Change Man From SERENA Software Receives Top Ovum Rating; Established Software Change Management Solution

Business Wire, Oct 5, 1998

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--SERENA Software, an industry-leading supplier of enterprise software change management solutions, announces results of the Ovum evaluation of its Change Man(R) product.

In the August 1998 release of "Ovum Evaluates: Configuration Management," Ovum rates Change Man as the best software configuration management product for mainframe applications. Change Man, the flagship product from SERENA Software, is able to automatically manage the full life cycle of application development, from design, through development and test, to production and post-production maintenance.

Over 400 large enterprise mainframe sites use Change Man to automate the management of their software development processes.

"SERENA's Change Man is a robust, mature software change management product that has had a loyal customer following for over ten years," says Marianne Elkholy, vice president of Worldwide Marketing at SERENA Software. "This rating signifies the competitive advantage that Change Man has over other products."

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