IBM makes its
ALM play
Seven months after closing the deal,
Big Blue’s bringing Telelogic into Rational fold
By Darryl K. Taft IBM’s recently announced product
When IBM finalized road map for Telelogic is simply the
i t s 8 4 5 m i l l i o n first step of what will be a very long
deal for develop- and complicated process.”
ment tool maker Seven months later, IBM officials say
Telelogic in April, the integration of Telelogic into the
one analyst called it “the biggest Rational fold is going smoothly, and
and by far most complex acqui- that they are working out plans to
sition” in the highly competitive leverage the Telelogic technology.
application lifecycle management IBM initially announced plans to
space in more than a decade. buy Telelogic in June 2007, but the
Most major ALM deals have con- deal took time to gain approval
sistedofonecompanybuyinganother from U.S. and European regula-
to fill gaps, such as adding a testing or tors—perhaps partly because of
requirements management product great overlap between the Telel-
to fill out a product line, said Ovum ogic product line and that of Ratio-
Research analyst Tony Baer. nal. Prior to IBM acquiring Rational
For IBM and its Rational tools arm, in 2003, Rational and Telelogic were
buying Telelogic “was more the competitors, particularly in the sci-
equivalent of bringing together a entific and engineering, complex
couple of ERP companies, each of systems development, and embed-
whom had products geared to differ- ded systems spaces, where Telel-
ent markets,” he said. When also fac- ogic specializes.
toring in that Rational and Tele-logic Dominic Tavassoli, program direc-
were organized differently in their go- tor of systems marketing at Ratio-
to-market initiatives, “the result is that CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
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