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Telelogic AB. 
Type Private (acquired by IBM) Industry Software services Founded 1983 Headquarters Malmö Sweden Area served Worldwide Key people Anders Lidbeck (President & CEO)
Bo Dimert (Chairman of the Board)Services Business Process Optimization
Application Lifecycle Management
Model Driven DevelopmentRevenue 1,524.9 SEK million FY 2006 Employees 1,237 (Dec 2007) Parent IBM Website http://www.telelogic.com Telelogic AB was a software business headquartered in Malmö, Sweden. Telelogic was founded in 1983 as a research and development arm of Televerket, the Swedish department of telecom (now part of TeliaSonera). It was later acquired by IBM Rational, and exists under the IBM software group. [1].
Telelogic had operations in 22 countries and had been publicly traded since 1999. On June 11, 2007, IBM announced that it had made a cash offer to acquire Telelogic [2]. On August 29, 2007, the European Union opened an investigation [3] into the acquisition. On March 5, 2008, European regulators approved the acquisition of Telelogic by the Swedish IBM subsidiary Watchtower AB [4]. On April 28, 2008, IBM completed its purchase of Telelogic[5].
Former Products
- Focal Point[1] - System for management of product and project portfolios.
- DOORS - Requirements tracking tool.
- System Architect - Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture modeling tool.
- Tau - UML modeling tool.
- Synergy - Task-based version control and configuration management system.
- Rhapsody - Systems engineering and executable UML modeling tool.
- DocExpress - Technical documentation tool, discontinued after the acquisition and superseded by IBM Rational Publishing Engine.
All of these products have been continued under IBM's Rational Software division in the systems engineering and Product lifecycle management(PLM) solutions software line. Business Gökhan
Acquisitions
Telelogic acquired the following companies between 2000 and 2007:
Date of announcement Company Name Type of business Mar 6, 2006 I-Logix Embedded modeling Apr 18, 2005 Popkin Software Provider of enterprise architecture tools Apr 13, 2005 Focal Point Provider of requirements analysis Dec 16, 2000 ATA Provider of project documentation & reporting tools Sep 20, 2000 Continuus Change & configuration management tools provider Aug 8, 2000 Quality Systems & Software (QSS) Requirements Management tools and consultancy provider Jun 19, 2000 Devisor Finnish consultant company May 30, 2000 Certeam Swedish consultant company Mar 9, 2000 COOL:Jex UML analysis & modeling tool Dec 22, 1999 CS Verilog Editor of ObjectGeode (a competitor to Tau), SCADE and Logiscope; then a subsidiary of the French company CS Group[6]. References
- ^ "IBM Completes Acquisition of Telelogic AB" (html) (Press release). IBM. 2008-04-03. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/23792.wss. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
- ^ "Telelogic’s Board of Directors recommends the offer from IBM" (PDF) (Press release). Telelogic AB. 2007-06-11. http://wpy.observer.se/wpyfs/00/00/00/00/00/0A/0A/0D/wkr0010.pdf. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ "EUROPA - Competition - Cases from 4700 to 4749". http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/index/m94.html#m_4747. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
- ^ "Rapid - Press Releases - EUROPA" (Press release). EUROPA. 2008-05-03. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/387. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ "IBM Acquires Telelogic". CXO Today (ITNation India Pvt. Ltd.). Apr 28, 2008. http://www.cxotoday.com/India/News/IBM_Acquires_Telelogic/551-88862-908.html. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ "Telelogic, the world leader acquires Verilog, the first runner-up". CisionWire (Cision). Dec 22, 1999. http://www.cisionwire.com/telelogic/r/telelogic--the-world-leader-acquires-verilog--the-first-runner-up,c15802. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
Unified Modeling Language Actors Organizations: Object Management Group • UML Partners Persons: Grady Booch • Ivar Jacobson • James Rumbaugh
Concepts Object oriented: Object-oriented programming • Object-oriented analysis and design
Structure: Actor • Attribute • Artifact • Class • Component • Interface • Object • Package • Profile diagram
Behavior: Activity • Event • Message • Method • State • Use case
Relationships: Aggregation • Association • Composition • Dependency • Generalization (or Inheritance)
Extensibility: Profile • Stereotype
Other concepts: MultiplicityDiagrams StructuralBehaviourActivity diagram • State Machine diagram • Use case diagramInteractionDerived languages Systems Modeling Language (SysML) • UML eXchange Format (UXF) • XML Metadata Interchange (XMI)Other topics Actors Concepts Object oriented: Object-oriented analysis and design
Structure: Actor • Attribute • Block • Interface • Package • Parametric
Behavior: Activity • Event • Message • State • Use Case
Relationships: Aggregation • Association • Composition • Flow • Generalization (or Inheritance)
Extensibility: ProfileOther topics Software engineering Fields Concepts Orientations Models Development modelsOther models- Automotive SPICE
- CMMI
- Data model
- Function model
- Information model
- Metamodeling
- Object model
- Systems model
- View model
Modeling languagesSoftware
engineers- Kent Beck
- Grady Booch
- Fred Brooks
- Barry Boehm
- Ward Cunningham
- Ole-Johan Dahl
- Tom DeMarco
- Martin Fowler
- C. A. R. Hoare
- Watts Humphrey
- Michael A. Jackson
- Ivar Jacobson
- Craig Larman
- James Martin
- Bertrand Meyer
- David Parnas
- Winston W. Royce
- Colette Rolland
- James Rumbaugh
- Niklaus Wirth
- Edward Yourdon
- Victor Basili
Related fields Systems engineering Fields Processes Concepts Languages Tools People Related fields Categories:- Unified Modeling Language
- SysML
- SysML Partners
- Software companies of Sweden
- Telecommunications companies of Sweden
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