MALMO, Sweden and IRVINE, California, Dec. 6, 2004 -- Telelogic (Stockholm Exchange:TLOG), the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development, today announced the availability of the industry's first Lifecycle Change Management solution providing consistent and integrated change control processes across the product, systems and software development lifecycles from customer needs, through design specifications and software coding to testing. It is powered by the advanced change and configuration management capabilities of Telelogic SYNERGY(TM) integrated with the world's leading requirements management tool Telelogic DOORS(R). This solution is complemented by availability of the new Telelogic Dashboard(TM) which provides management with visual key status indicators to monitor project progress against business objectives.
Due to the ever increasing complexity of systems and software development, the ability of integrated product development teams to collaborate effectively is a key productivity issue. A study by leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC, `An End-User View of the Collaborative Software Development Market', revealed that a large number of organizations are struggling with project and team coordination issues (IDC #30608, December 2003). These organizations identified that the most critical aspects of development team collaboration include:
-- Managing requirements and change management of requirements
-- Managing design specifications and change management of design specifications
-- Sharing code
-- Feature/issue/defect tracking
The survey results highlight the increasing importance of requirements management and change management and emphasize the need for tighter integration between requirements management, defect tracking, and configuration management systems. Development teams need a reliable way to track, manage, and share all of the development artifacts and manage change to these artifacts throughout the development life cycle. Managers need insight into and control over what's really happening across all the disciplines of their development organizations.
Telelogic, by introducing new and extended capabilities to manage change and provide visibility throughout the product, systems or software development lifecycle, brings the following unique benefits to development organizations and their enterprises:
-- Complete impact assessment of a change. Telelogic's Lifecycle Change Management solution enables and records complete impact analysis of a change request across lifecycle disciplines -- involving all relevant stakeholders -- before any implementation decision is made.
-- 'A single version of the truth.' Telelogic's Lifecycle Change Management solution enables immediate synchronization of all the project team members with the latest Change Management decisions.
-- Better visibility and predictability for management. Telelogic Dashboard provides management with visibility of project performance against key business objectives, based on the latest data extracted from the change management repository.
"Telelogic's ALM solutions are today already delivering business benefits to organizations developing not only advanced software but also complete products and systems," said Ingemar Ljungdahl, chief technology officer at Telelogic. "The power of our new Lifecycle Change Management solution and Telelogic Dashboard further enhances our customers' abilities to provide automation and collaboration throughout their development organizations and enable them to deliver increased productivity, reduced costs, higher quality and faster time-to-market."
Analyst comments
"Integrated ALM solutions that combine strong process and change management capabilities with the visibility and collaboration afforded by dashboards are the foundation for organizations seeking tangible development process improvement," said Melissa Webster, research director, at IDC. "Companies that successfully implement these solutions will benefit from fewer surprises, improved team collaboration, shorter time-to-market, and higher-quality products."
Customer comments
"Using Telelogic's tools across our entire development lifecycle will enable us to automate and improve many aspects of our development processes," said Sinclair Bruce, chief engineer for Ingenico Northern Europe. "With SYNERGY integrated with DOORS, we now have the tools in place to help our distributed teams work more effectively, cope better with changes, communicate requirements more efficiently, and minimize development errors."
More about Lifecycle Change Management
Telelogic's Lifecycle Change Management solution enables development organizations to keep a clear focus on customer, market and business needs. This is ensured by keeping track of all suggestions and requests, by managing the impact of these changes to existing requirements baselines and controlling the resulting development activities, and by guaranteeing that implementation is driven from, and traced to, customer needs and business priorities.
Five specific process areas are addressed by Lifecycle Change Management:
-- Requirements Gathering: Implements a highly accessible, consistent, repeatable process for preliminary requirement capture and analysis by all stakeholders,
-- System Change Management: Enables a central, consistent, repeatable enhancement and change request process across systems and software projects, encompassing all areas of engineering,
-- Requirements Change Management: Provides a flexible, consistent and repeatable process for managing changes of the requirements base by the Change Control Board,
-- Implementation Management: Enables control of the implementation of changes, facilitating an efficient requirements-driven development process, tracing each development task and impacted object to an original requirement or change.
-- Enterprise-wide Defect Tracking and Resolution: Ensures that the development and testing teams are kept `in sync' and all defects can be tracked to resolution.
These processes can be used independently or together. They enhance and complement the requirements management capabilities of DOORS and configuration management processes in SYNERGY that an organization may already have in place. They can be used out-of-the-box or they can be customized to adapt to a particular need. The role-based approach used in Telelogic's Lifecycle Change Management solution ensures that users can easily access the information and operations they need from the interface they are primarily accustomed to using.
Telelogic's Lifecycle Change Management solution, enabled by the release of the Telelogic DOORS -- SYNERGY Integration version 5.0, is available now. It works with DOORS version 7.1 Patch 6 and SYNERGY/Change version 4.3 SP2 and is available on Windows 2000 and Windows XP clients and any DOORS and SYNERGY server platforms.
More about Telelogic Dashboard Telelogic Dashboard provides clear visibility of project status, risks and trends for executives and project management. Its actionable key performance indicators provide more effective management of systems and software development projects to complement Telelogic's Lifecycle Change Management solution.
Telelogic Dashboard enables managers to:
-- Quickly spot and address (potential) problem areas. Key issues are highlighted and action to remedy can be taken immediately. Managers can be proactive and don't need to work through masses of status reports or sit in endless progress meetings.
-- Improve predictability and enable strategic and operational decisions to be based on facts. Data presented is based on real, hard facts. Users can drill-down from high level indicators, through more detailed visual representations of metrics, into the actual development data. Necessity to reallocate resources to meet project objectives can be spotted immediately and can be responded to without delay.
-- Promote quality and customer satisfaction improvement. Pre-configured metrics support the implementation of best practices for disciplines required by process improvement approaches such as CMMI, SPICE and Six Sigma.
-- Implement a high ROI solution for Business Process Improvement. Out-of-the-box metrics and web based clients enable rapid deployment. Monitoring of, and acting upon key performance indicators can be directly driven by business objectives.
Telelogic Dashboard, supporting collection, analysis and reporting of metrics from the Telelogic SYNERGY/Change repository, is available now. Telelogic Dashboard Server is supported on Windows 2000 Server SP3 and SP4, Windows XP Professional SP1 and Telelogic Dashboard Browser Client runs on any Windows operating system supporting Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0.
About Telelogic DOORS
Telelogic DOORS is a multi-platform, enterprise-wide system for capturing, linking, tracing and analyzing information to ensure a project's compliance to specified requirements and standards. 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 Gartner1, META Group2, Standish Group3 and Yphise4.
About Telelogic SYNERGY
Telelogic SYNERGY is an integrated family of tools for change and configuration management, which provides lifecycle control for a company's digital assets. Forrester5 stated, "SYNERGY/CM is one of the most mature products on the market," and Yphise6 wrote, "Telelogic SYNERGY stands out compared to the software solutions of other vendors."
About Telelogic
Founded in 1983, Telelogic(R) is a leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development. Telelogic's intuitive, best-in-class software tools automate and support best practices throughout the application lifecycle, leaving development teams free to concentrate on core competencies and apply their skills and energy to value-added tasks. By optimizing each phase of development, Telelogic enables companies to deliver higher quality systems and software with greater predictability, reduced time-to-market and lower overall costs.
To ensure interoperability with third-party tools, Telelogic's products are built on an open architecture and standardized languages. As an industry leader and technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the future of advanced systems and software development by participating in industry organizations like ETSI, INCOSE, ITU-T, OMG and 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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