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June 16, 2009 - Cook Enterprise Corporation Business Partner, Blueprint™, Named 2009 Innovator

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colorado (June 16, 2009)– Cook Enterprise Corporation, a thought leader for discovering and documenting business processes and software application requirements, announced today that Blueprint™, the leading provider of requirements definition solutions for the business analyst, has been named a 2009 Innovator by independent analyst firm voke inc.

A voke Innovator demonstrates significant and profound market impact while advancing innovation and transforming the global software lifecycle. Market impact and innovation is determined by acceptance, usefulness, and creativity of the solution. Lifecycle transformation is determined by ongoing communication, collaboration, and connectivity across constituents within the global lifecycle. Blueprint was the only requirements solution vendor recognized as part of the 2009 voke recognition.

“Statistically, more than 60% of applications fail because of ineffective or missing requirements,” said Theresa Lanowitz, founder, voke, inc. “Blueprint clearly understands this, and has built a platform for the business analyst to capture and present requirements in the optimal way for each constituent in the lifecycle. The ability to automatically generate test cases based upon requirements sets a new standard for lifecycle vendors to achieve.”

This is the latest in a long list of accolades for the company, which was also named the winner of the 2009 Jolt Excellence Award in Design and Modeling, and one of the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50.

The complete library of 2009 voke Innovator publications is available to subscribers.

About Cook Enterprise Corporation ( www.building-requirements-consensus.com )
Cook Enterprise Corporation helps you add clarity and build consensus with business processes, software requirements, software testing and outsourcing through its Building Requirements Consensus™ methodology and approach.

About voke ( www.vokestream.com ) (opens in new window)
voke is a modern analyst firm focused on the edge of innovation. voke’s primary coverage area is the application lifecycle and its global transformation, including virtualization, cloud computing, embedded systems and device software. voke looks at how existing and installed technology can benefit from innovation and provides in depth coverage of core vendors and innovators. Please visit www.vokeinc.com for additional information.

About Blueprint ( www.blueprintsys.com ) (opens in new window)
Named a winner of the 2009 Jolt Excellence Award in Design and Modeling, Blueprint is a global leader in requirements, delivering the industry’s first requirements workbench purpose built for today’s software requirements authors. Blueprint’s product Requirements Center™ empowers authors and reviewers to visually define, simulate, validate, and publish requirements for context and comprehension-rich collaboration with increasingly distributed and 3rd-party stakeholders– from the capture of business process definitions and textual requirements, all the way through more complex use cases, data, business rules, UI simulations and complete test case generation. Blueprint solutions eliminate requirements errors and misunderstanding, and enables companies to deliver software projects faster, with less cost and rework, and greater user satisfaction. Blueprint is a global provider, headquartered in Canada, and with presence, partners and customers in North America and Europe.

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