Application Lifecycle Management for the Enterprise

Application development in large enterprise environments is more challenging than ever before. At the same time, new opportunities are emerging everywhere. Today, leading companies around the globe are addressing the resurgence of application development by successfully deploying new technologies and practices to realize improved efficiencies and deliver greater value. Innovation is once again the key to success.

Capitalizing on the Opportunity

To realize the full value from your application development efforts, you must master the challenges of:

• Delivering projects on schedule
• Managing globally distributed development teams
• Developing and deploying across multiple hardware and software platforms
• Employing best practice methodologies
• Leveraging SOA and open source technologies Serena solutions give you the means to do this.

Serena is the leading provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) software and services for large enterprises. Our solutions synchronize and automate the relationships and dependencies among development steps—from requirements, through modeling, development, build, and testing, to deployment—across global sites, teams, platforms, and methodologies. Our ALM solutions further provide IT with the strategic decision and collaboration capabilities that are decisive for speed-to-market.

Serena enables a modular approach, helping IT dramatically improve project outcomes based on their unique situations and needs. The essential solution areas of Serena ALM include:

• Fully-integrated, process-centric application development. Serena Dimensions 10 automates the full lifecycle, and enables visibility and traceability from beginning to end. Importantly, it integrates requirements with configuration management based on a single repository, a key to delivering business-changing software. Learn more about Serena Dimensions»
• Integrated project and portfolio management. Serena Mariner lets IT identify priority projects and allocate the right resources at the right time. Learn more about Serena Mariner»
• Outstanding cross-team collaboration. With Serena Business Mashups, the industry's leading IT process management capability, distributed or global development teams can easily and completely synchronize communication and collaboration. Learn more about Serena Business Mashups »

Finally, Serena is the only company providing both a single-vendor and multi-vendor platform solution. While other companies pursue integration efforts only through their own proprietary platforms, Serena is maximizing collaboration, true openness, and tool interoperability through the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF)».