RAVENFLOW WINS 2009 JOLT PRODUCTIVITY AWARD

EMERYVILLE, CA—March 13, 2009—Ravenflow™, the leader in Business Requirements Definition™, today announced that RAVEN was named a Jolt Productivity Award winner at the 19th Annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. This prestigious award recognizes companies that are producing universally useful, yet simple, functional tools that redefine their product space. The Jolt awards are conducted annually by TechWeb and are presented to products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient.

"We are honored to be recognized as a productivity winner in the design tools and modeling category," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "This award highlights the amazing productivity gains our clients have reported, cutting 20% to 40% or more off of their expected time to market. Eliminating developer and tester rework due to finding missing requirements early is the highest leverage ROI in the software development sphere."

"This year was an exceptionally exciting year for our judges, because there were so many strong contenders in every category," said Amber Ankerholz, Jolt Award project manager. "The winners reflect the great innovations thriving in the industry today, and it was especially satisfying to see industry leaders as well as newcomers changing how developers work by giving them great new products that reflect the changing software development landscape."

Ravenflow is the leading provider of business 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.

About Ravenflow
Ravenflow provides business requirements definition software that empowers business analysts to rapidly plan, define, and validate business requirements specifications for process improvement and application development projects. Ravenflow's award-winning RAVEN software enables business analysts to quickly build stakeholder consensus and produce clear requirements specifications that both business and IT can understand. RAVEN reduces rework due to requirements errors while seamlessly linking requirements with downstream development and testing activities through integration with IBM Rational, IBM Telelogic, Microsoft Visual Studio, and HP Quality Center products. Ravenflow was recently named the fastest growing company in the requirements market, and selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development." For more information, please visit www.ravenflow.com.


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