Serena Software and Unitask Partner to Extend Governance to the Oracle E-Business Suite

Business Wire, Dec 11, 2007

Product Combination Offers Closed-Loop Change Management for the Entire IT Landscape

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Working together to enhance the value of investments made in IT governance initiatives, Serena Software and Unitask today announced a partnership to extend governance and change management to include the Oracle E-Business Suite. As part of the alliance, Unitask and Serena will work jointly to market an integrated solution comprised of Object Migration Manager from Unitask and Serena Software's application lifecycle management products.

"We frequently run across organizations that have made investments in both the Oracle E-Business Suite and application lifecycle management solutions to manage and govern the IT project portfolio. However, these organizations are unable to leverage the investment in change management solutions to manage and govern the Oracle E-Business Suite," said Michael Segev, chief executive officer of Unitask. "Object Migration Manager bridges this gap enabling organizations to use solutions from Serena to track and report on changes that occur in the Oracle E-Business Suite environment."

"Our compliance department mandated that we implement segregation of duties within the Oracle E-Business Suite. This meant that the developers who make enhancements to the Oracle E-Business Suite must be prohibited from migrating those changes to our production instance," explained Gaja Nagarajan, technical operations manager at Marvell Semiconductor. "Serena and Object Migration Manager made implementing segregation of duties a piece of cake."

"The partnership with Unitask expands the application lifecycle management story for Serena Software," said Bill Shortell, partner manager at Serena Software. "Now, Serena Software's change management and governance capabilities can be extended to include Oracle's ERP system."

Object Migration Manager enables Oracle professionals to control the Oracle change management process by automating the migration of objects, such as profiles, XML publisher objects, Discoverer objects, responsibilities, users, reports and PL/SQL, from a source Oracle E-Business Suite instance or version control system to a target instance. When coupled with the process management and version control capabilities of Serena's products, the trio offers a closed-loop governance solution for organizations of any size.

About Unitask, Inc.

Unitask is committed to helping organizations through the Oracle E-Business Suite lifecycle. Whether implementing, upgrading or ongoing management, customers of the Oracle E-Business Suite around the world rely on Unitask products to introduce cost efficiencies, enhance security and reduce workload requirements in the areas of Oracle E-Business Suite development, operations, data management and compliance. For more information, please visit www.unitask.com.

About Serena Software, Inc.

Serena Software is the leading global independent software company focused solely on application lifecycle management for distributed and mainframe systems. More than 15,000 organizations around the world, including 96 of the Fortune 100, rely on Serena solutions to automate the application development process and effectively manage their IT portfolio. Serena is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and has offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information on Serena solutions and services, visit www.serena.com.