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	January 07

NEWS AND VIEWS FOR COMPUWARE CUSTOMERS

Welcome from Pete Summers

A very happy New Year to you all, and a warm welcome to the January issue of Compuware Insight, the monthly newsletter for Compuware customers.

We start 2007 by bringing you News of a prestigious award conferred upon Compuware’s Covisint platform by the healthcare industry, and a service from Compuware Professional Services that can help you better capture and manage business requirements when developing and maintaining applications.

In the Development section, we hand over to the analysts, as we find out why Bloor Research is getting excited about the new version of Uniface, and why IDC sees OptimalTrace as key to developing effective business applications. You can also learn what’s new in the latest version of Compuware’s OptimalJ development environment.

In the Quality section, we bring you news of the beta version of TestPartner 6.0.0, and a new webcast from Forrester and Compuware that looks at best practices for ensuring application quality throughout the life cycle. Meanwhile, test-driven development and Compuware’s tools for continuous integrated testing are the focus of a new ‘Lunch Break’ PDF from publisher ADT.

Don’t miss our two new White Papers in this month’s Performance section, which give you the lowdown on application performance management for .Net and for Citrix environments. For those of you responsible for ensuring application performance in Web Service environments, we have a new webcast that explores the best approaches to this thorny problem.

Finally, in the Enterprise section, we help you calculate the ROI of your Compuware mainframe tools with our Value Improvement Program, and you can find out how Compuware testing and debugging tools came to the rescue of one major provider of mainframe customer communication management applications.

As always, I hope that you enjoy this issue of Insight and find it useful. We would love to receive your feedback, comments and questions, so please don’t hesitate to email us here.

Best wishes

Pete Summers, EMEA Marketing Director

Development and Integration

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	Bloor hails new Uniface 9 as ‘must-see product’ Compuware has announced the general availability of its Uniface development environment, version 9. The new version, 9.1, has been significantly enhanced, with support for XHTML and service-oriented architecture for Uniface developers creating Web applications, and multiple device support for applications destined to be used on PDAs and mobile phones.
	Accurate requirements gathering critical to application quality: IDC “It’s impossible to test [applications] effectively if it’s not clear what the software is doing for the business.” This stark warning in a new White Paper from IDC Research sums up one of the main problems affecting application development and deployment today: the difficulty of gathering accurate requirements data from business stakeholders and the subsequent failure of applications to meet users’ expectations.
	Latest version of OptimalJ lets developers work in harmony Compuware has announced the general availability of OptimalJ 4.2, the latest version of our award-winning Java solution.

Automated Software Quality

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	TestPartner 6.0.0 enters beta TestPartner 6.0.0 has moved into beta status and now provides a more visual, action-oriented interface for creating tests. The new interface enhances usability and enables users to create, edit and maintain tests visually without needing any knowledge of a programming language.
	Webcast: Best practices for optimising business performance Carey Schwaber, Forrester research analyst, and Steve Dykstra, Compuware product management director, emphasise the importance of a performance-driven approach to development and quality.
	ADT publishes free guide to test-driven software development The Lunch Break series of PDFs published by Application Development Trends (ADT) magazine is including a Compuware White Paper in its guide to ‘test-driven software development’.

Application Performance Management

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	White Paper: Managing .NET performance across the application life cycle Why do applications that are tuned satisfactorily in development experience performance problems later in the application life cycle?
	White Paper: Application Service Management for Citrix Citrix provides flexible access infrastructure that makes it easier to connect people to applications and information from any location, with any device, over any network, with the best possible access experience.
	Webcast: Reducing the risks of managing Web Service environments Web Services make it easy to integrate diverse applications, but they come at a cost and that cost is complexity.

Enterprise

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	Calculate the ROI of your mainframe tools with VIP As IT is increasingly called upon to demonstrate ROI on technology purchases, Compuware can help by calculating the exact value of your Compuware mainframe tools to your business.
	Abend-AID and Xpediter come to Group 1’s rescue Group 1 is a respected provider of postal management applications for mainframe and distributed environments.