Requirements Analysis Software

IBM Rational® RequisitePro® is a requirements management tool
Trial download now available: Download it now

For project teams who want to manage their requirements, write good use cases, improve traceability, strengthen collaboration, reduce project risk, and increase quality.

* Uses advanced real-time integration with Microsoft® Word to provide a familiar environment for activities such as requirements definition and organization
* Incorporates a powerful database infrastructure to facilitate requirements organization, integration, traceability and analysis
* Enables detailed attribute customization and filtering to maximize the informative value of each requirement
* Provides a fully functional, scaleable web interface optimized for usage in a geographically distributed environment
* Provides detailed traceability views that display parent/child relationships and shows requirements that may be affected by upstream or downstream changes
* Performs project version comparisons using XML-based project baselines
* Integrates with multiple tools in the IBM Software Delivery Platform to improve accessibility, communication and traceability of requirements
* Operating systems supported: Windows

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Reqpro Excel Client is an add-on.

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RAVEN

Rapid Requirements Elicitation and Definition
The award-winning RAVEN software for requirements elicitation and definition enables business analysts to quickly build stakeholder consensus on requirements, reduce the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduce developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrate requirements and testing.

RAVEN adds requirements elicitation and definition to the application lifecycle management platforms from IBM Rational, Telelogic, HP Mercury, and Microsoft Visual Studio.

Got Requirements Trouble?
Poorly reviewed application specifications and missing requirements are the leading cause of missed deadlines for application software projects. Half of all development rework is attributed to requirements problems. Yet many organizations still cling to massive Microsoft Word specification documents that are difficult to review and impossible to maintain.

Deliver Applications Faster
RAVEN enables enterprises to deliver applications faster. Teams of business analysts, stakeholders, and subject matter experts can quickly collaborate to define precise application requirements and publish accurate specification documents. RAVEN reduces the time required for stakeholders to approve specifications, reduces developer rework due to requirements errors, and seamlessly integrates requirements and testing, often saving months from business application projects.

Find Missing Requirements
Unlike traditional drag-and-drop requirements tools, the award-winning RAVEN software automatically parses plain English text and generates visual models and specification documents that are intuitive to non-technical stakeholders and subject matter experts. There is no need for business analysts to learn new diagram languages-RAVEN works directly from English text in Microsoft Word, making it the simplest solution to implement and the fastest for business analysts to learn. Our patented language engine understands use cases and user stories and helps business analysts complete specification documents quickly.

RAVEN Express

RAVEN Express is the industry’s first requirements elicitation and definition product that is integrated directly into Microsoft Word™. Business analysts who today write requirements documents in Word can easily add requirements modeling and find missing requirements with the push of one button. Unlike other requirements environments, RAVEN Express does not require the business analyst to learn a new application, to learn a new graphical modeling language, or even to leave Microsoft Word.

With RAVEN Express, you can add requirements modeling directly into Microsoft Word.

Using Microsoft Word for Requirements Definition?
Missing and incomplete requirements are the #1 reason projects fail, according to a 2008 Baseline Magazine study. Yet many business analysts continue to rely on massive Word documents because moving to a dedicated requirements product takes too much time and effort.

Find Missing Requirements in Your Word Document, Without Leaving Word!
By adding requirements modeling directly into Microsoft Word, you can add modeling to your elicitation and specification practices without moving to a separate requirements tool. Specifications always begin with English text—that’s how business people communicate every day. But text by itself is insufficient, inefficient, and ineffective. Stakeholders and subject matter experts cannot review large amounts of text and find what’s missing.

Using Corporate Templates? Have Existing Libraries of Documents?
Many organizations have spent years refining specification templates. With RAVEN Express you can add requirements models to your existing templates without a change! Are you in the middle of a project, or is your new project a change to an existing application? Open your existing Word specification documents, and RAVEN is ready to work.

It’s Simple and Powerful to Use
Simply select the text of your use case, scenario, or user story, and click the Insert Model button. RAVEN parses plain business English text, and will insert an Activity Diagram into your document. RAVEN automatically creates a glossary and finds ambiguous requirements statements. RAVEN can even find missing requirements.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
RAVEN dramatically accelerates requirements definition. Ravenflow customers report cutting weeks and even months off their project schedules as they use RAVEN to quickly build stakeholder consensus and find missing requirements early in the process, before coding has started.

RAVEN Highlights

RAVEN automatically generates clear graphical models of the requirements from the text.

* Faster and more accurate reviews by stakeholders
* Faster delivery of specifications to development
* Text and diagrams are always in perfect synchronization

RAVEN finds missing requirements.

* Reduces delays due to rework and waiting for clarification

RAVEN provides a web-based collaboration portal.

* Expedites faster review cycles, enables versioning, and provides a record of the discussions behind the decisions

RAVEN automatically generates specification documents.

* Faster delivery of specifications to development in a consistent format

RAVEN generates test cases from use cases.

* 100% test coverage for functional requirements starts testing faster


"With RAVEN, we can beat the clock and get our product in front of the customer quickly. Now, after just the first or second time around, we deliver exactly what the customer wants."
— David Mann, CIO
Word & Brown Companies


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


RAVEN Features

RAVEN Author — enables business analysts to quickly assemble complete business requirements specification documents from notes, interviews, Microsoft Word documents, use cases and user stories, workshops, screen mockups and screen shots, business rules, and other types of stakeholder information. RAVEN automatically generates activity diagrams with swim lanes from the plain English text of use cases and user stories.

