Serena Software Advances Application Release Automation for DevOps
September 26, 2013
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Serena Software announced new release automation capabilities for its Orchestrated Release Management solution set.

Serena’s newly enhanced application release automation solution provides essential tooling for IT shops that are embracing the DevOps movement, as well as those that are looking to increase their software application release quality and cadence.

With these new innovations, Serena Release Automation extends unique enterprise-class capabilities in areas such as ease of use, high availability, scalability, and security.

This latest release solidifies Serena’s position as the leading provider of enterprise-class application release automation.

The new capabilities available in Serena Release Automation include:

- Simplified, intuitive navigation enabling novice users to become immediately productive

- Rapid enterprise-wide adoption among release teams with minimal training, reducing the time to automate application releases

- Clustering for always-on redundancy

- Hot-swappable application server architecture

- User-defined parameters for reduced synchronization traffic

- Improved performance and accessibility to source code repositories including Serena PVCS, Dimensions CM, and third party repositories

- Alignment with corporate security policies by eliminating need for high privileged access

- Updated Microsoft Azure and VMware plug-ins that support the DevOps notion of continuous deployment to broader environments

- Expanded knowledge base through an extensive Plug-in Guide

- Leverages the power and ease of use of Serena Business Manager (SBM) workflow definition within Serena Release Automation

- Extends integration of Release Automation capabilities into the SBM platform

Serena’s latest version of its Release Automation technology enables companies to easily and quickly automate the deployments of application releases across physical, virtualized, and cloud environments.

“This new version of Serena Release Automation enables release teams to easily and intuitively deploy application releases from development along the path to and into production,” said Greg Sikes, VP & Product Officer, Release Management, Serena Software.

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