Telelogic

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• DocExpress - Technical documentation tool, discontinued after the acquisition and superseded by IBM Rational Publishing Engine.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.

Acquisitions

Telelogic acquired the following companies between 2000 and 2007:

References

1. ^ "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. 
2. ^ "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. 
3. ^ "EUROPA - Competition - Cases from 4700 to 4749". http://ec.europa.eu/comm/competition/mergers/cases/index/m94.html#m_4747. Retrieved 2008-07-22. 
4. ^ "Rapid - Press Releases - EUROPA" (Press release). EUROPA. 2008-05-03. http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/387. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 
5. ^ "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. 
6. ^ "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.