Lifeboat Distribution announced its agreement with Compuware Corporation to distribute Compuware's DevPartner, TestPartner and Optimal Trace products to Lifeboat's global network of resellers and solution providers.

Compuware Optimal Trace provides a single solution for both business requirements gathering and requirements management that enables IT and the business to collaborate more effectively, while DevPartner is designed for application development and testing teams using Microsoft Visual Studio or Java development environments, helping them debug, analyze, test and tune their applications. TestPartner is a test automation tool that provides users with functional testing capabilities to accelerate testing and enable successful application delivery outcomes. These capabilities are available for a range of platforms including packaged applications such as SAP and Oracle, as well as those based on Microsoft .NET, Java, and Web technologies. These products will be distributed as part of Lifeboat Distribution's application lifecycle management software portfolio.

"A strong channel is a critical element of our market plans for the DevPartner, TestPartner and Optimal Trace products," said Andre Limarenko, Vice President, Compuware Corporation. "Lifeboat has demonstrated its strong ability to reach an IT practitioner audience with Compuware's proven quality assurance products. We value the organization's total commitment to success for Compuware and the reseller network."

"We are delighted to partner with Compuware to bring these excellent products to our specialized solution provider channel," said Dan Jamieson, vice president and general manager, Lifeboat Distribution. "The DevPartner, TestPartner and Optimal Trace products offer outstanding business opportunity for our worldwide reseller network, as they address their customers' application lifecycle management needs."