Telelogic strengthens its presence in Finland

Telelogic strengthens its presence in Finland MALMÖ, Sweden, March 22, 1999 - In an effort to provide local support to its key customer Nokia, Telelogic will establish an office in Finland. In connection with the opening of the office in the beginning of April, Telelogic has appointed Petri Hirvonen as local account manager for Nokia in Finland. Petri Hirvonen's prior employment was at Nokia Telecommunications where he was leader of the product management team for IP networking services and products. "With a broad background in telecommunication system development, we believe Petri will contribute to strengthen our relationship with Nokia", said Johan Bergstrand, Global Account Director for Nokia and responsible for the new Finnish expansion. The office in Helsinki will be based in the rapidly growing IT area of Espoo, west of the capital. "We chose Espoo and the Spektri Business Park because this will place us within arms-length of our major customer Nokia", Johan Bergstrand continues. "Telelogic Tau's strengths of increasing software quality and decreasing time- to-market is important for industry-leading companies. The growing number of advanced customer projects in Finland using our tools and methods will require us to provide our services on a local basis", Johan Bergstrand concludes. Telelogic professional services' objective is to leverage the customer's investment in Telelogic Tau by providing our customers with a deeper understanding and thereby a more efficient usage of our tools and methods. Already from the start the team in Finland consists of two people, Asko Laari, consultant manager, and Richard Haagensen, methods & application consultant. The plan is to employ some ten more SDL and TTCN experts in Finland during 1999. About Telelogic's Tools Telelogic's software tools include Telelogic Tau, a computer-based system- design environment tool. Telelogic Tau includes SDT (SDL Design Tool) - for the development of real-time systems, ITEX - for writing test suites in the TTCN (Tree and Tabular Combined Notation) and ASN.1 (The Abstract Syntax Notation number 1) standards; and ORCA - for gathering system requirements in an object-oriented manner. Telelogic also provides a host of consulting services focused in the real-time arena. About Telelogic AB Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, Telelogic's worldwide presence includes sales and service offices in Asia, Europe and North America. To date, there are more than 6,000 users of Telelogic Tau working in over 700 companies worldwide. Customers include Alcatel, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Northern Telecom, Siemens and a number of universities and other institutions worldwide. Telelogic's revenue in 1998 was 20 million (EUR). Telelogic AB Spektri Business Park Metsänneidonkuja 8 02130 Espoo, Finland Phone: +358 9 43078230 Fax: +358 9 4307810 For more information about Telelogic, please visit www.teleleogic.com. For Immediate Release Contact: Ingemar Ljungdahl Telelogic AB COO Phone: +46 40 174700 Fax: +46 40 174747 E-mail: ingemar.ljungdahl@telelogic.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/03/22/19990322BIT00160/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/03/22/19990322BIT00160/bit0002.pdf