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	February 07

NEWS AND VIEWS FOR COMPUWARE CUSTOMERS

Welcome from Pete Summers

Welcome to the February issue of Compuware Insight, the monthly newsletter for Compuware customers.

In this issue we bring you news of Compuware’s acquisition of Proxima Technology and its Centauri product, the service management solution of choice for the world’s leading service providers.

In the Development section we find out how a new application built with Uniface is making Dutch cows healthier, and offer you with a downloadable guide to the Uniface Application Platform Suite. On the Java front, we find out what’s behind German developer Thorsten Walther’s conversion to OptimalJ.

In the Quality section, you can find out how best to meet ‘the one performance requirement that really matters’ with our straight-talking guest white paper from performance expert Scott Barber. We also introduce the business benefits of risk-based application testing with our new factsheet.

We turn the spotlight on the legal sector in this month’s Performance section, with an article from a law firm CIO explaining why application performance management is crucial to lawyers. We also recap on the importance of end-user experience monitoring for IT departments that have SLAs with the business, and look at how Italian petroleum company Q8 is helping to fuel its corporate growth with in-depth network performance management.

Finally, in the Enterprise section, we invite you to join data privacy expert Dr Larry Ponemon for a new webcast about eliminating privacy breaches caused by authorised system users, and bring you our brand-new guide to getting the most value out of your mainframe assets using Compuware tools.

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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	Uniface helps farmers protect their herds Dairy cows can enjoy better healthcare thanks to a system created using Compuware's Uniface development environment. Dutch company NRS provides a system called IRIS, which enables farmers to maintain and access accurate historical records for each animal.
	White paper: why you need an application platform suite In many enterprises, the application server is obsolete. It is being replaced by the Application Platform Suite (APS) to meet the challenges of adopting SOA and BPM, integrating diverse applications and data sources, and rapidly customising optimised web interfaces.
	InnoJasa’s Thorsten Walther steps into the spotlight German software architect Thorsten Walther was profiled in the Developer Spotlight section in Compuware’s global Application Delivery Management newsletter in December. A Java developer for the last eight years, Walther is a recent convert to OptimalJ.

Automated Software Quality

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The ‘one performance requirement that really matters’
“[Since Y2K] we seem to have made no progress at all in the areas of determining application performance requirements, goals, and meaningful objectives for the performance testing effort.” With this bold statement, Scott Barber, Chief Technologist of PerfTestPlus, opens a white paper designed to help IT managers, testers, developers and analysts carry out more effective software performance testing.

How much testing is enough?
Application failures can lead to loss of profits, but software that stays too long in testing can also be bad for business. Getting the balance right between ‘too much’ and ‘not enough’ testing is tricky, especially in organisations where software testing is done in a last-minute and ad-hoc manner.

Application Performance Management

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	Why application performance matters to lawyers When lawyers can’t access the applications and services they need, client relationships can suffer.
	Meeting internal SLAs: end-user experience monitoring can help As properly functioning technology has become essential to business productivity, many IT departments are being asked to guarantee minimum service levels to the business.
	Q8 tackles network performance management challenge with Vantage Employing 671 people in Italy, Kuwait Petroleum Italia S.p.A. (Q8) considers IT an essential part of its growth strategy, and a major source of competitive advantage.

Enterprise

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	Webcast: An extra line of defence against privacy breaches With data privacy breaches regularly hitting the headlines, organisations, customers and regulators alike are concerned about the security of corporate data.
	Maximise the value of your zSeries assets – our new brochure shows how While the death of the mainframe has been predicted for years, many organisations know different: the mainframe is here to stay, and mainframe applications remain central to their success.