Compuware Corporation has launched a major release of its project portfolio management (PPM) and professional services automation solution.

Changepoint 2010 offers new support for mobile devices such as the Blackberry and iPhone while also providing enhanced support for team collaboration, executive decision making and other customer-sponsored usability enhancements.

The new mobile support enables remote functionality such as time entry, the ability to access and update assigned tasks and participate in workflow-driven approval cycles.

The 2010 release now offers an embedded screen capture utility to enable better analysis and faster resolution of support issues. It also delivers enhanced support for templates associated with specific request-based business objectives.

Changepoint's team folders facilitate collaboration between distributed, cross-functional technology teams including customers, sub-contractors and industry partners. In the
2010 release, Changepoint makes team participation more dynamic by making team folders more universally accessible to all Changepoint users, including third-party users via client portals.

Improved search functionality also allows users to conduct quick or advanced search on a folder's contents and attachments. Collaboration moves from the general to the specific with the ability to leverage Changepoint team folders tied to a specific project, application or client. And, there is a new ability to directly launch URLs from within a team folder, which enables users to easily access external applications or collaboration sites.

"Compuware Changepoint continues to improve the user experience -- providing today's distributed, mobile technology workforce with greater value while also serving growing project management demands and more sophisticated professional service functions," said Steve Jobson, Vice President, Compuware ANZ and Japan.