21st Century Selects Serena to Provide Complete Enterprise Change Management Solution; Software Will Help Stabilize Development Environment and Increase Overall Efficiency.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2002 SERENA SERENA Steam Explosion Resolution for Nuclear Applications Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:SRNA sRNA abbr. soluble RNA ), an industry-leading supplier of software that automates change to enterprise code and content, today announced that 21st Century Insurance has selected Serena to provide a fully automated and complete enterprise change management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) solution. 21st Century will be implementing several products within the Serena(TM) ChangeMan(TM) Product Family to automate and standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. its change management processes across its multi-tier, cross-platform development environment. The solution will enable 21st Century to continue to provide its customers with uninterrupted service and immediate response time on front-end, Web-facing applications, as well as increased efficiency throughout its own enterprise. "Providing an around-the-clock, positive and efficient user experience for our customers is essential," said Chong Ha, assistant vice president of enterprise technology, 21st Century Insurance. "Serena offers an enterprise-wide solution that will supply this type of coverage, allowing us to provide the most competitive service possible." 21st Century Insurance, the ninth largest personal auto stock company in the U.S., required a comprehensive change management solution to drive standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. processes throughout its development environment. After reviewing several competitive change management products, 21st Century chose Serena because it offered a complete, integrated solution that addressed these issues and could fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. the company-wide initiative to automate as many IT functions as possible. 21st Century is implementing Serena ChangeMan ZMF ZMF Zone Melting Furnace ZMF zOS Mainframe (Serena) ZMF Zero Motivation Factor , Application Change Manager for Mainframe Systems, Serena ChangeMan DS, Application Change Manager for Distributed Systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , Serena ChangeMan ALM, Application Life Cycle Manager and Serena ChangeMan ECP (Enhanced Capabilities Port) See IEEE 1284. 1. ECP - Engineering Change Proposal. 2. ECP - Enhanced Capabilities Port. 3. ECP - Extended Capabilities Port. 4. ECP - Extended Concurrent Prolog. , Enterprise Change Portal. With these systems in place, 21st Century will be able to track and back out of any unwanted changes, as well as ensure the security and availability of its software assets. This will allow 21st Century to provide better support and services to its customers through minimized outages and improved response time. "With increasing pressure to maximize efficiency and demonstrate business value, organizations require scaleable solutions that achieve bottom line objectives," said Mark Woodward, president and chief executive officer, SERENA Software, Inc. "We're pleased to partner with industry leaders like 21st Century to help improve change management processes across the enterprise for increased application uptime, higher quality software and business continuity assurance." About Serena SERENA Software, Inc. is the Enterprise Change Management (ECM) industry leader. For over twenty years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. Serena has focused exclusively on providing application change management solutions to the world's leading enterprises, and today its products are in use at over 2,750 customer sites -- including 42 of the Fortune 50. Serena leads the way in ECM by providing a single point of control to manage software code and Web content changes throughout the enterprise, from the mainframe to the Web. This ensures application availability and speeds time to market -- while reducing development costs. With headquarters in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , Serena serves customers worldwide through local offices and an international network of distributors. www.serena.com. About 21st Century Founded in 1958, 21st Century Insurance is a pioneer of the direct-to-consumer marketing of personal automobile insurance, serving customers in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. The company provides full service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year at 1-800-211-SAVE and its company website, www.i21.com. 21st Century insures over 1.1 million vehicles in California, holds an A+ (Superior) financial rating from A.M. Best, the world's oldest independent insurance rating and information service, and an A+ from Standard and Poors. Note to Editors: Serena and ChangeMan are trademarks of SERENA Software, Inc. All other products or company names are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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