Telelogic CM SynergyTM Named Leading Application Change Management Tool by Yphise

Telelogic CM Synergy(TM) Named Leading Application Change Management Tool by Yphise - CM Synergy Achieves Number One Ranking in Distributed Environments with Task-Driven Change Management - MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California - January 7, 2003 - Telelogic (Stockholm Exchange: TLOG), the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development, today announced that Telelogic CM Synergy(TM), the company's state-of-the-art task-based change management solution, was named a market leader based on technical merit and extensive customer feedback by influential French industry analyst firm Yphise, Paris, in its latest report "Application Change Management Software." The report evaluated the performance of six application change management tools from different vendors against five key criteria: (1) Controlling the heterogeneity of technology; (2) Defining and managing the change cycle; (3) Meeting the organization requirements; (4) Controlling the application complexity; (5) Overall responsiveness to the change requests. After an exhaustive evaluation, CM Synergy delivered exceptional performance in three of the five categories. "Telelogic CM Synergy comes in first among the six change management software products assessed," said Laurent Mynard, analyst at Yphise. "The evaluation determined that CM Synergy demonstrated a clear differentiating comparative advantage. It is a market leader in this category and the most mature product with the broadest set of rich features that facilitate the development and maintenance of applications. "The increasing complexity of architectures and applications make them more and more difficult to control. Combined with the growth of distributed teams and outsourcing, IT departments need software tools with the robust qualities and flexibility demonstrated by CM Synergy in this analysis to efficiently manage application changes." Yphise is the only analyst firm to publish comparative studies based on ISO 9001- certified assessment process. "Within one month's time, Yphise has recognized first DOORS and now CM Synergy as best in breed products based upon technical merit and the outspoken feedback from our users," said Anders Lidbeck, president and CEO at Telelogic. "We're gratified that a prestigious and internationally-recognized analyst organization such as Yphise confirms our strategy of designing tools that help development teams work faster and easier by bringing simplicity and efficiency to developers and managers alike. Telelogic will continue to evolve, strengthen and integrate its product line, always seeking new and better ways to make our customers' operations more efficient and profitable." According to the Yphise report, CM Synergy stands out in three of the five categories for the following reasons: * CM Synergy stands out in "Controlling the heterogeneity of technology", because it manages the various asset types richly. It automates the type definition not only according to file extension or location, but also according to file content. It makes it possible to customize access to every type, with specific dedicated editing, comparison or building tools. * CM Synergy stands out in "Meeting the organization requirements", because of its rich interfaces with third-party tools. It also stands out thanks to ActiveCM(TM), which helps use the application change management transparently. * CM Synergy stands out in "Overall responsiveness to the change requests", because it manages change requests through proprietary functions or interfaces with third-party tools. CM Synergy is suitable if change requests have various sources. "Application change management tools meet the requirements of efficient development and industrialization," said Yphise analyst Mynard. "They manage the versions, configurations and life cycle of the assets and applications and must interface with multiple software families and environments such as defect tracking, requirements management tools, UML design tools, integrated development environments (IDE), and test campaign tools. The importance of change management software to an organization's competitiveness and profitability can not be underestimated." An executive summary of the "Application Change Management Software Report" can be downloaded at http://www.telelogic.com/yphise_cmsynergy. About Yphise Yphise is committed to providing the best in-depth and independent software product assessments for large companies. Yphise assesses over 160 software products each year in all areas of interest for large companies to develop, operate and maintain the information systems that they need to compete. Each software product assessment is conducted according to Yphise ISO 9001-certified methodology. Large companies worldwide have made thousands of software selection decisions based on Yphise expertise. Assessment results are available at Yphise.com SoftAssessment Portal, based on various license options. Since 1985 in Europe and 1998 in North America, Yphise has been committed to providing the most relevant and accurate advice to assist large companies in embracing information management change to increase business value. Yphise clients include over 900 major companies worldwide from all sectors. Yphise advises IT consultants in selecting their partnerships and choosing the best software to recommend and use in each mission. Yphise advises software vendors and investors in strategy development. About Telelogic Founded in 1983, Telelogic® is the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development. The company's integrated best-in-class software tools, supported by professional services, enable companies to automate their entire development lifecycle, resulting in improved quality and predictability with reduced time-to-market and 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 3GPP, ETSI, INCOSE, ITU-T, MOST, OMG and others. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has more than 800 employees worldwide. Customers include Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Philips, Siemens and Thales. For more information, please visit www.telelogic.com. Telelogic, Telelogic DOORS, Telelogic DocExpress, and Telelogic Tau are the registered trademarks of Telelogic. Telelogic Tau Architect, Developer, Tester, Synergy and Active CM are trademarks of Telelogic. All other trademarks are the properties of respective holders. Contact Americas/Asia: Contact Europe: Michael E. Donner, VP, Marketing & Ingemar Ljungdahl, Chief Technology Communications Officer Telelogic Americas and Asia/Pacific Telelogic AB Phone: +1 (949) 885-2496 Phone: +46 40 650 00 00 E-mail:michael.donner@telelogic.com ingemar.ljungdahl@telelogic.com ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/01/07/20030107BIT00430/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/01/07/20030107BIT00430/wkr0002.pdf