Compuware Ships Vantage 8 Application Performance Management Solution

LAS VEGAS--May 6, 2002--Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) today announced at the Network+Interop Conference (Booth #5967) the general availability of Vantage 8, its popular application performance management solution. Vantage 8 offers IT professionals new and enhanced products for end-user experience monitoring and WAN provisioning. The integrated suite of seven components also offers numerous features that provide superior application performance coupled with a resource saving return on investment.

"After discovering the limitations of sniffer-type products, we turned to Vantage 8," said Ronnie Sun, Consultant, JPMorgan/Chase. "Compuware enables us to manage over 500 desktops utilizing up to 40 servers. Our ability to identify traffic topology quickly, pinpoint performance problems, check our WAN usage and proactively perform capacity planning provides leverage for our global financial traders while producing a great return on investment. In addition, the performance of many of our critical applications is now tested by Vantage 8 before going live into production."

Enterprise-Wide End-User Experience Monitoring and Accelerated Troubleshooting

Vantage 8 features ClientVantage, a new end-user experience monitoring solution that provides synthetic as well as desktop response-time monitoring of an organization’s entire portfolio of critical applications. Using the proven capabilities of Compuware’s QARun testing software, ClientVantage monitors web-based and Windows applications. It also monitors nearly any application that can be accessed from a Windows desktop, including legacy and Citrix applications.

"Recognizing the need among IT organizations for end-user monitoring solutions and WAN provisioning capabilities, Compuware has expanded its solution and introduced Vantage 8," said John Williams, Director, Vantage Product Management, Compuware Corporation. "Vantage 8 delivers a complete, integrated front-to-back solution for managing application performance and service levels, maximizing the ROI on costly IT resources and helping to eliminate application downtime by identifying the causes of poor performance."

WAN Provisioning Vantage 8 also includes a new WAN Provisioning Module that uses transaction profiles captured in pre-production by the award-winning Application Expert as the basis for sizing WAN links to support anticipated application workloads from remote locations. This capability is also integrated into the suite’s network growth management solution to facilitate enterprise-wide WAN provisioning.

Vantage 8

Vantage 8 is a comprehensive solution comprised of seven tools for managing the performance of distributed applications from the end-user, through the network, to the server and database platforms. The suite consists of ClientVantage--monitoring end-user experience; ServerVantage--managing servers, databases and applications; NetworkVantage--isolating network and application performance problems; Application Expert--resolving pre-production performance problems; Application Vantage--troubleshooting production bottlenecks; Predictor--for WAN provisioning and growth management and VantageView--an integrated web console.

Vantage 8 is available immediately with U.S. prices beginning at $19,000.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation, a multi-billion dollar company, 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. 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/.