Partnership Will Enable Customers to Lower Total Cost of Ownership; Mitigate Risk and Improve Application Reliability and Performance
NEW ORLEANS--May 12, 2004--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced a new services partnership with SAP America, Inc. The partnership will deliver a go-to-market strategy designed to help customers reduce the total cost of ownership of SAP deployments by improving application reliability and performance. The combination of Compuware services with SAP® solutions will enable customers to ensure the reliability and maximize the value of their SAP solutions environment, reducing their total cost of ownership.
"With SAP’s primary focus on driving additional value and helping our customers maximize their SAP solutions investment, this relationship with Compuware will help customers decrease total cost of ownership and manage project risk as their organizations grow and change," said Bill McDermott, CEO and President, SAP America, Inc.
Under this agreement, Compuware will partner with SAP America to proactively reduce customer risk and streamline the upgrade, new deployment and go live process for SAP customers on new and existing installations and upgrades to SAP business solutions. Compuware go-to-market offerings include:
Application Reliability--Compuware quality assurance offerings, including Compuware QACenter and the Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS), will be tailored for SAP solution implementations and eCATT, SAP’s extended Computer Aided Test Tool. The Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) will deliver an integrated offering of people, products and processes that will enable IT organizations to determine the appropriate quality point of an SAP solutions deployment. This offering will further enhance functional realization capability of SAP solutions.
Application Performance Management--Compuware performance management offerings, including Compuware Vantage, will deliver Performance Realization support for SAP solution deployments. Compuware Vantage will provide monitoring, troubleshooting and performance management capabilities, which are complementary to SAP Solution Manager, in order to maximize the value of application and infrastructure investments running on SAP solutions.
"Compuware and SAP America are committed to aligning our sales, service and support organizations to improve the value our joint customers receive from their enterprise applications," said Tommi White, Chief Operating Officer of Compuware Corporation. "We are proud to partner with SAP America, and look forward to delivering this additional value to our clients."
Compuware Corporation Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) is a world leader in delivering software and services that enable businesses to manage their enterprises and maximize the value of their IT assets. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of business-driving applications. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world’s leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com/.
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