Serena Delivers New Release of Application Performance Monitor.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2002 Serena StarTool APM (Advanced Power Management) A programming interface (API) from Intel and Microsoft for battery-powered computers that lets programs communicate power requirements to slow down and speed up components. See ACPI. APM - Advanced Power Management 3.2 Provides Robust Functionality and Major Enhancements to Help Improve Application Performance and Broaden Customer Appeal SERENA Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:SRNA sRNA abbr. soluble RNA ), an industry-leading supplier of software that automates change to enterprise code and content, today announced the general availability of Serena(TM) StarTool(R) APM 3.2, the latest version of the company's Application Performance Manager. The new release provides several feature and functionality enhancements that boost productivity and improve application performance throughout development and production environments. Support for CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without transaction monitoring, native PL/I (Programming Language 1) A high-level IBM programming language introduced in 1964 with the System/360 series. It was designed to combine features of and eventually supplant COBOL and FORTRAN, which never happened. compiler language See high-level language and compiler. , and increased concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking are delivered in this release. With these latest enhancements, development teams are able to resolve a wider range of application performance problems more efficiently to better meet stringent business requirements. "Now more than ever, it is imperative that companies align IT with business objectives and consistently track and evaluate the performance of applications that have significant impact on the bottom-line," said Carl Greiner, Vice President and Director of Enterprise Data Center Strategies, at META Group. "Solutions which improve application performance and response time are invaluable in helping to create a favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. impact." Serena StarTool APM 3.2 extends its monitoring capabilities by now providing CICS transaction monitoring, allowing customers to quickly detect and resolve transaction performance problems using the CICS feature. Version 3.2 also delivers extended programming language support with support for native PL/I, providing the ability to drill down to the PL/I source code statement. Additionally, customers can now run multiple copies of Serena StarTool APM simultaneously, extending the product's ease-of-use to additional members of the development team. All of these feature and functionality enhancements increase the robustness of the product and enable customers to improve overall productivity and application performance. Serena StarTool APM, Application Performance Manager, is a performance measurement and analysis system that helps to resolve OS/390 and z/OS job performance issues, providing vital statistics on any job -- an application, subsystem A unit or device that is part of a larger system. For example, a disk subsystem is a part of a computer system. A bus is a part of the computer. A subsystem usually refers to hardware, but it may be used to describe software. or task, that warrants monitoring. By employing Serena StarTool APM, users can focus their activities on tuning specific areas of an application to boost productivity, as well as optimally meet current business challenges and demands. The product is part of the Serena StarTool product family, which provides a full set of solutions that address fault diagnostics, file and data management, and application performance monitoring. The suite automates the most common programming and diagnostic tasks to improve the availability of mission-critical business applications on the z/OS and OS/390 platforms. "Many of our large customers have requested this functionality," said Mark Woodward, President and Chief Executive Officer, SERENA Software, Inc. "With this release, we expand our reach into the application performance management market and further enhance the value of our offering, making it even more attractive than higher priced alternatives." Availability Serena StarTool APM 3.2 is immediately available. About Serena SERENA Software, Inc. is the 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. ) 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. Note to Editors: Serena is a trademark of SERENA Software, Inc. StarTool is a registered trademark 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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