Compuware EcoSYSTEMS Provide Performance Management for Windows 2000-Based Applications

EcoTOOLS' Advanced Planning and Design Capabilities for Windows 2000 Provides Superior Applications Manageability for Data Centers and E-commerce

Washington -- January 26, 2000 -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) today announced that EcoSYSTEMS—the leading solution for end-to-end application, system and network monitoring—is the first application performance management suite to provide support for Microsoft Windows 2000 customers who require a superior level of enterprise and e-commerce application performance and availability. Through Compuware's close collaboration with Microsoft and in-depth development of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), corporations can use EcoSYSTEMS solutions to achieve superior application availability, performance and capacity planning through access to specific monitoring and management of information not commonly available in Windows.

As part of the EcoSYSTEMS solution, EcoTOOLS monitors the health and availability of Windows 2000 servers; EcoSCOPE provides an integrated solution for analyzing and troubleshooting application performance from the network perspective; EcoPREDICTOR provides capacity planning capabilities for enterprise Windows 2000 installations; and EcoPROFILER provides insight into how client/server applications, including those running on Windows 2000, will be rolled out on the existing infrastructure before deployment. This integrated solution enables data center and IT professionals to plan for the future of key business applications-including e-commerce—before deployment, as well as to continue examining current and historical information to manage their existing infrastructure. In this way, data centers can continually monitor and manage their application service levels from pre-production to post-production and beyond, as their Windows 2000 infrastructure grows and changes.

"We're very excited about the powerful management tools Compuware has developed for Windows 2000," said Deborah Willingham, vice president of marketing for Windows 2000 at Microsoft Corporation. "EcoTOOLS will help customers who manage application service levels in a distributed environment to quickly and easily migrate their critical business applications to Windows 2000."

By capitalizing on in-depth development and integration for WMI technologies, EcoTOOLS correlates and reports on data in the Windows 2000 registry in addition to providing a number of extended application availability and performance data points critical to providing superior service levels to enterprise customers. This information is of critical importance for managing e-commerce applications where performance may have a direct effect on the business. EcoSYSTEMS generates comprehensive reports from the business perspective that support the organization's on-going efforts to provide better service to their end users.

Global organizations planning to migrate to Windows 2000 can benefit from EcoSYSTEMS' ability to easily gather and correlate system and application availability and performance data residing on servers across disparate protocols. Using Microsoft's message querying capability ensures delivery of EcoTOOLS' system messages and improves message management. In addition, EcoSYSTEMS takes advantage of the Windows 2000 operating system's scalability and instrumentation to support huge customer networks with fewer resources, an important capability for e-commerce business. EcoTOOLS also enables Windows 2000 users to centrally manage enterprise application service levels from the Microsoft Management Console and decrease application downtime costs through comprehensive availability monitoring.

"EcoSYSTEMS products help manage the availability and performance of critical business applications, databases and servers being migrated from Windows NT 4.0 and other platforms to Windows 2000," said Frank Slootman, Vice President, EcoSYSTEMS. "Leveraging the strength of our development with Microsoft technologies such as Windows 2000, SQL Server, IIS and WMI, EcoSYSTEMS offers superior management for e-commerce and other critical Windows-based applications."

Price and Availability

EcoTOOLS is available immediately. Pricing begins at US $695 per managed server.

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 im
mediate 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.