Telelogic DOORS Ranked Best Requirements Management Product by Yphise for Third Consecutive Time

- DOORS Wins all Four Evaluation Categories in Latest Software Product Assessment -

MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California – October 03, 2006 – Telelogic (Nordic Exchange: TLOG), the leading provider of software solutions that align advanced systems and software development with business objectives, today announced that Yphise, a leading independent analyst firm based in Paris, France, has named Telelogic DOORS® as the leading requirements management product in its recent software product assessment "Requirements Driven Development." DOORS was also named the best requirements management product by Yphise in 2002 and 2004. In the latest software product assessment, Yphise evaluated a shortlist of requirements management solutions including Caliber RM (Borland), Dimensions RM (Serena), IrqA (TCP SI), OptimalTrace (Compuware), and RequisitePro (IBM Rational). Each software assessment is ISO 9001-2000 certified in order to guarantee independence and to focus on key issues. All products are evaluated based on four assessment dimensions: (1) Optimizing the business alignment of the requirements, (2) Optimizing the scope of projects, (3) Optimizing the relationship with customers, and (4) Conducting the requirements-driven development. "Telelogic is very proud that for the third consecutive time DOORS has been recognized as the industry’s best requirements management product by Yphise,” said Anders Lidbeck, President and CEO, Telelogic. "This achievement is especially gratifying as the requirements management market segment is very competitive, and the product evaluation was far more demanding compared to previous reports." "DOORS stands out in all four assessment dimensions and it provides the best coverage of our list of requirements," said Bernard Jacquot Senior Analyst, Yphise. "DOORS demonstrates its capacity to adapt to a wide scope of companies, whatever their size or their maturity in the area of requirements management. We appreciate DOORS' capacity to customize to various needs, and we appreciate its overall maturity." The Four Assessment Dimensions DOORS was the leading requirements management product in all four assessment dimensions. In the report, Yphise made the following specific comments: • "Optimizing the Business Alignment of the Requirements – DOORS provides the best coverage in both subchapters. The product allows the extraction of customer needs from various formats. It helps import the needs and their organization from any document layout. So, it makes it possible to match how each customer operates. It manages external documents from the product. Finally, it accurately highlights the changes on external documents provided by the customer. • "Optimizing the Scope of Projects – DOORS provides the best coverage in both subchapters. It facilitates the collaboration of project teams through the use of forums. It allows the customization of a polling approach. The product has effective functions for accurately defining, comparing and managing the baselines. It facilities the creation of a customized view. These views make it possible to analyze, understand and manage the project. The product highlights suspect links, with multilevels of suspicion. So, it makes it possible to accurately monitor the project and to manage the traceability of requirements." • "Optimizing the Relationship with Customers – DOORS provides the best coverage in both subchapters. It allows the creation of a contract adapted to a specific customer. This contract reflects the customer's needs and the mutual commitment. The layout and the contents can be customized. The contract can easily be generated for one or more customers, with specific parameters for each customer. The product providers a bi-directional livelink with the generated contract. So, it makes it possible to track customer updates. The product is integrated into several TPO (Test Process Optimization) solutions. It is possible to create and manage test cases by using a specific toolkit called T3 (Test Tracking Toolkit). In such case, the requirements can be related to accurate test cases. In other cases, the requirements are exported to the TPO solutions. The product provides metrics in order to track the progress of the testing activities. • "Conducting the Requirements-Driven Development – DOORS stands out in 'Controlling the development.' The product provides strong integration into several Design solutions and ACM (Application Change Management) solutions. It helps define use cases. It provides metrics for tracking the progress of the change orders and the requirements that have been met. DOORS also provides the best coverage in 'Managing the requirements processes.' It is possible to create and manage life cycle models by using a specific toolkit called Trek." A complimentary executive summary of Yphise’s 2006 software product assessment "Requirements-Driven-Development" can be downloaded from www.telelogic.com/yphisereport. About Yphise Yphise is committed to providing the best in-depth and independent software assessments so that large companies can make the right investment decisions. Yphise identifies the best software products on the market, highlights the technologies that are worth investing and warns about unproven ones. Yphise assesses over 150 software products each year in all areas of interest to large companies in order to develop, operate, maintain and secure the applications to compete. Each software product assessment is conducted according to Yphise ISO 9001:2000-certified process, which guarantees thoroughness, independence and focus on key issues for large companies. To our knowledge, no other company in the world produces expert and independent comparative assessments based on ISO 9001:2000-certified process. 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