Technology Enhancements Reduce Business Risks Created by a
    Looming Skills Shortage, Increasingly Critical and Complex
                           Applications

DETROIT, Jan. 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced
several product enhancements that will help its customers overcome the
business risks of the "New Normal of Mainframe" by increasing developer
productivity and improving application performance management.

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The New Normal of Mainframe

Under the New Normal, the surge in mobile banking and other types of
e-commerce has made mainframe applications key to connecting businesses
with customers. This means IT organizations must integrate new cloud
and mobile applications with legacy mainframe applications at a record
pace -- often in a specialized development environment -- while
ensuring those applications deliver superior quality and performance.

At the same time, as mainframe applications become more
customer-facing, complex and thus difficult to maintain, the mainframe
technology industry faces a critical skills shortage. This puts
businesses at risk for costly and reputation-damaging application
failures. According to a recent independent research study into
mainframe use conducted by Vanson Bourne*, 71 percent of CIOs are
concerned that the looming mainframe skills shortage will hurt their
business. Specifically, CIOs are concerned this will result in
increased application risk (58 percent), reduced productivity (58
percent) and more project overruns (53 percent).

"Mainframe usage continues to increase with the addition of new
customer-facing applications -- often connected to the Web and mobile
devices -- plus growth in existing workloads. This growth is producing
sizable increases in MIPS consumption and in deployed application
complexity," said Tim Grieser, Program Vice President, Enterprise
System Management Software, IDC. "Compuware's modernized mainframe
tools can help enterprises address their mainframe skills requirements
needed to develop, maintain, extend and manage the performance of these
increasingly business-critical applications."

Addressing the Business Risks of the New Normal

For 35 years, Compuware Mainframe Solutions have enabled developers to
efficiently support critical applications -- from analyzing code,
optimizing test data and testing and debugging, to pinpointing
problems, validating quality, and tuning applications and performance.

The Compuware Workbench, a modernized, open framework development
environment, provides new, less-experienced developers with the
leading-edge products they need to work productively and with fewer
errors, mitigating the risks created by the New Normal.

Now, Compuware's Mainframe Solutions have been enhanced to include the
following:

Increasing Developer Productivity


  --  Workbench 3.1.6 now includes fast, easy access to MVS data. The
      Workbench now features File-AID for MVS browse and edit capabilities.
      This enables quick and convenient access to data and file types that are
      critical for large enterprise application development and testing,
      boosting the productivity of mainframe application developers. Key
      business risks addressed: low developer productivity; and controlling
      test data management and execution costs.




"MVS File-AID Data Editor closes the last gap in our IDE. Because it's
conveniently available on the Workbench, all tasks are performed in an
Eclipse environment, eliminating the need for a TSO-session for the
developers. The addition of MVS File-AID on the Workbench is one of
many solutions that make the Workbench such a useful tool in managing
mainframe application development activities," said Frank Rautenberg,
Enterprise Application Support, Generali Information Services.


  --  Quick, effective debugging capabilities. The new Workbench also includes
      an enhanced Xpediter debugging capability enabling IT staffers without
      advanced application knowledge to get into an interactive test session
      with minimal effort to quickly and confidently move applications into
      production. Key business risks addressed: lost application knowledge;
      low developer productivity; and reduced efficiency moving from the
      problem identification phase to the solution phase.

  --  Enabling enterprises to quickly resolve application faults with
      Abend-AID 12.2.The industry's leading mainframe application fault
      resolution tool further extends its diagnostic capabilities, enabling
      users to deliver outstanding service. New features include a COBOL
      PERFORM trace, consolidated displays of IMS and DB2 data to speed access
      to crucial information, and easier access to Abend-AID reports. Key
      business risks addressed: reduced time-to-market delivery; poor
      application quality; and missed service levels.




Enhancing Application Performance Management


  --  Automating the ability to eliminate costly performance creep with Strobe
      4.3. Strobe, the industry's premier mainframe application performance
      management solution, now includes the ability to automatically measure
      batch jobs that exceed dynamically calculated thresholds. Other new
      capabilities include: integration with existing monitoring tools,
      improved CICS transaction reporting, and new views of DB2 accounting
      statistics.

With iStrobe 4.3 customers can now view
      historical performance data from a variety of perspectives, including
      the ability to establish baseline performance benchmarks. In addition,
      Strobe can now easily initiate measurements from within Compuware's
      Workbench as part of the development process. Key business risks
      addressed: not meeting user expectations; reduced competitive
      advantages; and excessive CPU consumption resulting in reduced revenue.




"Mainframe applications power the top retailers, banks, insurance
companies, telecommunications and manufacturing companies worldwide. At
the same time, as experienced developers retire, fewer developers are
acquiring the mainframe skills needed to maintain these complex
applications. This puts enterprises at significant risk for financial
losses," said Kris Manery, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Mainframe Solutions Business Unit, Compuware. "It's never been more
important to have the tools and people in place to ensure mainframe
applications deliver superior quality and performance."

"Navigating the New Normal of Mainframe" Webcast

Compuware will host a Navigating the New Normal of Mainframe webcast
Feb. 15 at 11 a.m. ET. During the session, Compuware experts will
demonstrate how new interfaces can help both experienced and
new-to-the-mainframe developers be more efficient when writing and
maintaining code, optimizing test data, testing and debugging,
pinpointing problems, validating quality, and tuning applications and
performance. To register, visit http://tinyurl.com/7z5nprb.

*Commissioned by Compuware and conducted by independent research
company Vanson Bourne, the survey consisted of 520 CIOs in large
enterprise organizations with over 1,000 employees. Specifically, the
study included 100 CIOs each in the UK, France, Germany and the U.S.
along with 30 CIOs each in Italy, Benelux, Japan and Australia.

About the Compuware Mainframe Solutions

Compuware's market-leading Mainframe solutions, Abend-AID, File-AID,
Xpediter, Hiperstation and Strobe, help organizations maximize
developer productivity, minimize costs and deliver better service. The
Solutions are available in the traditional TSO/ISPF environment, or
within the Compuware Workbench, an open development environment that
features an intuitive modern interface. The Workbench makes application
development, testing and tuning faster and simpler to perform for both
experienced mainframers as well as those new to mainframe, enabling
companies to develop new services faster, more efficiently and with
higher quality utilizing existing resources.

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