Compuware Creates Second Digital Development Center

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. -- April 17, 2000 -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) today announced the creation of a second Digital Development Center, located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Compuware's first Digital Development Center is located in Kansas City, Missouri.

Compuware's Digital Development Centers provide services for the complete e-commerce life cycle, from initial strategy and feasibility studies all the way through development and traffic-testing the site before launch. E-commerce strategists, graphic designers, architects, usability specialists, network and server administrators and senior developers make up the core staff at the center.

"An effective website, intranet or extranet is more than HTML," said Richard Bousson, Manager of the Digital Development Center in Farmington Hills. "More and more of our clients seek to partner with an experienced company that can deliver a full range of services to develop e-commerce projects. Compuware's Digital Development Centers bring the people, process and products together to deliver comprehensive e-commerce development services."

"The people in Compuware's Digital Development Center really did a professional and timely job with our new website," said Richard Nemesi, CEO of CareTech Solutions, one of the firms working with the Farmington Hills center. "Because our marketing is focused toward healthcare CEOs, we needed content and design for our B2B website that addressed this focus. Compuware was able to deliver what we needed for our website in a very short timeframe."

"Providing services throughout the e-commerce life cycle is key to the continuing success of the centers," said Larry Freed, Vice President of Compuware Divisional Practices. "It's no surprise to us that more and more companies have unique needs for a successful full-service e-commerce implementation. But in every case, the first service we deliver is a willing ear. We first work to understand a client's e-commerce needs before we do anything else. If a company can't get their professional services company to sit down, shut up and listen to their needs first, they need to give Compuware a call."

Compuware's Digital Development Centers' Six-Step Process

Compuware's Digital Development Centers use a six-step process to help ensure a successful e-commerce launch. To help clients achieve their e-commerce objectives and exceed their customers' expectations, the Center first provides each client with a Digital Atlas™, a mapped-out vision of their e-commerce strategy. With the Digital Atlas, customers receive a well-defined development strategy--a critical factor in the success of any website. The second step is to create a Digital Development Plan and develop the e-commerce application itself. Step three delivers a website performance testing solution by bringing together Compuware's best-of-breed testing products, proven testing processes and skilled testing resources to help ensure a well-working application. In step four, the Center makes certain the web site not only works as expected, but exhibits expected performance. In step five, the application is made production-ready and its performance is monitored while in production. Step six integrates the front-end web application with back-end processing systems. Only Compuware provides this complete life cycle solution, which brings skilled and experienced resources, proven processes and best-of-breed products together.

Compuware Professional Services

The Compuware Professional Services Division deploys information technology to achieve business results for clients on a worldwide basis. Nearly 11,000 Professional Services Division technicians bring together people, processes and tools for IT solutions. With a focus on a client's business needs, Compuware Professional Services provides end-to-end support of the entire life cycle of an e-commerce project, from advisory services to building, testing and managing an implementation.

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.