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		February 06

NEWS AND VIEWS FOR COMPUWARE CUSTOMERS

Welcome from Irene Dawson

Welcome to our new look Insight. I hope the year has started well for you and your families.

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Best wishes

Irene Dawson, Senior Vice President, EMEA.

Development and Integration

	Local government portals: £3m South Wales win for Compuware Compuware has won a £3.4m contract to help develop and deploy a community portal for the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf.
	How Model Driven Architecture transforms software development The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) approach allows software to be generated automatically from a logical model.
	QPass cuts J2EE development time by 80% with OptimalJ Leading mobile commerce software and solutions provider QPass Europe needed to create a J2EE version of a business-critical application in just one year.

Automated Software Quality

	Quality management: major enhancements for CARS and QACenter New releases of Compuware’s application quality solutions feature web-enabled test management, enhanced requirements analysis and a portal integrating the Compuware Application Reliability Solution (CARS) with the Changepoint IT governance solution.
	DevPartner ensures reliable applications for Nestlé scientists After comparing a number of products, Nestlé has chosen DevPartner to help it assure the quality of the applications used by its Lausanne-based nutrition research centre.
	New DevPartner releases fully integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 New versions of DevPartner Studio and DevPartner Fault Simulator introduce important new functionality, and are fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Application Performance Management

	Customer experience management: 94% of European companies are failing Three-quarters of respondents to a recent survey say that poor web site performance is costing them Euros 730,000 per annum or more.
	Compuware reinforces leadership in End-User Experience Monitoring Vantage 9.8, together with several related Application Service Management products, creates an End-User Experience Monitoring solution that allows companies to monitor all users, all the time.
	Are you gambling with your customers' satisfaction? Gartner research tells us that around 22% of online customers have a negative experience, yet only 2% complain.

Enterprise

	Transport department slashes testing time with XPEDITER With more than 90 Stored Procedures in need of regular testing, the Pennsylvania Department of Transport wanted a tool that would save it time
	Could test data be the chink in your privacy armour? Companies take great pains to protect their live data, but may overlook the fact that development teams are copying that data for test purposes.
	Data privacy: a new answer to a growing challenge As our last item explained, accidental disclosure of confidential data - for example during testing - can damage an organisation's reputation and create massive financial liabilities.