An HGGC portfolio company, Serena Software Inc. develops release management solutions for the world’s leading companies. The majority of Fortune 100 companies depend on Serena for their application lifecycle management needs. Recently, the company announced Dimensions CM 14, a premier software change and configuration management product. Serena relied on 150 of its existing customers to provide feedback during preview, special interest, and beta stages in order to produce a product tailored to the needs of today’s companies.

Dimensions CM 14 introduces a new visual user interface, Pulse, that provides direct, illustrated insight into the development process. By visualizing change and code branches across several projects in different locations, teams can streamline their efforts. A new, web-based collaborative peer review capability makes this process even easier. Developers thrive on collaboration, and Serena’s new product offers more ways than ever for developers to share their ideas and communicate about the progress of projects no matter where they are in the world.

Other key features of the new release

include a secure local cache to speed up

access to files and delta file transfers that

enhance network performance by

transferring only changed sections of text

and binary files.