Customers and Market Eager for the Next Generation of the
   Market's Most Powerful Professional Services Automation (PSA)
                             Solution

DETROIT, July 31, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced the
general availability of Changepoint 2012, the latest edition of its
market-leading professional services automation (PSA) and project
portfolio management (PPM) solution. With enhancements geared to the
needs of growing service organizations, Changepoint 2012 delivers an
improved user experience to drive higher adoption and customer
satisfaction, and offers more flexibility to support global
organizations. Changepoint 2012's key enhancements were further
detailed in a June 26 press release issued by the company.

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"We were immediately impressed by the simplicity and elegance of the
new Changepoint user interface. The streamlined navigation and look and
feel will allow our users to quickly access the power of this solution,
and the expanded support for multiple browsers allows our people to
work in their preferred environment," said Betsy Overstreet, Revenue
Management, North Highland, a global consulting company headquartered
in Atlanta.

"We are extremely pleased with this release and its support for
globalized services teams," said Graham Hayhurst, Head, Project One
Application Center, Steria, one of Europe's top 10 IT services
companies. "We have undertaken an ambitious rollout of Changepoint to
more than 9,000 users worldwide with a target of 12,000 users over the
coming months, and the capabilities in this release -- specifically the
ability to express time in increments of hours, days or full time
equivalents -- allow us to overcome adoption barriers in certain
countries and achieve our goal of single system support for our entire
services organization. We were delighted to partner with the
Changepoint team and offer input to this release. They listened
attentively to our needs and delivered."

"Across the software landscape, we see customers investing in a
targeted manner -- maximizing the efficiency of existing
infrastructure. Solutions like Compuware Changepoint 2012 provide
essential business process automation and serve as an important bridge
between customers' services, product development and core IT functions.
With this launch, Compuware is leveraging its Changepoint solution to
provide increased value to its customers, creating an opportunity for
services, software, and hardware to work hand in hand," said Elizabeth
Hedstrom Henlin, Enterprise Software Analyst at Technology Business
Research Inc. (TBR).

"Global services teams are among the most complex in the world. They
are heavily resource intensive, geographically diverse, and the teams
within these organizations typically manage a variety of projects and
engagements -- short and long term -- at any one time. Despite the
productivity and efficiency services organizations can realize, this is
still a relatively untapped market opportunity. According to a recent
industry benchmark study by PSVillage, up to 1/3 of these organizations
continue to manage operations manually or on a spreadsheet. By making
the world's most powerful PSA solution even easier to use, we can
facilitate adoption of Changepoint across the global services market
and encourage widespread utilization and uptake of the solution in our
existing customers," said Lori Ellsworth, Senior Vice President and
General Manager, Compuware Changepoint business unit.

Availability

Changepoint 2012 is now available. There is no additional charge for
existing customers with current product maintenance agreements. Find
more information on this major release at
www.compuware.com/changepoint2012.

Compuware Changepoint

Compuware Changepoint allows technology companies to maximize
professional services profitability while maintaining a focus on
effective product decisions and delivery. Changepoint's integrated
solution marries PSA with PPM to provide total operational visibility
allowing product-centric technology companies to drive services growth
with strong margins, deliver a competitive product and services mix for
high ROI, and maintain top-line revenues and bottom-line profitability.
Changepoint is available via SaaS or On-Premise Delivery Model. Visit
us http://www.compuware.com/changepoint or tune into our blog at
http://www.changepoint-blog.net

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides
software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well
and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world's most important
technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide,
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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CONTACT: Press Contacts
         
         Heidi Riffert, Compuware Changepoint
         heidi.riffert@compuware.com 905-886-7000 x 4308
         
         Ellyn Winters-Robinson, Compuware Changepoint
         ellyn@ignition.ca 519-624-2402
         
         For Sales and Marketing Information
         
         Compuware Corporation
         One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI 48226
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