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Serena Among First to Receive Ready for Websphere Studio Validation by IBMValidation with the WebSphere Platform Enhances Company's Total Enterprise Change Management Offering, Enables Customers to Accelerate Next-Generation DevelopmentIBM developerWorks Live!, San Francisco, CA - (May 7, 2002) - SERENA Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRNA), an industry-leading supplier of software that automates change to enterprise code and content, today announced that Serena™ ChangeMan™ DS, Software Change Manager for Distributed Systems, has been validated in the Ready for WebSphere* Studio Software program from IBM. As one of the first software companies to meet the stringent functionality and business requirements necessary to receive this validation, Serena provides customers with a complete, high quality Enterprise Change Management (ECM) solution that complements and extends the WebSphere Studio family to accelerate next-generation development and maximize business benefits. "We are pleased that Serena has selected IBM WebSphere software as a foundation for their ChangeMan solution," said Bernie Spang, Director of Marketing for WebSphere Studio Development Tools for IBM. "The industry continues to demand total solutions for building faster and better e-business applications. By enabling Serena ChangeMan to work closely with IBM WebSphere, Serena is helping businesses build sophisticated e-business solutions." With direct validation in WebSphere Studio, Serena ChangeMan DS provides WebSphere developers with one of the most robust change management offerings to increase application quality, secure valuable software assets and speed time to market. Because the IBM Ready for WebSphere software program is exclusive to commercial members of PartnerWorld for Developers who meet specific, clearly defined, integration criteria, customers are assured that Serena ChangeMan DS delivers advanced functionality, as well as complete compatibility with WebSphere Studio. This validation enables customers to save time spent in the product evaluation and selection process. As an Advanced Business Partner, Serena works closely with IBM to leverage the latest technology and provide seamless solutions that meet the growing needs of its common customer base. Serena provides software change management support for all of IBM's major platforms. Serena ChangeMan DS gives organizations a proven solution to manage the frequent changes involved in building, deploying and maintaining software to secure business success. The product provides native support across multiple platforms including Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP), UNIX (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, OS/390 USS, SCO UNIX and Linux), MPE/iX, and OS/400. The Serena ChangeMan product family gives customers a single point of control to manage the development process for complex enterprise applications with components running across multiple platforms from the mainframe to the Web. "We're pleased to extend our relationship with, and be among the first companies recognized by, IBM in delivering a flexible, high-powered architecture that yields advanced functionality and business benefits," said Tony Stayner, vice president of marketing, SERENA Software, Inc. "This new level of validation allows us to broaden our market reach and further demonstrates our commitment in supporting IBM's WebSphere framework to provide customers with the most robust ECM capabilities to overcome current business challenges and capitalize on future opportunities." |
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