Compuware Olympic Web Performance Scoreboard Measures Site
             Speed, Tracks Impact of Increased Demand

DETROIT, July 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today introduced the
Compuware Olympic Web Performance Scoreboard, which provides a view
into how top global media websites are performing during the London
Olympic games.

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formance-olympics-2012/

The 2012 Summer Olympic Games are scheduled to take place in London,
from July 27 to August 12, 2012. As anticipation builds, fans worldwide
will turn to media outlets throughout the world to follow their
country's favorite athletes and events. Will these media websites be
prepared for the challenges related to surging demand? How will the
increase in traffic impact site speeds and user experiences?

Compuware will provide insight into the website performance of the top
media outlets across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. During the
two weeks of Olympic competition, the Compuware Olympic Web Performance
Scoreboard will measure how top media websites are performing compared
to a typical non-peak period.

Performance is critical to any media website's success, but the
challenge is balancing rich user experiences with site speed. While
rich experiences drive more traffic, they can also cause an increase in
page load time, which can increase abandonment rate and impact revenue
generated through advertising and premium content. Striking the right
balance between speed and functionality will be the difference between
attracting and keeping users coming back during the games or sending
them to competitor sites.

"Regardless of how well prepared these media sites are, the fact is
application errors, database performance, incomplete transactions,
slowness in third-party services, bottlenecks in garbage collection,
slow memory leaks, JavaScript errors -- and many more issues -- all
stand ready to disrupt performance," said Steve Tack, VP of Product
Management, Compuware APM. "The only way media outlets can truly be
prepared is to provide websites that can scale to meet demand and
remain stable under load. Insight into performance must be in real
time, and these organizations must be able to identify issues
immediately to resolve them before users are impacted."

With applications becoming increasingly complex, infrastructures being
virtualized and endpoint diversity, including smart phones and tablets
growing, mediasites are more intricate than ever before. Media
organizations must have continuous insight into third-party services
and business transactions.

"Owners of web properties need more than just uptime stats and page
views to make informed decisions. They need to know how performance is
impacting users' online experiences. They need visibility down to
code-level of each business-critical transaction to spot the true
root-cause of issues and resolve them immediately. After all, it only
takes one application failure to destroy overall performance," says
Tack.

Compuware APM(R) is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the
performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications.
Driven by end-user experience, Compuware APM provides the market's only
unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chain--from
the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacenter. Compuware
APM helps customers deliver proactive problem resolution for greater
customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market for new application
functionality and reduce application management costs through smarter
analytics and advanced APM automation.

With more than 4,000 APM customers worldwide, Compuware is recognized
as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Application Performance
Monitoring" report. To read more about Compuware's leadership in the
APM market, click here.

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