The document discusses new features in Serena Deployment Automation Version 6, which help organizations move fast without breaking things. Key new features include simplified release processes, improved traceability and audit compliance, easier integration capabilities, a new user interface and mobile apps, and application deployment pipelines to enforce environment sequencing and automatic promotion. A demonstration of SDA V6 shows the logical model used to define deployment structures and map applications to environments and pipelines.

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Copyright © Serena Software 2015
Deploy Fast Without Breaking Things
What’s New in Serena Deployment Automation Version 6?
Mark Levy and Julian Fish

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Move Fast Without Breaking Things
HRLEs
Highly Regulated Large Enterprises
Speed without risk
End-to-end
Practitioner specific
Collaboration enabled
Enterprise scaled
Supporting all
Enterprise methodologies
Enterprise technologies
Enterprise platforms

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High Performers Are More Agile (Move Fast)
30x 8,000x
more frequent
deployments
faster lead times
than their peers
Source: Puppet Labs 2013 State Of DevOps: http://puppetlabs.com/2013-state-of-devops-infographic

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High Performers Are More Reliable (Without Breaking Things)
2x 12x
the change
success rate
faster mean time
to recover (MTTR)
Source: Puppet Labs 2013 State Of DevOps: http://puppetlabs.com/2013-state-of-devops-infographic

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How organizations achieve high performance
• 89% are using infrastructure version control
• 82% are using automated code deployments
Source: Puppet Labs 2012 State Of DevOps: http://puppetlabs.com/2013-state-of-devops-infographic

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The News
Introducing Serena Release Control V6
NEW Simplified Release Processes
Out of the box, Easily Configurable
Built-in reporting, notifications, alerts
Faster implementation / ROI
NEW Traceability and Audit Compliance
Maximize audit reporting
Automatic tracking of release activties
NEW Easy Integration
Serena Dimensions CM, SDA, ZMF, ERO
3rd party, homegrown and proprietary stacks
NEW Look and Feel
Available
July

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The News
Introducing Serena Deployment Automation V6
NEW UI and Mobile Apps
Wizard-driven
Role centric
Approve, get status and deploy on the go
NEW Application Deployment Pipelines
Manage and automate deployment pipelines
Enforce environment sequencing and auto promote
Full stack automation
Continued Enterprise Resiliency
Enhance security mode
Complete end-to-end traceability of all operations
“Zero touch” Agent – Server communication
Available
July

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SDA V6 Demonstration
SDA V6 Product Demo

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• Logical model to define deployment
structure.
• Applications comprise Components
and Processes
• Components comprise Versions and
Processes
• Processes use plug-ins to connect
to other systems
• Applications map to Environments
• Environments may be grouped into
Pipelines
• Applications are deployed into
Environments and Pipelines
Application, Component, Environment, Pipeline

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Logical Model (High Level)
Application
Component
Version
Version
Process
Resource
Agent
Agent
Roles
(Security)
Environment
P
P = Properties
P
P
P
P
P
executes
executes
contains
uses
contains
Installed on
mapped to
implements
P

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