Systems integrators face increasing challenges in today’s environment. Most projects are delivered late and over budget. To manage complex programs and remain competitive, integrators are seeking ways to help them be more efficient.

Why Are Systems Integrators Selecting RAVEN?

RAVEN takes the guesswork out of understanding complex textual use cases and business process requirements that are usually embedded in large RFIs, RFPs, and in the final contract specifications. By dynamically producing models from textual conversations with your customer, RAVEN uncovers gaps that may otherwise get lost in translation and result in missing requirements. Visual inspection of requirements has been proved as the best way of uncovering logic/process errors and missing requirements. Improving the quality and speed of writing the requirements provides a big return-on-investment for systems integrators using RAVEN.

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. The immediate benefit is real-time validation to uncover any errors or gaps that could cause project delays or missed expectations. 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

Involving all of the stakeholders in the review and change process accelerates the delirables. 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

Many integrators outsource work to third parties to manage development costs.

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. RAVEN includes connectors to IBM’s and Microsoft’s RM products, and also to Metastorm and Sparx Systems.