IBM has integrated the Telelogic tools into the IBM Rational portfolio it acquired with the company six months ago. The combined portfolio gives IBM an arsenal of tools covering the entire application development lifecycle, with application lifecycle management solutions for IT systems as well as science, engineering and embedded systems.IBM completed its $845 million acquisition of Telelogic AB,
a Swedish development tool maker, in April. Now, a little more than
seven months later, IBM officials say the integration of Telelogic's
products into the IBM Rational portfolio is moving forward smoothly.
IBM announced its intent to acquire Telelogic in June of 2007, but
the deal took a long time to gain approval from both U.S. and European
regulators -- perhaps partly because there was a great deal of overlap
between the Telelogic product line and that of IBM's Rational division.
Indeed, prior to IBM acquiring Rational in 2003, Rational and Telelogic
were competitors, particularly in the scientific and engineering,
complex systems development and embedded systems spaces, where
Telelogic specializes. In fact, when IBM announced plans to acquire
Telelogic, the company said the move would help IBM in those very
markets, as well as in the automotive market.
In an interview with eWEEK, Dominic Tavassoli, program director,
systems marketing, IBM Rational, said that together, IBM and Telelogic
provide a comprehensive offering for defining, modeling, building,
testing and delivering the software used in systems in the aerospace
and defense, telecommunications, electronics, automotive and other
industries.
"We have a joint portfolio, there will be no forced migrations from
one product line to another, and we're leveraging a common back end
with the [IBM] Jazz server," Tavassoli said. Moreover, Tavassoli said
IBM would be upgrading the user interface and web interfaces of the
Telelogic software. Tavassoli was vice president of marketing at
Telelogic when IBM bought the company.
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