[1] The company offered products aimed at the information technology (IT) departments of large businesses, and its services also included testing, development, automation and performance management software for programs running on mainframe computer systems.

Cutting established Compuware Corporation to provide clients with professional technical services.

In 1992, the company completed its initial public offering (IPO) and traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol CPWR.

[2][3] In November 2014, the company's headquarters building was sold to a joint venture of Dan Gilbert's real estate group Bedrock Real Estate and Meridian Health for $142 million and renamed One Campus Martius.

[4] In the years after that, the company experienced a period of growth and reinvention of mainframe software.