Telelogic DOORS® Named Leading Requirements Management Tool by Yphise

Telelogic DOORS® Named Leading Requirements Management Tool by Yphise - DOORS Achieves "Stand Out" Performance in Four of Five Evaluation Categories - MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California - December 6, 2002 - Telelogic (Stockholm Exchange: TLOG), the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development, today announced that Telelogic DOORS, the company's state-of-the-art requirements management tool, was named market leader based on technical merit by influential French industry analyst firm Yphise, Paris, in its latest report "Requirements Management Tools." The report evaluated the performance of five requirements management tools from different vendors against five key criterion: organizing the requirements of various projects; managing the project scope and priorities; ensuring the accuracy and exhaustiveness of requirements; mastering the requirements changes; and ensuring the requirements fulfillment along the project steps. After an exhaustive evaluation, DOORS delivered exceptional performance in four of the five categories. "We are pleased to announce that DOORS is above its competitors after successful assessment in our 'Requirements Management Tools' report," said Xavier Benmoussa, analyst at Yphise. "The evaluation determined that DOORS is the market leader and the most mature product with the broadest set of rich features that facilitate the management of requirements". Yphise is the only analyst firm to publish comparative studies based on ISO 9001-certified assessment process. "Once again DOORS has shown its technical superiority to all other requirements management tools," said Anders Lidbeck, president and CEO at Telelogic. "While we are gratified with the leadership position that DOORS has maintained over the last few years, we are not taking anything for granted. We are continuing to evolve and expand the product's appeal as evidenced by the recent addition of electronic signature capability." According to the Yphise report, DOORS stands out in four of the five categories for the following reasons: Managing the project scope and priorities - "DOORS helps manage requirements priority levels according to the value of any selected criterion. This is useful when the priority levels associated with each requirement must be used as a criterion for scheduling the development releases." Ensuring the accuracy and exhaustiveness of requirements - "DOORS imports requirements in various formats, including WordPerfect or PostScript formats. It also supports text formatting. These features facilitate the capture of existing requirements and ensure their legibility." Mastering the requirements changes - "DOORS ensures the consistency of the requirements changes through its bi-directional integration into third-party change management tools. E.g. (Telelogic) CM Synergy(TM), ClearQuest and PVCS Dimensions." Ensuring the requirements fulfillment along the project steps - "DOORS facilitates the mapping of requirements with the information system infrastructure. It also provides integration richness. Examples of the tools it integrates into include modeling tools such as AllFusion Component Modeler and (Telelogic) Tau® UML Suite, as well as test management tools such as TestExpert and Tplan." "Requirements management tools are useful in order to master the quality of software development," said Benmoussa. "They facilitate requirements definition and ensure thoroughness. They help business and IT managers agree on project scope by managing the priorities of the expressed requirements. They make it possible to control the requirements fulfillment." An executive summary of the "Requirements Management Report" can be downloaded at http://www.telelogic.com/yphise_doors 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 Communications Technology Officer Telelogic Americas and Asia/Pacific Telelogic AB Phone: +1 (949) 885-2496 Phone: +46 40 650 00 00 E-mail: 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/2002/12/06/20021206BIT00270/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2002/12/06/20021206BIT00270/wkr0002.pdf