Compuware

Compuware Corporation is a US-based software company headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in 1973 by Peter Karmanos Jr., Thomas Thewes and Allen Cutting. Compuware employs around 4,600 people (as of 2012).

Own account, the company has more than 7100 customers worldwide, including 46 of 50 in the Fortune Global 500 largest companies in the world, as well as twelve of the 20 most visited sites in the U.S..

The listed company is registered in the NASDAQ (securities identification number 885 187 ).

History

Founding and early years

1973 Compuware Corporation by Peter Karmanos Jr., Thomas Thewes and Allen B. Cutting was founded. Four years later, they launched their first software product before: Abend-AID; It was developed in order to find errors and make corrections in IBM mainframe systems. Abend-AID today is still standard software on the market and there are currently about 8,000 licenses in use.

Opened in 1978, Compuware, the first remote office to the areas of Washington, DC and Baltimore to use.

1980

In the 1980 Compuware launched its File-AID product line. The File - AID products help programmers and software developers to quickly and easily find data, create, distribute, compare or convert. Compuware announced further playback of the first automated testing tool of the company. Later, the seat of the company from Southfield to Farmington Hills (Michigan) was laid. At this time also oriented to the European market and opened the first branch.

1990

During the 1990 Compuware took over many other companies, including: Centura Software, XA Systems, EcoSystems Software, UNIFACE, Hiperstation, Coronet, Direct Technology Limited, DRD Promark, Inc, Nu - Mega Technologies, Data Processing Resources Corporation, Programart and the CACI Products Company.

1992 Compuware went public. While sales in 1997 amounted to $ 100 million, he stood up to April 1998 to more than $ 800 million. Exceeded the end of 1998, sales for the first time the threshold of one billion dollars. 1999, the company had to develop more than 15,000 employees, what was the occasion of new locations in Campus Martius Park in Detroit ( Michigan).

2000

2003, for the 30th anniversary of the company, a new headquarters in Downtown Detroit was completed. As part of the campaign Compuware 2.0 2008, a new slogan was introduced: " We make IT rock around the world".