DETROIT, Feb. 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR) today announced a live webcast where IDC and Compuware will discuss the increasing strategic importance of application management, as well as the business imperative for an approach that spans both the enterprise and Internet. They will outline the critical role of the Internet, the increasing complexity of business applications, and the compounded intricacies of virtualization, cloud computing and other new technologies. As traditional application management methods prove ineffective in this changing landscape, attendees will learn which approaches are best to optimize the quality and availability of application service.
Webcast Title: "Taking Application Management to the Next Level: Across the Enterprise and Internet"
When: February 17, 2010
Time: 2:00 p.m. Eastern time/11:00 a.m. Pacific time
Presenters: Tim Grieser, Program Vice President of Enterprise System Software at IDC and Mark Hillman, Vice President of Strategy and Product Line Management at Compuware Corporation
Who Should Attend: CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, VPs, IT Service and Support Managers and IT Infrastructure Managers
Why: Reduce costs. Increase customer satisfaction. Enhance quality. These goals top IT's priority list, but at the same time, IT must fulfill its primary mission of delivering high-quality business application services to end-users wherever they are located, regardless of costs. With business revenues increasingly driven through online presence and applications increasing in complexity, this mission seems harder than ever to accomplish.
What: Compuware and IDC will outline proven strategies on delivering the innovation, revenue and competitive advantage that business expects for its investment in IT. IDC's Tim Grieser will discuss the criticality of how the Internet, the complexity of newer technologies and how these evolving trends affect the way you manage performance. Compuware's Mark Hillman will explain why traditional approaches to application performance management are less effective in today's evolving landscape. This free webcast will highlight:
- How business service is changing;
- Key drivers and success factors of application performance management (APM) and
- An introduction to a leading APM approach.
Register Here: http://bit.ly/d4fy35
Together, Compuware Vantage and Gomez deliver the market's only application performance management solution that provides broad visibility and deep-dive resolution across the entire application delivery chain, spanning both the Enterprise and the Internet. The first of its kind, this solution brings organizations a unified view of the health of business applications that starts from the customer perspective and follows through to the back-end data center, giving complete visibility and insight into application performance and business impact. This unparalleled breadth is combined with deep-dive analysis for rapid troubleshooting and root-cause identification, regardless of whether the source of the problem is on the Internet or in the data center.
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Compuware Corporation
Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Compuware optimizes end-to-end application performance for leading organizations around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.
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