Telelogic


Telelogic AB was a software business headquartered in Malmö, Sweden. Telelogic was founded in 1983 as a research and development arm of Televerket, the Swedish department of telecom. 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. On June 11, 2007, IBM announced that it had made a cash offer to acquire Telelogic. On August 29, 2007, the European Union 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

All of these products have been continued under IBM's Rational Software division in the systems engineering and Product lifecycle management "solutions" software line.

Acquisitions

Telelogic acquired the following companies between 1999 and 2007:
Date of announcementCompany NameType of business
06.03.2006I-LogixEmbedded modeling
18.04.2005Popkin SoftwareProvider of enterprise architecture tools
13.04.2005Focal PointProvider of requirements analysis
16.12.2000ATAProvider of project documentation & reporting tools
20.09.2000ContinuusChange & configuration management tools provider
08.08.2000Quality Systems & Software Requirements Management tools and consultancy provider
19.06.2000DevisorFinnish consultant company
30.05.2000CerteamSwedish consultant company
09.03.2000COOL:JexUML analysis & modeling tool
22.12.1999CS VerilogEditor of ObjectGeode, SCADE and Logiscope; then a subsidiary of the French company CS Group.
08.09.1999Real Time Products Ltd.British software design and services company