Compuware dynaTrace Enterprise Industry's First Solution to
    Simplify Performance Optimization, Operation and Management
                  of Modern, Dynamic Applications

DETROIT, May 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced the
industry's first deep transaction management solution for dynamic cloud
and big data applications. The Compuware APM Spring 2012 Platform
Release introduces new innovations in Compuware dynaTrace(R) Enterprise
that simplify performance optimization, operation and management of
modern, dynamic applications.

These transformational application environments require a new approach
to application performance management (APM) to support massively
scalable architectures and dynamic, elastic resource allocation. With
dynaTrace Enterprise and its patented PurePath(R) technology, EC2 and
Azure cloud applications as well as Cassandra and Hadoop Big Data
applications can be easily optimized and managed for greater
performance and availability.

"Today's application landscape is rapidly changing as virtualized
environments become more dynamic and flexible and as elastic cloud
applications take hold in the enterprise," said Julie Craig, Research
Director at Enterprise Management Associates. "This means that
businesses are moving beyond private cloud and expanding use of public
and even hybrid cloud. At the same time, Big Data is becoming
increasingly integral to enterprise applications, as companies seek to
incorporate massive amounts of data into business analytics, decision
support, BI, and many other types of data analytics solutions."

Craig goes on to state: "These factors, combined with the integrated
and dynamic nature of cloud environments, are challenging traditional
APM tools, many of which lack the agility necessary to adapt to new
application architectures and design points. This is driving CIOs to
re-evaluate existing toolsets for 'cloud-readiness,' and many are
seeking APM systems that are lighter, smarter and more versatile.
Compuware is effectively addressing this need by delivering the
multi-dimensional application visibility that is necessary to ensure
application performance in these very complex application
environments."

Compuware APM For Big Data Applications

Big data applications suffer from many of the performance challenges
and bottlenecks that plague current distributed applications, though
the volume of performance data can be much larger. Optimizing data
distribution across nodes, tuning transaction to query relationships,
identifying I/O bottlenecks, tuning CPU and memory consumption amongst
thousands of nodes, and assuring job list efficiency require deep
insight into Big Data applications.

dynaTrace Enterprise provides unprecedented visibility into both
Cassandra NoSQL and Hadoop Map/Reduce Big Data environments, supporting
these highly scalable elastic environments in several unique ways:


  --  Zero-configuration instrumentation: for real-time code-level clarity for
      faster tuning and more scalable instances at lower costs;
  --  Out-of-the-box analytics and dashboards: optimized for Cassandra and
      Hadoop, for quick MTTR, effective tuning and easy management;
  --  1-2 percent overhead in high-volume production: for 24x7, all
      transaction monitoring for more available applications at lower cost;
  --  Auto-adaptive instrumentation and dashboards for zero-touch elastic use;
  --  Smart auto-baselines for fast time-to-value and no false-positive
      alerting even for dynamic, highly elastic environments; and
  --  Automatic log file correlation to transaction detail for deeper
      application context and faster mean-time-to-resolve (MTTR) than any
      alternative approach in the market.




Compuware APM for Cloud and Multi-Cloud Applications

As cloud security becomes trusted, application performance has become
top of mind for many CIOs and CTOs architecting and deploying business
critical applications in the cloud. Cloud applications have quickly
become too dynamic for traditional APM systems, which require manual
provisioning of virtual machines, dashboards and reporting systems.
dynaTrace Enterprise changes all this with extended cloud capabilities
for VMWare, EC2 and Azure as well as:


  --  Auto-discovery, auto-adaptive PurePath(R) instrumentation: for lower
      operational cost and deepest application visibility even for multi-cloud
      (e.g. vCloud + EC2 and/or Azure) and hybrid cloud environments;
  --  Dynamic behavioral analytics for smart auto-baselines: adjusts to
      real-time events providing dramatically fewer false positive alerts than
      simple historical baselines;
  --  Zero-configuration operations dashboards: adapts automatically to
      dynamic changes in the cloud infrastructure for fast time-to-value and
      no lost data;
  --  Auto-correlated multi-layer view: for application, virtual machine,
      guest operating system, and hypervisor visibility for faster, more
      accurate triage, and fastest MTTR;
  --  Secure 3-tier collector architecture: for easy administration, superior
      scalability and secure performance data management in single-cloud and
      multi-cloud environments, enabling truly global patented PurePath
      tracing; and
  --  Cloud, Web and Mobile UEM for IPv6: for ensuring visibility in the
      growing number of IPv6 user base, with the only deep end-to-end user
      centric Compuware APM offering.




"I hear from customers everywhere I go that their application
environments are changing more rapidly than ever," said Bernd
Greifeneder, Chief Technology Officer & Senior Vice President of
dynaTrace Enterprise Engineering for Compuware's APM business unit.
"Our dynaTrace Enterprise Spring Release has been designed and built
with the myriad of new application challenges in mind -- dynamic
clouds, elastic big data and automatic operations support. As with all
our releases, customers helped us design, test and tune our
leading-edge capabilities which, I believe, will continue to set
Compuware APM apart from other offerings."

For more details on all the new enhancements included in the Compuware
APM Spring 2012 Platform Release, click here.

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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