Telelogic

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 Development
Revenue	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 - System for management of product and project portfolios.
• DOORS - Requirements tracking tool.
• System Architect - Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture modeling tool.
• Tau - SDL and 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• DocExpress - Technical documentation tool, discontinued after the acquisition and superseded by IBM Rational Publishing Engine.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 1999 and 2007:

References

1. ↑ "IBM Completes Acquisition of Telelogic AB" (Press release). IBM. 2008-04-03. Retrieved 2009-05-29. 
2. ↑ "Telelogic’s Board of Directors recommends the offer from IBM" (PDF) (Press release). Telelogic AB. 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 
3. ↑ "EUROPA - Competition - Cases from 4700 to 4749". Retrieved 2008-07-22. 
4. ↑ "Rapid - Press Releases - EUROPA" (Press release). EUROPA. 2008-05-03. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 
5. ↑ "IBM Acquires Telelogic". CXO Today (ITNation India Pvt. Ltd.). Apr 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 
6. ↑ "Telelogic, the world leader acquires Verilog, the first runner-up". CisionWire (Cision). Dec 22, 1999. Retrieved 2011-06-11. 

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