primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . august 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message compuware corporation type private company industry information technology founded 1973 founder peter karmanos jr. thomas thewes allen b. cutting headquarters the compuware building detroit michigan u.s area served worldwide key people chris o malley ceo products enterprise software services it services website compuware.com compuware corporation is an american software company with products aimed at the information technology it departments of large businesses . the company s services also include testing development automation and performance management software for programs running on mainframe computer systems . the company has its headquarters in downtown detroit michigan . 1 in december 2014 compuware was acquired by private equity firm thoma bravo and became a privately held company . contents 1 history 1.1 inception and early years 1.2 1980s 1.3 1990s 1.4 2000s 1.5 2010s 1.6 acquisition and privatization 2 locations 3 products 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit inception and early years edit in 1973 peter karmanos jr. thomas thewes and allen b. cutting established compuware corporation . their vision was to help people do things with computers by providing their clients with professional technical services allowing them to focus on their own core businesses . in 1977 compuware introduced abend aid its first software product . designed to detect bugs and suggest corrective action in corporate ibm mainframe systems . the release of abend aid established a product strategy for compuware alleviating the peaks and valleys of revenue that occur in the services business . by 1978 compuware opened its first remote office to service the washington d.c. and baltimore area . 1980s edit compuware launched its file aid product line . using a request driven interface file aid products help programmers and developers quickly and easily find create extract transfer fix convert load edit age and compare data . this allows developers to focus on developing and maintaining applications that meet business needs . compuware also announced playback the company s first automated testing tool . later compuware moved from its southfield location to a new corporate headquarters in farmington hills michigan . compuware also acquired its first european subsidiaries during the 1980s . compuware launched powerbase with datazoom a very user friendly non programmable relational database for ms dos through compuware power base systems inc. 1 1990s edit throughout the 1990s compuware acquired several companies building their position in the marketplace including centura software xa systems ecosystems software uniface development environment hiperstation coronet direct technology limited drd promark inc numega data processing resources corporation programart and the caci products company . in 1992 compuware completed its initial public offering ipo of stock trading on the nasdaq under the symbol cpwr . in 1994 compuware commenced a secondary public offering to raise cash and named joseph a. nathan president and chief operating officer . by april 1998 compuware had more than 800 million in sales . 2 at the end of 1998 compuware surpassed the us 1 billion revenue mark . in 1999 the number of compuware employees grew considerably prompting the company to build a new headquarters building in campus martius park in detroit michigan . 2000s edit since 2000 compuware has acquired e business services firms blairlake inc. nomex inc. covisint llc 3 adlex inc. 4 steeltrace 5 changepoint 6 proxima technology s centauri business service manager . in 2003 the company s 30th year of existence compuware completed construction on its new world headquarters building in downtown detroit . on november 9 2009 compuware acquired gomez inc. for its application performance management software . 7 2010s edit on july 6 2011 compuware acquired dynatrace software . 8 on september 25 2013 compuware subsidiary covisint announced pricing of initial public offering . 9 on january 8 2014 compuware announced the planned divestiture of its changepoint professional services and uniface divisions to marlin equity partners for 160 million . 10 compuware completed a spin off of covisint on october 31 2014 . 11 acquisition and privatization edit on september 2 2014 compuware and private equity firm thoma bravo llc jointly announced that compuware had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by thoma bravo for approximately 2.5 billion . 12 after finalizing the deal in december 2014 plans were announced to separate compuware s remaining mainframe and application performance management apm business units into two distinct companies . the mainframe business unit retains the compuware name and is exclusively focused on mainframe software . christopher o malley is the current ceo . compuware s former apm business operates independently under the new dynatrace name with john van siclen operating as ceo . as a result of the privatization compuware stock is no longer listed on the nasdaq . locations edit compuware world headquarters one campus martius campus martius park in downtown detroit compuware is a global company operating in north america australia europe and asia . the company s world headquarters are at one campus martius detroit michigan 48226 . 13 compuware moved its headquarters and 4 000 employees to downtown detroit in 2003 . 14 prior to the move the headquarters were in farmington hills michigan . 15 in december 2014 compuware announced that bedrock real estate services and meridian health jointly purchased the compuware headquarters building . 16 compuware still runs its global operations out of the building . products edit file aid mainframe based file editor manipulator abend aid mainframe application failure resolution tool hiperstation mainframe automated testing and auditing tool ispw source code management and deploy strobe mainframe application performance monitoring tool xpediter mainframe developer productivity tools test data privacy multi platform creation of subsets of privatized test data from production data topaz data and program management capabilities with visualization in updated ui see also edit detroit portal companies portal appdynamics computer associates compuware arena one campus martius compuware world headquarters dynatrace new relic riverbed technology references edit compuware world headquarters . emporis . retrieved 12 march 2013 . william patalon iii april 19 1998 the year 2000 caper finding riches in glitches but unwary investors risk getting singed chasing fix it stocks baltimore sun sec . financial p. 1f retrieved january 9 2013 compuware corporation signs definitive agreement to acquire covisint . compuware corporation . retrieved 2004 02 05 . compuware acquires adlex to strengthen application service management leadership . compuware corporation . retrieved 2005 05 09 . compuware adds business requirements management through acquisition of steeltrace . compuware corporation . retrieved 2006 08 04 . compuware to acquire it governance market leader changepoint further optimize quantify and communicate it value . compuware corporation . retrieved 2004 04 28 . compuware completes acquisition of gomez . compuware corporation . retrieved 2009 11 09 . compuware acquires dynatrace software pdf . compuware corporation . retrieved 2011 07 06 . compuware announces pricing of covisint initial public offering . compuware corporation . retrieved 2013 09 25 . compuware announces strategic divestitures completes major transformational milestone . compuware corporation . retrieved 2014 01 08 . covisint spin off from compuware completed thoma bravo completes take private acquisition of compuware corporation in 2.4 b deal . thoma bravo . retrieved 2014 12 15 . directions to compuware headquarters . compuware . retrieved on november 2 2009 . decade in review business . the detroit news . december 31 2009 . retrieved on january 7 2010 . united states canadian compuware offices . compuware . may 8 1999 . retrieved on january 7 2010 . gilbert s bedrock meridian health to buy compuware building in detroit pdf . bedrock . retrieved 17 november 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to compuware . corporate site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title compuware & oldid 744326058 categories companies based in detroitcomputer companies of the united statescompanies established in 1973computer companiesperformance managementhidden categories articles lacking reliable references from august 2014all articles lacking reliable referencescommons category with page title same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main 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