Serena Software
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Computer software, Application lifecycle management, IT management |
Founded | 1980 |
Founder | Doug Troxel |
Headquarters | San Mateo, California, U.S. |
Key people | John Nugent, CEO |
Revenue | US$219 million (2012)[1] |
Number of employees | 700+[citation needed] |
Website | www |
Serena Software Inc is a US-based software company that provides IT management solutions to enterprises around the world. Serena solutions offer a process orchestration approach and span the areas of development, devops and IT management.
Serena is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has 700+ employees[citation needed].
Serena is a portfolio company of Silver Lake Partners.
Products
The company provides process-based solutions for managing and automating application development, DevOps and IT operations. The company's revenues are generated through software licenses, maintenance contracts and professional services.[citation needed]
Serena's products and solutions address the following industry segments:
- IT management
- Request management
- Demand management
- Requirements management (RM)
- Application lifecycle management (ALM)
- Release management (RLM)
- Agile development
- Configuration management (CM)
- Issue & defect management
- IT service management (ITSM)
- Information technology operations (IT Operations)
- DevOps
- Product development
- Mainframe
History
In November 2005, Serena Software announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Silver Lake Partners in a $1.2 billion leveraged buyout transaction. The buyout was announced at a price of $24 per share in cash. Following the transaction, Silver Lake, a technology focused private equity firm acquired about 70% of the Serena stock.[2] The Silver Lake Partners acquisition resulted in no immediate changes to the executive management team and daily operations continued much as they had before.[3][4][5][6]
In October 2006, Serena announced the acquisition of Pacific Edge Software[7] to enter the emerging project portfolio management (PPM) market. Mariner, a leading provider of Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions was determined to be a good match for Serena's existing portfolio of products. After Pacific Edge, Serena made a number of more minor acquisitions, purchasing prototyping technology from Apptero, requirements management technology from Integrated Chipware and asset discovery technology from Data Sciences Corporation.[8]
In September 2008 Serena announced the acquisition of Projity, an open source software as a service (SaaS)-based project management company.[9] Serena has begun to drive some of their technologies directly to business users in the form of Business Mashups.[10][11]
John Nugent was appointed CEO in November 2009.[12]
References
- ^ "Annual Report for Serena Software Inc for Fiscal Year 2012". Retrieved 2012-12-18.
- ^ "Serena Software Announces Completion of Acquisition by Silver Lake Partners" (Press release). Serena. 2006-03-10. Retrieved 2006-03-10.
- ^ Serena Software latest target of buyout firm. USA Today, November 11, 2005
- ^ Silver Lake rides technology debt wave. MarketWatch, March 29, 2006
- ^ Serena Software Buyout: $1.2B Red Herring, November 10, 2005
- ^ The LBO Gang Storms The Valley. Business Week, September 11, 2006
- ^ "Serena Software to Acquire Project and Portfolio Management Leader" (Press release). Serena. 2006-10-04. Retrieved 2006-10-04.
- ^ Serena Software to buy Pacific Edge. San Francisco Business Times, October 2, 2006
- ^ "Serena Software Acquires Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Project" (Press release). Serena Software. 2008-09-23. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
- ^ Mash Up the Corporation. New York Times, August 24, 2007
- ^ Serena Software Joins Mashup Mania. Internet News, December 3, 2007
- ^ "Privately-Held Serena Software Names John Nugent as Chief Executive Officer" (Press release). Serena Software. 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
- Serena Software Inc., now privately held, sharpens focus. Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, September 25, 2006
- Serena Software trying to bring zip to its appeal. San Francisco Business Times, September 22, 2006
- Customs agency in deal with Serena Software. Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, November 28, 2005
- Serena Software Placed In Leaders Quadrant. EFY Times, April 8, 2009