Compuware returns to mainframe roots

Compuware has spun off its functioning management division, which now operates as Dynatrace

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Returning to its roots equally a mainframe software provider, Compuware has spun off its awarding performance management software unit of measurement.

Users of mainframe optimization software and APM software could each do good from the carve up. The companies acting separately should be improve able to serve constituents than a monolithic unmarried entity could, say the corresponding company CEOs. APM development is evolving furiously while mainframe software development tends to proceed at a more than cautious step.

The onetime Compuware APM business unit will operate as a split company, under the name Dynatrace, the same proper noun of the APM company Compuware acquired in 2011 for for $256 million.

The APM business unit has been operating under the Dynatrace name since September when Thoma Bravo announced plans to learn Compuware for $2.5 billion in a movement to privatize the formerly publicly traded company. Thoma Bravo announced Tuesday that the conquering, and the spinoff, are complete.

The new Dynatrace also includes assets and personnel from Compuware's acquisition of Gomez for $295 million in 2009.

Chris O'Malley, formerly president of Compuware mainframe operations, is now Compuware'due south CEO. Compuware will focus entirely on providing software to optimize IBM System Z mainframe computers.

John Van Siclen, who was the general manager for the Compuware APM business organization unit, is at present CEO of Dynatrace, a position he held prior to the Compuware acquisition.

The spinoff allows Thoma Bravo to acuminate focus of the 2 businesses, wrote Charles King, head of the Pund-IT enquiry firm, in an email commutation.

"The two areas aren't mutually exclusive but they are individual enough to warrant discrete evolution and marketing efforts. Proceeding separately makes greater strategic sense than trying to walk in lockstep," King wrote.

The APM market, still fairly new, is quite competitive. APM allows businesses to monitor applications to come across how well they are working and how ofttimes they are used. APM has become pop companies increasingly worry almost the functioning of customer-facing Web applications.

Dynatrace competes not simply with innovative new APM providers such as New Relic and AppDynamics, simply established enterprise software providers that accept a manus in APM, namely, BMC, Dell, CA, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard.

As for Compuware, O'Malley hopes to reinvigorate the market for mainframe optimization software.

"The mainframe is however as relevant as ever," O'Malley said. "We're trying to raise the consciousness of the CIO to await at the mainframe not as legacy but as something that can exist evolved and advanced to give them competitive advantage."

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