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Serena Software Delivers Change Governance Solution for Mainframe Application Lifecycle Management

Serena ChangeMan ZMF Version 5.6 Helps Control Software Changes Across the Enterprise

SAN MATEO, Calif. — Oct. 30, 2006 — Serena Software, Inc., the Change Governance™ leader, today unveiled Serena® ChangeMan® ZMF version 5.6, the company’s comprehensive and fully integrated solution for controlling software change across mainframe environments.  Designed for IT organizations with mainframe development and maintenance activities, ChangeMan ZMF reduces costs and minimizes risks associated with software changes and enhances the quality of delivered applications.  ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 provides superior ease of use, extended application lifecycle support, and broad team collaboration, enabling IT organizations to deliver more strategic value to the business. 

“Serena is unique in its ability to offer Change Governance solutions across multiple platforms, including distributed, mainframe, and Web,” said Matt DiMaria, VP of worldwide marketing, Serena.  “With today’s news, we are modernizing proven tools to allow our mainframe customers to visualize the impact of proposed changes before they happen, orchestrate a seamless response to change events, and enforce the adoption of change policies and processes to achieve enterprise-wide consistency, security and compliance.  With 25 years of mainframe expertise, Serena helps companies transform change into a business advantage.”

About Serena ChangeMan ZMF 5.6
With ChangeMan ZMF, Serena is advancing the mainframe industry’s migration toward modern user interfaces and programming paradigms.  ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 enhances the ease of use and productivity of its tools by adding integrated support for IBM WebSphere Developer for z/Series (WD4Z).  Now, developers using this integrated developer environment (IDE) will be able to take advantage of the power and flexibility of ChangeMan ZMF without ever leaving the WebSphere IDE.  In addition, the ease of use has been improved through enhancements in the ChangeMan ZMF Windows Explorer interface.  Developers working on mainframe applications can do so from their Windows environment with the same capabilities as they have within ISPF (Interactive System Productivity Facility).

ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 exposes its API through Web services, making it the first mainframe tool to be enabled to the Eclipse Foundation’s Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) and it also exposes ALF-compliant events through the new log-based notification mechanism.  This technology is used to alert Serena TeamTrack® of activities, such as create package and promotion events, and is used by the TeamTrack for ChangeMan ZMF solution version 6.6.1.  The integration of ChangeMan ZMF with Serena TeamTrack brings the Web-based process modeling and enforcement of TeamTrack to the mainframe.

In addition to new cutting edge user interfaces, ChangeMan ZMF provides a number of important enhancements requested by customers to improve lifecycle support, manageability, traceability and auditability.

Availability

Serena ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 is available now worldwide direct from Serena and from authorized partners.  Interested parties should contact Serena at 1-800-547-7827 or www.serena.com.

Serena Change Governance Strategy
As a leader focused on managing change for over 25 years, Serena offers a new approach to change – Change Governance, which transcends the limitations of software change management to control change in a way that fits the scale and complexity of today’s business challenges, including increased regulatory demands, competitive pressures and globalization.  All of Serena products and services are dedicated to enabling organizations to control change so they can reduce cost, improve quality, and eliminate risk. Other products in the Serena Change Governance solutions include Serena Mariner®, Serena TeamTrack®, Serena Dimensions™, Serena PVCS® Version Manager™, and Serena Composer™.

In addition, Serena is a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and leads the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project, dedicated to lowering the cost and complexity associated with the integration and interoperability of multiple vendor tools throughout the application lifecycle. Serena Change Governance offerings fully embrace ALF as its core multivendor interoperability platform.

About Serena Software, Inc.
Serena Software, the Change Governance™ leader, provides software and services to more than 15,000 organizations around the world—including 96 of the Fortune 100 and 90 of the Global 100. Recognized by IDC as the largest software provider focused exclusively on change, Serena offers a new approach to change—Change Governance—that enables businesses to efficiently, consistently, and successfully control change across the enterprise. Serena helps companies capitalize on change to achieve transformative business results. Serena has more than 800 employees worldwide and is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.serena.com.

Serena, TeamTrack, PVCS, Mariner, and ChangeMan are registered trademarks of Serena Software, Inc. Change Governance, Dimensions, Version Manager and Composer are trademarks of Serena Software, Inc. All other products or company names are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2006 SERENA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.