MALMO, Sweden and IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 7, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Telelogic (Stockholm:TLOG) (Other OTC:TGIAF), the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development, today announced that Hughes Network Systems, the world's leading provider of broadband satellite network solutions for businesses and consumers, has purchased Telelogic Tau(R)/Developer(TM) and Telelogic Tau/Architect(TM) prior to general availability. Both Tau/Architect and Tau/Developer were launched earlier today. Along with Tau/Tester(TM), which was introduced in May 2002, these products represent Telelogic's next generation of development tools, known as Tau Generation2.
With Tau Generation2 companies can, for the first time, deploy across the entire enterprise an integrated, multi-user visual tool solution that supports and accelerates the entire application development lifecycle -- from system analysis and specification to real-time software design, implementation and testing -- all within the same state-of-the-art, productivity-enhancing development environment. Using the Unified Modeling Language(TM) (UML(TM)) to visualize the development process, Tau/Developer and Tau/Architect enable significant increases in productivity to be realized compared to labor intensive manual programming approaches.
"We were looking for an advanced UML-based modeling tool to aid in the development of our mobile satellite products," said Nigel Bartlett, Director of Wireless Communication Software at Hughes Network Systems. "Tau/Developer and Tau/Architect will enable our architects, systems engineers and software developers to improve the development process. We can use a single tool for analysis, design and auto code generation. Because the tools are based on open standards, they fit easily into our existing development environment."
"As current users of our Tau UML Suite and Tau SDL Suite, Hughes Network Systems has already experienced first hand the productivity and quality benefits that advanced automated development tools can provide," said Anders Lidbeck, President and CEO of Telelogic. "With the introduction of Tau/Developer and Tau/Architect, Telelogic has once again raised the bar on productivity and quality. Hughes Network Systems has seen the potential benefits of deploying our new Tau Generation2 tools and we expect many other companies around the world involved in advanced systems and software development to do the same."
About Telelogic Tau
Telelogic Tau is an integrated family of software development and testing tools that provides a unique visual development environment. This simplifies, automates and accelerates the production of real-time and other advanced software.
About Telelogic Tau/Developer
Telelogic Tau/Developer is a stand-alone visual tool for UML-based design, analysis and development of advanced real-time applications. Targeted at software engineers, it can be easily integrated with Telelogic or other third-party products. Using Tau/Developer's model-driven approach and field-proven automatic application generation capabilities, software developers can shift their focus from traditional labor-intensive code-centric programming to high quality, high productivity development.
About Telelogic Tau/Architect
Tau/Architect is a modern, model-based system engineering tool for the analysis and specification of advanced systems. Tau/Architect supports comprehensive modeling of large and complex systems using UML, resulting in precise, easy-to-understand specifications. Uniquely, with Tau/Architect, system engineers can specify also the behavior of the system as well as simulate the system and demonstrate its behavior to end-users and other stake-holders at an early stage. Tau/Architect is built on the same platform as Tau/Developer and seamlessly integrated with that tool.
About Hughes Network Systems
Hughes Network Systems, Inc. (HNS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Electronic Corporation, is the world's leading provider of broadband satellite network solutions for businesses and consumers, with over 500,000 systems ordered or shipped to more than 85 countries. HNS pioneered the development of high-speed satellite Internet access services, which it markets globally under the DIRECWAY(R) brand and is a major supplier of mobile satellite networks and user terminals. In addition, HNS is a leading manufacturer of DIRECTV(R) satellite television receivers, having shipped over 9 million systems to date. Headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, USA, HNS maintains sales and support offices worldwide. The earnings of HUGHES, a unit of General Motors Corporation, are used to calculate the earnings attributable to the general Motors Class H common stock (NYSE:GMH). More information is available at http://www.hns.com.
About Telelogic
Founded in 1983, Telelogic(R) is the leading global provider of solutions for advanced systems and software development. The company's integrated best-in-class software tools and professional services enable companies to automate their entire development lifecycle, resulting in improved predictability and overall costs. To ensure interoperability with other leading 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, INCOSE, ITU-T, IEEE, MOST, and OMG.
Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has more than 900 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.
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