IBM maps out future for Telelogic tools
November 13, 2008 —
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IBM’s acquisition of development tool rival Telelogic in April raised questions about the future of the portfolio and whether IBM would slowly move Telelogic customers onto IBM Rational tools.
The company now has begun to answer those questions, laying out the road map it had hammered out over the course of several months. In the broadest sense, IBM sees the Telelogic tools as targeted more toward systems development and the Rational tools as more applicable to the IT space.
“When IBM acquired Telelogic, the main target was to secure a footprint in the systems space,” said Dominic Tavassoli, program director of systems marketing for IBM Rational. “Their engineers really have a deep understanding of that space.”
He noted that Telelogic’s tools have been popular among companies creating embedded systems, such as those found in airplanes and automobiles, while the Rational tools have their heritage in IT software development.
But there are areas of crossover. For example, System Architect, Telelogic’s tool for modeling enterprise architectures, fits in nicely with IBM’s energy efficiency initiatives, since organizations can model their entire IT infrastructure and then gain cost savings by consolidating or eliminating redundant or obsolete assets.
The plan for the development tools is more detailed, but Tavassoli said IBM’s foremost concern was to keep developers happy by giving them the best of both tool worlds and not forcing them to migrate off their preferred tools.
In the requirements management arena, the acquisition brings together Telelogic’s Doors tool with IBM’s Rational RequisitePro. Doors, Tavassoli said, is popular among users developing systems with complex IT requirements, such as those imposed by compliance mandates. RequisitePro, he said, is more useful in the software space, where processes are less formal.
One key area in which both tools are lacking is requirements definition, Tavassoli acknowledged. IBM had plans for a tool called Rational Requirements Composer; that effort will now be integrated with Doors in the second quarter of 2009, Tavassoli said.
On the change and configuration management front, Telelogic’s plan for the Synergy SCM software was to complete a rewrite of the back end for version 8, due out sometime next year. Instead, Synergy will leverage IBM’s collaborative Jazz Team Server, Tavassoli said, to bring enhanced metrics and reporting features to its users.
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