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Business Mashups: Relevez le dÃ©fi du dÃ©veloppement applicatif: La file d'attente croissante de demandes d'applications au sein des entreprises représente plusieurs milliards de dollars de perte de productivité, en termes d'insatisfaction clients et d'opportunités manquées. La solution consiste à permettre aux experts d'un domaine dans votre entreprise de mettre en oeuvre leurs propres applications basées sur vos processus.; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Mashup, Digital Security, Network Security, Security, Networking; White papers 2008-04-01
From Business Need to Business Mashups in 3 Simple Steps: Keeping your business running like a well-oiled machine can be a herculean task. Serena Business Mashups make it simple to coordinate the activities of different people and systems. In three simple steps you can go from business idea to Business Mashup.; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Mashup; White papers 2008-02-27
Guide to Increasing Project Visibility: Managing a project portfolio can take you into rough waters. The Serena Mariner Guide to Increasing Project Visibility tells you how to keep on an even keel and get to your destination intact.Learn everything you need to know to increase project visibility and avoid rowing up a creek without a...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Visibility; White papers 2008-02-27
The new corporate intranet, Web 2.0 style: Bill Ives reports on what may be the new face of the Intranet -- executed and managed through Facebook -- versus the usual collection of Web servers and applications. One company is replacing its intranet with Facebook Facebook as a corporate intranet? Wow, who...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Social Networking, Web, Facebook, Corporate Intranet, Web 2.0, Microsoft Access, Intranet, Burton, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2007-12-02
Serena fills cracks between SOA, ALM and SaaS with process-centric mashup-as-a-service platform: ALM vendor Serena Software is taking a walk on the wild services side in September when it announces the beta release of a platform for mashing up business process applications. Unlike on-demand tools for content- and data-centric mashups, Serena with "Project Vail" has its sights on the...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Notion, Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, SOA, Mashup, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2007-09-04

Remember LANs disintermediating IT in the 80s? Can Serena do the same with mashups?: Jeremy Burton has followed a circuitous path to his current role as president and CEO of Serena Software. Having served executive roles at the likes of Oracle and Veritas, a good part of his career has had to do with the controlling role the IT department plays in keeping...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Podcast, LAN, Information Technology, Tool, Mashup, Jeremy Burton, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-08-20
Serena TeamTrack: Gain Productivity by Combining Defect and Version Management Using Serena TeamTrack Together With Microsoft Visual SourceSafe: Serena TeamTrack can make everyday workflow management easier for individual developers and project managers alike. TeamTrack enables to see defects by severity levels, establish project priorities, and catch up on what's happened while the user is away, spot potential project bottlenecks, balance workloads across a team, and simply helps to...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Defect, Microsoft Corp., TeamTrack, Team Management, Microsoft Development Tools, .Net, Management, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development; White papers 2006-08-01
Change Governance Executive Brief: Change. Your organisation can't escape it. But it can take advantage of it. Globalization. Regulatory compliance. Competitive pressures. Mergers and acquisitions. The forces of change are everywhere in today's enterprise, consuming time, money, and resources, increasing risk, and challenging business operations. Even the smallest changes, which may start...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Globalization, Mergers & Acquisitions, Regulatory Compliance, Corporate Law, Strategy, Management, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Business Operations; White papers 2006-07-05
Driving Enterprise Change Management for Business Responsiveness - IDC Executive Brief: This IDC Executive Brief lays out the factors supporting marketing growth, the benefits of coordination and the need for process and organisational strategies as a complement to automated tools. Download your copy to understand the drivers for growth, the benefits and the challenges to adoption of enterprise change management and...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Enterprise Change Management, International Data Corp.; White papers 2006-07-05
IDC Executive Brief: Driving Enterprise Change Management for Business Responsiveness: Multiple drivers are pushing market growth and adoption of integrated lifecycle and enterprise change management tools by G2000 organizations, including the emergence of a global economy and complex sourcing; regulatory compliance demands; technology and development shifts with the evolution of service-oriented architectures SOA; and the need for and creation of...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Enterprise Change Management, International Data Corp., Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-05-01
