Compuware Ranked Among the World’s Leading System Management SaaS Vendors
Announcement posted by Bass PR 26 Jul 2011
Highest Growth Rate of Top Five Vendors Moves Compuware Up in Ranking
DETROIT - July 25, 2011--Compuware Corporation <http://www.compuware.com/> (NASDAQ: CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced that industry analyst firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has ranked Compuware the world’s third largest system management Software-as- a-Service (SaaS) vendor. HP ranked first and IBM ranked second. Compuware had the highest growth rate of the top five vendors.
According to IDC’s market analysis report titled: “Worldwide System Management Software-as-a-Service 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares,” <http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=229286> Compuware’s Application Performance Management <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/> (APM) business unit ranked third, with SaaS revenue estimated at $49.0 million, representing an 11.5 percent market share [i]. 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 (HP at -4.5 percent and IBM at 1.7 percent). Compuware’s high growth moved it to third place in 2010, up from fifth place in 2009.
“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 business unit. “We continue to innovate and invest in our APM business to ensure our customers increase revenues, profitability and brand equity by optimising application performance across the entire application delivery chain <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/what-makes-gomez-unique.html#unify> .”
The Gomez platform <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/the-gomez-platform.html> is the industry’s leading solution for optimising the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/end-user-experience-synthetic-monitoring.html> , Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/what-makes-gomez-unique.html#unify> , from a user’s browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/first-mile.html> to the Last Mile <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/last-mile.html> .
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Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world’s most important technologies perform at their best for leading organisations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.
[i] IDC: Worldwide System Management Software-as-a-Service 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares; Doc #229286, July 2011
According to IDC’s market analysis report titled: “Worldwide System Management Software-as-a-Service 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares,” <http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=229286> Compuware’s Application Performance Management <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/> (APM) business unit ranked third, with SaaS revenue estimated at $49.0 million, representing an 11.5 percent market share [i]. 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 (HP at -4.5 percent and IBM at 1.7 percent). Compuware’s high growth moved it to third place in 2010, up from fifth place in 2009.
“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 business unit. “We continue to innovate and invest in our APM business to ensure our customers increase revenues, profitability and brand equity by optimising application performance across the entire application delivery chain <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/what-makes-gomez-unique.html#unify> .”
The Gomez platform <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/the-gomez-platform.html> is the industry’s leading solution for optimising the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/end-user-experience-synthetic-monitoring.html> , Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/what-makes-gomez-unique.html#unify> , from a user’s browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/first-mile.html> to the Last Mile <http://www.compuware.com/application-performance-management/last-mile.html> .
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Twitter - Compuware <http://twitter.com/compuware>
Twitter - GomezAPM <http://twitter.com/GomezAPM>
YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/user/compuware>
Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/compuware>
APM Blog <http://blog.compuware.com/>
CloudSleuth <http://www.cloudsleuth.net/>
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world’s most important technologies perform at their best for leading organisations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.
[i] IDC: Worldwide System Management Software-as-a-Service 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares; Doc #229286, July 2011