Released on = November 21, 2006, 2:53 am

Press Release Author = Prasanth /Mutual PR

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Serena Software, Inc., the Change GovernanceT leader, today
unveiled Serena® ChangeMan® ZMF version 5.6, the company's comprehensive and fully
integrated solution for controlling software change across mainframe environments.
Designed for IT organizations with mainframe development and maintenance activities,
ChangeMan ZMF reduces costs and minimizes risks associated with software changes and
enhances the quality of delivered applications. ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 provides superior
ease of use, extended application lifecycle support, and broad team collaboration,
enabling IT organizations to deliver more strategic value to the business.

Press Release Body = Bangalore, November 20th, 2006 - Serena Software, Inc., the
Change GovernanceT leader, today unveiled Serena® ChangeMan® ZMF version 5.6, the
company's comprehensive and fully integrated solution for controlling software
change across mainframe environments. Designed for IT organizations with mainframe
development and maintenance activities, ChangeMan ZMF reduces costs and minimizes
risks associated with software changes and enhances the quality of delivered
applications. ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 provides superior ease of use, extended application
lifecycle support, and broad team collaboration, enabling IT organizations to
deliver more strategic value to the business.

"Serena is unique in its ability to offer Change Governance solutions across
multiple platforms, including distributed, mainframe, and Web," said KC Yee, MD and
Head, Serena Software, Asia Pacific. "With today's news, we are modernizing proven
tools to allow our mainframe customers to visualize the impact of proposed changes
before they happen, orchestrate a seamless response to change events, and enforce
the adoption of change policies and processes to achieve enterprise-wide
consistency, security and compliance. With 25 years of mainframe expertise, Serena
helps companies transform change into a business advantage."




About Serena ChangeMan ZMF 5.6


With ChangeMan ZMF, Serena is advancing the mainframe industry's migration toward
modern user interfaces and programming paradigms. ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 enhances the
ease of use and productivity of its tools by adding integrated support for IBM
WebSphere Developer for z/Series (WD4Z). Now, developers using this integrated
developer environment (IDE) will be able to take advantage of the power and
flexibility of ChangeMan ZMF without ever leaving the WebSphere IDE. In addition,
the ease of use has been improved through enhancements in the ChangeMan ZMF Windows
Explorer interface. Developers working on mainframe applications can do so from
their Windows environment with the same capabilities as they have within ISPF
(Interactive System Productivity Facility).

ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 exposes its API through Web services, making it the first
mainframe tool to be enabled to the Eclipse Foundation's Application Lifecycle
Framework (ALF) and it also exposes ALF-compliant events through the new log-based
notification mechanism. This technology is used to alert Serena TeamTrack® of
activities, such as create package and promotion events, and is used by the
TeamTrack for ChangeMan ZMF solution version 6.6.1. The integration of ChangeMan
ZMF with Serena TeamTrack brings the Web-based process modeling and enforcement of
TeamTrack to the mainframe.

In addition to new cutting edge user interfaces, ChangeMan ZMF provides a number of
important enhancements requested by customers to improve lifecycle support,
manageability, traceability and auditability.

Availability


Serena ChangeMan ZMF 5.6 is available now worldwide direct from Serena and from
authorized partners. Interested parties should contact Serena at 1-800-547-7827 or
www.serena.com.

Serena Change Governance Strategy
As a leader focused on managing change for over 25 years, Serena offers a new
approach to change - Change Governance, which transcends the limitations of software
change management to control change in a way that fits the scale and complexity of
today's business challenges, including increased regulatory demands, competitive
pressures and globalization. All of Serena products and services are dedicated to
enabling organizations to control change so they can reduce cost, improve quality,
and eliminate risk. Other products in the Serena Change Governance solutions include
Serena Mariner®, Serena TeamTrack®, Serena DimensionsT, Serena PVCS® Version
ManagerT, and Serena ComposerT.

In addition, Serena is a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and leads the
Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project, dedicated to lowering the
cost and complexity associated with the integration and interoperability of multiple
vendor tools throughout the application lifecycle. Serena Change Governance
offerings fully embrace ALF as its core multi-vendor interoperability platform.

About Serena Software, Inc.
Serena Software, the Change GovernanceT leader, provides software and services to
more than 15,000 organizations around the world-including 96 of the Fortune 100 and
90 of the Global 100. Recognized by IDC as the largest software provider focused
exclusively on change, Serena offers a new approach to change-Change Governance-that
enables businesses to efficiently, consistently, and successfully control change
across the enterprise. Serena helps companies capitalize on change to achieve
transformative business results. Serena has more than 800 employees worldwide and is
headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices throughout the U.S., Europe,
and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.serena.com.

Serena, TeamTrack, PVCS, Mariner, and ChangeMan are registered trademarks of Serena
Software, Inc. Change Governance, Dimensions, Version Manager and Composer are
trademarks of Serena Software, Inc. All other products or company names are used for
identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Copyright © 2006 SERENA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.




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