Serena Software announced significant new capabilities in Serena Release Manager that help enterprise IT organizations bring Dev and Ops together to increase the quality, speed and predictability of their software releases.
Serena Release Manager v5 is an enterprise release management solution that addresses the entire release lifecycle by bringing smart process management and automated application deployment together in a single product to manage DevOps processes across distributed, cloud, mobile and mainframe applications.
Serena Release Manager v5 offers comprehensive functionality covering the three major aspects of the process:
- Visibility, control and standardization of the release process
- Coordination and collaboration for release teams
- Automation of application deployments
Customers using Serena Release Manager report significant measurable benefits, including:
- 3x increase in the throughput of deployments
- 75% reduction in defects in production
- 3 hour product deployments trimmed to 35 minutes
- 50 weekends spent on-site for deployments halved to 25
- Half of deployment team members time freed up for more value-added work
To help more organizations realize these benefits, Serena Release Manager v5 ships with completely new features and important enhancements, including:
- Actionable Release Dashboards with out-of-the-box KPIs for insight into the entire release lifecycle, from initial request through to development, test and deployment across the path to production.
- Best Practice Release Processes that streamline and accelerate the release lifecycle yet can be easily self-service tailored for each customer’s needs.
- Automated Turnovers based on standardized Runbooks to eliminate error-prone manual handoffs and deployments.
- Virtual and physical Environment Management to improve availability and readiness of pre-production environments.
- A Lifecycle Activity Feed that enables real-time communication and collaboration across the DevOps teams and provides a complete audit trail of all release tasks and approvals.
- The Deployment Hub that provides bi-directional integration with Serena and third-party application release automation tools, allowing customers to invest in release process improvements while leveraging their existing automation investments.
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