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NEWS AND VIEWS FOR COMPUWARE CUSTOMERS

Welcome from Pete Summers

Welcome to the October issue of Insight, our monthly newsletter for Compuware customers. In our News section, we bring you a new thought-leadership article outlining six steps to achieving effective IT governance for high profile public sector IT projects, and we reveal how one of China’s leading automotive manufacturers is using Compuware’s Covisint platform to collaborate with hundreds of suppliers worldwide.

The big news in the Development section this month is the upcoming CU2006 event in Strasbourg in November. Uniface users shouldn’t miss this excellent opportunity to get a first look at Uniface 9 and meet other users from around the world. In the meantime, you can read how 40 Swedish educational establishments have used Uniface to bring their legacy applications into line with the modern, business-driven academic environment. OptimalJ developers can download our white paper on overcoming the many challenges of developing enterprise J2EE applications, and we also feature a webcast with Forrester Research about using OptimalTrace to capture business requirements.

In our Quality section we reveal how New Zealand Post rescued a failing IT project with Compuware tools, we announce the general availability of Compuware TestPartner 5.6.0, and you can download a limited-availability Forrester white paper on introducing a performance-driven application development strategy.

The Application Performance section includes a new paper that examines the problem of supporting and managing heterogeneous Web Services environments. We also look at how Bavaria’s broadcasting corporation has resolved user application problems by implementing continuous user experience monitoring, and you can find out more about how you can deploy user experience monitoring to benefit your own organisation wih our featured webcast.

Finally, in our Enterprise section, you will find a comprehensive set of informational materials about ensuring data privacy, especially in applications development and testing environments. With governments and regulatory bodies across Europe currently tightening up data protection rules, we hope you will find our white paper, factsheet and archived webcast an excellent guide to what you need to do in your organisation to ensure compliance.

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 users – don’t miss CU2006! Held from 6-8 November 2006 at the Palais des Congrès in Strasbourg, CU2006 is the international Uniface user conference, and an ideal forum for Uniface users worldwide to come together and share experiences and best practices.
	Swedish universities gear up for the modern era with Uniface With the world of academia increasingly being run along business-like lines, the Swedish higher education sector realised it needed new applications to cope with the demands of the modern age.
	White paper: Overcome the challenges of Java EE development In-house Java application teams face pressure from all sides, as they must cope with fewer resources, reduced budgets, greater demands for business functionality, a bewildering array of technologies and standards, and the need to develop applications that can be rapidly modified to cope with business change.
	Webcast: Get IT right first time with OptimalTrace We all know that 70% of bespoke applications are considered to be failures because they don’t adequately meet the needs of the business.

Automated Software Quality

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	NZ Post rescues failing IT project with Compuware tools When New Zealand Post introduced a new IT system to support the country’s reorganisation into 1,850 new postcode areas, the first release of the software was so flawed and complex that a lot of people left the company rather than work with it.
	Free Forrester Report: Software performance matters Software performance is critical to the successful running of business processes, but all too often organisations don’t give it the attention it merits, according to a new study from Forrester Research.
	TestPartner 5.6.0 now available! Compuware’s functional testing software, TestPartner 5.6.0, is now generally available. TestPartner is part of QACenter Enterprise Edition, which provides an integrated quality assurance solution for requirements management, test management, defect management and functional test automation.

Application Performance Management

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	White paper: Reduce the risks of managing Web Services environments Service-oriented architectures are emerging as the most flexible and cost-effective way to orchestrate business processes between existing heterogeneous applications and platforms, but this leaves IT teams with the task of having to manage many different technologies.
	Bayerischer Rundfunk solves application performance problems The IT infrastructure at Bavarian broadcasting company Bayerischer Rundfunk has grown in complexity over many years, making it difficult to monitor application service quality or to understand the causes of problems like sudden application unavailability or slow response times.
	Webcast: Agentless monitoring for a better end-user experience Highlights of our recent well-attended seminar series on end-user experience monitoring are now available as a webcast.

Enterprise

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	Factsheet: Protect your sensitive data The use of sensitive personal data in application development and testing environments is becoming a more high profile issue. Earlier this year, France became the latest European country to tighten up its data protection laws to prevent this practice.
	Compuware ensures data privacy in application testing New data protection legislation is forcing organisations across industries to rethink the way they use sensitive data throughout the IT life cycle. Identifying how data is used in preproduction environments like application development and testing – and then taking steps to protect that data adequately – is proving to be a laborious task.
	Webcast: A practical solution for test data privacy If you’re concerned about ensuring data privacy in your applications testing environment, our webcast is an ideal starting point to learn about what you can do to achieve compliance.