We are proud to announce significant new and enhanced release
management capabilities with Serena Release Manager v5. Serena is the leader in
Orchestrated Release Management designed to streamline, automate and simplify
the delivery of applications into pre-production and production environments
across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure.
Primary Features and Benefits
Dashboards and Reports

Actionable insight: Unified timeline views of release trains, application
releases, and environments provide you with immediate visibility to any
problem trends, issues or potential delays, allowing you to take immediate
action.
Quick time to value: Out-of-the-box trending and process improvement Key
Performance Indicators (KPIs) allow you to immediately gain insight into
your release management process.
Increased operational efficiency: Customizable, role-based dashboards and reports,
provide unparalleled insight into the release management lifecycle by
collecting and reporting metrics throughout the release lifecycle.

Planning and Control

Streamline and accelerate the release management
process: Out-of-the-box best
practice release management processes that can easily be customized to
align to your release policies.
Mitigate risk of release delays: Single system of record for planning, scheduling, and
approvals enables you to easily track milestones and stage gates across
all release trains, applications releases, and teams.
Simplify compliance and control: Automated process enforcement, routing, and approvals
with built-in audit trails and reportings, provide alignment with release
and compliance policies.

Deployments and Turnovers

Reduces deployment errors and production failures: Unifies deployment processes and team handoffs by
automating large volume, highly repetitive tasks across systems, tools and
teams, reducing deployment times and further mitigating risk of deployment
and production failures.
Simplifies management of large deployments: Ability to define, build, orchestrate and manage
deployment processes, turnovers and tasks from a single point of control
providing lesser skilled workers with higher level skill capabilities.
Documents and standardizes deployment processes and
tasks: Runbooks provide a single
source reference of deployment procedures and tasks and captures best
practice deployment tasks associated with each application.
Full audit trail and compliance enforcement: Provides complete traceability and reporting for all
deployments.

Environment Management

Mitigates risk of release delays: Better preproduction management eliminates environment
contention or availability issues that can cause substantial delays in a
release and ultimately impact the business.
Optimizes resources: Increased efficiencies in commissioning and
decommissioning preproduction environments help ensure that the right
environments are available at the right time to the right people and for
the right applications. This results in faster acceleration of the release
lifecycle during your critical test phases.
Improves collaboration between teams: Full integration with the release lifecycle process
ensures seamless transitions between teams. Automatic routing of
notifications, state transitions, and events coordinates teams in context
with associated tasks and environments.
Provides complete traceability: Full audit trail and compliance enforcement provides
complete traceability and reporting of all changes to all environments.

Release Automation

Reduces risk and time to market: Provides consistent, repeatable model-driven
application automation deployments.
Supports continuous deployment and continuous delivery:
Includes a flexible plug-in architecture
that delivers out-of-the-box plug-ins to provide seamless integration to
third-party tools such as software change and configuration. management
(SCCM), build and release, QA, help desk, and ticketing systems supporting
the entire tool chain.
Improves release quality and production availability: Provides role-based security, approvals, and
notification support to ensure that the right changes get implemented into
production.
Scales with the enterprise: Includes secure, tamperproof artifact repository
and high availability support to provide a secure and reliable
architecture that scales to support the largest enterprises.

Deployment Hub

Reduce costs: Leverages
existing investments and standardizes on a common release management
solution that orchestrates existing deployment and automation tools.
Enhance flexibility: Creates a flexible release automation environment which
aligns the tool chain to dynamic business needs.
Minimize disruption: Mitigates migration risks by enabling gradual tool
transition without impacting the release process.

Communication and Collaboration
Serena Release Manager social views enable DevOps teams to
effectively and efficiently communicate and collaborate across the entire
release lifecycle.

Social views enable collaboration with other users on
release trains, application releases or any other item or task.
Status entries, notes and attachments are easily posted
and added.
DevOps teams have instantaneous access to the people on
the release or development teams as well as those who are likely to have
the expertise to help resolve any issue.
Avatars or icons that represent these users are visible
on every screen that the you interact with, enabling real-time
collaboration and sharing of expertise.
Conversation threads are grouped by the various stages
in the release management process. You can choose to "follow" an
item, person, or issue and get status updates via Twitter, Yammer, email,
or SMS.

Enterprise Scalability

Global, large-scale deployments: n-tier architecture allows both vertical and horizontal
scalability with servers and endpoints. Supports cross-network boundaries
requiring only low bandwidth WAN connections.
Enterprise-grade security: Role-based security supports LDAP and Active Directory
authentication to align with enterprise security policies. Privilege
access is not required for endpoint deployments.
High availability and failover: Platform dynamically switches from one server to
another in the event of system failure.
Network bandwidth optimization: Intelligent, customizable polling and quiet periods
increase enterprise scalability through reduced bandwidth and network
traffic.

You can read the detailed release notes for RLM on the Documentation Center.
Obtaining the New Version
Serena Release Automation 5.0 can be downloaded from My Downloads under
Serena Support.

Comprehensive Support and Services
Serena provides comprehensive global support for all Serena products. Our
Technical Support Engineers resolve most problems on the first contact and are
backed by Serena's extensive Development and Quality teams. Serena's
Professional Services Consultants and Education Specialists provide Best
Practice Consulting Services and assist with all levels of implementation and
training. For more information on the full range of support and services
offerings available, visit the Services portions of our Web site at www.serena.com.
Have questions or need
assistance?

All Serena customers may e-mail Customer Support: support@serena.com
For online assistance please visit the Serena Support self-service website.
Contact details for our local Serena Support Center are
available here.

Thank you for your continued support of Serena!
Regards,
The Serena Team