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Tools and experts provide support and confidence throughout the application life cycle

Compuware's HP-centric solutions reduce application development time, increase application quality and ensure application reliability, scalability and performance for applications developed or deployed using HP technology.

Compuware—An HP business partner and OpenView Solution Alliance member

HP customers demand reliability.  They want the assurance that any application deployed in concert with HP technology will function properly within any stage in the application life cycle.

Compuware provides integrated products and experienced service professionals that enable IT organizations to design, develop and deploy reliable, high-performance applications utilizing HP-centric technology. Compuware solutions ensure that application performance satisfies all service-level expectations.

As a member of HP's Developer Solutions Partner Program, Compuware is committed to providing solutions to support HP's Itanium-2 initiative as well as helping organizations with IT Server Consolidations and quality assurance initiatives.

As an HP business partner and member of HP's OpenView Solution Alliance Program, Compuware is committed to supporting organizations using HP technology to support their mission-critical IT investments.  Our solutions encompass development and integration, automated software quality, production readiness, and performance and availability management.

Key HP initiatives at Compuware

IT Server Consolidation
Itanium-2
Java™ /J2EE™  Development
OpenView Integration

IT Server Consolidation

Server consolidation projects must be approached cautiously, as they require significant upfront planning and painstaking project management. Cooperation and collaboration between the functional IT groups that manage and administer applications, systems, networks and end-user systems is also required.  Sizing end-to-end capacity and performance needs is the key to success.  IT professionals must have a complete understanding of application performance and capacity requirements before and after the server consolidation project. This means detailed performance data analysis at each layer of the computing stack and diligent management of the consolidated server architecture upon completion. Failure to do so can mean inadequate IT service levels impacting the entire business.  Compuware offers leading technology solutions that help organizations review resource utilization throughout their IT infrastructure, help predict resource utilization at given load stresses and ensure that applications are using the proper level of resources for the work performed.

Compuware solutions for IT Server Consolidation are:

Itanium-2 technology implementation

As organizations begin to realize the benefit of implementing HP Itanium-2 technology within their IT infrastructures, providing a comprehensive development platform, guaranteeing application functionality and ensuring application reliability and performance become extremely critical.  Compuware's Itanium-2 based solutions provide organizations the technology necessary to develop applications regardless of the underlying platform, to ensure applications meet service-level specifications, and the technology to locate and resolve application performance issues that are hidden within the infrastructure.

Compuware solutions for the Itanium-2 platform:

Java™/J2EE™ Application Development

Has your organization investigated or attempted to build a J2EE™  application? Have you adopted the J2EE™  platform in your organization? Do you have a business-critical J2EE™  application in production today? If these questions provoke an uneasy response, it's likely you are asking yourself how to:

  • rapidly respond to business change, reduce time to market
  • increase developer productivity
  • maximize application quality and reliability and minimize risk
  • stay current with new versions of technology
  • leverage existing investments
  • enforce the use of best practices, standards and guidelines

The bottom line for the majority of businesses in this economic climate is to "do more with less."  It may seem that these business challenges are obvious and perhaps superficial. If you drill a bit deeper, however, and look at the reality of developing enterprise applications, most organizations can identify with this comment from software testing authority Glenford J. Myers: "We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to uncover the errors that were made because we rushed through the design process."

Compuware offers industry-leading technology for developing and deploying J2EE™  applications without the constriction of understanding all of the underlying components for developing J2EE™  applications. 

Compuware's Java™/J2EE™  solutions include:

OpenView integration

Today's IT infrastructure has become more complex to manage, as different types of devices are plugged into the backbone and management of these devices suddenly becomes a requirement.  Trends show that IT organizations are choosing HP's OpenView suite of tools to assist in managing many of the components that comprise their complex IT infrastructures.

Compuware is committed to providing value-added solutions for OpenView customers that desire to complete their HP OpenView infrastructure management solution.  Compuware is providing customers with legacy/mainframe fault management reporting and diagnosis technology and a complete end-to-end user experience monitoring and performance analysis solution.

