Mainframe Application Development
- # Outgrowing your change management software?
- # Sick of Endevor?
- # Need to automate release management?
Test drive the top mainframe application development solution.
Serena provides the industry's leading mainframe software change and configuration management solution. Whether you use a homegrown mainframe software change management solution or you've implemented a packaged offering like CA Endevor, check out why Gartner says, "Serena has been and remains the leader in competitive selections for mainframe SCM."
Modernizing Mainframe Application Development
Serena is leading the charge when it comes to mainframe development. Serena tools support XML and Web Services, providing unmatched extensibility and interoperability. Plus, you can work in your preferred environment with Windows support and an Eclipse plugin.
We made the mainframe cool again. With technologies like XML and Web Services you now have access to modern extensibility on the mainframe, including a set of Application Release Management capabilities that provide a complete set of XML services at the package and component level. Plus, you work in your preferred environment with Windows support and an Eclipse plug-in.
Mainframe Meet Mainstream
Beyond rock-solid software change and configuration management capabilities, Serena's mainframe products make it easy to manage development projects that cross development teams and systems. With browser-based views into your mainframe development projects, you can let project stakeholders track development status, or developers approve builds from any authenticated, web-connected system.
We bring the mainframe to Main Street. With Application Release Management (ARM) we introduce a revolutionary solution for mainframe software development. By combining ChangeMan ZMF, the most advanced SCCM application for the mainframe, with innovative workflow capabilities you get a powerful, efficient way of managing application releases, from change request through production deployment.
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Cross Platform Application Development
Serena has helped manage change for over 27 years, and we realize mainframes aren't an island. Rather they need to work together with your distributed systems too. Serena allows you to integrate mainframe application development with your distributed change management applications and processes. If you need to integrate the rigor of your mainframe software change management to the rest of your application development world, check out our other Application Lifecycle Management offerings.
No one provides better mainframe software change and configuration than Serena, which enables:
Better Team Development
A superior approach to change and configuration management with private developer work areas, ensuring no accidental over-writes and lost code.
Parallel and Concurrent Support
Unmatched parallel and concurrent development support including audit capabilities that prevent regression and out-of-sync issues that typically occur during concurrent development.
Open Deployment
Better application deployment by providing an open deployment model. ZMF uses the ISPF standard whereas products like CA Change Manager rely on a proprietary library management system and its own built-in language.
More Bang for Your Buck
Serena ChangeMan ZMF costs less with 2x to 5x lower administration costs and 75% lower CPU requirements than other tools like CA Endevor.