Compuware Establishes Leadership in Fast-Growing End User Experience Market

DETROIT, May 27, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR)
today announced that Compuware Vantage has a dominant share of the growing End
User Experience (EUE) monitoring market. With an expected high market growth
rate for 2009 driven by the need to protect revenues and eliminate costly
downtime, Compuware Vantage is perfectly positioned for continued success.

"Based on our analysis, we estimate Compuware owns 30 percent of the End User
Experience monitoring market," said Mark Hillman, Compuware's Vice President of
Strategy and Product Line Management. "Compuware EUE monitoring provides IT
leadership with a versatile solution for optimizing the end-to-end performance
of the applications that matter most to the business. And with a high continued
growth rate expected in this market, we believe that Compuware will continue
leading the pack."

Independent Perspective on the Market

In a recent Forrester report, Market Overview: The IT Management Software Market
In 2009, authored by Forrester Research's Jean-Pierre Garbani and Peter O'Neill,
the respected analyst firm projected a tremendous 32 percent growth rate for the
EUE market in 2009. This was the highest projected growth of all IT management
segments rated.*

The report also stated that "In 2009, IT faces the problem of cutting costs
without affecting the productivity of business users. Ideally, enterprises will
look at solutions that increase IT op's productivity, reduce the time needed to
correct problems and eliminate wasted time: this should favor the latest and
most innovative IT management software products."

The Importance of End User Experience Monitoring

End User Experience monitoring and reporting is especially important in a
struggling economy. Strong market growth is based on EUE's ability to cut costs
by reducing system downtime, eliminating the "fire-drill" type of responses to
system problems, increasing productivity and improving customer service and
retention.

"Compuware Vantage is clearly leading in application-centric End User Experience
Monitoring, with the industry's most compelling balance between real user and
synthetic transactions monitoring," said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President,
Enterprise Management Associates. "Compuware's unique approach enables IT to
more effectively manage application performance while also helping to ensure
that any problems are caught before the business is impacted."

Compuware Vantage, an IT service management solution, provides IT with a
top-down approach to service delivery that starts from the end user perspective.
Rather than providing a bottom-up, infrastructure-oriented view of events,
Vantage maps critical business services to the supporting infrastructure and
provides an end-to-end view of application performance. This approach allows IT
to deliver services more effectively, communicate the business value of IT and
proactively identify and resolve problems before they impact the business.

Overcoming today's challenges requires a total perspective on the IT portfolio,
both to deliver projects that enable business growth and also to ensure the
health of existing systems. With Compuware's Business Service Delivery approach,
IT leaders get comprehensive, proven and scalable solutions for ensuring
applications work well and deliver value, regardless of the technology or
applications used. End User Experience monitoring is central to this approach
and to optimizing end-to-end application performance so that IT can keep its
promises to the business.

Compuware Corporation

Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to
ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Our unique approach,
Business Service Delivery, helps CIOs optimize end-to-end application
performance for leading businesses around the world, including 46 of the top 50
Fortune 500 companies. Learn more at www.compuware.com.

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* Forrester's Report is independent of Compuware's market share calculations.

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