Gartner and META Groups Position Compuware as a Leader in the Drive Towards Second Generation Client Server Computing; Analyst Reports Praise UNIFACE Six and EcoTOOLS.FARMINGTON HILLS Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 1995-- According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. recent reports by computer industry analyst firms Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. and META Group, 1995 may be the year that client/server technology comes of age. Reports from both firms favorably position Compuware Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :CPWR CPWR Center to Protect Workers' Rights (now Center for Construction Research and Training) CPWR Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions CPWR Coupled Plasma-Waveguide Resonance ) as delivering the tools needed to build and maintain enterprise-scale client/server applications -- addressing the need for complete application lifecycle solutions. "Compuware has jumped into the leadership category through its acquisition of EcoSystems and Uniface An application development system for e-commerce and client/server environments from Compuware. It is a repository-driven system that integrates with a variety of CASE tools, report writers and version control systems. ," the Gartner Group writes in its September 30, 1994 report on the evolution and positioning of software vendors. These acquisitions are enabling Compuware to take the lead in providing businesses with "second generation" products for enterprise application development and automated operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. . Both META Group and Gartner Group see the need for client/server technology to address the needs of large systems development. Currently, most vendors simply provide tools for building small-scale, departmental applications. But to meet the needs of enterprise-wide systems, vendors must provide customers with a new generation of client/server technologies for building, testing, deploying and maintaining applications throughout their lifecycle. Making the Move from First Generation to Second Generation According to Gartner Group, first generation application development required that application processing and presentation services reside on the client (the "fat client") and the database remains on a single server. While this approach worked well for small, departmental implementations, it still lacked functionality for enterprise-wide client/server systems. Second generation tools like UNIFACE Six now use a balanced client/server approach or distributed function The distribution of processing functions throughout the organization. model. UNIFACE Six provides the ability to assign application processing evenly between the client and the server to optimize speed and performance and overcome the inefficiencies of first generation tools. "We believe (Compuware's) UNIFACE will deliver on its ambitious technology promises, and become a strategic vendor of application development tools," states the META Group report of August 3, 1994. "Since today's development environment is inherently multivendor, Compuware/Uniface offers IT the ability to reduce the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of competing/cooperating vendors." META Group thinks that, with the introduction of the UNIFACE Six development environment, Compuware will compete aggressively in the second generation tools market, and that the product has already met two of the three criteria the group lists for building enterprise-scale applications: o Application logic distribution between the client and the server (Distributed Function Model); o Three-tier architecture with support for multiple server in each tier and seamless access to legacy data; o Distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. management -- providing mainframe-like security an advanced trouble-shooting and team development. "One-Stop" Shopping For Application Development and Systems Management Compuware fulfills the last requirement of second generation client/server systems with the EcoSystems products -- tools for managing distributed systems and database applications that have been receiving praise of their own. "Compuware has made a strong play for king of enterprise systems management," according to Gartner Group's September 30, 1994 report. Gartner Group believes that in order to be successful in distributed automation, a vendor must integrate technology from different sources and develop a global view of distributed resource management. The analyst group suggests that the problem with relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. management and administration tools is that they focus on just database systems or network management. EcoTOOLS addresses these need by providing management capabilities for all resources involved: the operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , networks, databases and applications. In their September 6, 1994 distributed automation report, Gartner Group predicts continued evolution of today's leading systems management tools. "We expect these products (especially EcoTOOLS from Compuware) to evolve into more general-purpose automated operations tools. "We expect that by 1996, the leadership within the distributed automation segment of the systems management market will be divided among Compuware, Tivoli, Legent, Boole & Babbage and Hewlett-Packard," Gartner stated. "We expect a dominant player to emerge from within the ranks of those vendors in 1998." "The needs of the enterprise go beyond simply developing the application. About 80 percent of the cost of running an application lies in deploying, administering and maintaining them throughout the entire lifecycle," said Anu Shukla, vice president of worldwide marketing for Compuware's Client/Server Systems Group. "The range of Compuware's client/server product offers which supports the entire application life cycle, is unique in the industry." UNIFACE Six UNIFACE Six is a second generation client-server development environment specifically designed for building enterprise-scale business applications. Incorporating a component-based architecture, the UNIFACE Six development environment consists of five integrated workbenches that share information from an application objects repository. These components include the Application Objects Repository, Application Model Manager, Rapid Application Builder, Deployment Manager, Developer Services and Personal Series. EcoSystems Products EcoTOOLS proactively monitors and manages client/server data centers and provides integrated systems management capabilities to ensure around-the-clock availability of production UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). database applications. EcoCHARGEBACK, another of EcoSystems products, provides accurate accounting of ORACLE database and UNIX resource consumption. Compuware Corporation (company) Compuware Corporation - A software and service company with over 11,000 employees worldwide, including more than 7,000 in its professional services organisation. Since 1973, Compuware has focused on optimising business software development, testing, and operation. Compuware Corporation (NASDAQ:CPWR) is a leading worldwide provider of software solutions across the entire application lifecycle, including application development, implementation, maintenance and systems management. Compuware's Client/Server Systems Group develops, markets and supports the UNIFACE model-driven application development environment and the EcoTOOLS and EcoCHARGEBACK systems management products. Founded in 1973 and based in Farmington Hills, Mich., Compuware has 3,900 employees in 38 countries dedicated to client/server systems, enterprise systems and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . For the 1994 fiscal year, Compuware reported $394 million in revenues, making it one of the 20 largest independent software companies in the world. Compuware distributes the UNIFACE and EcoSystems products through direct sales, distributors, OEMs, value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. 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