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Compuware and BEA have collaborated to deliver enhancements to OptimalJ that generate business components as Java Controls in BEA WebLogic Workshop. This extends the library of business functionality for WebLogic Workshop developers using assets and architecturally proven design practices from OptimalJ. This results in model-driven J2EE application assets that can be shared among a broader Workshop development community within the enterprise.

Compuware and BEA provide customers with a comprehensive architecture and a complementary set of tools and services to develop, integrate, test, deploy and manage enterprise-class J2EE applications. Compuware OptimalJ and BEA WebLogic Workshop provide the tools needed by enterprise architects as well as corporate developers of varying skills levels to build standards based enterprise class J2EE applications.

These complementary approaches - specifically, OptimalJ's model-driven, pattern-based approach and WebLogic Workshop's visual development, event-driven capabilities - both accelerate the drive to service oriented development through dramatically improved developer productivity and increased acceptance of Java through successful deployment of enterprise class J2EE applications.

As a BEA Premier Partner, Compuware is committed to supporting those organizations developing with BEA technologies. Our solutions encompass development and integration, automated software quality, production readiness and performance and availability management solutions.

For more information, visit the web site: http://www.bea.com/ or the BEA Technical Resource Center for developers: dev2dev

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at http://www.eclipse.org/.

Compuware Corporation has made a strategic, long-term commitment to the Eclipse Foundation by becoming an Eclipse Strategic Developer. As part of this commitment, Compuware will focus its efforts on application life cycle integration and tool interoperability and dedicate resources to the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) project. Compuware’s move sends a strong signal of support to the initiative aimed at making life cycle integration a key part of Eclipse’s future. By creating an industry standard for tool interoperability, Compuware seeks to help customers cost-effectively improve the delivery of applications across the life cycle. For more information see the press release.

Compuware and Sun are working together to speed the development of J2EE applications by sharing technology. Sun has picked OptimalJ, Compuware's model-driven, pattern-based development environment for Java, as the tool of choice for its Java architects. With Sun supplying its top Java architects with OptimalJ to use during customer engagements, Compuware is incorporating Sun's J2EE patterns into its tool. The partnership also allows Compuware to market Sun's proven J2EE patterns to the more than 2.5 million developers building innovative Java applications today.

For more information, visit the web site: http://www.sun.com/

Mesan offers the following services:

• Projects: Planning, leading, developing and maintaining J2EE systems
• Expert services: Specialists with broad experience from working with large and complex solutions for the last 15-20 years

Mesan is currently working with major Norwegian customers regarding OptimalJ projects. Customers like Dagbladet (3rd largest newspaper in Norway), SchlumbergerSema (InfoSynergy), Asta (responsible for developing and distributing the filing system Asta).

For more information, visit the web site: http://www.mesan.no/

TriReme can provide to Compuware and Compuware's clients:

• Expert speakers for Compuware seminars and promotions.
• A reasonable amount of support to Compuware's pre-sales efforts in MDA and related areas.
• Consultancy and Training in Modeling, OOAD, CBD, SOA, MDA, Requirements, Process, Architecture.

Many of our clients either do J2EE or are moving in that direction. We see OptimalJ as a powerful tool for de-skilling J2EE implementations - the 80% of the work that it automates - particularly the infrastructure side - is the part that many Java developers trip on. This allows them to concentrate on application logic, which they are good at.

As TriReme is a company based on modeling know-how, we see MDA and OptimalJ as the tooling, which can deliver on the promise that higher levels of abstraction will give you much more productivity and reuse.

We are impressed by Compuware's commitment in the MDA space, and see association with Compuware as being of long-term strategic importance. Compuware and TriReme are not competing and have highly complimentary offerings.

For more information, visit the web site: http://www.trireme.com/

WM-data's home market is the Nordic market and the primary target groups are major companies and organizations in each of the Nordic countries.

WM-data has assembled its services and products in three areas:

• Industry-specific Operations offers expertise, service and solutions for specific industry areas within which, over the course of many years, WM-data has built up an extensive knowledge base.
• Specialist Operations offers non-industry-specific expertise and solutions.
• Infrastructural Operations covers all services and products needed for operation, communication,customer support and technical support relating to both centralized and decentralized server environments and workplaces.

In Norway we are approximately 250 employees in our offices in Oslo and Stavanger. We focus on ERP, System Integration, eBusiness/Portal, Card & Loyalty Systems, Server & Storage, Mobility and Security.

WM-data and Compuware have established a partnership that involves sale and implementation of Compuware OptimalJ. WM-data is one of the leading System Integrators in the Norwegian market especially in the field of portal development. The partnership with Compuware is an opportunity to strengthen this position.

For more information please visit our web site http://www.wmdata.no/ or http://www.wmdata.com/

iWay Software, an Information Builders company and the world's leading adapter vendor, accelerates business integration by providing tools that make service-oriented architectures easy to implement. Clients achieve short-term ROI by using iWay to reduce custom programming and to solve problems quickly, while incrementally creating an architecture that supports long-term projects. The biggest names in software, including Compuware, BEA and Microsoft, use iWay adapters to simplify access to ERP and CRM systems, messaging, legacy systems, e-business protocols like AS2 and ebXML, and more. Additional message transformation and data integration make iWay a natural integration choice - standalone or with other middleware.

For more information, visit the web site: http://www.iwaysoftware.com/

Software AG provides a real-time single view of strategic business information by integrating applications and systems, in addition to modernizing mainframe and open system IT environments. Its offerings are based on the product families Adabas, Natural, EntireX and Tamino. Around 2,500 employees in 59 countries support the mission-critical systems of 3,000 customers around the world. The company maintains four R&D facilities across three continents. Founded in 1969, Software AG today is Europe’s largest and most established systems software provider. It is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany and is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW). In 2004 Software AG posted 411 million euros in total revenue.

Together with Software AG's ApplinX, OptimalJ allows organizations to integrate their legacy host applications, to modernize and extend mainframe applications in a productive and cost-effective way. This increases companies' business agility, while realizing significant return on the investment made on the mainframe and the business processes that run on it. A white paper Compuware OptimalJ Integration with Terminal Data Streams: Software AG ApplinX is now available.

For more information, visit the web site: http://www.softwareagusa.com/