Compuware

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Compuware Corporation NASDAQ: CPWR is a software company with products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses. The company's services also include testing, development and management software for programs running on mainframe computer and client-server systems.

Compuware customers include 70+% of Fortune 500 companies, with more than 23,000 customers around the world. For 2005 the company revenues were over US$1.2 billion. They had 7,908 employees in 84 offices across 60 countries worldwide, as of March 2005. The CEO is Peter Karmanos, Jr..

1 History
2 Locations
3 Product offerings
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Compuware was founded in 1973 by Peter Karmanos, Jr., Thomas Thewes and Allen Cutting. The company's vision is to help people do things with computers by providing professional technical services, thus allowing them to focus on their business.

Compuware is a contributing member of the Apdex Alliance.

[edit] Locations

Compuware's main offices are at 1 Campus Martius, Detroit, Michigan 48226.

Worldwide locations include:

Canada - Richmond Hill, Ontario - formerly Mississauga, Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Alberta

Australia & New Zealand - Sydney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; Brisbane, Australia; Canberra, Australia; Perth, Australia; Wellington, New Zealand
China - Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong; Shanghai, China
Asia South - Singapore; Bangalore, India
Korea - Seoul, South Korea
Europe - Berkshire, United Kingdom; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Italy; Gdańsk, Poland; Zaventem, Belgium

[edit] Product offerings

Abend-AID- Application failure resolution (suite of products).
Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) - Comprehensive quality assurance practices solution.
Changepoint - IT governance and management.
Covisint - Interoperability solutions and services.
DevPartner - Comprehensive application development, debugging and tuning (suite of products).
DriverStudio - Debugging and tuning for driver development. As of April 3, 2006 the formal retirement of the Compuware DriverStudio product family was issued. Maintenance support for these products is supposed to continue through March 31, 2007.
File-AID - Enterprise-wide data management (suite of products).
OptimalJ - Model-driven development for Java (suite of products).
Optimal Trace a structured business requirements gathering and management solution.
QACenter - Enterprise-wide automated application testing (suite of products).
Strobe - OS/390 and z/OS application performance measurement and analysis (suite of products).
TestPartner an automated functional and regression testing tool.
Uniface - Component-based development (Fourth-generation programming language).
Vantage - End-user monitoring and application performance management (suite of products).
Xpediter - Interactive mainframe analysis and debugging.