Get Release Management Working. Across Platforms, Teams & Continents.
Looking to get your name on your CEO's radar? Unplanned downtime is guaranteed to make
that happen. When a system goes down, your business loses money by the second. And your
neck is on the line. But you're stuck with shrinking staff, diminished budget, and
applications that seem to be getting more complex by the second. Everything is
interconnected. What are you to do?
We can help. Serena Application Release Management is a revolutionary product that manages the release management process--from the initial change request through production release. Need to capture RFCs? It does that. Need to track hand-offs between development groups? Check. Need to coordinate release processes across distributed and mainframe systems? No problem. Application Release Management helps you lower costs, gain efficiency and reliability, and stay compliant.
Lower Costs. Put an End to Unplanned Downtime.
Most unplanned downtime events aren't caused by catastrophic hardware failure, sudden tsunamis, or invasion by space monkeys. Most are caused by something a lot less boring. Gartner estimates that 80% of unplanned downtime is due to issues with people and processes. Plain and simple: it's a problem of coordination. We help you fix that. No more coordination problems. No more worrying about stupid mistakes leading to application failures.
Application Release Management makes it easy to coordinate release processes. It helps you ensure that people are kept up to date on upcoming changes. It manages approvals and tracks sign-offs. Using open, Web Services-based interfaces, it coordinates release activities across all your different development systems. Instead of relying on manual processes and individual heroics, you can implement a repeatable, reliable process—saving you headaches, and a whole lot of money.
Gain Efficiency and Reliability. Be One Lean Mean Release Team.
Effective release management requires that development, testing, data center ops, and many other groups work together. It requires planning, coordination, and communication. It's a daunting task by any measure - made even more complex given your teams are spread across the globe. Our process-based approach to release management makes it simple to get all your teams - no matter where they are - working together as one lean, mean release team.
Application Release Management ships with an easily-changed release process that is based on ITIL best practices. (Tweaking the process is as simple as drag-and-drop.) It lets key stakeholders - whether they be in the business, IT Operations, or anywhere else - take an active part in deploying code. Through a simple, browser-based interface they can approve changes, run reports, and view real-time project status.
Using Web Services, Application Release Management talks to SCM systems such as ChangeMan ZMF (yes, it even works with the mainframe), Dimensions CM, or Subversion. So, say goodbye to the all-nighters you have to pull during every change window. Application Release Management supports installing code to different sites at different times in different orders all based on your processes and business needs. And all of this is done from a web browser, meaning your release managers don't need to understand the ins and outs of your development systems to make releases happen.
Stay Compliant. Prison Orange Isn't Your Color.
Whether you have to comply with government regulations like SOX and HIPAA or best practices like CMMi or ITIL, you need visibility and traceability. You have to know who did what and when. You have to collect approvals every step of the way. And you have to be ready to prove it at the drop of a hat. It's not exactly fun, but when the alternative is an orange jumpsuit, what do you do?
We can't promise we'll make compliance fun. But we can promise we'll make it much easier. We're maniacal about tracking changes. Every action, every approval, every transition—it's all logged in a single place. Our built-in reports and dashboards make it easy for you to track and report on compliance metrics. No more piecing together data from five different systems to answer a simple question. It's all there, in a single place, just waiting to help you dazzle the auditors.