Compuware
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| Type | Public (NASDAQ: CPWR) |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Founder | Peter Karmanos, Jr., Thomas Thewes, Allen B. Cutting |
| Headquarters |  Detroit, Michigan |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Key people | Peter Karmanos, Jr. |
| Industry | Information Technology |
| Website | www.compuware.com |
Compuware Corporation NASDAQ: CPWR is a software company with products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses. The company's services also include testing, development and management software for programs running on mainframe computer and client-server systems.
Compuware customers include 70+% of Fortune 500 companies, with more than 23,000 customers around the world. For 2005 the company revenues were over US$1.2 billion. They had 7,510 employees in 84 offices across 60 countries worldwide, as of March 2006. The CEO is Peter Karmanos, Jr..
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[edit] History
Compuware Corporation was founded in 1973 by Peter Karmanos, Jr., Thomas Thewes and Allen Cutting.
Compuware is a contributing member of the Apdex Alliance.
[edit] Locations
Compuware's headquarters are at One Campus Martius, Detroit, Michigan 48226.
Worldwide locations include:
- Canada - Richmond Hill, Ontario - formerly Mississauga, Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Alberta
- Australia & New Zealand - Sydney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; Brisbane, Australia; Canberra, Australia; Perth, Australia; Wellington, New Zealand
- China - Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong; Shanghai, China
- Asia South - Singapore; Bangalore, India
- Korea - Seoul, South Korea
- Europe - Berkshire, United Kingdom; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Gdańsk, Poland; Zaventem, Belgium; Vienna, Austria; Prague, Czech Republic; Bratislava, Slovakia; France; Germany; Italy; Spain; Switzerland;
[edit] Product offerings
- Abend-AID- Application failure resolution (suite of products).
- Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) - Comprehensive quality assurance practices solution.
- Changepoint - IT governance and management, Project Portfolio Management.
- Covisint - Interoperability solutions and services.
- DevPartner - Comprehensive application development, debugging and tuning (suite of products).
- DriverStudio - Debugging and tuning for driver development. As of April 3, 2006 the formal retirement of the Compuware DriverStudio product family was issued. Maintenance support for these products is supposed to continue through March 31, 2007.
- File-AID - Enterprise-wide data management (suite of products).
- OptimalJ - Model-driven development for Java (suite of products).
- Optimal Trace a structured business requirements gathering and management solution.
- QACenter - Enterprise-wide automated application testing (suite of products).
- Strobe - OS/390 and z/OS application performance measurement and analysis (suite of products).
- TestPartner an automated functional and regression testing tool.
- Uniface - Component-based development (Fourth-generation programming language).
- Vantage - End-user monitoring and application performance management (suite of products).
- Xpediter - Interactive mainframe analysis and debugging.
[edit] See also
[edit] Photo gallery
 Ice skaters in Campus Martius Park in front of Compuware World Headquarters |
 Right outside entrance, looking upwards. |
 Atruim waterfall by elevators. |
 Light enters from above to illuminate hanging glass sculpture. |
 Interior glass looks on to atruim. |
 View up Woodward from the Borders Bookstore in the Compuware World Headquarters. |
 Back of the building from Woodward Ave. |
 Merchants Row on Woodward is just a block north of the Compuware Building. |
