Telelogic Announces Enhancements to Rhapsody Model Driven Development Solution including New Eclipse Plug-in

Telelogic Announces Enhancements to Rhapsody Model Driven Development Solution
including New Eclipse Plug-in 

New capabilities facilitate mid-stream adoption of Model Driven Development, and
help systems engineers validate technical, real-time or embedded systems designs
earlier

MALMÖ, Sweden and Irvine, California - April 14, 2008 - Telelogic, An IBM
Company (NYSE: IBM) today announced enhancements to its market leading Model
Driven Development™ (MDD™) solution, Telelogic Rhapsody®. The new features
decrease time-to-market through the support of MDD best practices that do not
disrupt current project workflow, and provide system engineers a way to leverage
advanced visualization and prototyping capabilities to easily validate design
correctness and effectively communicate intended design behavior.

Today's announcements include:
- The introduction of Rhapsody 7.2, a new version of the company's flagship
Model-Driven Development solution that provides breakthroughs in systems
engineering, software asset re-use, and automated documentation and testing;
- The new Telelogic Rhapsody Eclipse Plug-in, a version of Rhapsody integrated
within the Eclipse open source development environment, scheduled for release
this summer; Rhapsody Eclipse Plug-in allows embedded device and real-time
system software developers to continue working on existing projects at the code
level while gradually adopting MDD within a single familiar development
environment

“Leveraging existing code from previous projects is a significant part of most
embedded system development efforts and for teams implementing model driven
development approaches the need to efficiently automate the transfer of design
intent among system models and software code is of key importance,” said Matt
Volckmann, Senior Analyst/Program Manager with Venture Development Corporation's
(VDC) Embedded Software practice. “By offering several new features within
Rhapsody 7.2 that allow for more integrated methods of code design and model
driven development, Telelogic continues its strong history of product innovation
and clearly endeavors to maintain its leadership position within the embedded
software and system modeling tools market,” said Volckmann. “VDC's most recent
analysis of the embedded standards-based software and system modeling tools
ranked Telelogic as the market share leader on a revenue basis”.

New Features Increase Automation; Open MDD to C Developers and Integrated
Eclipse Development

Building on Telelogic's “Code Respect” initiative, Rhapsody now allows C
developers to leverage the benefits of MDD while preserving the code structure,
functionality and order. Rhapsody further offers the unique ability to
reverse-engineer existing code and then forward-generate identical code. This
allows software developers to use the right tools for the job and work at either
the code or model level.

With Rhapsody's Eclipse Plug-in, software developers can streamline their
workflow and increase efficiencies by taking advantage of Eclipse's powerful
code editing capabilities and gain the benefits of working with an MDD solution
all within the same development environment.  Using Rhapsody's strong reverse
engineering and code synchronization capabilities, Rhapsody's Eclipse Plug-in
allows developers to work on the code or model within one complete development
environment. Working in this manner, the code and model remain in synch and it
is easy to navigate from one to the other.  Developers can leverage debugging at
the code or model level using the Eclipse debugger and Rhapsody's animation with
the ability to synchronize breakpoints between them.

IDT, a company that specializes in Automated Software Testing (www.idtus.com)
recently conducted a one year Software Testing survey which concluded that among
other statistics, some 50 - 75 percent of the software development lifecycle is
spent on testing related efforts. With recent enhancements to Rhapsody
TestConductor™, an integrated model-based testing solution, C developers can now
detect and eliminate software defects earlier in the development cycle when they
are less costly to fix. Rhapsody TestConductor facilitates unit and integration
testing by automating many manual test procedures and decreasing the time needed
for testing. It executes tests in single or batch mode, determines the success
of the test, and creates a report, enabling developers to collaborate more
easily and bring products to market more rapidly.  Rhapsody TestConductor is
based on the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) Testing Profile, enabling tests
to be easily linked to design requirements captured in Rhapsody or in
Requirements Management products such as market leading Telelogic DOORS®.

“Model Driven Development techniques help engineers become more efficient with
the potentially time-consuming tasks of test creation and execution, as well as
document creation,” said Greg Sikes, Executive Vice President, Modeling
Solutions, Telelogic, An IBM Company. “With Rhapsody, engineers immediately gain
a better understanding of their software and systems architecture and
functionality, while operating in a more open and flexible environment with
improved team communication.” 

Systems Engineering Advancements
With the enhancements announced today, Rhapsody is the first Systems Modeling
Language™ (SysML™) solution that will provide systems engineers with virtual
prototyping capabilities using integrated graphical panels to rapidly visualize
and validate a user mock-up early in the development cycle. Additionally, the
graphical panels will allow engineers to easily modify, monitor and analyze data
during simulation making it easier to ensure the design is correct.  Rhapsody
7.2 also offers SysML Requirements Tables, Allocation Tables, and N-2 matrices,
enabling large quantities of information to be easily organized, customized, and
viewed. Improved model consistency and checking functionality further allows
software developers to create their own and domain-specific checks, improving
design quality and integrity. 

Rhapsody 7.2 will be available in April, 2008. The Rhapsody Eclipse Plug-in and
graphical panels will be available in Summer 2008.

For more information, visit
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/welcome/telelogic/
© 2008 Telelogic AB. Telelogic Rhapsody and Telelogic DOORS are registered
trademarks of Telelogic. Rhapsody TestConductor is a trademark of Telelogic.
Other trademarks are the properties of their respective holders.

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