August 6, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Compuware Corp. (NASDAQ: CPWR) announced the release of its next generation upgrade of Xpediter with Eclipse 2.0. This latest upgrade of the industry-standard analysis and debugging tool enables new mainframe talent to support mission critical business applications more quickly using a familiar point-and-click environment.

As mainframe IT professionals continue to retire, IT leaders must find new personnel to maintain and enhance their critical mainframe business applications. This loss of experienced developers also means the loss of the institutional knowledge essential to supporting the organization’s critical systems.

“The decline in the availability of mainframe skills is a well-publicized and legitimate issue,” said Mike Chuba, Gartner, Inc. “Yet the mainframe remains a critical component in the large mission-critical environment, and it will be no less critical in three years.”

Compuware Xpediter helps the next generation of developers analyze applications and quickly understand the business processes and data flows in those applications, avoiding an unnecessarily steep learning curve. Xpediter with Eclipse 2.0 also helps these new developers become productive quicker by moving away from the traditional “green screen” interface and providing a modernized point-and-click environment, to which these new employees are accustomed.

“The point-and-click access helps the next generation of Mainframe developers feel more comfortable, but the real value is in Xpediter’s ability to help new developers understand years of business processes and data flows that were coded into these mission critical business applications,” says Rose Rowe, vice president of Mainframe Solutions for Compuware.

Xpediter with Eclipse 2.0 is a product in the industry leading Compuware Mainframe Solutions family. These solutions combine to help address four leading IT challenges: achieving greater productivity with fewer resources, complying with data privacy laws/rules, improving application performance with less downtime, and transitioning a new workforce into a multi-tier enterprise environment.

Today’s challenges require a total perspective on the IT portfolio, both to deliver projects that enable business growth and 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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