IBM Expands Telelogic Project Management Support with Key Enhancements to Performance Measurement

ARMONK, NY - 20 May 2008: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced enhancements to Telelogic Dashboard™, the performance management application that improves decision-making by providing the project status and trend information managers need to measure progress and ensure that development projects meet their goals. The new features available in Dashboard 3.5 help managers to easily access and share vital information across multiple projects.

Continual process improvement is an objective for many organizations, and measurement of data across disparate projects and applications is essential to mature process improvement initiatives. With intelligent data collection from application lifecycle management (ALM) offerings, including those from IBM’s Telelogic portfolio and other third-party products such as Microsoft® Project Server, HP Quality Center, Microsoft Excel, Access and SQL databases, Telelogic Dashboard provides managers with the ability to monitor the performance of their projects in a single view.

This new version of Telelogic Dashboard adds to this capability with:

• Flexible data entry, providing a simple interface to consolidate relevant information such as milestones, risks or action items. Managers can now easily switch between vital project information and Dashboard graphs in one interface, monitoring the progress of all project data relative to their goals
• Enhanced reporting, providing managers with a more effective method of communicating and collaborating on the definition and configuration of the measurement process across projects
• Increased project visibility providing rollup or aggregation of data, allowing managers to manage multiple projects in a single view

The Telelogic Dashboard 3.5 Library of Best Practices, which already includes built-in measures to promote compliance with standards such as the CMMI, has been expanded with additional information for managing Microsoft Project Server 2003 tasks and resources. This release also adds new analysis for schedule, tasks and cost tracking. With its configurable options, Telelogic Dashboard 3.5 continues to support both standard and customer-specific processes.

To help managers quickly identify projects that need attention, Telelogic Dashboard 3.5 enhances Management by Exception, a feature that reduces the quantity of details contained in management reports and highlights where action should be taken. The review of status information has been enhanced through expanded filter criteria and new navigation controls. Managers can quickly and easily assess the progress of a project by monitoring the status of all software, systems, and documentation under development.

Measurement is key to improvement, and organizations need solutions that will help them continuously improve their processes. With Telelogic Dashboard, customers unify project information from multiple sources into a single view, quickly and easily assess and report the status of their projects, and also assess their projects against corporate policies, standards and maturity models like the SEI CMMI.

Availability

Telelogic Dashboard 3.5 will be available during the second quarter of 2008. Telelogic Dashboard currently includes interfaces to Telelogic DOORS®, Telelogic Change™ and Telelogic Synergy™. Additional interfaces to third-party products are licensed separately.

For more information about Telelogic, An IBM Company, visit http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/welcome/telelogic/

For more information about the products announced today, visit www.telelogic.com/spring2008enhancements

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IBM Announces Enhancements to Telelogic Portfolio