Compuware

Template:Short description Template:Advert Template:Infobox company Compuware Corporation was an American software company based in Detroit.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The company offered products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also included testing, development, automation and performance management software for programs running on mainframe computer systems.

History

Original Compuware logo

In 1973, Peter Karmanos Jr., Thomas Thewes, and Allen B. Cutting established Compuware Corporation to provide clients with professional technical services. By 1978, Compuware opened its first remote office to service the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore area. In 1992, the company completed its initial public offering (IPO) and traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CPWR. At the end of 1998, Compuware surpassed the $1 billion revenue mark.Template:Cn

In 2003, Compuware moved their headquarters from Farmington Hills, Michigan, to a new headquarters building in downtown Detroit.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In November 2014, the company's headquarters building was sold to a joint venture of Dan Gilbert's real estate group Bedrock Real Estate and Meridian Health for $142 million and renamed One Campus Martius. In December of that year, Compuware was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for approximately $2.5 billion, becoming a privately held company.<ref name="Compuware Corporation to be Acquired by Thoma Bravo">Template:Cite web</ref> In the years after that, the company experienced a period of growth and reinvention of mainframe software.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In March 2020, Compuware was acquired by BMC Software for $2 billion.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Compuware ceased to exist as a company, but all of its products remain available under the name BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (BMC AMI).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In October 2022, it was announced that BMC's Detroit office will return to the northwest suburbs of Detroit, moving from One Campus Martius downtown to the Southfield Town Center in nearby Southfield.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Operations

Integrations and Partnerships

Since 2014, Compuware (later BMC Compuware) has established multiple integrations and partnerships.

• AppDynamics
• Amazon Web Services
• Atlassian JIRA
• ASG
• CloudBees
• Dynatrace
• Elastic
• Jenkins
• Parasoft
• SonarSource
• Splunk
• Syncsort
• XebiaLabs

Compuware Acquisitions

Compuware made the following acquisitions after going private in 2014, through its acquisition by BMC in 2020:

• ISPW in January 2016<ref>ISPW in January 2016</ref>
• Itgrations in October 2016<ref>Itgrations in October 2016</ref>
• Standard ware in December 2016<ref>Standardware in December 2016</ref>
• MVS Solutions in January 2017<ref>MVS Solutions in January 2017</ref>
• XATester in July 2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• INNOVATION Data Processing in January 2020<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

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