Compuware Launches Business Integration Portal

Easy to Use OptimalView Offers Broad Technology Support; Integrates Business Processes, Applications and Information

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — April 9, 2001 — Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) today launched OptimalView, an out-of-the-box enterprise portal with powerful integration, component-based development and workflow options. OptimalView integrates static and dynamic information from different sources, applications running on different platforms and written in different languages, and business processes running within and between organizations into a unified portal interface. With this approach Compuware offers a unified view of organizations’ most important information, applications and processes, saving time and money.

Don Ragan, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Detroit Medical Center said, "Our portal vision includes growing to a full-service employee, physician, and client information and application portal. Because of our diverse computer systems, we needed a partner with proven experience in content integration across platforms, applications, and databases. After considering many portal solutions, Compuware’s OptimalView offered the best combination of portal functionality, ease of installation and administration, multi-platform support and price competitiveness. We believe that Compuware is committed to evolving their portal offering in response to our medical information needs."

"OptimalView was the only portal solution to meet the requirements of Midland, which embarked on a search for the most appropriate portal technology on which to base its next generation of solutions," said Lawrence Knowles, Software and Research Director at Midland Software, a leading provider of human resource management software and services, based in the UK. "Having identified the need for a HR dashboard, Midland also envisioned the need to offer integration with collaborative technologies such as messaging systems, the ability to link to knowledge management solutions and the need to co-exist with other business-centric applications such as ERP and CRM. This mixture of employee productivity and business process applications would need micro personalization features allied to macro management practices all wrapped in a scalable, flexible, extendable and mission-critical architecture, supported by an experienced technology partner. Compuware and OptimalView met these requirements."

The strength of OptimalView is its combination of powerful integration and technology options with standard portal functionality that is easy-to-use, maintain and administer. The administration is 100 percent web-driven, allowing administrators to manage the system remotely through the Internet. Additionally, OptimalView’s built-in content authoring minimizes the technical knowledge needed for creation, management and administration of content. In addition to the standard content types such as text, table, remote content, Rich Site Summary (RSS), Microsoft Outlook integration and remote mail, among others, new content components can be created using JavaScript, Java Server Pages, Active Server Pages, Perl or 4GL.

Nancy Tubb, Senior Analyst, Delphi Group said, "The ability of dynamic, interactive platform-based portals to support effective information design and truly integrative views of information and processes will come to define the key success factors for online competition. Structured data systems will meld with document and unstructured components to bring a level of user-centric access and work process orientation, which has been elusive in previous generations of portals.

"One company accepting the challenge of delivering a third generation portal is Compuware. The company defines its OptimalView as a business integration framework that provides a single point of access to information, applications and business processes. This focus on integration across content, applications and processes defines OptimalView as a third generation portal."

OptimalView, which runs on Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape 4.0 and higher, supports a broad ranges of technologies and information servers, benefiting organizations with diverse infrastructures. In addition to Windows NT and Windows 2000, OptimalView will support various types of UNIX including Solaris, HP-UX and Linux. OptimalView also supports major communication standards including COM, CORBA and Enterprise JavaBeans, plus TP monitors, BEA Tuxedo and Encina. Supported components include Java, 3GL (C, C++, COBOL and so on), CICS, SAP, IMS/DC and RDBMS stored procedures. OptimalView additionally supports every major database including Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server and DB2.

Pricing and Availability

OptimalView is available immediately and pricing starts at $25,000.

Compuware Corporation

With fiscal 2000 revenues of more than $2 billion, Compuware Corporation provides business value through software and professional services that optimize productivity and reduce costs across the application life cycle. Meeting the rapidly changing needs of businesses of all sizes, Compuware’s market-leading solutions improve the quality, ease the integration and enhance the performance of distributed, e-business and enterprise software. Compuware employs approximately 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.