DETROIT – Compuware Corp., Michigan?s largest pure play IT company, announced Wednesday that it plans to move its mainframe support business to a separate company that will operate under the Compuware name.
Chris O?Malley will be the president of the new Compuware. O?Malley was named president of Mainframe Operations in July. Prior to joining Compuware, O’Malley was the CEO of VelociData, a provider of leading-edge Big Data solutions.
Compuware said it will operate the APM business under the name Dynatrace. Compuware entered that market in 2005 with the acquisition of Massachusetts-based Adlex Inc. and has continued to acquire companies in that space since then, including buying Massachusetts-based dynaTrace Software Inc. in 2011.
The restructuring, however, remains in limbo pending the closing of the sale of the IT services company to Thoma Bravo LLC, a San Francisco private equity company. The pending $2.5 billion sale was announced Sept. 2.
Mary McCarthy, public relations manager for Compuware mainframe’s business, told Crain?s Detroit it is too early to say how many of Compuware?s more than 3,000 employees worldwide or the 830 in the downtown Detroit headquarters will join the new company.
