White Paper Outlines Eight Steps to Achieve Optimal Results With MIPS
Management

DETROIT, June 21, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today shared best
practices and useful tips for improving application performance and
lowering costs by managing MIPS in a newly available white paper.

For enterprise organizations, effective mainframe Application
Performance Management (APM) means managing application delivery to
ensure high customer satisfaction while also identifying opportunities
to increase application efficiency and control IT costs. This white
paper provides project managers and performance analysts with an
actionable template for building a sustainable MIPS Management plan to
curb costs, saving organizations millions of dollars by eliminating
expensive program failures and unnecessary CPU cycles that result in
costly hardware upgrades.

According to a recent report by Cisco, the number of mobile devices
will exceed the global population as soon as this year. This rapid
proliferation of mobile devices -- along with an explosion of app
downloads-- has significant implications for the mainframe. Each time
consumers use their mobile phones to check their bank balances, book
airline reservations and make e-commerce transactions, the mainframe is
touched, resulting in expensive and unnecessary CPU consumption if
applications don't perform optimally. A MIPS Management plan assists
enterprises with properly tuning applications and reducing faults, thus
lowering CPU usage, which can translate to significant cost savings.

"More than ever, enterprises must make sure that complex,
customer-facing mainframe applications perform at an optimal level to
ensure customer satisfaction, while controlling costs. For this reason,
a successful MIPS Management program -- one that employs proactive,
managed and repeatable processes -- is an essential tool in an IT
organization's toolbox," said Kris Manery, Senior Vice President and
General Manager, Mainframe Solutions business unit, Compuware.

The white paper highlights:


  --  a step-by-step approach to creating a MIPS Management program with
      optimal results;
  --  real-life, employable tasks that should be completed as part of a MIPS
      Management program;
  --  techniques and processes to reach the highest level of MIPS Management
      maturity; and
  --  the tangible benefits of employing MIPS Management through Compuware's
      MIPS Management Solution.




Download the white paper here.

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and simpler to perform for both experienced mainframers as well those
new to the mainframe, enabling companies to develop new services
faster, more efficiently and with higher quality utilizing existing
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