According to Jorge Borralho, Mainframe Account Manager at USKO Software`s Systems Solutions Division, exclusive South African distributor of Serena products, the combination will enhance California-based Serena`s position as a major vendor of industrial-strength solutions. "It also signifies a major step in the company`s strategy to expand its distribution channels," he said.
Optima has been in a strategic partnership with Serena for the past 10 years and has developed a global distribution channel for the sale of Serena`s Change Man product.
An independent evaluation conducted by industry analysis and consulting company Ovum, the results of which were published in August, Change Man was rated the best software configuration management product for mainframe applications.
It is able automatically to manage the full life cycle of application development, from design, through development and test, to production and post-production maintenance. Serena^1s products and solutions are used in more than 2 400 data centres worldwide, and over 400 large enterprise mainframe sites use Change Man to automate the management of their software development processes.
According to Serena president and CEO Richard Doerr, the synergy, which has existed between the two companies throughout their long-standing relationship will be expanded to provide customers with the best possible overall software change management solutions in the market.
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