IIBA AGAIN RECOGNIZES RAVENFLOW AS AN ENDORSED EDUCATION PROVIDER

Requirements Elicitation Techniques training course certified by IIBA

Emeryville, CA—October 19, 2009—The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) today announced that it has again recognized Ravenflow as an Endorsed Education Provider by certifying its course Requirements Elicitation Techniques.

The IIBA is an independent, nonprofit professional association serving the growing population of business analysts in the workforce. The IIBA identifies education providers who offer business analyst training courses that are aligned with the IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®). Prospective Endorsed Education Providers must go through a rigorous evaluation process. Providers offering business analysis courses that meet specific criteria are designated as "endorsed" and become members of the Endorsed Education Provider (EEP™) Program.

Ravenflow has been recognized for its course Requirements Elicitation Techniques. This course is for students who are gathering user requirements and who may have had little experience in elicitation techniques. It provides an overview of elicitation techniques and recommendations for when the techniques are most effective. The topics of the course are reinforced through class exercises. This course, developed by Marcia Stinson and Tim O'Connor, both senior consultants at Ravenflow, has been among Ravenflow's most popular training courses. Professional business analysts representing many Fortune 500 companies have attended this course over the last 12 months.

Ravenflow is the first and only requirements product vendor to be endorsed by the IIBA. It has previously been recognized by the IIBA with the acceptance of its course Writing Effective Business Use Cases.

"Ravenflow allows PHT to optimize the requirements definition process for our customers by accelerating development time of our electronic diaries and reducing costs," said Judy Kaplowitz, PMP, U.S. manager of client services at PHT Corporation. "Ravenflow's training was excellent and complemented PHT's core Project Management Framework methodology."

Students who complete Requirements Elicitation Techniques receive credit toward IIBA's CBAP professional certification. Requirements Elicitation Techniques, along with all of Ravenflow's products and training offerings, promotes the best practices for requirements definition as outlined in the BABOK.

"Many of our customers have expressed appreciation for helping their business analysts learn why they should be improving their processes and what the impact can mean to their company’s overall success," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow. "Our courses focusing on best practices provide a clearer vision to producing better quality of requirements, and we are proud to be the first requirements product vendor to become an Endorsed Education Provider by the IIBA."

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 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 changes the way companies look at requirements by empowering business analysts to rapidly visualize and 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 the IIBA
International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) is the independent, nonprofit professional association serving the growing field of business analysis to the international business community. The organization is comprised of more than 9,000 members around the globe in fields ranging from requirements management and requirements analysis to project management and consulting. IIBA® has chapters in over 40 countries worldwide and is committed to developing and advancing standards for the practice of business analysis and for the certification of practitioners.

About PHT Corporation
PHT is the market-leading provider of electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) solutions used in more than 400 clinical trials by 100 biopharmaceutical clients. The proven LogPad® System and revolutionary SitePad® Tablet deliver the voice of the patient, in 88 languages, from homes and sites in 65 countries around the world. By capturing high-quality and time-stamped assessments with minimal respondent burden, trial sponsors are able to run smaller and more conclusive clinical research programs resulting in significant R&D cost savings. Real-time study management through PHT StudyWorks™ features eClinical data integration, standard and custom data summaries for compliance and enrollment, SafetyPRO™ email alerts, and the industry's premier study archive. Patient experiences captured firsthand by PHT's ePRO Product Suite have been used successfully in at least 12 NDA submissions and seven approvals to date.


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