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. Supplementary materials are listed below. “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. About the Magic Quadrant The Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools, 1Q06, released on April 5, 2006, is by Greta James and Robert Handler. The Magic Quadrant copyrighted February and April 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Telelogic Telelogic is the leading global provider of software solutions for Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM). Award-winning Telelogic software helps customers design, develop, and deliver the world's most advanced and innovative products, systems, and software more efficiently by aligning and optimizing development lifecycles and business processes with business objectives and customer needs. Telelogic helps customers improve quality and predictability while reducing time-to-market and overall costs. Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden with U.S headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic conducts business in more than 40 countries. Customers include marketing-leading aero/defense, automotive, financial services, software/electronic and telecommunications companies and governments worldwide. For more information, see www.telelogic.com. Visit the following links to learn more about the HP Mercury CMDB integration to Telelogic System Architect; http://www.telelogic.com/Partners/view_tapp/view-technology-partner.cfm?action=detail&IntegrationID=13327&ProductGroup=0&ThirdPartyProductVendor=0&ThirdPartyVendorProduct=0 http://www.mercury.com/us/products/business-availability-center/universal-cmdb/partners.html#Telelogic To learn more about Telelogic's newly released MODAF offering, please visit the following; http://www.telelogic.com/standards/modaf.cfm Supplementary Materials • System Architect/HP Universal CMDB integration. System Architect is now integrated with the HP Universal CMDB with application auto-discovery and mapping capabilities. Telelogic customers can now automatically map their IT data to applications using the HP Universal CMDB and application mapping solution to streamline and accelerate the EA development process. The EA team can visualize, analyze, and share this knowledge throughout the organization and make better decisions at all levels - from strategic to operational to tactical. Joint customers can use System Architect to identify and assess IT architecture and technology risks and address system redundancy and obsolescence issues. Customers can also better realize the value of their SOA initiatives by modeling and simulating the proposed services to understand the underlying technology required for those services. This feature is an option available to SA v10.6 users. • System Architect/XT for Web Services extends real-time access to the System Architect live repository to users anywhere in the world using Web services. Information in the repository is extracted, translated into XML format, and can then be fed into a management dashboard or other SOA-related application. This feature is ideal for SOA reporting and tracking. SA/XT is Telelogic's answer to online access to its EA repository. Using this product, EA teams can make changes to the repository at any time; all information in the repository is centrally managed. By increasing communication and collaboration in a distributed workforce, System Architect/XT transforms geographically dispersed workgroups into an integrated team and encourages greater participation across the organization. This feature is available on a per-license basis. • System Architect/MODAF offers integrated support for the UK's popular defense framework. It is one of the first modeling products to be certified for use with MODAF. The product can be used for building models representing MOD architectures, auto-generating MODAF work products, storing that work in a robust repository, and publishing the architectures to a wide audience using sophisticated auto-Web site generation facilities. This option facilitates the adoption of the framework and ensures a common vocabulary and architecture approach among architecture teams. System Architect supports all major industry frameworks including DoDAF (US & Australia), Zachman, TOGAF, TM Forum and others. System Architect/MODAF is an option to System Architect. • System Architect for Japan translates System Architect into the Japanese character set, which enables Japanese enterprise architects and IT professionals to leverage all of the features currently available in System Architect. System Architect for Japan will be updated as part of any System Architect global release. Japanese organizations now have access to System Architect in its native language, with full Telelogic sales and technical support. Industry Media Contacts: Holly L. Barnett, Sr. Public Relations Director +1 (949) 885 2490 Steve Fitchett Director, Public Relations EMEA & Asia +44 (1865) 784285
Telelogic Strengthens System Architect in Support of Improved Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Analysis
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