Compuware's HP OpenView integration solutions include:

Reducing development complexity

Uniface enables IT organizations to quickly deliver applications with real business impact. UNIFACE runs on an unrivaled range of databases, operating systems, hardware platforms and network configurations, allowing organizations to successfully manage waves of business and technology change. As a result, UNIFACE reduces the cost of ownership of business-critical applications while enhancing the return on investment in current systems.

Uniface supports application development and deployment for all HP operating systems, including HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX and OpenVMS.  Uniface also supports development and deployment for Itanium-2 systems running HP-UX.  

Improve Java™ code performance and reliability

DevPartner Java™  Edition's performance profiler automatically locates bottlenecks, saving developers countless hours during development. This product helps developers produce robust Java applications by resolving runtime performance, memory utilization, multi-threading and other challenges quickly and easily.  DevPartner Java™  Edition delivers powerful analysis and profiling techniques to help you understand how your Java code performs before it's deployed.

DevPartner Java™  Edition supports performance profiling, memory utilization, code coverage and performance analysis for applications deployed on HP hardware and using the HP-UX and Windows operating systems. 

Comprehensive tools for Windows device driver development

Rapidly changing hardware devices and operating systems require the constant development of new and updated device drivers. At the same time, there is a shortage of highly trained driver developers. The only solution is to use available development resources more efficiently to write, debug, test and fine-tune quality driver code. 

DriverStudio, with its driver development tools, can help accomplish just that by promoting the development of high-quality, structured drivers while accelerating the development life cycle. And, to make development even easier, DriverStudio now integrates with the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment as well as with Visual Studio 6 through the new DriverStudio DriverWorkbench technology environment.

DriverStudio supports driver development for Microsoft Windows-based drivers running on both HP's 32-bit and 64-bit Itanium 2 ProLiant and Integrity servers.

Data management for application development

File-AID provides an enterprise data management workbench, allowing developers to easily find, create, extract, transfer, convert, load, edit and manage data.  File-AID/CS offers an intuitive yet powerful approach to managing, defining and creating data throughout the enterprise. When combined with the QACenter automated testing suites of products it gives you an end-to-end testing solution that spans across applications and platforms. File-AID/CS provides data manipulation for HP-UX, Linux and Windows environments.

Fault Management Diagnosis and Reporting

Abend-Aid Fault Manager provides functions necessary for proactive IT management, including easy-to-use web-based reporting, automatic problem notification and integration with a variety of commonly used help desk applications and management frameworks. Fault Manager delivers the hard facts you need to get your job done.

Managing the range of problems that can arise in applications deployed across multiple environments is becoming more difficult every day. Industry statistics show that on average only one in seven problems is ever reported to the help desk. How can you shift the odds in your favor? With Abend-AID Fault Manager, you can reduce costly downtime and optimize your resources by monitoring, measuring, controlling and improving the fault resolution process.

Abend-AID/Fault Manager provides fault detection and reporting for environments using HP hardware with HP-UX or Windows.

Front-to-back performance management

Vantage is an application service management solution that monitors your enterprise application portfolio from all your major business locations. Vantage provides management views of application performance from the perspective that matters most: your end users. Response-time metrics, integrated with end-to-end performance analysis, enable you to proactively identify and rapidly resolve tough performance problems. By managing applications at the business, transaction and infrastructure levels, Vantage delivers the vital insight you need to improve application service and maximize value from application and infrastructure investments.

Vantage can be deployed to capture metrics and help troubleshoot performance issues for HP solutions running Windows, Linux and HP-UX operating systems.

Improve application delivery through a disciplined approach

The Compuware Application Reliability Solution™ (CARS™) offers a more effective approach for ensuring applications are delivered on time, with consistent quality, and with all critical requirements satisfied. CARS unites the power of a proven methodology, time-tested technologies and certified quality assurance expertise to instill a consistent discipline across development, quality assurance and operations.

Professional services-Proven HP expertise

Compuware professional services employees have solid and proven expertise in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining custom applications created with HP technology. With extensive experience deploying custom applications using HP technology, we help organizations create solutions that satisfy the most stringent business requirements.