New Serena Release Enhances Development and Operations

By Gary Crittenden

Introduction

In early 2014, the Bay Area mid-market private investment firm HGGC, LLC, completed its acquisition of Serena Software Inc., adding to its growing technology portfolio. Serena serves thousands of clients at the point where information technology and development of applications intersect. Established in 1980, Serena assists its client businesses in achieving new levels of productivity and profitability through enhanced processing speed, operational quality, and reliability.

Serena

Serena enhances development and operations for clients in multiple sectors, including finance, retail, health care, government, communications, and nonprofit. Using Serena Software enables these clients to maintain systems visibility and control more successfully while automating deployment in a strategic manner.

Serena Release Manager v5

With the announcement of its new Serena Release Manager v5 in late 2013, Serena Software boosted the effectiveness of the products that it had previously offered its clients. Vendors in the development-operations movement have traditionally stressed communication and collaboration, but Serena has taken that methodology several steps further. The San Mateo, California, company has gone beyond a focus on automation to concentrate on integrating people- and measurement-centered design into Serena Release Manager 5.

Conclusion

Serena’s newest version offers individually tailored best-practice release processes, enhanced real-time views of the complete lifecycle of a release, the elimination of manual deployment through automating turnover, and improved management of physical and virtual release environments.