Telelogic DOORS® Named Industry’s Best Requirements Management Tool by Yphise

DOORS Receives “Stand Out” Ratings for Requirements-Driven Application Lifecycle Management

Malmö, SWEDEN – February 15, 2005 – Telelogic, the leading global provider of solutions for advanced software and systems development, today announced Telelogic DOORS earned the 2005 Yphise Award for Best Requirements Management Software. The award is based on a comprehensive performance and functionality assessment using an ISO 9001 certified methodology. Yphise, a leading independent analyst firm, evaluated the performance of five requirements management tools from different vendors using a list of more than 300 requirements in four categories. The categories were: 1) Lowering the cost and duration of projects; 2) Lowering the cost of application maintenance; 3) Maximizing the value of application development; and 4) Lowering the risk in application development and implementation. As the award certificate states, “DOORS stands out in all the assessment dimensions of our list of requirements. It provides the most complete and homogenous coverage of these dimensions. This outlines its maturity and reinforces its leadership. This makes it a perfect candidate for investment in requirements management.” The full results of the evaluation were published in Yphise’s 2005 report, “Requirements-driven Application Lifecycle Management.” The Yphise Award is the only distinction based on an ISO 9001:2000-certified comparative assessment process of the software products. Conforming to this worldwide quality standard Yphise's assessment process ensures independence and focus on the key issues for large companies “Telelogic is very proud that Yphise has recognized DOORS as the industry’s best requirements management solution,” said Anders Lidbeck, Telelogic CEO. “This award not only validates DOORS as a mature and robust development tool, but also clearly endorses Telelogic’s strategy to provide requirements-driven support throughout the lifecycle of a project.” According to the Yphise report, DOORS stands out in all four categories for the following reasons: * Facilitating definition of project scope. “The product facilitates the reduction of the project scope based on a selected priority level. It facilitates the association of a priority level to a requirement and all dependent requirements at once. It also facilitates the selection of all the requirements within the same priority level.” * Facilitating definition of requirements. “The product makes it possible to import specific documents in WordPerfect and PostScript formats. These formats are additional to the main ones. Support for these formats guarantees the ability to import requirements regardless of the format they have been written in.” * Assuring responsiveness to application changes. “The product integrates into more change management tools, as compared to the other assessed products. This guarantees the ability to integrate into application change cycles, regardless of the tool used to manage changes.” * Assuring focus on the high-priority requirements. “The product helps identify dependencies between requirements by using labels. attributes and comments. This facilitates decisions as to which requirements should be worked on.” * Assuring developers’ awareness about requirements. “The product generates the requirements documentation in controlled output formats. This is done based on standard specification formats or user-defined templates. This eases communication of requirements to developers.” * Assuring requirements integrity and consistency. “The product helps graphically define a workflow in order to validate the requirements. It helps differentiate validation processes based on change severity or the requirements impacted. This guarantees the requirements integrity.” An executive summary of Yphise’s “Requirements-driven Application Lifecycle Management.” report can be downloaded at http://www.telelogic.com/yphise_DOORSALM