Compuware Announces Continued Customer Success through SAP Services Partnership

Compuware Announces Comprehensive Offerings That Enable Businesses to Maximize the Value of Their SAP® Solutions

DETROIT, MI--April 26, 2005--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced its services partnership with SAP America, Inc. continues to deliver success in lowering total cost of ownership (TCO) and improving application reliability and performance associated with SAP solution implementations. Compuware’s unique, automated offerings for SAP® solutions enable businesses to maximize the value of their SAP solutions, especially in regard to upgrade implementations, to service pack maintenance and to delivering high quality, end-user experiences.

"Not only is Siemens Business Services responsible for ensuring that Siemens’ large SAP solution deployment is available and performing optimally, we also provide this service to other companies as well," said Shahab Hosseini, Director of the Data Center South West Europe and North Africa, Siemens Business Services, World Class largest SAP environment hosting provider. "SAP solutions play a strategic role in many companies, ranging from logistics and production to financial accounting and controlling, right through to personnel administration and customer relationship management. It is our job to ensure the consistently smooth operation and support of these systems and applications, maximizing the contribution SAP makes to the success of the business. In doing this, we rely on Compuware’s comprehensive offerings for SAP solutions to ensure both our internal and external clients’ SAP solutions environments perform at the highest levels."

Compuware’s solutions are specifically tailored to address the SAP solutions environment and, by incorporating advanced functionality through the experience of Compuware IT professionals, provide clear advantages over point product purchases. Additionally, each Compuware solution focuses on the reduction of business-user involvement during each upgrade or maintenance project.

"SAP’s partnership with Compuware is all about helping our customers maximize their SAP solution investments," said Glenn Wada, Senior Vice President of Business Development, SAP America. "Together with Compuware, we are delivering solutions that help our customers reduce TCO through effective upgrade testing, functional realization and performance planning."

The Compuware offerings for SAP solutions include:

Support Pack Service--This offering helps users focus their quality assurance effort on only those entities in use, allowing for the establishment of an optimal test plan to enable users to even more quickly get value from SAP solution upgrades.
Functional Realization Solution--This offering helps users ensure an efficient implementation of SAP solution upgrades using the ASAP process and rigorous TQM methodology.
Server Performance Solution--This offering analyzes performance, scalability and server utilization, ensuring that adequate infrastructure is in place to handle production requirements.
Network Performance Solution--This offering provides enhanced quality of service analysis and management of the end-user experience for all segments of the infrastructure and applications.
Performance Triage--This offering provides a quick understanding of performance-related service issues, regardless of where in the infrastructure the degradation occurs.

"CIOs want to maximize the investments they have made in their strategic SAP solution deployments by reducing the time and cost associated with going live," said Tommi White, Chief Operating Officer, Compuware. "We continue to work closely with SAP to help our joint customers reduce TCO and improve the reliability and performance of SAP solution implementations."

For More Information

To learn more about Compuware’s solutions for SAP, please visit: http://www.compuware.com/products/598_ENG_HTML.htm.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. 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/.