Release Management for Application Development
Application development is evolving, and application delivery must evolve to keep up with the influx of application changes and new application development. Application development teams are confronted with a growing demand from the business for changes to existing applications and the development of new applications. These changes represent business service enhancements that drive new revenue; in essence, Apps = Cash. Agile development needs agile delivery and continuous delivery. DevOps is moving application development teams closer to Quality Assurance (QA) and IT Operations teams as the entire application development and delivery processes become orchestrated.
Award-winning Solutions for Release Management and IT Operations
Serena’s award-winning solutions for Release Management and IT Operations help organizations streamline the entire process for capturing, routing, and fulfilling requests for application changes and IT services and strengthen the DevOps bridge read now about Pink Elephant's ITIL Innovation of the Year. Included are integrated solutions for IT Service Management, Serena Service Manager, and Application Release Management, Serena Release Manager.
Effective application release management promises many benefits to the application development teams and to the business. Among the app dev benefits delivered by the Serena release management solutions are releasing apps into production faster, end-to-end release visibility, having a visual release calendar for all upcoming release trains, and improved collaboration with IT Operations.

Plan, Control, and Automate the Release Process
Effective application release management begins with planning. 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.
Automate Release Deployment Tasks
Dramatically improve the reliability, quality, and speed of application releases, maintenance, and management. Serena Release Automation facilitates multi-tier application deployment across datacenters. You can now centrally manage application releases in minutes, instead of days or hours.
Secure Path to Production
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.
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