Compuware Showcases Application Delivery Solutions for Microsoft Technologies at Microsoft Tech•Ed 2006 Conference

Compuware Announces New Capabilities to Enhance Application Quality and Performance

BOSTON--June 12, 2006--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced at the Microsoft Tech•Ed 2006 Conference (booth #417) that it is showcasing several application delivery solutions that integrate with Microsoft technologies. These solutions are designed to deliver superior value to development, testing and operations teams that develop, deploy and manage Microsoft-based applications. These solutions, combined with the new release of DevPartner Studio 8.1, demonstrate Compuware’s continued commitment to providing robust solutions for Microsoft technologies.

"Microsoft is pleased to see Compuware continue to innovate and integrate its application delivery solutions with Microsoft technologies like Visual Studio 2005 Team System," said Ian Knox, lead product manager in the .NET Developer Product Marketing Group at Microsoft Corp. "Compuware application delivery solutions for Microsoft technologies accelerate development, improve quality and enhance the performance of critical business applications throughout the application development life cycle, providing value to application delivery teams."

Compuware application delivery solutions enable enterprises to build, test and manage high-quality applications using Microsoft technologies.

Build Quality Into Your Microsoft Applications

Compuware offers Microsoft development teams robust solutions that allow them to build quality into their applications from early in the development life cycle. Compuware’s developer productivity solutions, enabled by Compuware DevPartner and TestPartner, provide immediate feedback, expert coding advice and standards to enable developers to quickly find and repair software problems. These solutions are tightly integrated with Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to allow detailed diagnostic data to be readily available to the developer.

Developers can take advantage of these robust solutions to analyze software code for performance, memory, security and code coverage issues--directly from the VSTS environment. Software problems can be resolved more quickly, allowing the development team to deliver high-quality application most cost effectively.

Manage Service of .NET Framework-Based Applications

For operations teams, Compuware will showcase its application service management solution, which now manages services for .NET Framework-based applications for service-level data collection and real-time production root-cause analysis. This solution, enabled by Compuware Vantage, provides an end-to-end view of .NET Framework-based application performance as it relates to end-user response time, the server and the network--with low production overhead. It can be used in pre-production to ensure service levels will be met upon deployment, as well as in production to ensure the highest ROI from business-critical applications.

"Compuware has a long history of helping customers successfully deliver enterprise applications on Microsoft platforms," said John Williams, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Compuware Corporation. "As a founding member of the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program, we will continue to work closely with Microsoft to integrate our solutions into the Visual Studio environment."

Compuware will conduct product demonstrations of its application delivery solutions at booth #417 during the week of June 12 at Microsoft Tech•Ed.

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/.