Compuware Corporation, incorporated in 1973, develops, markets and supports an integrated set of systems software products designed to improve the effectiveness of information technology (IT) organizations in application development, application delivery, application service management and IT portfolio management. The Company also provides professional services, which include business systems analysis, design, communication, programming and implementation, as well as software conversion and systems planning and consulting. Its products and services are offered worldwide across a spectrum of technologies, including mainframe and distributed systems platforms. Compuware Corporation operates in two business segments in the software and technology services industries: products and professional services.

Products
Compuware Corporation's software products enhance the effectiveness of key disciplines throughout the IT organization, from application development and delivery to service management and IT portfolio management, supporting all enterprise computing platforms. Its mainframe products focus on improving the productivity of developers and analysts in analysis, unit testing, functional testing, performance testing, defect removal, fault management, file and data management, and application service management in the IBM operating system (OS)/390 and z/OS series environments. The Company's mainframe products are grouped into two product lines: Application Delivery, which includes File-AID products, Xpediter products and Hiperstation products, and Service Management products, which includes Abend-AID products, and Strobe and iStrobe.

The Company's distributed products focus on improving the effectiveness of the entire IT organization, including applications and operations organizations, as well as IT executive leadership. These products support an application delivery process from requirements definition and management, through application development, and quality and performance assurance.

Professional Services

Compuware Corporation offers a range of IT services for distributed systems and mainframe environments. Its offerings include technical staffing, application development, quality assurance, project management and application maintenance. It also offers professional services solutions that utilize Compuware's products for enhanced performance.

Professional services include the Company's business-to-business applications and communication services, which are delivered via the Covisint Interoperability Platform. This platform provides the Company's customers with a solution for communicating real-time transactions and other information with their suppliers, partners and customers. .

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