Compuware Vantage Wins eWEEK Excellence Award for IT Quality Assurance

Compuware Vantage Shows Continued Product Innovation, Helps Organizations Drive Business Process and Growth

DETROIT--May 30, 2006--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced that eWEEK, a leading IT enterprise news magazine, named Compuware Vantage the winner of the IT Quality Assurance Tools category during the sixth-annual Excellence Awards ceremony held in Boston on May 23. The eWEEK Excellence Awards recognize and honor products with high levels of innovation.

"New technology creates opportunities for vendors to react proficiently to the rapidly evolving demands placed on enterprise IT managers," said Eric Lundquist, eWEEK Editorial Director. "eWEEK is proud to offer our readers solid recommendations for new, innovative products that respond to these increasingly complex demands."

The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners. The eWEEK judges formulate the categories based on their own criteria and do not allow vendors to select the categories for which their products are entered.

"Compuware is honored that the eWEEK judges recognize the value that Vantage brings to real-world enterprise environments," said Larry Angeli, Vice President of Marketing, Compuware. "This award aligns with Compuware Vantage’s long history of innovation. Compuware Vantage continues to help organizations derive higher ROI from business-critical applications by enabling IT to deliver excellent application service and quality."

Many IT organizations have difficulty accurately measuring the performance of business-critical applications and effectively troubleshooting them. Compuware Vantage is an application service management solution that helps IT organizations manage application performance from the perspective that matters most: that of the end-user. Vantage delivers the most robust end-user monitoring solution in the industry, with integrated, end-to-end performance analysis. Its unique network insight from the application’s view enables the deepest understanding of a transaction’s performance for accurate root-cause analysis. With Compuware Vantage, IT can proactively react to changes in the production environment and quickly resolve problems before service levels degrade and the business is impacted.

An Excellence Awards special report—providing details on the winning products and their value to the enterprise—will appear in the June 19 issue of eWEEK and online at eWEEK.com.

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/.