DETROIT, Sept. 8, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR) today announced that Gartner, a leading industry analyst firm, reported that Compuware continues to have a dominant leadership position in the mainframe tools market. Compuware has retained this leadership position and the fastest growth rate in this market.
According to Gartner's Dataquest report, Market Share: Application Development Software, Worldwide, 2008,(1) Compuware took the top position in the mainframe testing market in year-over-year growth rate with 5.4 percent growth, with the nearest competitor at 0.9 percent. Compuware also has a 2008 market share of 54.4 percent. The closest competitor has a 22.1 percent market share.
"Casual observers may intuitively believe and flippantly claim that the mainframe is a market in decline. The facts say that there are an estimated 14 million mainframe MIPS installed worldwide, and this installed base continues to grow at a long term rate of 15 percent per year," said Mike Chuba, Gartner Research Vice President, during his presentation entitled, "The IBM Mainframe Platform: Ongoing Challenges, New Opportunities," at Gartner's December 2008 Data Center Conference. "Mainframe use isn't just a function of legacy applications from 30 years ago."
In its report, Gartner defines the testing tools market as applying to commercially or internally developed software or services to assist in the testing process, including functional and load/stress testing. According to Gartner, automated tests provide consistent results and data points. The benefits are ease of maintenance, the ability to efficiently use resources in off-peak hours and the capability to create reports based on the executed tests.
"With decades of business application expertise and proven customer value, Compuware Mainframe Solutions continue to empower the largest companies in the world to reduce costs, protect sensitive data, optimize application performance and enable a new generation of mainframe workers," said Rose Rowe, Vice President, Mainframe Strategy, Compuware. "Our customers make our market leadership possible, and we will continue to earn their trust through an ongoing commitment to extending the value of our solutions."
Compuware Mainframe Solutions help the largest companies in the world address four leading IT challenges: achieving greater productivity with fewer resources, complying with data privacy regulations, improving application performance with less downtime, and transitioning a new workforce into a multi-tier enterprise environment.
Overcoming today's challenges requires a total perspective on the IT portfolio, both to deliver projects that enable business growth and also to ensure the health of existing systems. With Compuware's Business Service Delivery approach, IT leaders get comprehensive, proven and scalable solutions for ensuring applications work well and deliver value, regardless of the technology or applications used.
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(1) Gartner, Inc. "Market Share: Application Development Software, Worldwide, 2008" by Laurie Wurster et al, May 22, 2009