Compuware Corporation was an American software company based in

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. The company offered products aimed at the

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(IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also included testing, development, automation and performance management software for programs running on

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systems.

History

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

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area. In 1992, the company completed its

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(IPO) and traded on the

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under the symbol CPWR. At the end of 1998, Compuware surpassed the $1 billion revenue mark. In 2003, Compuware moved their headquarters from

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, to a new headquarters building in

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. 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

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for approximately $2.5 billion, becoming a privately held company. In the years after that, the company experienced a period of growth and reinvention of mainframe software. In March 2020, Compuware was acquired by BMC Software for $2 billion. Compuware ceased to exist as a company, but all of its products remain available under the name BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (BMC AMI). 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

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in nearby Southfield.

Operations

Integrations and Partnerships

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

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JIRA * ASG * CloudBees * Dynatrace *

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Compuware Acquisitions

Compuware made the following acquisitions after going private in 2014, through its acquisition by BMC in 2020: * ISPW in January 2016 * Itgrations in October 2016 * Standard ware in December 2016 * MVS Solutions in January 2017 * XATester in July 2018 * INNOVATION Data Processing in January 2020

References

External links

* {{Finance links historical , name = Compuware Corp , sec_cik = 859014 Companies based in Detroit Software companies based in Michigan American companies established in 1973 Software companies established in 1973 1973 establishments in Michigan Development software companies Business software companies Software performance management 1992 initial public offerings Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq 2014 mergers and acquisitions 2020 mergers and acquisitions Defunct software companies of the United States American corporate subsidiaries BMC Software acquisitions