Compuware sweeps awards at Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe, presents at Tech•Ed 2004 in Hong Kong

Compuware DevPartner Studio Professional Edition and Compuware Vantage wins Best of Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2004 Awards

Hong Kong - 24 August 2004 - Just weeks after sweeping away two major awards at Microsoft's comprehensive technical training event, Tech•Ed, in Europe, Compuware is set to present "Taking Windows applications from specification to deployment" at Microsoft Tech•Ed 2004 in Hong Kong.

Presenting on the 26 August, the third and final day of the Hong Kong event, Compuware will discuss solutions that help IT professionals to develop, test and manage Windows applications effectively, including how to conform to organisational standards using Microsoft and Compuware best practices, automating unit testing in the development phase of the application cycle, and how to provide application network analysis to identify performance bottlenecks and improve end-user response time.

"Compuware is very supportive of Tech•Ed," said Rick Chau, regional sales director of Compuware, North Asia. "For Hong Kong's in-house developers, software architects and managers involved in the daily activity of rolling out technology in an enterprise, it provides a comprehensive look at practical, useful information."

Last month, Compuware DevPartner Studio Professional Edition and Compuware Vantage, both won "Best of Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2004" awards at Windows & .NET Magazine and SQL Server Magazine's 1st Annual Best of Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2004 Awards. Winners were announced during a special awards ceremony at the Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2004 Conference in Amsterdam.

From a field of more than 70 entries, Compuware DevPartner Studio Professional Edition was selected as the unprecedented and prestigious winner of the "Overall Best of Tech•Ed Europe 2004" award. This award recognised DevPartner Studio as the most significant and innovative product exhibited at the conference.

Compuware Vantage also took top honours, winning a "Best of Tech•Ed Europe 2004" award in the Systems Management category.

"This was a wonderful honour for our DevPartner and Vantage products," said Chau. "These awards underscore the global strength and leadership our application lifecycle solutions deliver to enterprises, enabling them to build, test and manage high-quality applications using Microsoft technologies."

The Best of Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2004 Awards are given to companies who deliver innovative products and services that enhance and extend the capabilities of the Microsoft platform.

Compuware DevPartner Studio Professional Edition provides an award-winning suite of features that help software professionals accelerate the development of reliable, high-performance applications and components for Microsoft .NET as well as native Windows platforms. Building new .NET applications that may integrate with native components is prone to integration and migration problems, coding errors and poor performance, especially if those application components are distributed across multiple systems. Compuware DevPartner Studio enables developers to locate errors early, to tune runtime performance and to assure thorough testing of applications written in .NET, native code or a combination of the two.

Compuware Vantage is an application service management solution that helps IT organisations manage application performance from the perspective that matters most: the end-user. Response-time metrics, integrated with end-to-end performance analysis, enable IT managers to proactively identify and rapidly resolve tough performance problems. By managing applications at the business, transaction and infrastructure level, Compuware Vantage provides the critical insight needed to improve application service and maximise value from application and infrastructure investments.

About Compuware

Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. For more information about Compuware, please visit Compuware at http://www.compuware.com/.