Compuware Corporation was an American software company based in Detroit, Michigan. The company offered products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also included testing, development, automation and performance management software for programs running on mainframe computer systems. History In 1973, Peter Karmanos Jr., Thomas Thewes, and Allen B. Cutting established Compuware Corporation to provide clients with professional technical services. By 1978, Compuware opened its first remote office to service the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore area. In 1992, Compuware completed its initial public offering (IPO) and traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CPWR. At the end of 1998, Compuware surpassed the US$1 billion revenue mark. In 2003, Compuware relocated their headquarters from Farmington Hills, Michigan to a new headquarters building in downtown Detroit. In November 2014, the company's headquarters building was sold to a joint venture of Dan Gilbert's real estate group Bedrock Real Estate and Meridian Health for $142 million, and renamed One Campus Martius. Later that year in December, Compuware was acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo for approximately $2.5 billion, becoming a privately held company. In the years that followed, the company experienced a period of growth and reinvention of mainframe software. In March 2020, Compuware was acquired by BMC Software for $2 billion. Compuware ceased to exist as a company, but all Compuware products remain available under the name BMC Compuware, and BMC maintains Compuware's former office in Detroit. In October 2022, it was announced that BMC's Detroit office will be moving back to the suburbs, relocating from One Campus Martius downtown to the Southfield Town Center in nearby Southfield. Operations Integrations and Partnerships Since 2014, Compuware (later BMC Compuware) has forged multiple integrations and partnerships. AppDynamics Amazon Web Services Atlassian JIRA ASG CloudBees Dynatrace Elastic Jenkins Parasoft SonarSource Splunk Syncsort XebiaLabs Compuware Acquisitions Compuware made the following acquisitions after going private in 2014, through its acquisition by BMC in 2020: ISPW in January 2016 Itgrations in October 2016 Standard ware in December 2016 MVS Solutions in January 2017 XATester in July 2018 INNOVATION Data Processing in January 2020 Products All Compuware products remain available under the BMC Compuware product line. Abend-AID - Mainframe application failure resolution Application Audit – Monitors and records all user behavior data to maintain security compliance for mainframe applications COPE - IMS virtualization to deploy multiple virtual IMS development or testing environments File-AID