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Corporate History
Since 1973, Compuware Corporation has helped transform information technology investments into business assets. Below are some of the landmark events over the last 30 years that have helped define Compuware as a company.
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2003 |
In the company’s 30th year of existence, Compuware completes construction on its new world headquarters building in downtown Detroit. More than 4,000 workers are based out of the facility, which unifies Compuware’s Southeastern Michigan workforce and improves the company’s operational efficiency.
Compuware launches CARS, the Compuware Application Reliability Solution. CARS provides its users with greater control over application delivery by uniting proven processes, a rich portfolio of technology and quality assurance expertise. CARS gives organizations the confidence that applications will meet business requirements and perform reliably once deployed.
Compuware and Detroit Public Schools (DPS) announce that their partnership to improve DPS’ IT operations received the Outsourcing Center’s 2003 Editor’s Choice Award as the industry’s “Most Improved Process” outsourcing relationship. Compuware also quantifies the value of its agreement with DPS, demonstrating that the company has saved the school district more than $3 million while accomplishing a myriad of technology goals since 2001.
OptimalJ 3.0 begins shipping to market. OptimalJ helps organizations adopting J2EE standards dramatically increase both developer productivity and Java application quality. Version 3.0 includes expanded plug-ins to industry-leading Integrated Development Environments and integration capabilities that address development projects involving legacy applications.
Vantage 9 is released, enabling Information Technology (IT) organizations to deliver service excellence by systematically and proactively improving application performance, as driven by business priorities. By monitoring application service from the end-user perspective rather than just monitoring infrastructure components, Vantage helps IT organizations identify and resolve problems before they impact the business.
Microsoft selects Compuware .NET products for use in Microsoft Technology Centers. Microsoft Technology Center customers gain access to components of Compuware DevPartner Studio, Compuware QACenter Performance Edition and Compuware Vantage Suite for benchmarking and evaluating .NET applications at centers located in Austin, Boston, Chicago and Silicon Valley.
Compuware earns 12th place on “Top 30 Companies for Executive Women” list. Compuware Vantage also receives the prestigious Yphise Award for the Best Application Performance Management Software. Compuware DevPartner Studio and TrackRecord products each receive Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Awards. |
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2002 |
Compuware adds four new members to its Board of Directors, increasing the Board's independence. The new board members include: Dennis W. Archer; Gurminder S. Bedi; Faye Alexander Nelson; and Glenda D. Price.
Compuware signs an agreement with DaimlerChrysler for Compuware services personnel to provide production support for 26 key components of various consumer web sites the auto manufacturer features in North America.
Compuware announces the availability of a variety of new product releases including DevPartner Java Edition 3.0, Vantage 8, Fault Manager 2.5, File-AID/Data Solutions 3.3, XPEDITER/DevEnterprise 3.4, DevPartner Studio 7.0 Professional Edition and others.
Predictor, a WAN provisioning and capacity planning tool and key component of the Vantage performance management suite, is named "Best Network Application and Operating Software Product" at the Networking Industry Awards 2002. The annual awards, organized by CMP Europe in association with Network News, recognize the success of those companies leading the way in the voice and data networking market.
Compuware enters into a technology agreement with AMD (NYSE: AMD) to add x86-64 support to Compuware SoftICE64. Compuware will provide the global supplier of integrated circuits with SoftICE64 to debug 64-bit device drivers. This agreement enables developers to more rapidly build software targeted for upcoming AMD Opteron and AMD Athlon processors, based on Hammer technology.
Construction on Compuware's new headquarters reaches a crucial stage when the final steel girder is set into place. By December of 2002, the first group of the thousands of employees begin to occupy the building. |
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2001 |
Compuware announces a five-year, $75 million dollar agreement with Detroit Public Schools to provide information technology services to the district. The agreement provides for two, two-year extensions.
Compuware launches OptimalView, a powerful enterprise portal that allows customers to integrate business processes, applications and information. OptimalView provides a single point of access to crucial information and software, increasing the productivity of users.
Compuware introduces OptimalJ, a software product that significantly simplifies the creation of Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications. OptimalJ fosters the rapid, accurate design of J2EE applications, increasing the productivity of Java developers of all skill levels.
Compuware appoints Tommi A. White to the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO). As COO, White is responsible for directing the day-to-day business activities of Compuware’s operating divisions. She reports to Compuware President Joseph A. Nathan. Before joining Compuware, White spent nearly eight years at Kelly Services, most recently as Executive Vice President, Chief Administration and Technology Officer.
