Ravenflow Honored as Recipient of IBM Rational Award for Business Partners

ORLANDO, Fla.--(Business Wire)--
Ravenflow, the leader in Business Requirements Definition, has been selected as
a winner of this year`s IBM Rational Awards for Business Partners. These awards
honor IBM Rational Business Partners that have demonstrated a deep technology
and industry expertise with IBM Rational software and are delivering exceptional
solutions that solve real business problems. Chosen from several hundred
eligible business partners, Ravenflow will be honored at the 2009 IBM Rational
Software Conference on Wednesday, June 3.

Ravenflow was selected as a winner of the Outstanding Solution by an Independent
Software Vendor (ISV) Award. This honor is awarded for excellence in developing
an effective and innovative solution that is enabled by IBM Rational Software.
Ravenflow has provided an innovative solution for eliciting and validating
business requirements, and has integrated it with several IBM Rational products
including IBM Rational RequisitePro, IBM Rational Telelogic DOORS, and IBM
Rational Requirements Composer.

"Ravenflow`s integration with Rational products has creative innovative
capabilities and value for our joint customers," said Michael Loria, vice
president, Business Development, IBM Rational Software. "Ravenflow has built an
excellent relationship with IBM over the past five years. We congratulate them
on being selected as a recipient of this year`s Rational Awards for Business
Partners and achieving this honor."

"We are very pleased that IBM Rational has selected RAVEN as an outstanding
partner solution of 2009," said Susan Boers, president and CEO of Ravenflow.
"From a vendor perspective, we applaud IBM`s business partner team for being so
progressive and open as we developed our integrations. This teamwork allowed us
to go to market much faster. RAVEN is now the first and only product to win the
Triple Crown of software awards: The Gartner Cool Vendor award, the JOLT
Productivity Award, and the IBM Rational Outstanding Solution by an ISV award.
All of these industry honors are driven by the tremendous ROI our clients report
achieving in improving their requirements processes."

Ravenflow is sponsoring the Rational Software Conference in Orlando from May 31
to June 4, 2009. It will be demonstrating RAVEN at booth #715 in the Ready for
Rational Software Pavilion during the show exhibition.

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.

For more information about the IBM Rational Awards for Business Partners, please
visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/rsdc/partners/awards.html. For more
information about IBM Rational business partner offerings and solutions, please
visit: http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/partners.

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 fastest growing
company in the Requirements market, received the 2009 Jolt Productivity Award,
and was selected as a Gartner "Cool Vendor in Application Development."

All products mentioned in the release are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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respective owners.

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