Compatible Operating Systems: IBM Rational RequisitePro; IBM Rational Unified Process; IBM Rational Software Development Platform

Compatible Hardware Platforms:PC

RAVEN™ is an automated collaborative solution for detecting requirements errors early. It enables enterprises to elicit, specify, analyze, and validate requirements. RAVEN produces functional specifications, both graphical and textual, that everyone can understand.

RAVEN™ — automatically generates visual models from plain business English text. Business executives, analysts, domain experts, and other project stakeholders gain immediate graphical feedback on their use cases in order to detect requirements errors early.

RAVEN™ Specification Builder — automatically creates requirements specification documents in templated Microsoft Word format, including visual models and use case text, allowing easy communication of requirements with stakeholders and solution providers.

RAVEN™ Specification Checker — automatically detects most common specification errors directly from use case text, enabling analysts to quickly locate and fix them before the specification is published.

RAVEN™ Collaboration Server — empowers teams of analysts to collaboratively develop and validate requirements and specifications.

RAVEN™ Specification Library — allows analysts and stakeholders to share and reuse libraries of validated specifications and requirements.

RAVEN™ Requirements Governance — shows critical requirements process quality and risk management metrics for executives and managers.

RAVEN™ RequisitePro Integration — enables organizations to author and validate requirements in RAVEN and automatically transfer them into IBM Rational RequisitePro.

RAVEN™ Rational Unified Process (RUP) Plug-in — provides additional process guidance for detecting requirements errors, while ensuring that requirements are complete, unambiguous, and are measured by defined quality metrics.

Ravenflow is an IBM Advanced Business Partner, and “Ready for Rational” certified by IBM.

RAVEN automatically generates visual models from plain business English text, providing immediate graphical feedback for detecting requirements errors.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

• Link Business and Application Development Strategy Validate the business value of software applications and apply metrics to the requirements process
• Reduce Rework Costs Improve requirements accuracy in order to catch errors before coding
• Accelerate Time to Deployment Meet time-to-market demands
• Increase Analyst Productivity Increase productivity and save time authoring and validating requirements
• Lower the Risk of Project Abandonment Reduce misalignment with end users and customers