IOCTANE TO DISTRIBUTE RAVEN IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Melbourne, Australia and Emeryville, CA—August 17, 2009—Ravenflow™, the leader in Business Requirements Definition™, today announced a new partnership agreement with iOctane to distribute the award-winning RAVEN software in Australia and New Zealand. iOctane is one of Australia's premier providers of Business Transformation technology.
"Increasing customer expectations, shrinking profit margins, fierce competition, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and deregulation are some of the issues that business leaders must meet head-on. Responding and adapting quickly to these challenges can make the difference between success and failure," said Jeremy Ellis, CEO of iOctane. "We work with our clients to model, visualize, and improve their entire enterprise—resulting in a thorough understanding of the cause-effect relationships between business strategy, business processes, and the systems and technology that support them. After a careful evaluation, we have selected the RAVEN product for improving the quality of business process specifications."
"Organizations that thrive in today's dynamic business environment continually strive to understand and improve their business processes," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "iOctane’s experience with Business Process Improvement assists organizations in understanding where they are now, where they need to be in the future, and what they have to do in order to get there. RAVEN is a logical extension of iOctane’s practice of improving the visibility of the business processes performed in their clients’ organization."
iOctane specializes in technology enabled process improvement for the Telecommunications, Legal, Insurance, Banking/Finance, and Government sectors. With offices in Melbourne and Auckland, iOctane ensures its clients achieve major productivity and service delivery improvements while simultaneously reducing costs and enhancing management reporting. The company has a proven track record in delivering process improvement solutions to Australia's and New Zealand's top 500 companies—providing award-winning products and services in process improvement, automation, training, and management consulting.
Ravenflow is widely known for its award-winning RAVEN product for business requirements definition. Using RAVEN, business analysts and other team members can rapidly visualize and validate requirements, build team consensus, and produce clear specifications of their business process workflows, business use cases, and business application 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.
For more information about RAVEN or to download a free 30-day trial, please visit www.ravenflow.com or call 877-557-2836.
About Ravenflow
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. Ravenflow recently was named the 2009 Partner of the Year by IBM Rational, received the 2009 Jolt Productivity Award, and was selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development."
About iOctane
iOctane is an Australian and New Zealand based Business Transformation technology provider. It has a proven track record in delivering major productivity and service delivery improvements while simultaneously reducing costs and enhancing management reporting. iOctane provide award-winning products and services in process improvement, automation, training, and management consulting. For more information on iOctane, visit
www.ioctane.com.
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Ravenflow Contact:
Adam Frankl, Vice President of Marketing
650-823-4057
adam.frankl@ravenflow.com
iOctane Contact:
Cremorne, Victoria
Australia 3121
Tel: +61-(0)3-9815-0066
Fax: +61-(0)3-9819-2222