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Compuware DevPartner studio professional edition and Compuware Vantage win best of Microsoft tech.ed Europe 2004 Awards

Announcement posted by Bass PR 15 Jul 2004

Compuware wins Overall best Tech.Ed Europe 2004 Award
Compuware Asia-Pacific announced today that its DevPartner Studio Professional Edition and Vantage products have each won a Best of Microsoft Tech.Ed Europe 2004 Award at Windows & .NET Magazine and SQL Server Magazines 1st Annual Best of Microsoft Tech.Ed Europe 2004 Awards. Winners were announced during a special awards ceremony held on July 1, 2004 during the Microsoft Tech.Ed Europe 2004 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Best of Microsoft Tech.Ed Europe 2004 Awards are given to companies who deliver innovative products and services that enhance and extend the capabilities of the Microsoft platform. Windows & .NET Magazine editors evaluate organisations based on their solutions strategic importance in the market, competitive advantage and value to the customer. After naming finalists prior to the show, judges for Windows & .NET Magazine made final selections by observing product demonstrations during the week of the conference.
From a field of more than 70 entries, Compuware DevPartner Studio Professional Edition was selected as the unprecedented and prestigious winner of the Overall Best of Tech.Ed Europe 2004 Award. This award recognised DevPartner Studio as the most significant and innovative product exhibited at the conference.
Compuware DevPartner Studio provides integrated error analysis and performance testing, along with source code and syntax checking. It enforces best practices for coding by using a rules-based development environment, all seamlessly integrated within Microsoft Visual Studio, said Mike Otey, Senior Technical Editor for Windows & .NET Magazine and SQL Server Magazine.
Compuware DevPartner Studio provides an award-winning suite of features that help software professionals accelerate the development of reliable, high performance applications and components for Microsoft.NET as well as native Windows platforms. Compuware DevPartner Studio enables developers to locate errors early, to tune runtime performance and to assure thorough testing of applications written in .NET, native code or a combination of the two.
Compuware Vantage also achieved top honors, winning a Best of Tech.Ed Europe 2004 Award in the Systems Management category. Compuware Vantage is an application service management solution that helps IT organisations address application performance from the perspective of the end-user. By managing applications at the business, transaction and infrastructure level, Compuware Vantage enables IT managers to identify and resolve any performance problems as well as providing the critical insight needed to improve application services thus maximising value on investments made in these areas.
This is an extraordinary honor for our DevPartner and Vantage products, said Peter Pritchard, Marketing Director, Compuware Asia-Pacific. These awards underscore the global strength and leadership our application lifecycle solutions deliver to enterprises, enabling them to build, test and manage high-quality applications using Microsoft technologies.
The DevPartner and Vantage tool suites will be on display at Tech.Ed 2004 New Zealand and Tech.Ed 2004 Australia, where Compuware is a silver sponsor.
About Compuware
Compuware Asia-Pacific, a leading provider of software and technology services, delivers industrial-strength solutions for the enterprise-computing environment that dramatically improve productivity, quality and performance across the application life cycle. For more information about Compuware, please visit: http://www.compuware.com.au
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