Telelogic to Develop Open Source Processes as an Early Committer to the Eclipse Process Framework; Telelogic to Contribute Best Practices to Systems and Software Development Community

Business Wire, March 16, 2006

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Telelogic (STO:TLOG), the leading provider of software solutions that align advanced systems and software development with business objectives, today announced it will be an early committer to the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF). Telelogic brings an extensive library of best practices accumulated over the last 20 years in areas such as Requirements-Driven Development, Model Driven Architecture, Enterprise Change Management, and Systems and Software Development.

"As an early committer, we are pleased to be involved at the inception of this project and to share some of our best practices. Open source development processes will clearly have a large impact on the systems and software development community, and Telelogic has a broad range of expertise to help them evolve," said Bill Shaw, Senior Vice President Common Technologies, Telelogic.

Chris Sibbald, Senior Systems Engineer, Lifecycle Solutions, Telelogic, and Kurt Sand, Solutions Manager, Telelogic were both voted in as committers on February 27, 2006.

"Telelogic is a welcome addition to the EPF project. It is great to have industry leaders with the system and software development experience of Telelogic joining the team," said Per Kroll, Eclipse Process Framework Project Lead.

EPF is an Open Source project within the Eclipse Foundation. EPF is both a tool - "EPF Composer" - for authoring and publishing processes, as well as a collection of exemplary processes which so far include an Agile Process and a Unified Process.

Telelogic looks forward to contributing to a process that is fundamental, complete, and extensible. The process is fundamental in that only essential content is included; complete in that it can be manifested as an entire process to build a system; and extensible in that it can be used as a foundation on which process content can be added or tailored as needed. The process takes an agile approach to development, valuing team collaboration and benefits to the stakeholders. The process provides this progressive approach to building systems within a proven, structured lifecycle.

In addition to contributing to the open source EPF, Telelogic also plans to offer its clients robust process extensions for systems and software projects more complex than the EPF is intended to help.

"This is another step forward in our Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM) strategy to deliver solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise. Organizations will benefit from the additional value of Telelogic's robust process extensions and automation that make processes across the lifecycle scaleable and actionable on real projects," said Ingemar Ljungdahl, Chief Technology Officer, Telelogic.

About Eclipse

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing a vendor-neutral open development platform and application frameworks for building software. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services. www.eclipse.org

About Telelogic

Telelogic(R) is a leading global provider of solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise - from powerful modeling of business processes and enterprise architectures to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software. Telelogic's solutions enable organizations to align product, systems, and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs.

To better enable our customers' drive towards an automated lifecycle process, Telelogic supports an open architecture and the use of standardized languages. As an industry leader and technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the future of enterprise architecture, application lifecycle management, and customer needs management by participating in industry organizations such as INCOSE, OMG, The Open Group, Eclipse, ETSI, ITU-T, the TeleManagement Forum, and AUTOSAR.

Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 20 countries worldwide. Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Sprint, Thales, and Vodafone.

For more information, please visit www.telelogic.com

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