Compuware EcoSYSTEMS Boosts Performance Management of Microsoft Exchange

New EcoTOOLS Features Provide Details for Pinpointing Bottlenecks in Exchange Enterprise Applications

ORLANDO, Fla. -- June 5, 2000 -- Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) today announced additional support for Microsoft Exchange (Exchange) with its EcoSYSTEMS suite of performance management solutions. At the Microsoft Tech*Ed 2000 Conference (Booth # 0236), Compuware unveiled EcoTOOLS' new features for managing Exchange distributed application performance, including enhanced granularity for easily pinpointing the cause of bottlenecks on Exchange servers, databases, operating systems and other application infrastructure components. EcoTOOLS will also support Exchange 2000 later this year.

Pinpointing Bottlenecks With EcoTOOLS

The ability of Exchange administrators to discover the root cause of an application bottleneck significantly impacts the user community relying on rapid service from e-mail servers, printers, databases and other key application infrastructure components. The detailed information provided by EcoTOOLS for Exchange troubleshooting helps IT firefighters meet and even surpass set service level agreements. EcoTOOLS gives e-mail administrators a single graphic window for convenient observation of multi-line graphs for comparing multiple Exchange counters. In addition, EcoTOOLS simultaneously compares counters from multiple machines for easy management of enterprise-wide application performance. Exchange administrators also benefit from EcoTOOLS' ability to reconfigure the way tasks are being managed on the fly, without stopping the overall monitoring of an Exchange application. EcoTOOLS provides support for firewalls across the enterprise as well.

Additionally, EcoTOOLS provides the broadest range of Exchange application management features commercially available for Windows NT and Windows 2000 users. EcoTOOLS provides administrators with a more complete management solution by identifying Exchange resource usage by user and/or folder, round trip delivery time and database integrity and resource usage. These detailed metrics provide administrators with the information they need to build superior application service level agreements for Exchange users. EcoTOOLS also addresses the challenge of Microsoft IIS management by capturing complete information about who is accessing the web server, which pages are being accessed and how long each page is taking to download--valuable information for managing application service levels.

"EcoTOOLS helps manage the health, availability and performance of critical Exchange applications," said David Giannini, Director of Product Management for Compuware's EcoTOOLS product line. "Leveraging the strength of our development with Microsoft technologies such as Windows 2000, SQL Server, IIS and WMI, EcoTOOLS offers superior management for e-commerce and other critical Windows-based applications."

Compuware Corporation

With fiscal year 2000 revenues of more than $2.2 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.