RAVEN Author includes the Specification Builder, which quickly creates requirements specification documents from all requirements components in templated Microsoft Word format, allowing easy communication of requirements with stakeholders and solution providers. It is template based, so each organization can design the exact document that will satisfy its needs. RAVEN-produced specification documents include automatically generated diagrams, which are essential for stakeholder validation. Changes to requirements are easily incorporated into new documents in seconds.

RAVEN exports requirements models into popular UML modeling tools such as Rational Software Architect, Metastorm Provision, and Sparx Enterprise Architect.

RAVEN Integrations

RAVEN RequisitePro Integration — enables organizations to elicit and define requirements in RAVEN and automatically transfer them into IBM Rational RequisitePro. This ensures that requirements are visible to all development team members and provides traceability throughout the development lifecycle.

RAVEN DOORS Integration — enables organizations to elicit and define requirements in RAVEN and automatically transfer them into IBM Rational DOORS. This ensures that requirements are visible to all development team members and provides traceability throughout the development lifecycle.

RAVEN HP Quality Center Integration — Complete requirements and test cases are automatically populated into HP Quality Center, dramatically reducing test preparation time and enabling delivery of higher quality applications, faster.

RAVEN Visual Studio 2005 IntegrationTM — enables organizations to author and validate requirements in RAVEN and automatically transfer them as work items into Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server.

RAVEN Collaboration Server

RAVEN Collaboration Server enables teams of business analysts to work together. It enables creation of a corporate library of validated specifications and best practices that all analysts have access to via the web. It provides a versioning system for keeping track of requirements changes. It stores all comments and issues with the requirements for auditing and compliance purposes, as well as a web-based requirements portal that analysts, stakeholders, and subject matter experts can use to quickly discuss and validate requirements.

RAVEN Add-ons

RAVEN Reviewer — allows analysts and stakeholders to collaboratively develop and validate requirements and specifications.

RAVEN Project Manager — allows the project manager to better manage risk early in the project. Metrics reported include requirements churn, outstanding requests for reviews, and open issues filed against the requirements.

RAVEN SQA — automatically generates tests from requirements. Tests having 100% requirements coverage are generated automatically. Sets of test can be version controlled and baselined along with their associated requirements assets as part of a requirements project. Test cases are actively linked with their associated requirements, so that when requirements change, test cases are automatically updated. Complete requirements and test cases are automatically populated into HP Quality Center, dramatically reducing test preparation time and enabling delivery of higher quality applications, faster.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2008
THE STRIKING PRICE DAILY
Trust Options, Not Corporate America
By STEVEN M. SEARS
The activity of calls and puts is a far better gauge of a company's
health than a CEO's words.

FRONT-MONTH OPTIONS CONTRACTS are a stock investor's best financial
adviser.

The trading activity in calls and puts shows if sophisticated investors
are bullish or bearish about a stock, or even an entire market.

Even investors who do not trade options need to understand options to
better navigate this market. Depending on corporate executives for
straight talk is often a fast road to the poor house.

Options can help speak truth to power.

Executives of bankrupt Lehman Brothers, for example, asserted to the
bitter end that the bank was financially healthy, but the options told a
different story.

Wachovia, whose stock is down 85% this year, also offers a good lesson
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In July, Wachovia (ticker: WB) prominently displayed on its corporate
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When Lehman was trying to fast talk its way out of its latest mess, the
options market said Lehman would pull a Bear Stearns and take a dirt
nap in Wall Street's graveyard.

Lehman's implied volatility -- a measure of investors' expectations
about the severity of a stock's up or down movement -- was obscenely high.
Still, traders bought puts -- which increase in value when stock
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Juxtapose options trading with what former CEO Richard Fuld said on
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we believe will be a strong and clean balance sheet that will allow us
to serve our customer business," he said.

Options told the truth; Lehman did not. This story line emerges over
and over again. It's not always perfect, but it's safer to trust
options-activity trading than the soothing words of corporate chieftains.

Against this backdrop of dubious corporate assertions, Dow Chemical
(DOW) deserves credit for its most recent earnings report. Andrew Liveris,
chief of the nation's largest chemical company, minced no words in
telling investors that he expects a global recession through most of 2009.
Dow's products are in everything from plastic to fertilizers and seed
sciences, so Liveris likely knows what he's talking about.

Dow's stock is up 9.3% as sharp product-price increases lifted net
income 6.2% in the third quarter. With the stock just below $24, traders
are buying November 30 calls and selling November 22.50 and 25 puts.

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if you looked at nothing but the lower panel of the chart, you could easily spot the trend days.

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Why couldn't open source do this? Is the cost really for support and maintenance?
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Scheduler, encryption, etc.
Pricing starts at $3995.  (2012 starting at $4995)
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$5000 and up.

The Moonwalk management interface or “Eagle” is a light-weight web application that receives HTTP connections.

A single point of management, the Eagle ensures that all policies, rules, tasks and storage definitions are centralized for simplified administration.

When a task is executed, the Eagle distributes instructions across the network such that each system participating in the operation localizes its workload.

This distributed execution architecture enables Moonwalk to scale proportionally.

With no middleware or centralized cache, data is migrated from its source directly to target in a single operation. Without the introduction of a single point of failure, Moonwalk is a unique technology offering for Enterprise Data Management. 
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MoveIt
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Schedule processes to run on a scheduled, event-driven, simultaneous, or on-demand basis
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Monitor and report on all past, present, and scheduled tasks
Ensure clean files with anti-virus integration
Demonstrate compliance based on a single, detailed audit trail

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