Exhibit 99.1

            Compuware Realigns Certain Product Development Activities
   Centralization to Reduce Costs, Increase Technical Synergy and Integration

DETROIT, June 11  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR)
today announced the realignment  and  centralization  of a number of its product
development activities. This action will reduce the company's operating costs by
approximately   $25  million  annually  and  will  eliminate  the  positions  of
approximately 245 employees. Specifically, the company plans to:

- -     Transition  development of its DevPartner  product family from  Merrimack,
      New Hampshire to its Detroit  headquarters.  The company will maintain its
      sales presence in Merrimack.

- -     Transition development of its ApplicationVantage product from San Diego to
      its Gdansk,  Poland  facility,  where the company develops a number of its
      other Vantage  products.  The company will maintain its sales  presence in
      San Diego.

- -     Transition  development  of its  OptimalJ  product  from  Amsterdam to its
      Detroit  headquarters.  Compuware  will  continue  to develop  its Uniface
      product  family  in  Amsterdam,  where it will  also  maintain  its  sales
      presence.

"Compuware will continue to enhance and invest in these  products,  particularly
in  strategic  solutions  such  as  ApplicationVantage,  DevPartner  Studio  and
Uniface,"  said  Compuware  Chief  Information  Officer Chris  Bockhausen.  "The
company has planned  very  carefully to ensure that it maintains a high level of
service and  technical  support for all of its  customers  during and after this
transition."

Through  this  realignment,  Compuware  and  its  customers  will  benefit  from
increased  technical  synergy and  integration as the company  consolidates  its
application network performance expertise in Gdansk and its application delivery
and application quality expertise in Detroit.  This centralization will create a
critical  mass of talented and  experienced  developers,  architects,  technical
communicators and business leaders to move these solutions forward.

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
Lisa Elkin, Vice President, Compuware Communications and Investor
Relations, lisa.elkin@compuware.com, 313-227-7345

Certain  statements  in this release that are not  historical  facts,  including
those regarding the Company's future plans, objectives and expected performance,
are  "forward-looking  statements"  within the meaning of the federal securities
laws. These forward-looking statements represent our outlook only as of the date



of this release.  While we believe any forward- looking  statements we have made
are reasonable,  actual results could differ materially since the statements are
based on our current  expectations  and are subject to risks and  uncertainties.
These risks and  uncertainties are discussed in the Company's reports filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Readers are cautioned to consider these
factors when relying on such forward-looking  information.  The Company does not
undertake,  and  expressly  disclaims  any  obligation,  to  update or alter its
forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise, except as required by applicable law.

SOURCE Compuware Corporation

CONTACT:  Lisa Elkin,  Vice  President,  Compuware  Communications  and Investor
Relations of Compuware Corporation, +1-313-227-7345, lisa.elkin@compuware.com


"Safe Harbor"  Statement under the Private  Securities  Litigation Reform Act of
1995:  Statements  in  this  press  release  regarding  Compuware  Corporation's
business which are not historical  facts are  "forward-looking  statements" that
involve   risks  and   uncertainties.   For  a  discussion  of  such  risks  and
uncertainties,  which could cause actual results to differ from those  contained
in the  forward-looking  statements,  see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual
Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.