Fortune 500 Insurance Company Benefits From Compuware's Metrics-based
Management Solution
DETROIT, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation
(Nasdaq: CPWR) today announced that Conseco, a Fortune 500 insurance
company, successfully deployed Compuware's Metrics-based Management
solution to ensure the best available quality for its sourced application
development. Compuware's Metrics-based Management solution helps ensure
that companies that outsource application development and operations,
whether outsourcing domestically or off-shoring globally, achieve desired
return on investment through the measurement and management of targeted,
key metrics.
"Industry experts tell us that companies expect sourcing of business
application development and maintenance to deliver savings between 25 and
40 percent," said Donna Ventimiglia, Compuware Senior Vice President,
Products Sales. "However, businesses often fail to realize these savings
because of inconsistency in performance, a lack of desired quality,
difficulty in producing definitive requirements and growing cost overruns."
Conseco faced the challenge of maintaining and adapting large,
internally created mainframe applications, a task complicated further by
the turnover and/or retirement of many of the original developers of these
important business applications. Conseco was also shifting a portion of the
company's internal work to a Conseco office in India during the project.
Conseco turned to Compuware to help manage these complexities.
"Global collaboration can be tricky. We used Compuware's Metrics-based
Management solution to point our developers in India to the exact sections
of the application code that needed work, taking the burden off of them
right away," said Jeff Oliver, Project Manager at Conseco. "This helped us
control the overall cost of the project and have a better handle on the
ultimate quality of the application code."
The Compuware solution pinpointed the exact portions of the application
code that needed updating and made it possible to monitor untested code and
cut down on rework. The Metrics-based solution also enabled Conseco to keep
developers in India and Indiana on the same page in Conseco's new,
globalized IT environment.
After implementing Compuware's Metrics-based solution, Conseco tracked
projects completed on time and reported an improvement in completion rates,
as well as higher quality applications. In addition, Compuware's solution
provided Portfolio Metrics Reports that offered additional insight.
"These reports helped me to know where to put talent and to address
issues in terms of how I staff," explained Conseco Vice President Barry
Staldine, who supervised the project. "These reports can then be used on an
ongoing basis to track trends in the complexity of the code. That was huge
from the technology management perspective, because it gave us a direction
on how we manage these applications in terms of architecture."
Beyond productivity and quality, Compuware's Metrics-based solution
assists customers in building and maintaining an inventory of assets. The
Compuware solution helps automate the analysis needed to build inventories
that can include documentation, jobs, transactions, test data, test scripts
and production data. The two-pronged approach of understanding an inventory
and trending for cost and quality is useful not only for companies that are
managing global sourcing, but it can also be used when modernizing
applications, much like Conseco's project.
Compuware Corporation
Compuware Corporation maximizes the value IT brings to the business by
helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware
solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the
performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and
govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and
employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973,
Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than
90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at
http://www.compuware.com.
Press Contact
Sean M. Patrick, Compuware Communications and Investor Relations,
sean.patrick@compuware.com, 313-227-5594
For Sales and Marketing Information
Compuware Corporation, One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI 48226,
800-521-9353, http://www.compuware.com
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