Compuware Sets a New Industry Standard for Resource Management Capabilities With New Edition of Changepoint

Sydney - February 8, 2012 - Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR), the technology performance company, announced today the latest edition of its market-leading professional services automation solution, Compuware Changepoint. Changepoint now offers industry-leading resource management capabilities to help professional services organisations with growing, diverse resource pools plan, manage and deploy resources with maximum effectiveness.

“Resource management is a critical issue for our clients. The companies we talk to are all seeking to manage resources more efficiently, understand resource capacity and its relationship to demand, and increase utilisation wherever possible. It is a topic that is consistently emerging as a key area of focus in our client inquiries,” says Dan Stang, Research Director, Gartner.

“Over the last year and a half, resource management has become the number one topic of interest among our customers,” says Lori Ellsworth, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Compuware’s Changepoint business unit. “Customers are looking to us to lead them in developing best practices in this field, and to fully automate their resource planning and management processes. Input from our Changepoint user community was instrumental in shaping Changepoint’s resource management worksheet, a new capability that we believe will radically improve our customers’ ability to maximise margin, increase utilisation, reduce bench time and improve communication and collaboration between project managers and resource managers.”

Available to customers as a free upgrade, Changepoint’s resource management worksheet offers industry-leading resource management functionality combined with improved speed and performance, enhanced usability and flexibility, and dynamic data management.

With Changepoint’s Resource Management Worksheet Users Can Better Plan and Manage Resource Demand

· Review and balance current workloads for resources

· Review future resource requirements in the context of upcoming opportunities and/or projects and proactively take action to satisfy those requirements

· Quickly staff new projects or other types of work.

More Options Around Re-assigning Demand Among Resources

· “Drag and drop” capability to add, change, or augment resource assignments directly in the worksheet

· Resource dialogue to allow for reassignment and or redistribution of effort from one resource to multiple resources.

Resource Search Capabilities:

· “What-if” scenarios to allow resource managers to share scenarios of potential changes for approval

· Real-time visibility and updates so users can evaluate impact immediately.

Key Areas of Enhancement in Changepoint SP3

· Improved performance and scalability through the use of Microsoft Silverlight technology

· Greater flexibility in creating views and filters specific to each user’s needs.

Compuware Changepoint

Compuware Changepoint allows technology companies to maximise professional services profitability while maintaining a focus on effective product decisions and delivery. Changepoint’s integrated solution marries PSA with PPM to provide total operational visibility allowing product-centric technology companies to drive services growth with strong margins, deliver a competitive product and services mix for high ROI, and maintain top-line revenues and bottom-line profitability. Visit us http://www.compuware.com/changepoint or tune into our blog at http://www.changepoint-blog.net

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world’s most important technologies perform at their best for leading organisations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.