Telelogic Strengthens Lead in Delivering Industry's First Automated Lifecycle Management Solution

Business Wire, Oct 11, 2001

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2001

Telelogic Synergy(R)/DOORS(R) Integration 2.0 Automates Change

Management from Requirements to Delivery

Telelogic (Stockholm Exchange:TLOG), a leading global provider of solutions for advanced software and systems development, today announced the integration of three core products: CM Synergy(R), a leading tool for managing change within the application development lifecycle, ChangeSynergy(R), a best-in-class tool for change request management and DOORS, the world's leading requirements management tool according to the Standish Group in its 2000 industry report entitled, "What are your requirements? 2000."

The integration of these three pre-eminent products from Telelogic's solution portfolio is the next step in realizing the company's long-term strategy of providing automated capabilities to manage the entire software and systems product lifecycle, from requirements to delivery.

Automation, through integration of tools such as DOORS, ChangeSynergy and CM Synergy, provides the platform that enhances communication, visibility and accessibility. As a result, the developer/engineer can spend more time creating code instead of completing tedious manual tasks.

This enables organizations to increase application development productivity and efficiency, while at the same time reduce cost. Currently, developers spend less than 50 percent of their time performing activities that add value to applications, according to the Standish Group.

In addition to the challenge of automation, today's software development teams live in a world where it is difficult to assess and manage change. The seamless integration of Synergy and DOORS enables organizations to automatically capture metrics on process artifacts so that they can fully understand the impact and cost associated with, for example, requirements that change during a given period of time or the number of requirements that have been tested.

By providing accurate estimates of the risks associated with change, the Telelogic Synergy/DOORS Integration 2.0 enables organizations to better control the implementation of requirement changes and development processes.

"Without requirements there is no direction and without process there is no roadmap to the implementation," said Bill Philbin, senior vice president of Telelogic's global product organization.

"For the first time in the industry, Telelogic links these two worlds together and automates many of the tasks involved. This ensures developers only work on activities in support of clearly defined and approved requirements. It also enables traceability from requirements through to implementation."

Advanced Functionality to Manage Change

Synergy/DOORS Integration 2.0 provides users with the following state-of-the-art change management functionality:

-- Traceability from requirements, to design, down to development tasks and
source objects. In addition to helping ensure requirements are being
implemented, requirements traceability analysis reveals actual tasks and source
objects that are suspect. Running requirements traceability reports also
reveals what value development work is providing.

-- Impact Analysis of requirement change on implemented design and code. This
helps organizations ascertain the value and risk of change.

-- Validation that everything has been completed. This ensures the development
team works on approved business objectives and that requirements are
implemented for the targeted release, which aids Quality Assurance.

-- Automation links requirements, change requests, development tasks and code
changes. Furthermore, automation is key to routing assignments, notifying
individuals of changes, generating code from visual designs and adhering to
standard processes. By capturing a history of an implementation effort related
to a requirement change, organizations can better understand the true cost of
change.

-- Real-time visibility as to the status of requirements across the
organization enables organizations to know when requirements are implemented
and to accurately determine project status.

DOORS -- Best-in-Class Product for Managing Requirements

Acquired by Telelogic from Quality Systems & Software in Aug. 2000, DOORS is a multi-platform, enterprise-wide requirements management tool designed to capture, link, trace, analyze and manage a wide range of information to ensure a project's compliance with specific requirements and standards. Telelogic recently released DOORS version 5.2.

This latest upgrade provides easier data sharing, historical reversal, baseline compares to better understand volatility, improved filtering and new document templates for standardized presentation of information. Security and productivity have also been improved. Along with existing spreadsheet-like capabilities and document-oriented views of data, DOORS is now even easier to use.

CM Synergy/ChangeSynergy -- Best-in-Class Product for Managing Change Throughout the Application Development Lifecycle