Telelogic AB was a software business headquartered in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

, Sweden

Sweden

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. Telelogic was founded in 1983 as a research and development arm of Televerket

Televerket

Televerket is the name of two government telecommunications agencies:*Televerket , former name of Swedish company Telia, later merged to TeliaSonera.*Televerket, former name of Norwegian company Telenor...

, the Swedish department of telecom (now part of TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera

TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland. The company has operations in other countries in Northern, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Spain, with a total of 150 million mobile customers...

). It was later acquired by IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 Rational, and exists under the IBM software group.

Telelogic had operations in 22 countries and had been publicly traded since 1999. On June 11, 2007, IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 announced that it had made a cash offer to acquire Telelogic. On August 29, 2007, the European Union

European Union

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 opened an investigation into the acquisition. On March 5, 2008, European regulators approved the acquisition of Telelogic by the Swedish IBM

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

 subsidiary Watchtower AB. On April 28, 2008, IBM completed its purchase of Telelogic.

Former Products

• Focal Pointhttp://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/focalpoint/ - System for management of product and project portfolios.
• DOORS - Requirements tracking
  Requirements traceability
  Requirements traceability is a sub-discipline of requirements management within software development and systems engineering. Requirements traceability is concerned with documenting the life of a requirement and to provide bi-directional traceability between various associated requirements...
  
   tool.
• System Architect - Enterprise Architecture
  Enterprise architecture
  An enterprise architecture is a rigorous description of the structure of an enterprise, which comprises enterprise components , the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships between them...
  
   and Business Architecture
  Business architecture
  A business architecture is a part of an enterprise architecture related to corporate business, and the documents and diagrams that describe that architectural structure of business...
  
   modeling tool.
• Tau - UML modeling tool
  UML tool
  A UML tool or UML modeling tool is a software application that supports some or all of the notation and semantics associated with the Unified Modeling Language , which is the industry standard general purpose modeling language for software engineering.UML tool is used broadly here to include...
  
  .
• Synergy
  Telelogic Synergy
  Rational Synergy is a software tool that provides software configuration management capabilities for all artifacts related to software development including source code, documents and images as well as the final built software executables and libraries. Rational Synergy also provides the...
  
  - Task-based version control and configuration management
  Configuration management
  Configuration management is a field of management that focuses on establishing and maintaining consistency of a system or product's performance and its functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information throughout its life.For information assurance, CM...
  
   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

Rational Software

Rational Machines was founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development...

 division in the systems engineering

Systems engineering

Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed over the life cycle of the project. Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more...

 and Product lifecycle management

Product lifecycle management

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(PLM

PLM

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) solutions software line.

Acquisitions

Telelogic acquired the following companies between 2000 and 2007:

Date of announcement	Company Name	Type of business
Mar 6, 2006	I-Logix I-Logix I-Logix was a leading provider of Collaborative Model driven development solutions for systems design through software development focused on real-time embedded applications. Founded in 1987, the Andover, Massachusetts-based company product line enhanced collaboration among engineers, graphically...	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.