Telelogic Nominated for Association of International Product Marketing and Management Excellence Awards; Recognized in Thought Leader and Product Management Tools Categories

The AIPMM Product Management Excellence awards are presented toacknowledge the outstanding contributions of individuals andorganizations in the field of product management.

Joachim Karlsson, Executive Vice President, RequirementsManagement Product Division at Telelogic is a nominee in the category'Excellence as a Thought Leader'. Karlsson is an evangelist formarket-driven product management and has written many well citedpapers in the fields of product management and requirementsmanagement. Karlsson was the former founder, President & CEO of FocalPoint, acquired by Telelogic in 2005.

Telelogic FOCAL POINT(TM), a decision support platform forrequirements management, product management and project portfoliomanagement is nominated in the category 'Excellence in ProductManagement Tools'.

"Telelogic is honored to be nominated for these prestigious awardsin the field of product management," said Ingemar Ljungdahl, ChiefTechnology Officer at Telelogic. "These nominations demonstrateTelelogic's continued commitment to provide thought leadership andinnovation in delivering the best solutions to our customers."

"We are very pleased to have such a high quality of nominees,"said Therese Padilla, President and Founder of AIPMM. "Productmanagement is a field growing in its importance to successful productdevelopment, and we are delighted that it's attracting such talentedindividuals and innovative organizations and products."

Winners will be announced at the AIPMM Excellence Dinner duringthe Product Management Educational Conference (PMEC) 2006 in IndianWells, California, on Thursday, April 20, 2006.

About AIPMM

The Association of International Product Marketing and Managementis dedicated to serving the needs of product professionals and theiremployers by providing focused and strategic information, training andnetworking. There are currently over 3,000 members worldwide. AIPMM'steam continues to strive to identify, unify, support and represent theglobal community of product marketing management professionalsutilizing state-of the-art the technologies such as online electronicpublishing as well as the traditional methods of networking,conferences and seminars. AIPMM also continues to increase the ways inwhich product management contributes to the achievement of corporatebusiness objectives through our many corporate services and trainingpartnerships. For more information on issues concerning productmanagers, product marketing managers, and their companies visithttp://www.aipmm.com.

About Telelogic

Telelogic(R) is a leading global provider of solutions forautomating and supporting best practices across the enterprise - frompowerful modeling of business processes and enterprise architecturesto requirements-driven development of advanced systems and software.Telelogic's solutions enable organizations to align product, systems,and software development lifecycles with business objectives andcustomer needs to dramatically improve quality and predictability,while significantly reducing time-to-market and overall costs.

To better enable our customers' drive towards an automatedlifecycle process, Telelogic supports an open architecture and the useof standardized languages. As an industry leader and technologyvisionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the future ofenterprise architecture, application lifecycle management, andcustomer needs management by participating in industry organizationssuch as INCOSE, OMG, The Open Group, Eclipse, ETSI, ITU-T, theTeleManagement Forum, and AUTOSAR.

Headquartered in Malmo, Sweden, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine,California, Telelogic has operations in 20 countries worldwide.Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS, BMW, Boeing,DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Electric, GeneralMotors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Samsung, Siemens,Sprint, Thales, and Vodafone.

For more information, please visit www.telelogic.com

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