Pitney Bowes Automates Design and Testing With Telelogic DOORS®

Pitney Bowes Automates Design and Testing With Telelogic DOORS® MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California - April 9, 2002 -Telelogic (Stockholm Exchange: TLOG), the leading global provider of solutions for advanced software and systems development, today announced that Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI), the US$4.1 billion leading provider of integrated mail and document management solutions, extended its use of Telelogic DOORS to automate and dramatically simplify testing and design of its high-tech mailing systems. 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. Using the DOORS Extension Language (DXL), Pitney Bowes developed several point-and-click interfaces that allow users throughout the company to automate many time-consuming, repetitive and error-prone processes. "DOORS is an open solution that can be customized to our internal processes," said Matt Lukaszewski, Principal Engineer, Pitney Bowes Global Mailing Systems. "It offers tremendous flexibility." Today, Pitney Bowes has a patent for one of their DOORS enhancements. Named PARIS (Product Architecture Retrieval Information System), it uses an easy, graphical wizard that allows users to pick and choose among market-driven needs to automatically generate engineering specs, reusing the company's relevant pre-existing technology and documentation. For example, to create the specifications for a new product, a manager can check off a list of user requirements. Then, they can view which products meet certain functions, and, in component style, reuse the existing architecture - and requirements definitions - as it suits customer needs. Detailed, engineering specifications are then generated. Pitney Bowes has further enhanced productivity by compiling a library of standardized requirements language. This eliminates any confusion that may arise through misinterpretation. Using DOORS, Pitney Bowes has also automated much of the system and software testing process. The company's Global Mailing Systems division often has five or six products in development at a time - sometimes with several software releases each day. Pitney Bowes created an interface that allows testers to easily modify and generate new test cases, which are all tied to requirements. DOORS history functions provide vital tracking information. "Users can easily create test cases without knowing the internal structure of the database," Lukaszewski said. "They can also view and record test results, check against expected results and verify that the test cases cover all requirements." "Pitney Bowes provides a compelling example of how Telelogic tools help organizations improve quality and predictability, while reducing time-to- market and overall costs for software and systems development," said Scott Raskin, president Telelogic Americas. "By using DOORS to automate many of their processes, Pitney Bowes' engineers and managers can devote more time to creative product development and testing." About Telelogic DOORS Telelogic DOORS is the world's leading requirements management tool according to the latest Standish Group industry report entitled, "What are your requirements? 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. DOORS enables users to gather, trace and manage all requirements established for a development project, ensuring that the resulting product meets all defined customer needs. About Pitney Bowes Pitney Bowes is a US$4.1 billion global provider of integrated mail and document management solutions, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. It serves more than 2 million businesses of all sizes through dealer and direct operations. For more information on the company, its products, services and solutions, visit www.pitneybowes.com. About Telelogic Founded in 1983, Telelogic® (www.telelogic.com) is the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development. The company's automated application lifecycle solution includes integrated best-in-class software and professional services for requirements management, change and configuration management, development, testing, and documentation. Telelogic enables organizations to improve quality and predictability, while reducing time-to-market and overall costs in systems and software development. Built on an open architecture that ensures interoperability with other leading third-party solutions, Telelogic's products are based on international standardized languages and notations. Telelogic participates in 3GPP, Bluetooth SIG and OMG to create future communication technologies and visual software development languages. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden the company has more than 1,000 employees worldwide. Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BMW, Boeing, BT, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Philips and Siemens. For more information please refer to: www.telelogic.com or the below contacts: Michael E. Donner, VP Marketing & Marianne Fulgenzi, Director, Communications External Affairs Telelogic Americas Pitney Bowes Inc Phone: +1 (949) 885 2496 Phone: +1 (203) 351 6974 Fax: +1 (949) 885 2555 Fax: +1 (203) 351 6303 E-mail: michael.donner@telelogic.com E-mail: Marianne.fulgenzi@pb.com Telelogic, Telelogic DOORS, and Telelogic Tau are the registered trademarks of Telelogic AB. Telelogic Synergy is a trademark of Telelogic AB. All other trademarks are the properties of respective holders. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/04/09/20020409BIT00730/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/04/09/20020409BIT00730/wkr0002.pdf