Compuware Corp. (CPWR) yesterday announced that it will acquire privately-held Gomez Inc. for $295 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be completed by November and dilute fiscal 2010 EPS due to an amortization charge of $5 million per quarter. Management expects to see a positive impact on 2011 results.   Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, Compuware provides software products and professional services to many of the largest users of information systems in the world. Headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts, Gomez is a leader in web application experience management and its clients include Google and Facebook. Gomez employs 272 people around the world. Compuware plans to retain all of them after the close of the transaction.   Compuware as well as Gomex provides unified application performance management solution. Management added that while other players have fragmented solutions, only Compuware and Gomez can optimize application performance across the enterprise and ...

Compuware Corporation (CPWR) yesterday reported revenues of $214.4 million for the first quarter ended June 30, 2009, down 28% year over year and falling short of the consensus estimate of $217.8 million. CPWR provides software products and professional services to many of the large users of information systems around the world. It serves more than 70% of the Fortune 500 companies and has over 23,000 customers spread across many industries worldwide. GAAP EPS came in at $0.21 while non-GAAP EPS (excluding restructuring charges) came in at $0.22 beating consensus estimate of $0.13 due to strong performance by the business service delivery strategy. The divestiture of Quality Solutions fetched gains of $52.4 million. Management stated that software license fees exceeded expectations. Software license fees came in at $40.5 million compared to $61.4 million in the year-ago quarter. Maintenance fees were ...

Anyone putting money at risk in financial markets needs a system.  It can be very complex or as simple as buying an index fund or a collection of ETF’s.  Whatever the method there should be some consistent and rational basis