiple time zones, so the chance of error in the communication process is high. The standard perception is that commercial, general aviation, military, and space organizations need different types of solutions to address requirements analysis. In order to produce the best outcome for your application development projects and initiatives, a best practices approach is essential for gathering stakeholder requirements.

Why Are Aerospace and Defense Companies Selecting RAVEN?

• To build applications faster, with assurance that the final outcome matches the customers’ needs
• To reduce requirements errors and ensure better understanding by stakeholders
• To improve software and system quality
• To bridge communication gaps between business analysts and requirements engineers
• To be more successful in completing projects on time and within budget

Requirements Elicitation and Definition

The first step is understanding your customer. RAVEN has helped many integrators to have the right conversation with the customer, in real-time dialogs, while displaying the result of their conversation in a picture format. RAVEN also allows for strong collaboration between all stakeholders, which may include internal requirements engineers and analysts as well as senior executives. RAVEN improves the communication among all of the stakeholders.

Requirements Specifications

Producing clear and concise specifications faster is one of the key benefits of RAVEN. RAVEN automates tasks that previously were time consuming and manual.

Requirements Change

Through a web browser, change and review cycles can be managed down to an individual component of a use case or business process flow. RAVEN can also set up specific views for your customer’s review and comment. RAVEN stores all change history and change dialog in a central place for historical perspective. Versions of changed requirements can be used to focus efforts on clarifying requirements that are not well understood.

Third-Party Distributed Development

Poor communication and missed deliverables are common issues faced by our customers. RAVEN allows for all parties, no matter their location, to understand, through simple models, what is required.

Reuse

Reusing existing use cases and business process flows are essential to staying competitive in today’s market. RAVEN’s collaboration server allows users to establish a project, and copy from project to project, to build a common database of components that can be reused from project to project.

Integrated with Leading Requirements Management (RM) and Business Process Solutions

For an end-to-end solution, from conception to final test, RAVEN integrates with leading RM solutions, such as IBM’s Requisite Pro, DOORS, Requirements Composer, and Microsoft VSTS. Once requirements are defined and approved by the customer, the requirements can be handed off to developers who will then utilize their existing RM system to control the requirements through to test and delivery. RAVEN includes connectors to IBM’s and Microsoft’s RM products, and also to Metastorm and Sparx Systems.