* Manage issues and fix bugs faster - The Serena PVCS Pro suite contains Serena Issue and Defect Management, orchestrated by Serena Business Manager (SBM), which automates the capture, routing, collaboration, and resolution of issues and defects. This helps you ensure that your issues are resolved quicker and nothing falls through the cracks. Serena Issue and Defect Management offers powerful capabilities like easily customizable WYSIWYG forms, a new process designer, simplified change management, and out-of-the-box trend reporting. * Interoperate with ease - Through web services and orchestrations powered by SBM, Serena PVCS Pro can easily interoperate with other environments. * Compliance with confidence - Through SBM, Serena PVCS Pro provides collaborative integrated change and version management for workgroups and small teams. For larger and distributed teams seeking support for faster modern development practices, increased scalability and performance, and adopting DevOps initiatives such as Shift-Left and continuous inspection, an automated migration path is available to Serena Dimensions CM

* Subversion versions directories as first-class objects, just like files. * Copying and deleting are versioned operations. Renaming is also a versioned operation, albeit with some quirks. * Subversion allows arbitrary metadata ("properties") to be attached to any file or directory. These properties are key/value pairs, and are versioned just like the objects they are attached to. Subversion also provides a way to attach arbitrary key/value properties to a revision (that is, to a committed changeset). These properties are not versioned, since they attach metadata to the version-space itself, but they can be changed at any time. * No part of a commit takes effect until the entire commit has succeeded. Revision numbers are per-commit, not per-file, and commit's log message is attached to its revision, not stored redundantly in all the files affected by that commit. * Branching and tagging are cheap (constant time) operations. * Merge tracking, File locking, symbolic links can be versioned. * Executable flag is preserved. * …and a lot more!