Engineers at Advanced Acoustic Concepts (AAC), a lead contractor for the U.S. Navy Surface Ship Torpedo Defense program, sought to streamline its operations and get software in use quickly. They found their solution at Serena Software in Redwood City, Calif.

AAC officials adopted Serena’s Lean Business Process Management (BPM) solution to control the cost and efficiency of its software development resources and ease the burden of frequent ISO and CMMI recertification, says a representative.

Serena is designed to better manage software development, hardware operations, contract management, program management, and purchasing.

AAC engineers, with the help of BPM software, have been able to bring new software applications to market 80 percent faster than they were previously able. Additional benefits include an efficiency boost of roughly 50 percent through better collaboration, auto-alerts to notify the right people of calibration deadlines, a snapshot of the infrastructure on both micro and macro levels, and compliance assurance through automatic tracking of contracts and proposals.

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