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Serena Software and Brigham Young University Deliver Webinar on IT Governance and Project Management Best Practices

Learn How BYU Won "Best IT Governance Structure" Award with Shortened Budget Cycles, Reduced Costs and Increased Visibility into IT Projects

SAN MATEO, Calif. — May 16, 2007 — In a Webinar that addresses the payback from investments in IT Governance, Serena Software, Inc., the leader in application lifecycle management for distributed and mainframe systems, and Brigham Young University will explain how BYU shortened its budget cycle from nine months to six weeks and reduced project management office (PMO) operating costs by 47 percent.

Using Serena® Mariner™, BYU’s project portfolio and application processes now work together to form the core of the university’s IT Governance framework, resulting in reduced costs, shortened budget cycles, and increased visibility into IT projects.

• Who: Ernie Nielsen, executive director of enterprise project management, Brigham Young University
• What: Webinar titled “The Road to IT Governance”
• When: Wednesday, May 23, 2007, at 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT/ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
• Where: Register online here

Serena Mariner Ties IT to Business Strategy
Serena Mariner is the industry’s only Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution to integrate with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) as a single offering. Serena Mariner allows companies to manage IT as an investment portfolio by defining objectives, controlling risk, and efficiently balancing resource demands.

By integrating Mariner with Serena Dimensions® and Serena TeamTrack®, Serena combines traditional PPM metrics, such as project costs and resource availability, with software development metrics, such as requirements met or defects open. This yields information that IT managers and executives can use to make better decisions, focus critical IT resources on the right projects, and manage their application portfolio like a business – from initial project proposal to application retirement.

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 software to automate the application development process and effectively manage their IT portfolio. Serena is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information on Serena software 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 © 2007 SERENA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.