SOLIM TO DISTRIBUTE RAVEN IN BENELUX

Utrecht, The Netherlands and Emeryville, CA—November 30, 2009—Ravenflow, the leader in visual requirements definition software, today announced a new partnership agreement with Solim to distribute the award-winning RAVEN software in The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Solim's main focus is improving the integration of software lifecycles through process improvement.

"More and more organizations are aware that the software development process needs a totally different approach. It is a well-known fact that omissions and faults in requirements have a tremendous impact on the costs and the quality of a software application," said Anton Greve, general manager of Solim. "More and more organizations have started focusing on the front processes of the lifecycle, business analysis, and requirements engineering. 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. "Solim's experience in requirements engineering, including being a cofounder of the local IIBA chapter, makes it the requirements thought leader in the Benelux countries."

Solim's goal is to manage the business analysis and specification phases in a new and different way. Based on extensive experience in ICT projects and in quality of specifications, Solim has developed a process for software product lifecycle management. The key is integration of ICT processes and reaching transparency in these processes.

Ravenflow is widely known for its award-winning RAVEN product for visual 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.

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."

About Solim
SOLIM was founded by the former management of Solidium, which specializes in tool-driven software development and is one of the major Java houses in The Netherlands. Their experience in both business analysis and development led to the new company, SOLIM. The main objective is to bring new services to market in order to integrate business analysis, design, and IT development. To accomplish this, SOLIM has developed the ARE methodology (Analysis & Requirements Engineering) as an integration instrument. SOLIM is also the founder of the Dutch chapter of the IIBA.


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Media Contact
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Ravenflow
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Solim Contact
Anton Greve
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info@solim.nl
www.solim.nl
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