Serena Software - Agile on Demand

January 2011 | 18 pages | ID: S1D02CE1B4FEN
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Abstracts

Introduction

Serena has returned to its roots emphasizing its ALM tools.

Features and benefits

• Serena uses an orchestraiton backbone to drive ALM from a process focus.
• Serena offers mainframe and distributed platform tools.
• Serena Release Automation breaks new ground in managing the physical provisioning of software installation.

Highlights

This report describes and analyzes Serena's ALM suite.Over the past year, Serena has reaffirmed its direction as a provider of tools supporting ALM lifecycle processesSerena Business Manager (SBM) is the backbone tying together its development tooling. Besides providing a process management and integration framework, it also provides common dashboards and audit trails tracking the development lifecycle.

Your key questions answered

• What is Serena's ALM Suite?
• How does it compete with rivals such as IBM Rational, HP, MKS, and others.
• How does Serena offer a process-focused approach to managing the application lifecycle?

Contents

SUMMARY

Catalyst
Key findings
Ovum view
  Recommendations

FUNCTIONALITY

Solution overview
Solution analysis
  Integration framework
  Demand Management
  Development Management
  Release Management

PRODUCT STRATEGY

Market opportunity
  Agile methodology support
  Cloud
  Mobile
  Security testing
  Embedded software development
  DevOps
Go to market strategy
  Licensing
Rivals

IMPLEMENTATION

Deployment examples
  Media company
  Global financial institution

APPENDIX

Further reading
Methodology
Author
Ovum Consulting
Disclaimer