Stories about: Compuware

Novell has agreed to buy Managed Objects, a maker of BSM (business service management) software. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were not disclosed.

An astonishing 55 percent of British companies have lost data, according to a new report.

SolarWinds is an example of how dramatically lower price points and faster time to value are catching on in a sea of more complex, costly, and albeit usually more richly functional network management products.

Software and service provider Atex has adapted a business requirements management suite developed by Compuware in an effort to expedite the delivery of software solutions.

Microsoft continues to sign up partners to support its mission to create an online repository for patient information. On Monday the company announced a partnership with AT&T and Compuware subsidiary Covisint to set up an Internet-based information exchange between the companies' e-health systems.

The Java tools market is in flux, with the recent acquisitions of CodeGear and BEA Systems altering the landscape, leaving developers with fewer independent tools choices.

Looking to sharpen its business focus, Compuware last week launched its "Compuware 2.0" campaign, which is being characterized by the 35-year-old software tools vendor as a rebirth of the company.

Riverbed has done deals with several developers of network monitoring software to get them to add support for its Steelhead WAN appliances.

"It used to take four people five days to test the software every month," says Kevin Bingham, vice president of IT at Arizona Federal Credit Union. "Now, we can do it in six hours."

Enterprise Management Associates is back again after a year of absence, this time on a monthly basis. We've really missed your dialog and comments, and hopefully we've been missed as well. As before, this column will focus on network management trends as they fit into the bigger IT management landscape - focusing from time to time on application performance, or SLM versus BSM, or new approaches to asset management, or trends like CMDB adoption as they may affect the NOC.

South Australian Water Corporation has embarked on a three year strategic IT plan to improve operations, staff productivity and customer service while minimising greenhouse emissions.