Serena Software Inc. Monday joined the software-as-a-service business with the availability of a hosted version of its project and portfolio management (PPM) software.
At the same time, the company promised two more hosted offerings by the end of 2008 -- one slated for June availability that will host enterprise mashups for companies and a suite of hosted Agile life-cycle management tools that will be available by the end of the year.
First up in Serena's SaaS plan is a hosted version of its Serena Mariner PPM tool that is priced at US$18 per user per month. The Mariner tools provide companies with visibility into project status and metrics, noted Rene Bonvanie, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, partner programs and online services at San Mateo, Calif.-based Serena.
"[With Mariner], you can determine not only when things will be delivered but whether you are delivering the right things in terms of value," Bonvanie noted. "This is a great technology for visibility but also for communications so the CIO can communicate to their business stakeholders what exactly is gong on."
By June, the company will provide a service to allow its users to run business mashups "in the cloud," Bonvanie added. The company has promised a public preview of the mashup service by the end of this month.
"Mashups are being built by people who are not in IT ? business analysts and [business] people who build these simple applications," he said. "Oftentimes, these applications don't necessarily require an elaborate IT infrastructure."
Finally, before the end of the 2008, Serena will make available a hosted set of tools for Agile life-cycle management, which Bonvanie said will help ease some of the burdens associated with issues like collaboration among geographically dispersed development teams.
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