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	November 06

NEWS AND VIEWS FOR COMPUWARE CUSTOMERS

Welcome from Pete Summers

Welcome to the November issue of Insight, our monthly newsletter for Compuware customers. In our News section, you can sign up for our forthcoming Executive Briefing on IT Portfolio Management. You can also read how the healthcare industry is using Covisint’s new specialist platform to share clinical information rapidly and securely. There’s also an opportunity to register for our expert live webcast series to learn how to optimise your application delivery cycle.

In our Development section, read how London’s University of Westminster is spicing up student life with tabletop bar applications built with OptimalJ, and download a guide to using OptimalJ for model-driven development. Meanwhile, .NET developers and testers should check out the new version of DevPartner Fault Simulator 2.0, which improves the quality of error handling code, and find out why the UK’s PC Plus magazine voted DevPartner Studio 8 its Editor’s Choice this summer.

In our Quality section, we reveal how more than half of Europe’s IT directors believe that there is a high risk of application failure on go-live, and look at the reasons for this. You can also view an on-demand webcast that provides useful hints and tips on taking a collaborative approach to improving software quality. Meanwhile, the Application Performance section outlines how Compuware’s Vantage tool lets ICT services company Northgate proactively run 2,700 servers with just two systems administrators. Find out too how website user experience monitoring complements web analytics, and view our webcast to see how you can make your .NET applications run at Mach 5 speed.

Finally, in our Enterprise section, you can read how a respected Swiss bank ensured its customers’ data privacy when migrating its core applications from IMS to DB2, find out how a new version of Compuware’s Strobe solution can help your organisation to lower running costs for mainframe DB2 applications, and learn how Compuware’s new Value Office can help you improve the productivity of your Compuware mainframe 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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	Westminster students’ union gets futuristic makeover thanks to OptimalJ The University of Westminster in London is exploding popular myths about dingy students’ union bars with a new interactive drinks ordering system from Escapism Media.
	Boost productivity with model-driven development Modelling is an essential part of the application development process, capturing the business requirements that the application is designed to automate.
	DevPartner Fault Simulator 2.0 improves error handling code A new version of DevPartner Fault Simulator 2.0 further bridges the gap between development and testing teams.
	DevPartner Studio 8 named Editor’s Choice by PC Plus The UK’s PC Plus magazine named Compuware DevPartner Studio its Editor’s Choice development tool in its summer 2006 edition.

Automated Software Quality

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	Webcast: A collaborative approach to improving application quality Want to improve application quality? You can’t go it alone, or apply QA as an afterthought. Successful quality assurance requires a continuous process that spans all stages of the application life cycle.
	IT directors admit to failed application deployments More than half of Europe’s IT directors believe that there is a 50% or higher chance that a new application will fail on go-live, according to a new survey conducted by Compuware.

Application Performance Management

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	Vantage lets Northgate run 2,700 servers with just two administrators When ICT services company Northgate won a contract to manage 2,700 servers at 1,700 sites for a large educational project in Northern Ireland, the penalties for falling below agreed service levels could have been a financial risk.
	Website user experience monitoring – the missing link Web analytics can tell you all about what a user did on your website but very little about how they experienced the site’s technical performance.
	Archived webcast: Run .NET applications at Mach 5 speed! .NET applications need to run at maximum speed to meet the needs of the enterprise. In our archived English-language webcast, Compuware’s technical specialist John Reichard explains how to monitor and ensure optimum speed and performance in pre-production and live .NET environments using Compuware Vantage.

Enterprise

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	Private Swiss bank completes safe migration to DB2 with QAHiperstation As a respected private banking organisation, Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild prides itself on customer service and confidentiality. When the pressures of modern business meant the bank needed to migrate its applications from a legacy IMS environment to DB2 in just nine months, a secure testing tool was vital.
	Increase DB2 application performance with new version of Compuware Strobe Cost reductions and efficiency gains are key objectives for any IT department. A new version of Compuware’s Strobe enterprise application performance solution helps organisations running mainframe DB2 applications to reduce costs and increase efficiency by pinpointing performance issues and recommending ways to resolve them.
	New Value Office to improve mainframe productivity Compuware has launched its Value Office to help you get the most value out of your Compuware mainframe products.