Compuware EcoSYSTEMS Integration of CACI Product Group Sparks New Generation of E-commerce Application Performance Solutions

EcoSYSTEMS Addresses Complete Application Performance Management Spectrum with Addition of EcoPROFILER, EcoPREDICTOR and COMNET III

Washington -- January 25, 2000 -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) today announced at ComNet Expo (booth #1838) its strategy for integrating Application Profiler, COMNET Predictor and COMNET III—products from the former CACI Products Company—with Compuware's EcoSYSTEMS suite of application performance management solutions. Integration of the newly acquired products reinforces the EcoSYSTEMS strategy of providing the most comprehensive suite of end-to-end application and e-commerce performance management tools available. This integration spawns a unique, new generation of solutions, bringing the application life cycle full-circle-from pre-production through deployment and beyond for IT organizations and e-commerce businesses.

Compuware's strategy for rapidly integrating EcoSYSTEMS and the newly acquired capacity planning products to provide a seamless exchange of data confirms the company's commitment to facilitate daily capacity planning for IT professionals. Customers can already select from a broad set of these complementary tools to grow with their needs and better position them for the explosive growth of today's rapidly evolving e-commerce environment. Furthering its existing integration with the former CACI products, the next release of EcoSCOPE will incorporate application, system and network data into capacity planning scenarios for COMET III. Rapid single-click integration will provide IT professionals with a comprehensive and completely automated application life cycle management solution.

"The CACI Application Profiler product has proven to be a very useful tool prior to deployment for understanding the impact an application will make in production, and I look forward to seeing the integration with the EcoSYSTEMS product suite," says Joe Wrzosek of 3M Corporation. "It makes a lot of sense to profile your application before it hits the network, especially in the case of mission-critical applications and applications that are highly visible to the general public, such as those related to the Internet and e-commerce." Wrzosek uses EcoPROFILER (formally Application Profiler) for troubleshooting and profiling numerous applications, which include e-commerce applications.

Integration Strategy

COMNET Predictor, Application Profiler and COMNET III-renamed EcoPREDICTOR, EcoPROFILER and Compuware's COMNET III, respectively, provide EcoSCOPE with added out-of-the-box capabilities such as seamless data integration for immediate proactive service level planning without the need to export, analyze, import and create models. The products will soon provide automated forecasting to identify future application service level hot spots and the ability to use EcoSCOPE data to populate models with actual observed trends, providing a true understanding of business dynamics and their impact on application performance. Before the acquisition, Compuware had already demonstrated its commitment to capacity planning by facilitating the exchange of information between EcoSCOPE and what were formerly CACI's COMNET Predictor, Application Profiler and COMNET III.

"The integration of CACI products with EcoSYSTEMS further reinforces Compuware as an industry leader with the unique capability of addressing the entire spectrum of application performance management," said Alan Shoap, Director, EcoSYSTEMS Product Center, Compuware. "EcoSCOPE meets the three crucial demands of organizations requiring a complete performance solution—identifying an application problem, locating and troubleshooting the problem and planning for future needs to maintain service levels."

Synergy of Performance Monitoring and Capacity Planning

Integrating EcoPREDICTOR, EcoPROFILER and Compuware's COMNET III with the EcoSYSTEMS product suite combines performance monitoring and capacity planning to bring the application life cycle full-circle for EcoSYSTEMS users. IT professionals will have a continual ability to plan and manage application and system performance through pre-production to post-production and beyond, as their infrastructure needs change and grow.

Before deployment, the EcoSYSTEMS suite helps IT professionals minimize pre-production costs and time by increasing knowledge of how the network and users impact the application. With EcoPROFILER, network and software professionals can work together to minimize application response times and ensure successful deployment.

In production, EcoSYSTEMS helps IT professionals manage application performance with EcoTOOLS managing server health and availability; EcoSCOPE analyzing and troubleshooting networked application performance; and Interval Pro monitoring the desktop to rapidly recover from application failures.

EcoPREDICTOR and Compuware's COMNET III facilitate capacity planning and "what if" scenarios for application and network futures. IT professionals can use COMNET III to assure service level conformance by detailed accounting of fluctuations in daily or seasonal network traffic and forecasting which network devices will exhaust capacity before trouble begins. When problems do occur, EcoPREDICTOR will predict the performance of traffic from pre-deployed applications on the network. EcoPREDICTOR closes the application management life cycle circle by enabling users to incorporate information from EcoPROFILER to further examine pre-deployed applications with the real network and live background traffic.

Price and Availability

EcoPROFILER, EcoPREDICTOR and Compuware COMNET III are priced at $9,500, $24,500 and $35,000, respectively. All are available immediately.

Compuware Corporation

With trailing 12-month revenues of more than $2 billion, Compuware is a world leader in the practical implementation of enterprise and e-commerce solutions. Compuware productivity solutions help 14,000 of the world's largest corporations more efficiently maintain and enhance their most critical business applications. Providing immediate and measurable return on information technology investments, Compuware products and services improve quality, lower costs and increase the speed at which systems can be developed, implemented and supported. Compuware employs more than 15,000 information technology professionals worldwide. For more information about Compuware, please contact the corporate offices at 800-521-9353. You may also visit Compuware on the World Wide Web at www.compuware.com.