One thing I notice as I chat with business and organizations around the world — most of their development teams don’t sit on the same continent, let alone in the same building. They have teams spread out from Dallas to Delhi, Paris to Pune, Berlin to Bangkok. Yet many organizations use tools that assume their developers are within reach of each other. Unlike yesterday’s tools designed for tiny teams in Topeka, Serena Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions are designed for today’s globally-distributed development teams.
Check out these Application Lifecycle Management Solutions:
Are you looking to bring Agile (whether Scrum or Extreme Programming (XP) or any other agile methodology) to your organization? Agile helps organizations burn through the ever-growing application and requirements backlog. With its iterative approach to software definition, build, test, and release, Agile can help you and your team deliver software that exactly mirrors your clients’ requirements. Whether you are new to agile, or a seasoned pro, Serena Agile Solutions make it simpler to effectively implement agile practices.
Application Development Management
Serena Application Development Management helps executives and managers keep tabs on the development projects within their domain. Using Application Development Management you can:
- Get the current status of every development project
- Identify which applications and projects have the most problems
- Access key software development metrics in a single place
- Quickly prepare for executive reviews
- Provide business stakeholders a self-service view into project status
We’ve found that build management is often a overlooked aspect of Application Lifecycle Management. Frequently, builds are managed through scripts and systems, making it very difficult to trace problems, maintain visibility into build status, or support evolving needs. Whether you are managing builds across distributed systems, mainframes or both, Serena can help you streamline your build and release process.
Software Change & Configuration Management (SCCM)
With our Software Change & Configuration Management solutions, you to synchronize and automate the relationships and dependencies of artifacts through all change and configuration management processes. Starting with requirements, through modeling, development, build, and testing, to deployment Serena has you covered across global sites, teams, platforms, and methodologies.
Development Process Management
Is it time to update your development management processes? Serena has created the most-requested applications that you need to manage development across teams and the various SCM repositories they use. Whether your team is spread around the world or in the same room, working with mixed methodologies or different versions of control tools, Serena’s development process management applications make it easy to manage your changes from request to release.
Check out the Development Process Management solutions:
Global Development with a Global ALM Repository
Just because your teams don’t sit on the same continent doesn’t mean they can’t use a single repository. With a single global repository, you can centralize complexity, distribute information and maintain less infrastructure — all saving you time and money. But, best of all, you get all of these benefits without losing speed. Serena’s global repository smokes the likes of IBM ClearCase and Subversion in head-to-head benchmarks.
Incident Tracking With Incident Management Software
When you want to keep your service desk running like a well-oiled machine, automating the hand-off and escalation is key. With Serena incident management software, you can make sure the service desk is updated with the issue’s status any time it changes in the development system, ensuring that everyone has the latest information.
Bug Tracking and Issue Management
Do you feel like software bugs are running your life? It is time to show them you’re the boss. Serena’s Bug Tracking and Issue Management solutions provide you with everything you need to manage all of your issues and enhancement requests.
Audit Compliance with IT Governance
Serena’s compliance and governance solutions have been a favorite of IT departments around the globe for years. Nothing makes an IT guy happier than taking audits from a several week ordeal, to just a few hours of audit bliss. (if there’s such a thing) Many of our customers use Serena to support common methodologies such as ITIL, CMMi or COBIT, and to comply with mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) or HIPAA.
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Mainframe Application Development
The mainframe is hotter than ever, and Serena is leading the charge when it comes to mainframe software development. Serena tools support XML and Web Services, providing you with unmatched extensibility and interoperability. So, whether you are using a homegrown mainframe software change and configuration management solution, or you’ve implemented a packaged offering you should find out why Gartner says, “Serena has been and remains the leaders in competitive selections for mainframe SCM.”
Software Application Release Management
If it feels as though the gap between your App Dev team and your IT Ops team is growing larger and larger, then it is time to cross the software deployment chasm. Serena release management solutions tie all your release management processes together—including processes that span multiple tools, development methodologies, or platforms–mainframe and distributed. With a unified application release management process, you save time, money, and headaches.
Requirements Management Software
We’ve all experienced this more times than we should. Something gets missed in the requirements stage which causes big headaches further down the line. Well, whether you use traditional or agile development practices, Serena makes it possible for your to see how an application will look and function before any code is ever written. Business users and analysts can visually capture their requirements as wireframes and build out high-fidelity prototypes that simulate the final application. Requirements management from Serena can help you capture the full requirements and efficiently manage them through your development process.
Testing software can be a tremendous challenge (and I am always so glad that I’m not the one doing it!) The multiple points of coordination — from different groups to different systems — make it extremely simple for things to fall through the cracks. Serena has solutions to help make the development and testing processes work like well-oiled machines. Instead of treating testing as an afterthought, Serena test management solutions incorporate test management processes into the application lifecycle, cutting costs, reducing manual work and increasing traceability.
No matter if you need version control for distributed systems, mainframe systems, or a combination of the two — Serena has version control management solutions to help ensure there is only one version of the truth. Ideal for collaborative team environments and distributed groups, Serena ensures the protection and management of all enterprise assets.
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