Compuware Covisint Wins Fourth Consecutive Healthcare IT Innovation™ Award

DETROIT--November 24, 2009--Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ: CPWR) today announced that its Covisint subsidiary won a Healthcare IT Innovation™ Award in the “Solution With The Greatest Market Potential” category. The award, Covisint’s fourth in four years, was won at this year’s Healthcare IT Summit in La Quinta, Calif. Covisint’s previous three awards at this conference were in the “Best Demonstration of Value/ROI” category.

Healthcare IT Summit brought together industry analysts, IT executives from healthcare insurer and provider organizations as well as major health IT vendors for uniquely collaborative discussions on pressing business and IT issues, best practices and the latest tools and technologies.

“After years of seeing IT as merely transaction processing and distributing information, CxOs and external influencers now expect IT to be a key business differentiator,” said Nancy Hammervik, Senior Vice President, Events, Everything Channel. “We congratulate Covisint on winning this year’s Healthcare IT Innovation award for ‘greatest market potential.’”

Hundreds of senior IT executives attending this year’s Healthcare IT Summit completed confidential ballots, selecting technology providers for the Healthcare IT Innovation Awards after previewing and learning about new technologies and services in private boardroom appointments. At the Summit, Covisint presented its just-announced AppCloud capability--a secure marketplace of clinical and administrative applications offered by technology vendors via a modular and incremental approach to Covisint’s communities of healthcare users.

“Winning one award is nice; winning year after year after year awards--particularly when people with the power to purchase vote for you in multiple categories--draws a line in the sand resonating that you’re doing a lot of the right things the right way,” said Brett Furst, Covisint Vice President for Healthcare. “It’s also particularly gratifying that people whose careers depend on making smart decisions consistently pick Covisint not only for strong ROI reasons, but also for our market potential.”

Covisint’s on-demand collaboration platform and cloud computing approach helps virtual communities securely access, use and share time-sensitive information. Covisint solves business problems by streamlining and automating processes globally--connecting state and nationally based communities, organizations and systems in the healthcare, automotive and financial services industries, as well as the public sector. Learn more about Covisint at www.covisint.com. Additionally, you many learn more about Compuware healthcare solutions at www.compuware.com/solutions/healthcare.asp.

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Compuware Corporation
Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Our unique approach, Business Service Delivery, helps CIOs optimize end-to-end application performance for leading businesses around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies. Learn more at: www.compuware.com.

Press Contacts:
Mark Britton, Everything Channel, mark.britton@ec.ubm.com, 508-416-1156
Doug Anter, Public Relations Manager, Compuware Covisint doug.anter@compuware.com, 313-227-0127

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