Serena Release Manager

Serena Release Manager - Bridging Dev and Ops

The fast-changing pace of markets requires businesses to be flexible, agile, and proactive. Increasingly, this manifests as a software challenge, because applications don't just support a business-increasingly they are the business. Development teams are racing to create new and critical applications, but they're doing so faster than operations teams can release them into production.

To release the changes into production as timely and accurately as possible, Dev and Ops teams must come together. Bridge the gap between Dev and Ops with Serena Release Manager – the only end-to-end release management solution that supports mainframe, distributed, and cloud environments.

Plan, Control, and Automate Your Releases with End-to-End Visibility

• Improve your release visibility with Serena Release Manager. Maintain a single source of truth that enables your release stakeholders to always be on the same page and never be surprised about the status of a release. Real-time release status updates are automatically sent to all stakeholders. Additionally, the Release Manager dashboard provides a visual representation of key release information, such as the number of each type of release, the status of each release, and release approvals sorted by approver.

• Increase the flow of changes to production with visibility and predictability, using existing resources. With Release Manager, you will be able to release more often, release more each time, and reduce your release windows. Release Manager facilitates handoffs throughout the release process and improves the collaboration amongst App Dev, Test, QA, Staging, DevOps, and IT Operations teams.
• Reduce downtime while you increase the number of release deployments. Using Release Manager, you will increase the repeatability of your release process; improve the production readiness of application changes; ensure that installation and configuration tasks are complete and validated; and manage application, environment and configuration dependencies.
• Simplify compliance and reduce the amount of work required to respond to audit requests. Serena Release Manager provides a release governance framework built from your release processes and policies. It provides comprehensive start-to-finish traceability, facilitates change process compliance, and ensures that all release changes are controlled and auditable.

The goal of release management is to deploy application changes into production without disrupting the business. But this process is usually performed manually and is inefficiently connected to the rest of the application lifecycle, leaving a critical gap between application development and operations as well as creating a backlog of changes that must be made. In addition to the risk of lost revenue and damaged business reputation, the software release management process often wastes millions of dollars in staff time struggling to remove the bottlenecks.

By automating release management, you can maintain software integrity and reduce costs and risk. Control your changes, improve business availability, simplify software audits, and free up staff time. Get rid of the bottleneck and dramatically boost your competitive edge.

Watch below to see the new Serena Release Manager solution in action.

4-minute Demo and Q&A of Serena Release Manager

Serena Release Control Powered by SBM

Effective application release management begins with planning and ends with a successful deployment. With Serena Release Control, you can plan, control, and automate your release processes for both mainframe and distributed systems from definition to deployment with a visual release calendar and automated approval process.

Serena Release Automation Powered by Nolio

Dramatically improve the reliability, quality, and speed of application releases, maintenance, and management. Serena Release Automation facilitates multi-tier application deployment across datacenters.

Serena Release Vault

Serena Release Vault serves to prevent unauthorized changes, maintains the integrity of deployment areas, provides role-based promotion, deployment and rollback and ensures complete traceability and transparency. Release Vault provides a secure path to production for code from all of your development environments.

Products and Solutions

Serena Release Manager
Serena Release Automation Powered by Nolio
Serena Release Control Powered by SBM
Serena Release Vault

• Serena ChangeMan ZMF
• Serena Dimensions CM

Documentation

Articles:

• Database Trends and Applications: Serena Software Launches End-to-End Release Management Solution
• IBM Systems Magazine: Serena Unveils Release Management, Development Solutions
• TechWorld: Serena Release Management Solution Refreshed

Blog:

• Driving Application Release Agility by Ash Owen, Serena Software

Datasheet:

• Serena Release Manager

Press Release:

• Serena Software Launches New End-to-End Release Management Solution

Video

• Serena Release Manager Demo and Q&A with Jerry Gergel
• Orchestrating App Delivery with Ash Owen

 

Products

• Overview
• Serena Dashboard
• Serena Development Manager
• Serena Release Manager
  • Release Automation
  • Release Control
  • Release Vault
• Serena Request Center
• Serena Service Manager
• Mainframe
• Agile Planner
• Dimensions CM
• Dimensions RM
• PPM
• Prototype Composer
• PVCS Pro
• PVCS VM
• SBM