IDC Ranks Compuware among Leading System Management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Vendors

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, has been ranked the world's third largest system management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) vendor by industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The report titled, "Worldwide System Management Software-as-a-Service 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares," ranked HP first and IBM (News - Alert) second.  

"This ranking reaffirms our strength and leadership in the system management SaaS market and shows that our aggressive growth strategy is working," said Bruce Reading, senior vice president and general manager of Compuware's APM (News - Alert) business unit, in a statement "We continue to innovate and invest in our APM business to ensure our customers increase revenues, profitability and brand equity by optimizing application performance across the entire application delivery chain."

According to the report, Compuware's (News - Alert) Application Performance Management (APM) business registered SaaS revenue of $49 million, representing an 11.5 percent market share. Compuware's 18.1 percent growth rate from 2009 to 2010 was the highest out of the top five vendors and higher than the top two vendors combined. Compuware's high growth moved it to third place in 2010, up from fifth place in 2009.

Compuware solutions make the world's most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide. These organizations include 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites.

The company recently published a new whitepaper titled, "Why Load Testing From the Cloud Doesn't Work." The paper explores how load testing web applications from the cloud is not the answer to resolving website performance issues and how testing from the end user's perspective is the only way to understand what customers are experiencing. This white paper outlines: the evolution architecture and structure of web applications;   the current state of load testing approaches and how they apply to a variety of architectures;  how existing and emerging testing techniques are applied to different types of applications and;  the future architecture of web applications and what it means to the future of testing.

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