February 7, 2006

Covisint, a subsidiary of Compuware Corp. announced last week that General Motors has awarded it a new contract to support B2B supply chain collaboration for more than 18,000 production and non-production suppliers.

As part of GM's 2006 IT re-sourcing initiative, the car maker has selected Covisint as a Tier 1 IT service provider, extending Covisint's proven B2B messaging and integration services capabilities to GM's European, Asia-Pacific and Latin American suppliers.

"Extending our relationship with Covisint will assist General Motors in our efforts to drive innovation, globalization and digitization," said Ralph Szygenda, CIO and Group Vice President of General Motors. "Covisint will continue to be a strategic IT partner for GM based on a track record for excellence and their ability to deliver technology solutions that support GM's global operations."

Covisint's Business Now (sm) environment connects and integrates disparate business systems and technologies, improving collaboration and reducing costs across the supply chain.

As a core component of the Business Now (sm) environment, Covisint's messaging service delivers secure, reliable business- to-business information exchange and process visibility helping GM and its suppliers to be more efficient and responsive to changing market needs.

"We are extremely pleased that GM selected Covisint as a strategic technology partner," said Bob Paul, President and COO of Compuware Covisint. "This is a perfect example of Covisint's ability to create competitive advantage by combining operational excellence with a single, global environment for real-time information sharing and supply chain visibility.

Leveraging our success in North America, we're enabling GM to take supply chain integration and collaboration to a new level in Europe, Asia and Latin America."

Transition and integration efforts for GM's European, Asian and Latin American supply base will span a five-month period, beginning in the first half of 2006.

Source: Covisint