Telelogic DOORS Named Best Product for Requirements-Driven Development by Yphise

Leading technology analyst ranks DOORS ahead of its competition for the fourth successive time

MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California – April 15, 2008 – Telelogic, An IBM Company (NYSE: IBM) today announced that leading French technology analyst, Yphise, has certified Telelogic DOORS® as the best ranked software product in comparison with the competition for Agile Requirements-Driven Development
(ARDD).

Of the six requirements definition and management products that Yphise evaluated, Telelogic DOORS was the clear winner along four critical dimensions:
- Optimizing business alignment on requirements
- Reducing project cost and duration
- Managing the entire requirements lifecycle
- Guaranteeing that the result complies with the requirements

In their assessment, Yphise focused on agile requirements-driven development (ARDD), an approach that helps organizations understand, capture and organize business needs for fast-paced IT projects. ARDD solutions are a key success factor for balancing conformance to requirements, agility, and risk mitigation for both business and IT.

In Yphise’s view, DOORS demonstrates strengths in capturing, linking and analyzing requirements during their lifecycle. Features that Yphise found particularly beneficial include:
- Alignment of requirement definition to the customer needs
- Flexible, easy-to-use version management of requirements
- Track and compare capabilities for graphical comparisons of baselines
- Graphical tracking and browsing of dependencies

“Business users want IT projects to fully conform to requirements even as they expect increasing agility from IT,” said Ingemar Ljungdahl, Chief Technology Officer, Telelogic, An IBM Company. “The idea of a fully conformant, agile project has previously been viewed like oil and water—the two don’t mix. With the release of this assessment, Yphise clearly recognizes that business users who expect their IT project to fully meet their needs, while remaining agile, need Telelogic DOORS.”

Analyst Comments
“Telelogic DOORS clearly stands out from the competition in all dimensions of our assessment,” said Marie-Pierre Lecrenay, Senior Analyst, Yphise. “Yphise has previously highlighted DOORS strengths in requirements management of complex projects and in system development and this new ranking highlights how DOORS also stands out for fast-paced agile development projects.”

An executive summary of Yphise’s comparison, and their detailed assessment of DOORS is available here: http://www.telelogic.com/yphiseARDD

For more information, visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/welcome/telelogic/

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