Dairy Farmers of America Selects Serena to Provide Complete Enterprise Change Management Solution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2003 Solution Provides Customer with Seamless, Cross-Platform Support Across Development Environment; Enables DFA DFA - Deterministic Finite-state Automaton. See Finite State Machine. to Satisfy Stringent Audit Requirements 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 Dairy Farmers of America Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) is an agricultural marketing cooperative owned by about 19,514 members (dairy farmers) representing 11,306 farms in the United States representing one-third of the US milk supply. In 2006 it had $7,898,824,000 in sales. , Inc. (DFA), the nation's largest member-owned dairy cooperative, has selected Serena to provide a complete, cross-platform 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. DFA will be implementing several products within the Serena(R) ChangeMan(R) product family to better coordinate development processes enterprise-wide, as well as fulfill stringent audit requirements. The solution will support all of the company's mainframe, and several of its front-end applications. "We needed a full-featured change management solution that would successfully support our multi-tier, multi-platform development environment," said Cathy Elgin, Sr. Systems Analyst, Dairy Farmers of America. "Because Serena's sole focus is ECM, and its products are more mature and complete than a number of alternative offerings, we felt confident in choosing the company as our vendor." DFA's need for a change management solution was driven by the fact that future support for the product it had been using was being discontinued. DFA also wanted to implement a tighter level of control and more closely synchronize distributed and mainframe change management processes, throughout its development environment. After evaluating several competitive products, and quickly eliminating many that did not provide mainframe support, DFA chose Serena because of its comprehensive cross-platform support and the ease-of-use and flexibility of its solutions. DFA has already implemented Serena ChangeMan ZMF ZMF Zone Melting Furnace ZMF zOS Mainframe (Serena) ZMF Zero Motivation Factor , Software Change Manager for z/OS, and Serena ChangeMan ZDD ZDD Zero-Suppressed Binary Decision Diagram ZDD Zero Delay Device ZDD Zero Defects by Design ZDD Zero Divergence Directive ZDD Zoned Decimal Data , Desktop Development for z/OS and OS/390, and plans to implement Serena ChangeMan DS, Software Change Manager for Distributed Systems 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, by the end of this year. Once fully implemented, DFA will be able to manage all changes from a single point of control. As a result, the company expects to realize significant improvements in process and productivity. "With more pressure to control costs and align IT with business objectives, many companies are adopting an enterprise view to better manage the bottom-line," said Mark Woodward, President and Chief Executive Officer, SERENA Software, Inc. "Serena's ECM solutions help customers achieve this by streamlining development processes and leveraging existing IT resources. We're very pleased that DFA has selected Serena and look forward to helping the company further its ECM vision." 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 3,000 customer sites - including 46 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. Serena and ChangeMan are registered 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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