MALMO, Sweden, June 27, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Telelogic (Stockholm Exchange: TLOG), the leading provider of software solutions that align advanced systems and software development with business objectives, today announced a new release of Telelogic FocalPoint(TM). FocalPoint helps organizations to develop the right products with the right features for the right customer at the right time.
Prior to its recent acquisition by Telelogic, FocalPoint has already been successfully deployed in major product development and IT organizations in the Nordic region such as Ericsson, Enea, Swedbank, Sony Ericsson, Volvo and ABB. Telelogic with its global sales, support and services organization is now expanding the reach of FocalPoint to a worldwide audience. FocalPoint is a unique product and project portfolio planning tool that automates and integrates:
Decision Support -- Focal Point enables organizations to focus on the most valuable features to drive product development and maximize customer value in relation to cost, through visualization of features and priorities in charts for easier decision-making, trade-offs between value and costs, weighting of customers and market segments and planning of optimal product releases.
"Fast and efficient product development demands fast and efficient decision-making. In our development work we always have to be able to make decisions that facilitate the creation of additional values in our smartphones," said Stefan Munther and Roland Johansson, Sony Ericsson. "And at the same time the products should be launched faster. This used to be an impossible equation. But with the FocalPoint solution we have finally solved it".
Portfolio Analysis -- FocalPoint enables organizations to focus on the most valuable IT or product development projects to ensure the best use of resources and the greatest return on investment through workflow support for project portfolio management, complete financial calculations such as payback time and NPV, Gantt chart representation of projects and resources, visualization of project priorities and profitability analysis.
"Using FocalPoint all project information for the portfolio is gathered in one common database, all documentation and all changes over time are transparent and can be monitored," said Christer Cragnell, chief information officer, Swedbank. "The information structure, in combination with flexible support for creating management overviews and dashboards, offers a far better foundation for decision making."
Product Management -- FocalPoint enables organizations to manage product plans from market need to market share through features including: automatic release planning, release and resource trade-offs, simple visualization of results and plans, and gap analysis. Add Telelogic DOORS(R), the world's leading Requirements Management solution, and you have the ultimate product management toolset.
"With FocalPoint we now have an overview of our customers' priorities that's communicated and understood throughout the organization," said Adrian Leufven, vice president, marketing, Enea Embedded Technology. "As a result, we're able to develop our products with the right content-on time and at a lower cost than before. And this dramatic change has happened in less than a year."
With the new FocalPoint 5.1 release organizations can say goodbye to dull descriptions of products, projects, and features; and say hello to visualization that not only brings information to life, but also provides valuable visual insights. With FocalPoint 5.1, product and project managers not only know they're developing the right products for the right customers-they can see it and show it to others, too.
"FocalPoint is a great addition to Telelogic's solutions for helping our customers to increase value from improved business and development processes," said Ingemar Ljungdahl, chief technology officer at Telelogic. "In particular, it's very complementary to DOORS, our requirements management solution; FocalPoint focuses on the business dimension and decision-making to ensure companies do the right things, whereas DOORS focuses on the engineering dimension and ensuring that the development organization does things right."
Availability and Platform Support Telelogic FocalPoint 5.1 is available now on Windows, Solaris and Linux platforms with support for Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Sun Java web browsers.
About Telelogic
Telelogic is a leading global provider of solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the enterprise -- from powerful modeling of business processes and enterprise architectures to requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software. Telelogic's solutions enable organizations to align product, systems and software development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs.
To better enable our customers' drive towards an automated lifecycle process, Telelogic supports an open architecture and use of standardized languages. As an industry leader and technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the future of advanced systems and software development by participating in industry organizations such as INCOSE, OMG, BPMI.org, The Open Group, Eclipse, ETSI, ITU-T, and the TeleManagement Forum.
Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 18 countries worldwide. Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Siemens, Sprint, Thales and Vodafone. For more information, please visit www.telelogic.com.
Contact Americas/Asia: Jesper Christensen, Chief Marketing Officer Phone: +1 (949) 885-2496 Contact Europe: Ingemar Ljungdahl, Chief Technology Officer Phone: +46 40 650 00 00
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