Telelogic Strengthens System Architect in Support of Improved Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis

New Release Features Application Mapping, Web Services and Defense Framework Options

MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California – (March 13, 2007) – Telelogic (Nordic Exchange/MidCap/TLOG), today announced the latest release of Telelogic System Architect® v10.6, its leading enterprise architecture and modeling solution. Today’s announcement is a significant step in Telelogic’s strategy to give a much wider range of stakeholders access to enterprise architecture and business process information.

Telelogic System Architect enables organizations worldwide to design, visualize, analyze and publish business models and enterprise architectures that help them understand the relationships between their technology, processes and data. With this information, organizations can be more agile and flexible in addressing their ever-changing technology and business objectives.

The latest System Architect release features major updates that help both businesses and defense organizations gather, analyze and share the knowledge contained in their enterprise architectures to make better decisions about their technology investments and business operations. New features include:

• HP Universal CMDB support. System Architect is now fully integrated with the HP (formerly Mercury) Universal CMDB Configuration Management Database that enables the automatic mapping of IT applications, hardware, software and services into the EA repository to accelerate the enterprise architecture development process.
• MODAF Support. System Architect, one of the first modeling tools to be certified for use with the U.K. Ministry of Defence’s Architectural Framework (MODAF), streamlines the adoption of this framework within various projects worldwide.
• System Architect/XT for Web services. System Architect now offers support for Web services using System Architect/XT™, which provides real-time live access to the System Architect repository from anywhere, at anytime. This capability enables organizations to include information from the System Architect repository in their business processes using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Japanese language. System Architect is now available in a Japanese language version, backed by full Telelogic customer and technical support.

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“As enterprise architecture becomes more popular across a wide array of industries, there exists a growing need to streamline the enterprise architecture development process,” said Mark Blowers, Senior Research Analyst, Butler Group Analyst. “Enterprise architecture solutions geared to the needs of specific user groups enable organizations to jumpstart their programs by skipping the step of customizing the tool to their industry. Instead, they can devote their energies to developing their models and architectures in a common format that promotes collaboration and communication.”

“Today’s IT organizations manage a wide range of programs ranging from application mapping to Web services,” said Greg Sikes, Executive Vice President, Modeling Solutions Product Division, Telelogic. “Our goal is to deliver solutions that support ‘Actionable Architecture' or the development of an enterprise architecture that gives IT executives the information they need to make better decisions and understand how IT initiatives align with their business goals.

“The latest version of System Architect supports Actionable Architecture through solutions that capture, analyze and share key information about an organization and transform it into a communication platform that targets the organization’s specific needs. By having an Actionable Architecture, IT executives in business and defense can make better decisions about the role of technology in operations and from that knowledge drive innovation and agility,” Sikes added.

Telelogic is a leader in ‘Actionable Architecture’ software solutions that help organizations increase efficiency and agility by relating systems, data, and processes to the broader goals of the enterprise. An Actionable Architecture promotes innovation and responsiveness by increasing understanding of how business operations support or hinder new product/service/application development. Whether for IT investment strategies, best-practice, regulatory compliance, managing change, adding/deploying new services, analyzing business processes to identify redundancies, or opportunities for improvement, an Actionable Architecture gives organizations worldwide the information they need to define how and where to harness innovation.

System Architect was recently placed in the leaders’ quadrant of Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, 1Q06” released on April 5, 2006 and authored by Greta A. James and Robert A. Handler. (The MQ report is not a ranking.)

System Architect V10.6 and the options described above are currently available. For more information, visit www.telelogic.com.