Serena Delivers Enterprise Change Management to HP NonStop Servers and Microsoft .NET Development Environments

Business Wire, Oct 29, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ITUG Summit 2002

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2002

Solution Enables Customers to Optimize HP NonStop Servers and .NET

Technologies to Accelerate Next Generation Development, Serena Only

ECM Vendor to Support Both Environments

SERENA Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:SRNA), an industry-leading supplier of software that automates change to enterprise code and content, today demonstrated unparalleled change management functionality for accelerating next-generation development in HP NonStop server and the Microsoft .NET environments at HP's ITUG (International HP NonStop Servers User Group) Summit. Following Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft's recent announcement of their worldwide joint initiative to deliver Microsoft .NET solutions to enterprise-scale companies, Serena has announced that it can provide the Enterprise Change Management (ECM) technology critical to helping customers optimally leverage these environments and successfully manage the overall development process. Serena is also the only ECM vendor to support both HP NonStop and Microsoft Visual Studio .NET development with a single solution. With Serena(TM) ChangeMan(R) DS, Software Change Manager for Distributed Systems, customers can reliably and efficiently deploy high quality, leading-edge applications enterprise-wide.

"We're pleased to work together with HP and Microsoft in accelerating the next wave of computing," said Mark Woodward, President and Chief Executive Officer, SERENA Software, Inc. "As the only ECM vendor to support HP NonStop servers and Microsoft .NET environments, we are able to provide customers with a unique solution that drives and maximizes business benefits throughout the enterprise."

"HP NonStop servers host mission-critical applications for leading businesses around the world," said Sanjiv Ghate, Product Manager for Application Development at HP's NonStop Enterprise Division. "We want our customers to develop applications for NonStop servers without having to worry about the source code location. The combination of Serena ChangeMan DS and HP Enterprise Toolkit-NonStop Edition working within the same Microsoft Visual Studio .NET environment allows our customers to consolidate and streamline their overall change management and application development process."

"Microsoft .NET provides the fastest, most reliable and comprehensive approach for building and profiting from the new-generation business solution," said Frank Gocinski, Visual Studio .NET Business Development Manager at Microsoft Corporation. "Combined with the HP NonStop platform and Serena's enterprise change management solutions, companies can accelerate development even further while maximizing the IT infrastructure and overall ROI."

As companies migrate to Microsoft .NET and other powerful, next-generation technologies, Serena's ECM solutions are a vital part to easing the transition, as well as managing the ongoing development process to help customers reach new levels of business agility. This is achieved through higher quality software, increased productivity, accelerated deployment across the enterprise and faster time to market. And, by delivering support for HP NonStop servers, Serena ChangeMan DS provides customers with a comprehensive solution that not only yields the benefits of ECM, but also ensures the availability and reliability of valuable software assets.

Serena ChangeMan DS gives organizations a proven solution to manage the frequent changes involved in building, deploying and maintaining software to secure business success. The product provides native support across multiple platforms including HP NonStop servers, Windows (98, NT, 2000, XP), UNIX (IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, OS/390 USS, SCO UNIX), Linux (on both Intel and zSeries platforms) MPE/iX and OS/400. The product is part of the Serena ChangeMan product family, which gives customers a single point of control to manage the development process for complex enterprise applications with components running across multiple platforms from the mainframe to the Web.

Availability

Support for HP NonStop servers and Microsoft .NET is immediately available with the current version of Serena ChangeMan DS.

About Serena

SERENA Software, Inc. is the Enterprise Change Management (ECM) industry leader. For over twenty years Serena has focused exclusively on providing application change management solutions to the world's leading enterprises, and today its products are in use at over 2,750 customer sites--including 42 of the Fortune 50. Serena leads the way in ECM by providing a single point of control to manage software code and Web content changes throughout the enterprise, from the mainframe to the Web. This ensures application availability and speeds time to market--while reducing development costs. With headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., Serena serves customers worldwide through local offices and an international network of distributors. www.serena.com.

Serena is a trademark of SERENA Software, Inc. ChangeMan is a registered trademark of SERENA Software, Inc. All other products or company names are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.