Compuware DevPartner Named a Top Product of 2006 by Leading Technology Publications

CRN Magazine Names DevPartner Studio Best Application Development Tool of 2006; DevPartner SecurityChecker Named a Top .NET Tool of 2006 by SearchVB.com

DETROIT--January 15, 2007--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced that two of its application delivery solutions recently won major industry recognition. Compuware DevPartner Studio and Compuware DevPartner SecurityChecker were honored as top products of 2006 by CRN Magazine and by Tech Target’s SearchVB.com.

DevPartner Studio was named "Best Application Development Tool of 2006" by CRN Test Center staff. In CRN’s article titled, "10 Best Products of 2006," CRN Test Center Technical Editor Mario Morejon wrote, "For those developers working with .Net, few tools can compare with Compuware DevPartner 8.0, which reduces the complexity of .Net development without eliminating any features. This garners DevPartner 8.0 the Product of the Year nod for application development tools."

View the CRN article on DevPartner Studio at: http://www.crn.com/sections/special/reports/poty06.jhtml?ArticleID=196603828&pgno=5.

DevPartner SecurityChecker was listed as one of the "Five Top .NET Tools from 2006," by SearchVB.com. SearchVB.com Contributor Ed Tittel wrote, "Compuware DevPartner SecurityChecker 2.5--Those who operate ASP.NET Web sites will find that this element of the DevPartner product suite lives up to its name admirably, in that it offers a self-contained and reasonably comprehensive security scanning and analysis tool for such sites."

View SearchVB.com’s Five Top .NET Tools from 2006 article at: http://searchvb.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid8_gci1233564,00.html.

"It’s an honor to have our DevPartner products recognized as top products of 2006 by CRN Magazine and by SearchVB.com," said Compuware Vice President of Marketing Larry Angeli. "This recognition highlights the superior value our DevPartner product line delivers to application development and testing teams."

Compuware’s Application Delivery Solutions help IT organizations consistently deliver high quality applications to the business. Compuware’s approach to application delivery builds quality and performance into the application from the earliest phases of the development life cycle. Using these powerful solutions, IT organizations can more efficiently and effectively deliver outstanding application quality to drive maximum business value.

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Compuware Corporation 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.