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Compuware and CAST Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver Comprehensive,
Proactive and Cost Effective Application Quality Management
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Compuware to Integrate and Resell CAST Quality Assessment Suite as a Complement to the Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS)
London, UK - 24th February, 2005 - Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced a strategic partnership with CAST. Through this partnership, Compuware will integrate and resell CAST Quality Assessment Suite as a complement to the Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS), its comprehensive approach to Quality Management. CARS combines automation support of established best practices with award-winning technology, a proven methodology and expertise to help organisations deliver reliable business applications that provide maximum value.
"Compuware is an excellent partner for us, as their experience and leadership in the software quality management market enhances CAST's unique value-proposition in technical quality assessment," said Vincent Delaroche, Chief Executive Officer at CAST. "Together, we can offer our customers a way to proactively manage application quality with a complete solution that encompasses all functional, performance and technical aspects of quality management. As a result, they will obtain higher quality and faster applications, more aligned with business needs. We believe that the attractiveness of our combined offering will create significant new revenue opportunities for CAST."
Compuware and CAST are already actively engaged with several Fortune 1000 companies and are also collaborating on joint marketing and sales initiatives.
"IT organisations need to ensure they are meeting the needs of the
business and delivering value. Meeting business needs means delivering
quality applications that satisfy IT's commitment to the business while
cutting ongoing costs," said Tommi White, Chief Operating Officer,
Compuware Corporation. "This solution gives IT teams the knowledge
to manage four key elements of successful delivery - cost, schedule, quality
and maintenance complexity, giving both Compuware and CAST customers a
comprehensive application quality and application management solution.
About CAST
CAST is the leading provider of Application Intelligence. CAST Application Intelligence Platform empowers Application Management by automatically analysing applications' source code and delivering essential Application Intelligence to IT organisations. CAST Quality Assessment Suite is a component of CAST Application Intelligence Platform. It enables programmable, action-oriented, technical quality assessment of most applications, across all tiers.
For Information on CAST and the CAST Application Intelligence Platform
http://www.castsoftware.com/
About Compuware
Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) maximises 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 organisation. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organisations, including more than 90 per cent of the Fortune 100 companies.
For more information visit: www.compuware.co.uk
Compuware is a registered trademark of Compuware Corporation. All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Compuware is a member of The Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group (TLG), a premier industry-networking forum for leaders within the IT industry, established in May 2002.
For Compuware Press Inquiries Contact:
Sophie Jarvis/ Barbara Bajkowski
Spark Communications
020 7357 8612
barbara@sparkcomms.co.uk
sophie@sparkcomms.co.uk
