Compuware's New EcoSYSTEMS Product Minimizes the Risk and Boosts the Performance of E-Commerce Applications

EcoPREDICTOR 3.0 Injects Application into Live Network Traffic to Predict Application Performance

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- March 20, 2000 -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) today announced a solution that minimizes risk and boosts performance for complex e-commerce and traditional business applications. EcoPREDICTOR enables network managers and software developers to see the effects of launching applications with existing network traffic on their infrastructure and helps them minimize response times before deployment. EcoPREDICTOR also helps network managers quickly and easily use existing information to build models of their infrastructure, so they can quickly see the effects of traffic and topology changes before they happen. EcoPREDICTOR is part of the EcoSYSTEMS Planning Products suite of application management solutions.

"Here at Delta, we use EcoPREDICTOR to evaluate an application we intend to deploy in large numbers such as Voice over IP. EcoPREDICTOR is an excellent tool where a discrete simulation is impractical or impossible," said Steve Clay, Systems Engineer, Delta Airlines.

With EcoPREDICTOR, network professionals can overlay e-commerce, ERP, CRM, e-mail and other application transactions onto live background traffic to see how the application will deploy over the network. Users can then pinpoint alternatives to minimizing response times--such as increasing bandwidth, relocating servers or increasing processor speeds--and see the effect of making each change before it is made.

"EcoPREDICTOR 3.0 enables planners, designers and administrators to make intelligent application decisions based on information learned from analyzing the impacts of changes before they actually occur," said Chris LeBaron, Director, EcoSYSTEMS Planning Products, Compuware. "Stable performance levels, particularly for e-commerce, require adequate network resources and appropriate capacity planning. Forecasting changes in specific SNA, IP and streaming helps avert costly service disruptions resulting from a mismatch of resources to demands. Details from EcoPREDICTOR can pinpoint resources such as links, routers or switches that might be involved in the type of outages that can make or break an e-business."

IT professionals can also import information from EcoSCOPE automatically, enabling them to focus on predicting performance versus the setup requirements often associated with capacity planning. EcoPREDICTOR is a part of the Compuware EcoSYSTEMS product suite. EcoSYSTEMS provides the industry's most comprehensive solution for managing and monitoring application performance and service levels across the enterprise, helping IT professionals move from pre-production to post-production and e-commerce environments, as their infrastructure needs change and grow.

Price and Availability

EcoPREDICTOR 3.0 is available immediately and priced at $24,500, which includes the Baseliner interface to external management systems.

About EcoPREDICTOR

EcoPREDICTOR provides timely performance information so IT professionals can make the most intelligent decisions about the future of their enterprise resources. Network planners can use EcoPREDICTOR to assure service level conformance by accounting, in advance, for fluctuations in daily or seasonal network traffic. Planners can easily vary growth rate scenarios to examine the effects on network traffic and performance.

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 http://www.compuware.com.