Compliance & IT: a marriage of inconvenience?: The compliance landscape is changing, and driving large-scale changes in business practice as companies strive to meet the new requirements placed upon them. Both the importance and the difficulty of achieving such all-encompassing compliance has been and is still being grossly underestimated however, as is the...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Compliance; White papers 2006-02-28
Change Governance Series: Making Sense of Regulations and Best Practices: Here's an invaluable resource for business and IT leaders who need a better understanding of how corporate governance regulations such as HIPAA, SOX, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act differ from the IT industry best practices that can help their companies comply with those mandates. This 32-page white paper from Serena Software...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Best Practice, Corporate Governance, Regulations, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Government; White papers 2005-12-01
Requirements Management: The Proven Way to Accelerate Development: Requirements management is an often underutilized discipline in software development. Yet the economic benefits - lowered development costs, faster development and better products that delight customers - have plainly been demonstrated in study after study. In this paper, renowned engineering process expert Karl Wiegers makes the case...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Requirements Management, Product Development, Product Marketing, Software Development, Development Tools, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Management; White papers 2005-05-01
Enabling Faster, Easier Regulatory Compliance and Improved IT Governance: Financial businesses, including banking, insurance, brokerages and other services, have been early adopters of many IT initiatives, from electronic transaction processing to ATMs and Internet access. This business sector uses many internally produced applications to support back office operations, customer relationship management, customer records consolidation, accounting and special program management....; Tags: Serena Software Inc., IT Governance, Information Technology, Consolidation, Back-office, Regulatory Compliance, Sector, Operational Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, Investment; White papers 2005-04-25
Graduating From Microsoft Visual SourceSafe to Serena ChangeMan Professional Suite: This paper discusses the rationale and potential long-term ROI for moving from a free built-in versioning tool to a Serena Software Configuration Management SCM system. The focus is on the advantages of Serena ChangeMan Professional Suite, the most common entry level for development teams moving to a Serena solution. Serena...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Roi/Tco, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting; White papers 2005-01-01
Serena ChangeMan ZMF Case Studies: Change Management: The Santander Group is currently the first-ranked financial institution in Spain and the second-ranked in the European Common Market. The software that supported the SCM Software Configuration Manager functions did not completely meet CMM requirements, and Change Management operations were still partly carried out manually. Through the development of a...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Santander Group, Change Management, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Case studies
Serena Software Case Study: Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.: Watkins Motor Lines, Inc. is a nationwide, long haul common carrier with corporate headquarters in Lakeland, Florida. In-place solutions as well as other alternates lacked the integrated "roll together" capabilities of Serena ChangeMan DS and ZMF. This integration as well as the fingerprinting and footprinting functionality drove Watkins Motor Lines...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., DS, Servers, Hardware; Case studies
AdvancePCS Achieves 175% Increase in Productivity and an 83% Decrease in Software Delivery Times: AdvancePCS is the nation's largest independent provider of health improvement services, with more than 75 million health plan members and approximately $28 billion in annual prescription drug spending. Despite its obvious business success AdvancePCS was finding it difficult to manage and track changes - to software code, web content, business...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Health Care, AdvancePCS, Change Management, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Case studies
Serena Collage Enables Information Flow at Scottish Water: Scottish Water provides water and waste water services to household and business customers across one third of the land area of Britain. Scottish Water needed to create an Intranet that would be fully embraced by its 4,700 employees, one that was both visually stimulating but equally easy to navigate. After...; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Serena Collage, Scottish Water, Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management; Case studies
Serena Software Case Study: Thomson BETA Systems: Thomson BETA Systems is a securities processing firm based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. BETA Systems employs more than 650 people, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, and San Francisco. BETA Systems used a manual Enterprise Change Management ECM process with a homegrown tool before automating with Serena ChangeMan ZMF....; Tags: Serena Software Inc., Thomson Corp., Enterprise Change Management, Thomson BETA Systems; Case studies