Complete Cross-Platform Development
Serena Dimensions is a complete, cross-platform Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) application. Deemed a leader by Gartner and called “the most full-featured SCCM application” by Forrester Research, Dimensions makes you more efficient through:
- Integrated change, configuration, build, and release management across Unix, Windows, Linux, and mainframe systems.
- Transparent integration with popular IDEs.
- Industry-leading support for distributed and parallel development.
- Unparalleled performance across a WAN.
Requirements Management
When used with Dimensions RM, you can track and manage requirements from initial request to deployment—all in a single repository.
Change and Configuration Management
Dimensions' process-driven change and configuration management capabilities make it possible for your development teams to work more efficiently while providing visibility into the status and progress of development tasks.
Dimensions flexible process model makes it simple to create and maintain defined application development processes, ensuring a consistent development approach across distributed teams.
Build Management
Builds shouldn't be difficult. They shouldn't only happen when the stars are perfectly aligned. Or when your coding karma is just right. They should happen transparently, automatically, at your command.
Dimensions makes builds easy. Seamless. Transparent. Dimensions executes and manages scripts natively, or orchestrates builds in other build tools such as Serena Builder, Catalyst OpenMake, ANT, or Make. Dimensions provides:
- Configurable sets of build stages
- Open architecture allowing the use of virtually any build engine
- Integrated build scheduler
- Integrated Dimensions CM role management to control build administration and execution
- Comprehensive audit trail
Release Management
Pushing out releases can be painful. Once code is built, an application development team's work is largely done, but it's just beginning for IT operations. Often the handoff of new code from AD to IT Ops isn't effectively coordinated, leaving operations staff wondering what a new release will impact and leading to unforseen downstream impacts.
Dimensions CM makes it easy for your AD and IT Ops teams to coordinate efforts, reducing the costs associated with promoting new code to production. With visibility into exactly what has been changed in each package, operations staff can anticipate potential risks before pushing code into production.
To help automate release processes, Dimensions provides fully-audited transfer of files to any target system (such as development, QA, or production).