Compuware Presents Live Customer Webcast Featuring BT and Independent Research Firm: "How You Can Improve SAP Performance"

Compuware Presents Live Customer Webcast Featuring BT and Independent Research
Firm: "How You Can Improve SAP Performance"

 Webcast to Provide Real-World Insight Into Best Practices for Understanding
                   and Improving End User Experience of SAP

DETROIT, Feb. 25, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced a live
customer webcast featuring BT and Forrester Research, Inc. This webcast will
provide real-world insight into best practices for understanding and improving
SAP system performance.

Title:         "How You Can Improve SAP Performance"
When:          Thursday, March 7, 2013
Time:          10 a.m. Eastern time / 3 p.m. GMT
Presenters     George Lawrie, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester
               Research; Daniel Poulter,
               Senior Product Marketing Manager, BT
Why:           SAP systems are complex due to their size, the integrations
               with other applications and the 
               customization needed to meet organizations' specific business
               and organizational needs. 
               Therefore, maintaining these systems is time-consuming and
               costly. In the end, 
               organizations only benefit from the SAP application if the new
               business processes are 
               more efficient and if user adoption is massive. 
               Poor SAP performance damages not only user adoption but also
               the business and a 
               company's overall performance. The key is to manage SAP
               performance from the end-user 
               perspective; yet, few understand how to diagnose the
               causes—many of which occur 
               outside the SAP application itself—of poor SAP user experience.
               Leading-edge companies such as BT have found new, innovative
               ways to resolve this 
               issue. Using its BT Connect Applications portfolio, BT has
               optimized its SAP applications, 
               improving performance by as much as 43 percent.
What:          During this free webcast, attendees will learn:
               -- how companies approach SAP modernization efforts while
               preserving same levels of service;
               -- why problems seen as "SAP problems" may not be SAP problems
               at all;
               -- how to detect, capture and quantify poor SAP user experience
               before end users call the help desk; 
               -- how application performance management solutions can
               complement the SAP solution manager with no interference with
               the SAP system; and
               -- what recommendations BT are providing their customers in
               order to optimize SAP performance.
                
Register Here: http://cpwr.it/heZVl  

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performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven
by end-user experience, Compuware APM provides the market's only unified APM
coverage across the entire application delivery chain—from the edge of the
internet through the cloud to the datacenter. Compuware APM helps customers
deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction,
accelerate time-to-market for new application functionality and reduce
application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM
automation.

With more than 4,000 APM customers worldwide, Compuware is recognized as a
leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring" report.
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To find out more about BT Global Services Connect Applications portfolio
please go to:
http://www.globalservices.bt.com/uk/en/products_subcategory/application_performance_management

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About BT

BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications services and
solutions, serving customers in more than 170 countries. Its principal
activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local,
national and international telecommunications services to its customers for
use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and
services and converged fixed/mobile products and services.  BT consists
principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, BT Retail, BT
Wholesale and Openreach.In the year ended 31 March 2012, BT Group's revenue
was £18,897m with profit before taxation of £2,445m.

British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group
plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. 

BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York.  For more
information, visit www.btplc.com

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