2. In early 2014, the Bay Area mid-market private
investment firm HGGC, LLC, completed its
acquisition of Serena Software Inc., adding to
its growing technology portfolio. Serena serves
thousands of clients at the point where
information technology and development of
applications intersect. Established in 1980,
Serena assists its client businesses in achieving
new levels of productivity and profitability
through enhanced processing speed,
operational quality, and reliability.

3. Serena enhances development and
operations for clients in multiple sectors,
including finance, retail, health care,
government, communications, and nonprofit.
Using Serena Software enables these clients
to maintain systems visibility and control
more successfully while automating
deployment in a strategic manner.

4. With the announcement of its new Serena Release
Manager v5 in late 2013, Serena Software boosted
the effectiveness of the products that it had
previously offered its clients. Vendors in the
development-operations movement have
traditionally stressed communication and
collaboration, but Serena has taken that
methodology several steps further. The San Mateo,
California, company has gone beyond a focus on
automation to concentrate on integrating people-
and measurement-centered design into Serena
Release Manager 5.

5. Serena’s newest version offers individually
tailored best-practice release processes,
enhanced real-time views of the complete
lifecycle of a release, the elimination of
manual deployment through automating
turnover, and improved management of
physical and virtual release environments.