Serena Expands Partnership with HCL Technologies

July 29, 2008 - PRLog -- Serena Software today announced, it has further expanded its long term partnership with HCL Technologies Ltd. ("HCL"), India's leading global IT services company.  As the largest outsourcing partner for Serena, providing product engineering and support for the past seven years, HCL has now implemented Serena® PVCS® Professional, Serena® Dimensions® RM and Team Track to reduce errors, track and manage change in requirements during a project’s lifecycle, thereby improving quality and reducing the time to develop and deploy solutions for HCL customers.

“We at HCL wanted a solution that would ease the work of developers, reduce delivery cycles and help projects have better control over changes to various work products created during the development and enhancement of software solutions.  Serena’s products have helped us meet these objectives and achieve cost saving benefits across the organization. We have consolidated all projects/ engagement specific licenses and initiated enablement of HCL teams on various Serena products in order to reduce future cost of support and increase the productivity of teams.” said S. Sivaguru, AVP, Engineering Excellence Group, HCL Technologies.  

“As a worldwide leader in developing innovative products and solutions for its customers, HCL recognized the need for, and value of, implementing industry’s best change management software,” said Munindra Kumar Bharatee, Managing Director for Serena Software in India.  “Serena bridges the gap between the developer’s vision and management’s perspective to provide visibility across the organization.”

PVCS Professional is one of the most widely adopted solutions in the software configuration management (SCM) industry. PVCS is a comprehensive suite that delivers version, defect, build and issue management, and helps customers reduce development errors, establish repeatable builds and predictable development schedules, and deliver solutions to market faster.

Dimensions RM ensures that project teams effectively collect and refine project requirements by allowing enterprises to effectively manage change in requirements during the project lifecycle.

TeamTrack is a process management application that provides visibility into and repeatability across, all operational processes.  Unlike other process management applications that are difficult for end users to adopt and are limited to specific IT functions, TeamTrack provides a simple web interface that controls processes across any set of operational changes.

About Serena Software, Inc.

Serena Software, Inc. provides services to make Enterprises and the business people within them more productive. More than 15,000 organizations around the world, including 96 of the Fortune 100, rely on Serena solutions delivered either on premise or on demand, to provide visibility and efficiency to the application development process. The company provides software services such as Serena Mariner (Project Portfolio Management), Serena Business Mashups, and Serena® Dimensions® (Change & Requirements Management), and will be providing Agile Lifecycle Management tools in the near future. Serena is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information on Serena solutions and services, visit www.serena.com.

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