MALMO, Sweden and IRVINE, Calif., May 17, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Telelogic (Stockholm:TLOG), the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development, today announced the availability of DOORS 7.1. Used by more than 100,000 professionals at more than 1,300 companies worldwide, DOORS is the market share leader for requirements management according to industry analyst firms META Group (1), Standish Group (2) and Yphise (3).
Telelogic DOORS is a multi-platform, enterprise-wide system for capturing, linking, tracing, analyzing and managing changes to information to ensure a project's compliance to specified requirements and standards. The release of DOORS 7.1 makes project team collaboration and communication throughout the development lifecycle even stronger and the adoption of a requirements-driven development approach quicker and easier.
"A strong requirements management process and supporting automated tools are essential for successfully developing today's complex systems and software," said Matt Light, research director at Gartner. "Enhancing usability increases acceptance of these tools with users and unlocks productivity gains for organizations that adopt a requirements-driven approach."
Version 7.1 builds on the market and technology leading strengths of DOORS, that include:
- Requirements-Driven Development -- Requirements management is essential for project success. Telelogic's automated lifecycle solution puts DOORS and requirements management at the heart of the development process. This greatly increases the likelihood that organizations deliver systems and software that meet all specified requirements.
- Broad Integration -- DOORS is integrated with Telelogic TAU(R) for requirements-driven specification, design and implementation of complex systems and software; with Telelogic SYNERGY(TM) for change and configuration management; as well as with many third-party tools covering project management, modeling, testing and configuration management, and other areas of the lifecycle.
-- Proactive Notification of Changes -- Unlike any other requirements tool on the market, DOORS proactively generates visual notifications of requirement changes that may impact related information directly in the requirements documents so nothing is overlooked. Users can quickly assess the impact of any related change and decide whether action is required.
-- Management of Change Requests -- DOORS enables organizations to respond rapidly to change while retaining control. For smaller requirements engineering teams and for the entire development project (through the integration with Telelogic SYNERGY), DOORS enables requirements changes to be controlled in a configurable change process. As such, users can submit, review and approve changes within a DOORS document.
-- Intelligent Traceability(TM) -- In a dynamic, iterative development project, requirements analysts often work requirements for the second release while test engineers are writing test cases against the requirements for the first release. Intelligent Traceability ensures that all teams are using the right requirements for the increment or version they are working on, and, furthermore, links are saved together with the right set of baselines as the project progresses from milestone to milestone. Conformance of all variants and versions to the respective applicable requirements is ensured -- a major prerequisite for project success.
-- Effective Communication -- To provide maximum clarity in requirements documents and to enhance the effectiveness of communication of those requirements throughout the development team, DOORS allows virtually any data to be included in a requirements document, including pictures, Visio diagrams, charts, and PowerPoint slides. In addition, DOORS/Analyst(TM), a superset of DOORS, enables UML(TM) diagrams to be created and embedded within requirements documents.
-- Complete Project Visibility -- In large, complex projects, immediate visibility of progress enables organizations to manage projects more effectively. Uniquely in DOORS, traceability reports can be generated to provide a complete audit trail from multiple documents - stakeholder requirements through to designs and tests - in a single view. As are result, organization can quickly determine project status and detect unsatisfied requirements or over engineering.
"The release of Telelogic DOORS 7.1 cements its position as the pre-eminent requirements management solution on the market," said Anders Lidbeck, president and CEO of Telelogic. 'The new innovations, enhanced functionality, and improved usability contained in this release move DOORS even further ahead and make the benefits of adopting a requirements-driven development approach even more compelling."
DOORS 7.1 Enhancements
Version 7.1 adds new functionality to the existing market-leading capabilities of DOORS. These enhancements include.
- Test Tracking Toolkit: Create links from requirements to tests to ensure requirements are covered by tests, generate test runs, record the results automatically, and compare test run results. The ability to manage small numbers of test cases within DOORS is very attractive for smaller testing environments.
- Document Compare: Compare two requirements documents side-by side using the automatic redline feature to show all differences. This is especially valuable for distributed teams, parallel development or collaborating companies.
- Powerful Tables: See the multiple properties of each requirement within a single table cell, enabling more details to be viewed directly in the tables themselves without having to open additional windows to see vital information.
- Extended Platform Support: Run DOORS on more platforms and with more applications including Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2003 Server and Microsoft(R) Office 2003.
Availability and Platform Support
Telelogic DOORS 7.1 is available with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP, HP UX 11 (64 bit), Solaris 8 and 9, GNU/Linux: RedHat v8.0 (DOORS server only), Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (DOORS server only), Microsoft Office 2000, 2002 (XP), Microsoft Office 2003, and FLEXIm 8 and 9.2 support.
1. META Group - Mastering the Requirements of Requirements Management: Application Delivery Strategies, Integration & Development Strategies, Thomas Murphy, META Group, April 2003. 2. The Standish Group - What are your requirements? 2003, The International Standish Group, Inc., 2003. 3. Yphise, Requirements Management Tools, Yphise, 2002.
About Telelogic
Founded in 1983, Telelogic(R) is a leading global provider of solutionsfor advanced systems and software development. Telelogic's intuitive,best-in-class software tools automate and support best practicesthroughout the application development lifecycle, leaving developmentteams free to concentrate on core competencies and apply their skillsand energy to value-added tasks. By optimizing each phase ofdevelopment, Telelogic enables companies to deliver higher qualitysystems and software with greater predictability, reduced time-to-marketand lower overall costs.
To ensure interoperability with third-party tools, Telelogic's productsare built on an open architecture and standardized languages. As anindustry leader and technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involvedin shaping the future of advanced systems and software development byparticipating in industry organizations like ETSI, INCOSE, ITU-T, OMGand others.
Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Irvine,California, Telelogic has operations in 17 countries worldwide.Customers include Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler,Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC,Nokia, Philips, Siemens, Thales and Vodafone. For more information,please visit www.telelogic.com
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