Frost & Sullivan Gives Compuware Highest Rating, Calling it the
        Industry's Only Comprehensive Cloud Monitoring Solution




DETROIT, Feb. 1, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced that
it has been awarded the 2011 Frost & Sullivan Global Company of the
Year Award in the cloud-based application monitoring market. For a
complimentary copy of the Frost & Sullivan award analysis report
titled: "Best Practices Award Analysis for Compuware," click here.

In a recent analysis of the cloud-based monitoring market conducted by
Frost & Sullivan's Test & Measurement research team, Compuware and
other companies were evaluated in five categories: 1). Growth strategy
excellence; 2). Growth implementation excellence; 3). Degree of
innovation with products and technologies; 4). Leadership in customer
value; and 5). Leadership in market penetration.

Compuware received the highest scores of any vendor in all five
categories, as well as the highest overall rating.

"By offering a solution that provides complete visibility across the
entire application delivery chain, Compuware has positioned itself as a
company that delivers high customer value," wrote Srihari Padmanabhan,
Global Senior Research Analyst of Test & Measurement at Frost &
Sullivan, in the report. "The company has set new standards in the
cloud-based application monitoring market by offering the industry's
first end-to-end application monitoring solution."

Padmanabhan goes on to state: "Compuware has achieved huge success with
its Gomez(R) product line. Being the only company to offer end-to-end
visibility into application performance, Compuware has been able to
achieve a distinguished position in the application monitoring market.
Given the expeditious penetration rate seen with the Gomez solutions,
Compuware is expected to capture a major portion of the cloud-based
application performance monitoring market in the near future."

"We are honored to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as Company of the
Year for our leadership and innovation in the cloud-based application
monitoring market," said John Van Siclen, General Manager of
Compuware's Application Performance Management (APM) business unit.
"Thousands of customers use our cloud-based APM solution every day to
ensure the success of their business critical transactions. This award
attests to our strategic commitment to cloud-based application
monitoring and the value our APM solution brings to our customers."

The Compuware Gomez platform is the industry's leading solution for
optimizing the performance of Web, non-Web, mobile, streaming and cloud
applications. Driven by end-user experience, Gomez provides a unified
view across the entire application delivery chain, from a user's
browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in
the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the
First Mile to the Last Mile.

Compuware is recognized as a leader in Gartner Inc.'s "Magic Quadrant
for Application Performance Monitoring" report. To view and download a
complimentary copy of the report, click here.

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