Compuware Announces Global IT Executive Summit Series on Application Performance

Top IT Executives Gather to Discuss Challenges and Best Practices of Application Performance Assurance

DETROIT--October 3, 2006--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced a global IT Executive Summit Series on Application Performance, beginning October 11, 2006 in New York City. The summit series, titled: "Ahead of the Curve: Optimizing Application and Business Performance," will feature free half-day seminars that examine strategies for consistently delivering applications that optimize business performance.

Today’s businesses are challenged in delivering high-performance applications. Whether it’s system complexity, overcoming the barriers to enabling rapid change and collaboration, or discovering problems too late to effectively fix them, those leading today’s application deployment face daunting hurdles. To overcome the obstacles, IT managers need to identify and eliminate performance production problems early, and build performance into applications from the earliest phases of the development life cycle, rather than attempting to test performance in when it’s too late.

The summit series will explore how companies have effectively dealt with application performance challenges and how they found and implemented solutions. Each summit series will feature industry trends, user case studies and IT thought leaders, who will provide attendees with best practices and first-hand insight on how to optimize application performance throughout their organization.

"High-performance IT organizations understand that the speed in which new business-critical applications get into production can directly impact their business. Deploying with performance and scalability can make or break a potential market opportunity," said Larry Angeli, Vice President of Marketing at Compuware Corporation. "This summit series will help IT executives confidently deliver and deploy high-performing applications by sharing best practices and approaches for optimizing application and business performance."

Summit series are currently scheduled for New York City (October 11); Minneapolis (October 12); Chicago (October 17); Denver (October 19); Orlando (October 26); Toronto (November 15); Washington, D.C. (November 16) and Orange County, CA (December 5). Summit series are also planned for Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

To register for this event, call (888) 299-0155 or register online at http://www.itexecutivesummit.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.