Telelogic AB was a

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business headquartered in

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. Telelogic was founded in 1983 as a research and development arm of Televerket, the Swedish department of telecom (now part of

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). It was later acquired by IBM Rational, and exists under the IBM software group. Telelogic had operations in 22 countries and had been publicly traded since 1999. CEO and President in 2001 was Anders Lidbeck. On June 11, 2007, IBM announced that it had made a cash offer to acquire Telelogic. On August 29, 2007, the

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

Former Products

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' — System for management of product and project portfolios. * '' IBM Rational DOORS, DOORS'' — Requirements tracking tool. * ''

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modeling tool. * ''

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'' — SDL and UML modeling tool. * ''

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'' — Systems engineering and executable UML modeling tool. * ''DocExpress'' — Technical documentation tool, discontinued after the acquisition and superseded by Publishing Engine. * '' Publishing Engine'' — Technical documentation tool All of these products have been continued under IBM's

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division in the

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and

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(PLM) "solutions" software line.

Acquisitions

Telelogic acquired the following companies between 1999 and 2007:

References

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