Compuware Announces Broadest IT Governance and Management Solution in the Industry

Compuware Announces Broadest IT Governance and Management Solution in the Industry

New Release Is the First Solution in the Market to Enable Integrated Management of IT Life Cycle

DETROIT, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) today announced the release of a new version of its IT governance solution, Compuware IT Governance by Changepoint. This release delivers the industry's broadest integrated IT governance and management capabilities through integrations across Compuware's development, quality and service management offerings. The new version will begin shipping January 15, 2005.

Compuware defines integrated IT governance and management as unified business management processes and systems that enable consolidated control and visibility over the key IT portfolios of projects, applications and infrastructure. Compuware's vision is to provide IT management with a complete picture of the performance of technology investments, enabling more effective governance, improved decision-making and proactive management of IT value and risk.

"IT organizations are extremely complex businesses within businesses. For too long IT has relied on cobbled-together solutions for managing the business of IT service delivery," said Theresa Lanowitz of Gartner. "There is a strong move afoot to ensure optimal IT efficiency and alignment by investing in the same class of integrated business systems that IT has been deploying for line of business clients for years. These investments will greatly improve the ability of IT organizations to manage, govern and drive value for the business."

Compuware is unique in its ability to manage the life cycle of both legacy and distributed systems. Integrating a broad portfolio of development, quality assurance and service management solutions enhances Compuware IT Governance by Changepoint's capabilities for managing application and infrastructure portfolios. Leveraging key business metrics from the company's foundation of tools plus third-party applications, Compuware's IT governance offering is the first solution that enables the C-level management of all IT investments and unparalleled visibility into the health of application and infrastructure portfolios.

"IT organizations must not only address the needs of the business, but also demonstrate and communicate how technology investments contribute to corporate objectives. A lack of integrated, accurate and timely information about IT performance has historically prevented CIOs from doing so," said Dan Schoenbaum, Vice President Strategy, Compuware Corporation. "Compuware's vision for comprehensive IT governance and management removes those obstacles by providing process integration and performance management data from across the IT life cycle. Compuware stands alone in the market in its ability to deliver on this vision."

"We see significant value in Compuware's strategic direction in application and infrastructure portfolio management. Consolidated visibility into the attributes and performance of applications and infrastructure assets allows organizations to not only invest in the right things, but also ensure that existing investments remain aligned and continue to provide value," said Andy Harbison, AVP, IT Enabling Services, Sun Life Financial Canada. "This type of information enables IT to better track and manage the implementation of enterprise architecture standards, compliance and sun setting strategies, while reducing complexity, risk and costs within IT."

Application and Infrastructure Portfolio Management

Applying a portfolio management discipline to application and infrastructure assets enables organizations to ensure that IT investments are cost effective and support business needs by providing a consistent framework for evaluating and communicating risk, performance, cost and value. Compuware IT Governance by Changepoint catalogs and categorizes application and infrastructure investments in ways that are meaningful to an organization's unique business requirements. The solution immediately benefits businesses by highlighting ways to eliminate redundancy, reduce maintenance costs and improve alignment with business needs.

Integrations with Compuware IT Governance by Changepoint will ship with Compuware's service management solutions, including Compuware Vantage, Compuware STROBE and Compuware Abend-AID Fault Manager. The solution will enable enhanced health monitoring and cost analysis of application and infrastructure portfolios by providing insight into availability, reliability and other key performance metrics. Combined with other key metrics, such as service requests, maintenance and other costs and client satisfaction, customers will gain the necessary insight for comprehensive charge-backs and analysis of value, risk and alignment of IT investments on an ongoing basis. Organizations will also be able to assess service level performance from both service request responsiveness and application availability and reliability perspectives.

Project Portfolio Management

Compuware's IT governance solution will also provide unmatched risk management and project health monitoring capabilities for software development projects. By integrating with the Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS), project portfolios that contain development projects will benefit from new metrics that communicate a software quality index. This integration not only increases the accuracy of tracking and evaluating a project's health and risk, it also reduces the administrative burden of collecting and entering data into multiple systems for reporting.

Performance Reporting and Integrated Workflow

IT executives and managers gain a broader and more complete view of the performance of projects, applications and infrastructure through management reports and a configurable portal that offer information originating in Compuware IT Governance by Changepoint, other Compuware solutions and third party applications.

Operations management and staff will also benefit from integrated request assignment and tracking workflow tied to alerts generated by Vantage and Fault Manager. This integrated workflow will ensure that issues are acted on in a timely fashion and provide valuable management visibility into service responsiveness, resource utilization, allocation and cost.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com/ .

Press Contacts:

Dawn Cabral, Environics Communications, 203-325-8772, ext. 18, dcabral@environics-usa.com

Bob O'Brien, Compuware Corporation, 603-578-8233, bob.obrien@compuware.com


Source: Compuware Corporation

CONTACT: Dawn Cabral of Environics Communications, +1-203-325-8772,
ext. 18, dcabral@environics-usa.com ; Bob O'Brien of Compuware Corporation,
+1-603-578-8233, bob.obrien@compuware.com

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