IBM RATIONAL CERTIFIES RAVEN VISUAL ANALYZER FOR RATIONAL REQUIREMENTS COMPOSER V2
Emeryville, CA—February 16, 2010—Ravenflow, the leader in visual requirements definition software, today announced that has received official notice from IBM that its RAVEN Visual Analyzer for Rational Requirements Composer product has been validated for RRC Version 2.
"IBM Rational Requirements Composer represents a key advancement for the industry," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "Our largest customers are committed to improving their approaches to requirements and business process with the most advanced technology available. By leveraging the unique RAVEN technology for visual validation within IBM Rational Requirements Composer, the two companies have created true innovation. This validation by IBM ensures clients know that the technical teams have been closely collaborating and the technology is seamlessly integrated."
RAVEN Visual Analyzer is a plug-in component that adds powerful requirements visualization and analysis capabilities to IBM Rational Requirements Composer. Designed to work seamlessly with Composer, RAVEN Visual Analyzer helps optimize requirements elicitation and validation activities, saving time and improving overall requirements quality.
RAVEN Visual Analyzer can be used within any Rational Requirements Composer rich text editor, including editors for writing use case specification, individual requirements, and complete business documents. RAVEN Visual Analyzer allows users to perform the following key functions directly within RRC:
- Automatically generate and insert business-friendly Activity Diagrams into any of RRC's requirements editors
- Analyze use case narratives, correct any errors, and insert the resulting Activity Diagram in RRC
- Extend RAVEN-generated terms to the Enterprise Glossary that comes with RRC for better consistency
- Highlight errors in process or use case text to help identify missing or ambiguous requirements
- Preview RAVEN Activity Diagrams in a separate window, then drag and drop them into any RRC editor
Working together, RAVEN and Rational Requirements Composer can dramatically reduce the time it takes to define and confirm business requirements with key stakeholders, thereby accelerating project schedules and increasing stakeholder confidence that the final application will meet core business needs.
Based upon patented language processing technology, RAVEN allows business people to describe their needs in plain English, then automatically identifies missing requirements while generating visual process and use case diagrams that all stakeholders can understand. With its distinctive business orientation and process-based approach to requirements definition, RAVEN is uniquely suited for use on both enterprise process improvement and application development projects.
About Ravenflow
Ravenflow is the leading provider of visual requirements definition software that allows companies to gain better insight, clarity, and quality in their process improvement and application development projects. Leveraging a uniquely business-driven and process-based approach, Ravenflow transforms requirements definition by empowering business analysts to rapidly produce clear specifications of their business process workflows, business use cases, and business application needs. Ravenflow recently was named the fastest growing company in the requirements market, received the 2009 Jolt Productivity Award and the 2009 IBM Rational Partner of the Year Award, and was selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development."
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