Compuware Breaks New Ground With Vantage 11, Introduces Major Advances in End-to-End...

Compuware Breaks New Ground With Vantage 11, Introduces Major Advances in
End-to-End Approach for Optimizing Application Performance

DETROIT, June 10, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR)
today announced a significant new release of its IT service management solution,
Vantage. Vantage 11 represents a major leap forward from traditional approaches
to managing application performance. Benefits include shortening IT
organizations' time to achieve value from Business Service Delivery and
significantly reducing resources and costs to find and fix application
performance issues.

Vantage 11 is the only solution that provides a top-down approach to IT service
delivery that starts from the end user perspective. The new release brings
together proactive issue identification, quantification of business impact and
problem resolution into a single solution.

"Vantage 11's top-down approach is unique in the market, as it ensures that
everything we measure and report on is in context of our end users and critical
business services," said Brian Hart, Senior Manager of Systems Management,
Autotrader.com. "This is in line with where we want to go and ensures that our
end users on Autotrader.com are satisfied."

Vantage 11 delivers end-to-end visibility across the entire infrastructure for
all application types and a straightforward path to Business Service Delivery
adoption. Vantage 11 transforms how IT organizations deliver application
performance to end users with the following innovations:

-- A performance-driven service model that provides visibility into
the relationship between the IT infrastructure and the critical
business services it supports. This allows IT to understand the
impact of issues, better support and align with their business
customer, and sets the foundation for improving IT maturity. The
service model is automatically generated with information gathered
from Vantage and third party monitoring solutions, as opposed to
building relationships in a costly and failure-prone CMDB
initiative.

-- Unified performance analysis to eliminate finger pointing and
bridge the gap between high-level dashboards and detailed
troubleshooting tools. This helps IT to quickly find and fix the
root cause of application performance issues, whether the
information comes from Compuware or other vendors, enabling IT
organizations to leverage existing monitoring investments.

-- Comprehensive, real user and synthetic monitoring in a single
dashboard, providing visibility into the true end user experience
and business impact quantification of poor application performance.

-- Integrated deep-dive analysis into application performance root
causes, including Java and .NET applications, network or server
infrastructure elements, and the mainframe.

"As applications have become more complex and distributed, the ability to see
the overall health of an application by using traditional approaches to
application performance monitoring is very limited," said Will Cappelli,
Research Vice President with Gartner. "Organizations need to look at how the
application behaves from end-to-end. Without this more holistic view, you can't
understand the health of the application or what the application's quality is
for the end user."

To ensure that enterprise applications are performing as expected, IT needs to
have visibility into the actual experiences of all end users, all of the time;
the ability to proactively isolate problem areas and eliminate the root cause of
the problem; and, finally, the ability to provide key stakeholders with the
information they need to ensure business needs are being met. Vantage 11 brings
these three areas -- end user experience monitoring, application performance
management and business service management -- together in a single, integrated
solution.

"Cutting costs while maintaining or improving the service IT delivers to the
business is utmost in the minds of our customers," said Steve Tack, Vice
President, Vantage product line, Compuware Corporation. "Vantage breaks new
ground by bringing together a single solution for monitoring performance from
the end user perspective, quantifying business impact and resolving issues
regardless of the source of the problem. Organizations that adopt Vantage 11
will reduce resources needed to find and fix problems, significantly improve
critical application response time and ultimately increase customer
satisfaction."

Compuware also announced that it will be hosting a webcast on Vantage 11. The
webcast is scheduled for June 17, 2009, 11:00 a.m. Eastern time (19:00 GMT) to
highlight the value and new capabilities of this new version. To learn more,
please visit www.compuware.com/vantage11.

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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