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Enabling Your Systems by leveraging Service-Oriented Architectures

Compuware and SOA Software can help you modernize and leverage your mainframe environment by allowing business-critical mainframe applications to become first class participants in a Service-Oriented Architecture. This joint solution leverages Compuware's centers of excellence, technology and best practices to assist clients in realizing the benefits of modernizing their extensive investments in legacy architecture. Using SOA Software's acclaimed SOLA integration solution, Compuware assists clients by discovering, building, optimizing, testing and deploying enterprise mainframe applications as web services.

Compuware offers a comprehensive list of professional services that can be tailored to your specific business needs, for both mainframe and distributed environments.

Legacy discovery and rationalization

The legacy discovery and rationalization service captures an accurate inventory of all legacy application components and generates detailed application blueprints through a top-down and bottom-up acquisition strategy. Through this service, Compuware works with the client to identify and justify high-value mainframe transactions for web service enablement using SOLA. Detailed application roadmaps and execution plans are generated as input to the modernization effort.

Production service enablement

This service targets large-scale, enterprise-wide web service enablement of your legacy applications using SOLA. From service discovery, design, implementation, testing and deployment, Compuware offers:

• Program management
• Analysis, design, building, testing and deployment of web services
• Application and Performance Assurance

Enterprise service integration

Once you have exposed key mainframe applications as web services, you can leverage Compuware professional service teams and Compuware and SOA development centers to integrate your web services with new user interfaces or other enterprise systems such as IVRs. The Montreal and Detroit delivery centers houses advanced design, development and support teams, in addition to providing access to a resource base of over 700 professionals. These teams can be leveraged on-demand to support clients, business partners and customers in taking full advantage of their SOLA web services. Through this service, we provide:

• Web and user interface design
• Entreprise service integration (IVRs, etc.)

Service quality assurance and testing

Ensuring that SOLA web services maintain quality of service is paramount for a successful Service-Oriented Architecture enablement program. Compuware has the technology, expert resources and best practices to ensure this. We can work with clients to baseline current metrics, create testing strategies, test cases, test automation and execution services. These services can be delivered in conjunction with other SOLA implementation services or as a standalone offering. We offer:

• Test governance, management and planning
• Performance, scalability and triage testing services
• Functional and automated regression testing services

Legacy optimization

Compuware can optimize the underlying mainframe implementation before or after a mainframe transaction is web-service enabled using SOLA. Our legacy optimization service improves the quality, maintainability and performance of legacy batch and online applications. This service focuses on identifying and removing code, code re-factoring and runtime inefficiencies, so that SOLA web services deliver the highest possible quality of service. Compuware has proven technology, expertise and success in helping clients optimize mainframe applications to reduce total cost of ownership and improve quality of service.

Compuware's Professional Services Core Capabilities

Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR) maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. From a professional services standpoint, Compuware Services core competencies are:

• End-to-end Enterprise Application Development
• Distributed, web and enterprise integration services
• SOA Strategic planning and Implementation
• Enterprise Legacy Modernization
• eCommerce
• QA services - A governance, performance, functional and automated regression testing services
• Mainframe and distributed technology and product labs

Compuware and SOA Software will explain the business value, case studies and ROI involved in incorporating the Mainframe into a SOA strategy. Come and join us at our Initial Seminar in September.