Serena Dimensions Named a Strong Performer in Independent Software Change and Configuration Management Report.Serena Dimensions is the Most Full-Featured SCCM SCCM Society of Critical Care Medicine SCCM System Center Configuration Manager (Microsoft) SCCM Standard Cubic Centimeters per Minute SCCM Software Change and Configuration Management SCCM South Carolina Columbia Mission Solution Overall; Greatest Strengths are Platform Support, Security, and Integration 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. -- A new, independent research report named Serena[R] Dimensions[R] as a Strong Performer in software change and configuration management (SCCM). "The Forrester Wave[TM]: Software Change and Configuration Management, Q2 2007," May 2007, examined Serena Software's current SCCM offerings, strategy, and market presence. Serena Dimensions earned the highest score for Current Offering. Software change and configuration management solutions permit IT organizations to manage the changes that they make to software during development and maintenance. The Forrester report by Carey Schwaber found that "Serena Dimensions CM has changed more than any other SCCM solution since our 2005 evaluation, now boasting a single repository; a better install process; completely new Eclipse, Visual Studio, and Windows Explorer See Explorer. clients; and new dashboards."1 Forrester also found that "Serena supports more integrations than many other vendors between its product and relevant categories of tools like integrated development environments See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDEs), service desk applications, and portfolio management tools."2 "Businesses are once again calling on IT to innovate, build new applications, and differentiate themselves in the marketplace," said Jeremy Burton, Serena president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Serena's recognition as a strong performer in SCCM underscores our strategy to help application development groups consolidate, standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. , and automate the processes surrounding the application lifecycle so they can produce more functionality, more quickly without compromising quality." To extend its leadership in providing application lifecycle management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. for distributed and mainframe systems, Serena recently announced Serena Mariner Mariner Any of a series of unmanned U.S. space probes sent near Venus, Mars, and Mercury. Mariners 2 (1962) and 5 (1967) passed Venus within 22,000 mi (35,000 km) and 2,500 mi (4,000 km), respectively, and made measurements of temperature and atmospheric density. [TM], the industry's first solution to integrate Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) into a single Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) offering. By integrating Mariner with Serena Dimensions and Serena TeamTrack[R], IT executives can make better decisions and manage their application portfolio like a business - from initial project proposal to application retirement. About Serena Dimensions Serena Dimensions CM is at the core of Serena Dimensions 10, a software change and configuration management solution. Dimensions CM seamlessly orchestrates application change and configuration across platforms, locations, and teams. Serena Dimensions CM integrates the disciplines of change, configuration and lifecycle management. Its platform-neutral architecture extends across UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Windows, Linux, and IBM Mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. , providing native, persona-based clients and secure, Web-based administration. It supports bi-directional integrations with leading lifecycle tools, and delivers an unparalleled ability to consolidate and standardize, thereby optimizing return on investment and reducing total cost of ownership. About Serena Software, Inc. Serena Software is the leader in Application Lifecycle Management for distributed and mainframe systems. More than 15,000 organizations around the world, including 96 of the Fortune 100, rely on Serena solutions to automate the application development process and effectively manage their IT portfolio. Serena is headquartered 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. , and has offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information on Serena solutions and services, visit www.serena.com. Serena, Dimensions and TeamTrack are registered trademarks of Serena Software, Inc. Mariner is a 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. Copyright (c) 2007 SERENA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 1 The Forrester Wave[TM]: Software Change and Configuration Management, Q2 2007, p. 16. 2 "Serena Has the Most Capable Change and Configuration Management Solution," The Forrester Wave[TM] Vendor Summary, Q2 2007, p. 2. |
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