Telelogic Provides New Performance-Improving Capabilities with Enhanced Rhapsody Model-Driven Development Solution

Telelogic Provides New Performance-Improving Capabilities with Enhanced Rhapsody
Model-Driven Development Solution

Rhapsody 7.1 furthers alignment with SysML 1.0, supports Agile development and
includes specialized Telecom package

MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California - 02 April 2007 - Telelogic (Nordic
Exchange/MidCap/TLOG) today announced the latest version of its popular
Model-Driven Development™ (MDD™) solution, Telelogic Rhapsody® 7.1. 

The new Telelogic Rhapsody® release is more tightly aligned with the Object
Management Group's (OMG) Systems Modeling Language 1.0 (SysML™) and offers
greater support for Agile development processes, leading to enhanced
productivity and flexibility. 

In addition, Rhapsody 7.1 provides the Rhapsody For Telecom package. This
package, which continues Telelogic's strategy to verticalize the Rhapsody
solution, was specially designed for Telecom developers and engineers, with
features including Telelogic SDL Suite™ 6.0 integration. 

Recent data from the Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF) shows that projects using
Rhapsody are more likely to complete according to expected schedules. The latest
EMF paper, “What Do You Do When the Horse You're Riding Drops Dead: Why Model
Driven Design is Emerging as a Preferred Best Practice,” reveals that software
industry designs are, on average, completed four months behind schedule, costing
companies millions of dollars per project. The report states that organizations
using modeling and simulation are seven times more likely to make or beat
schedules.  

“EMF's recent findings validate that MDD solutions like Telelogic Rhapsody 7.1
provide a clear path forward for improved productivity and better
profitability,” said Jerry Krasner, Ph.D., MBA, Vice President, Embedded Market
Forecasters."Embedded and real-time software is critical to the success of a growing number
of products. The pressure to improve quality and performance couldn't be more
real,” said Ingemar Ljungdahl, Chief Technology Officer, Telelogic. “Developers
need flexible solutions that easily fit into their process, allowing them to
work in a way that's natural.  By supporting both code-centric and model-centric
development processes, Rhapsody enables users to leverage modeling without
having to change their current processes. The new features in this release allow
developers to take advantage of an even greater range of performance-enhancing
best practices, such as Agile development and test.”

Rhapsody 7.1 is available now. Prices start at $1300 per license. 


About Telelogic Rhapsody
Telelogic Rhapsody is the industry's leading UML 2.0 and OMG SysML based
Model-Driven Development environment for embedded and real time systems and
software engineering. As the only product on the market with the advanced
capability to extend UML 2.0, Rhapsody allows both function-oriented and
object-oriented design techniques to co-exist in one environment. Rhapsody has
won numerous awards including the Best in Show award at the Embedded Systems
Conferences in San Francisco and Boston from VDC; the SD Times 100 for the third
year in a row by taking top honors in the Modeling category; and the
Model-Driven Development Focus of the Embedded Development Arena award. Rhapsody
has been recently endorsed by Embedded Market Forecasters as the tool of choice
for C developers.

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. More than one third of the Fortune Global 500 companies use Telelogic
software including marketing-leading aero/defense, automotive, financial
services, software/electronic and telecommunications companies and governments
worldwide. For more information, see www.telelogic.com. 

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