Enhanced Features of Telelogic Tau UML Suite 4.3 Empowers UML 1.3 XMI

Business Wire, June 21, 2000

Business Editors

MALMO, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2000

Java and Large Project Enhancements Also Included

Telelogic AB (Stockholm Stock Exchange:TLOG), the leading supplier of design, development and testing tools for real-time and communications applications, today announced the availability of the latest version of its state-of-the-art, multi-user, UML development environment, Telelogic Tau UML Suite 4.3.

This latest version is feature rich with several important enhancements, including up-to-date method support for the UML 1.3 graphical notation.

Telelogic Tau UML Suite's unique strengths continue to be in the areas of multi-user support and project control. The benefits of improved development workflow are over and above the naturally strong UML support.

"The UML Suite differs from many of its competitors by providing support for specifying large-scale and complex systems," states Mike Budd lead analyst at Ovum, an independent research and consulting company for IT and telecoms.

"After the acquisition of the COOL:Jex business from Sterling Software, it is very important to our customers that Telelogic Tau UML Suite, as we now call it, maintains its position of leadership," said Ingemar Ljungdahl, CTO of Telelogic AB. "Confidence and continuity are paramount to UML developers, along with support for the latest release of UML itself. Couple this with the expectional professional services available worldwide, and you have a very powerful solution."

Other impressive new features include XML/XMI support. This allows UML models to be exchanged with a variety of complementary products. Java developers will find that support for Java2 and Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) improves their productivity. C++ developers will welcome enhanced support for Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) and further improvements in the C++ roundtrip engineering.

Availability

Telelogic Tau UML Suite 4.3 is part of the complete Telelogic Tau environment and will be available from July 1st 2000 for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95, Windows(R) 98, Windows NT 4.0 and UNIX workstations.

About Telelogic Tau

Telelogic Tau is comprised of tools for the analysis, design and testing of event-driven, real-time applications. Telelogic Tau merges the graphical notation of UML, in the Telelogic Tau UML Suite, the real-time design and development language SDL, in the Telelogic Tau SDL Suite, and the ISO standard test scripting language TTCN, in the Telelogic Tau TTCN Suite. These tools provide a complete software development, simulation and testing environment for real-time and communications applications. Telelogic Tau also offers SCADE (Safety Critical Application Development Environment), a tool for developing time-triggered, safety-critical systems and Logiscope, a tool suite that facilitates quality assessments of software written in C, C++, Ada or Java.

About Telelogic AB

Telelogic is the world's leading supplier of software development solutions for real-time and communicating systems. By offering high- quality graphical tools, software components and professional services, Telelogic makes the development of software more rapid, less labor intensive, and more reliable. Customers include Alcatel, BMW, Boeing, Cisco, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed-Martin, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Siemens and a number of universities and institutions worldwide. Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden, Telelogic's worldwide presence includes sales and service offices in Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Information about Telelogic and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at www.telelogic.com

About Ovum

Ovum provides highly independent analysis of many aspects of the IT industry. The latest edition of its influential report, "Ovum Evaluates: CASE Products" is now available. Contact Ovum at www.ovum.com

Telelogic, Telelogic Tau, Logiscope, ObjectGeode and SCADE are trademarks of Telelogic.

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