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Serena Dimensions Runs 60 Times Faster than IBM Rational ClearCase
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — March 19, 2008 — Serena Software continues to showcase innovations in the application lifecycle management (ALM) market with new benchmarking tests against IBM Rational ClearCase 7 and Subversion 1.5. The benchmarking tests, performed onsite at its research and development labs, show that Serena® Dimensions® is the highest performing tool on the market, with speeds ranging from 1.8 times as fast (on a local area network) to an average of 60 times as fast (on a wide area network) as competing products, depending on network configuration.
With the growth of multi-national engineering teams, high performance across wide area networks (WANs) is necessary for the development of applications in a distributed environment. With the release of Dimensions 10.1.2, Serena has enhanced the product’s performance to be the best of breed on the market, and to provide its customers with a speed advantage against their competition. In fact, in certain environments with distributed development teams Dimensions performed up to 127 times faster than IBM Rational ClearCase.
"We will never be complacent. Serena continues to make investments in R&D and its products' architectures to deliver the best service to our customers," said Carl Theobald, Sr. Vice President, Products for Serena Software. "We challenge anyone to duplicate the benchmarking tests, and see how Serena provides the best and fastest solution to our customers."
Dimensions is Built for Speed
As the benchmark tests show, Dimensions CM and Dimensions Express are built for speed, delivering the superior performance that teams need to accomplish their development tasks, either in co-located environments or across the wide area network. Regardless of the network configuration – high-latency or low-latency, WAN or co-location – Dimensions beats the competition with superior speed and results.
Dimensions supports the resource-intensive development practices that are the norm today, including geographically distributed development teams. Dimensions orchestrates application change and configuration across platforms, locations and teams with:'
- End-to-end traceability, from the inception of a project or issue through delivery of the functionality;
- Streamlined regulatory compliance though development lifecycle process definition and enforcement;
- Enhanced team productivity with an infrastructure that supports collaboration between co-located or geographically distributed stakeholders; and'
- Visibility and control over project status, progress, and prioritization.
More than 15,000 organizations around the globe, including 96 of the Fortune 100 and 90 of the Global 100, rely on Serena’s industry-leading ALM solutions and expertise. Serena Dimensions CM is currently available at a cost of $3,520 per user for the enterprise IT and enterprise applications development market.
Results of the benchmarking tests are available at www.serena.com/go/fast. Customers are invited to Serena's R&D lab to experience the performance tests first hand.
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, 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.
Serena and Dimensions are registered trademarks of Serena Software, Inc. All other product or company names may be trademarks of their respective owners, and their use is intended for identification purposes only and not in association with or as sponsorship or endorsement by such owners. Copyright © 2008 Serena Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