Network Computing names Compuware application profiling and troubleshooting software, Application Expert, “Product of the Year” in the network and application performance-management system category. Predictor, Compuware’s software for predicting the impact of deploying a new application on the network, earns a position as finalist for the Network Computing 2001 Well-Connected Award. Predictor rounds out the year by winning the Network World Blue Ribbon Award for network design tool. Compuware’s services group receives eHealthcare Leadership award for the design of a nationally utilized medical system’s web site. |
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2000 |
Compuware acquires e-business services firms BlairLake, Inc. (Kansas City, Missouri) and Nomex, Inc. (Montreal, Canada). These firms become Compuware Digital Development Centers, providing skilled artists, content specialists, technical experts and strategists to plan, create and deliver e-business services. An additional Compuware Digital Development Center is opened in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
Compuware acquires the products of Optimal, an award-winning developer of e-business performance measurement tools. The addition of Optimal's products strengthens Compuware's EcoSYSTEMS software product line.
Compuware announces agreements to provide Application Portfolio Management services for Ford Motor Company in Europe and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in the United States. Under these agreements, Compuware jointly manages the business software of each of these companies, freeing their staff to focus on strategic IT issues. |
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1999 |
Compuware and its healthcare subsidiary CareTech Solutions, Inc. announce a 10-year, $1 billion agreement with The Detroit Medical Center (DMC) for the outsourcing of DMC's Information Systems Division.
Compuware acquires Data Processing Resources Corporation, giving the company a services presence in the Southeastern and Western United States.
Compuware employees number more than 15,000.
Compuware acquires Programart Corporation. Programart provides Application Performance Management (APM) software. APM helps enterprise IT organizations develop and deliver efficient and responsive applications and maintain high standards of application performance throughout the life of an application.
Compuware announces its intention to build a new headquarters building in the City of Detroit Campus Martius project.
Compuware acquires the CACI Products Company. With the acquisition, Compuware makes its debut in the application capacity planning market while creating important synergies with its EcoSYSTEMS line of application service level management products. |
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1998 |
Compuware surpasses the $1 billion revenue mark.
Compuware and Oakwood Healthcare, Inc. launch CareTech Solutions, Inc., a provider of high-quality, cost-effective computer operation, telecommunications and application development services to Oakwood and other healthcare providers. |
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1997 |
Compuware acquires NuMega Technologies. NuMega products are the worldwide market share leaders in accelerating the development of reliable software for professional Windows and Java developers. These award-winning products substantially improve the productivity of software development teams and the quality of the software. |
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1996 |
With the acquisitions of Direct Technology Limited and DRD Promark, Inc, Compuware launches its QACenter automated software quality product line. |
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1995 |
Compuware acquires Coronet, a software product for managing the performance of networked applications. Coronet is subsequently renamed EcoSCOPE and join the EcoSYSTEMS product family. |
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1994 |
Compuware acquires UNIFACE, a development environment for building, renewing and integrating strategic applications. UNIFACE focuses on the critical areas of e-commerce, enterprise application integration and legacy renewal to reduce the cost of ownership of business-critical applications and increase the return on investment of the IT budget.
Compuware acquires Hiperstation, expanding its automated testing offerings for the mainframe environment.
Compuware commences a secondary public offering.
Compuware names Joseph A. Nathan President and Chief Operating Officer. |
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1993 |
Compuware acquires EcoSystems Software, a producer of management software for the client/server environment. With this acquisition, Compuware begins a strategy of providing the most comprehensive suite of end-to-end application and e-commerce performance management tools available. |
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1992 |
Compuware completes its Initial Public Offering (IPO) of stock. |
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1991 |
Compuware acquires XA Systems, allowing the company to provide an integrated system software product offering for the testing and maintenance of mission-critical business applications running in the IBM mainframe environment.
Compuware develops and releases File-AID/PC, the company's first PC-based testing tool. |
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1990 |
Compuware acquires Centura Software—makers of XPEDITER—solidfying its leadership position in the interactive software debugging marketplace. |
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1987 |
Compuware moves from its Southfield location to a new corporate headquarters in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The corporate headquarters will eventually contain a wellness center, sundry shop, day care and other amenities to attract and retain the best employees.
Compuware acquires its first European subsidiaries. |
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1986 |
Compuware announces Playback, the company's first automated testing tool. |
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1983 |
Compuware launches its File-AID product line. Using a request-driven interface, developers are able to use File-AID products to quickly and easily find, create, extract, transfer, fix, convert, load, edit, age and compare data. This allows developers to focus on developing and maintaining applications that meet business needs. |
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1978 |
Compuware opens its first remote office to service the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area. |
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1977 |
Compuware introduces Abend-AID, its first software product. Designed to detect bugs and suggest corrective action in corporate mainframe systems, Abend-AID is still a standard in a market with more than 8,000 copies currently in use. The release of Abend-AID establishes a product strategy for Compuware, alleviating the peaks and valleys of revenue that occur in the services business. |
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1973 |
Peter Karmanos, Jr., Thomas Thewes and Allen Cutting establish Compuware Corporation. Their vision is to help people do things with computers by providing their clients with professional technical services, allowing them to focus on their own core businesses. |
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