MERGE 2016 Opening Remarks
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
1 like•687 views
This document provides an overview of Perforce Software including its mission, values, leadership team, and recent accomplishments. The key points are: - Perforce has been in software for 30 years and focuses on quality through rigorous testing and code reviews. - It believes in world-class customer support and giving back to the community through donations totaling $4.8 million since 1999. - Recent accomplishments include growth in enterprise Git usage, performance improvements, and expanded language support for its Helix products.
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to MERGE 2016 Opening Remarks
Similar to MERGE 2016 Opening Remarks (20)
More from Perforce
More from Perforce (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
MERGE 2016 Opening Remarks
- 3. About Me • 30 years in software • Former CEO of HelpSystems • Grew both organically and through acquisition • First U.S. software certified under the ISO 9001 standard
- 4. OUR MISSION
- 7. World Class Customer Support Satisfaction survey average last year Time to meaningful response
- 8. • The Perforce Foundation – supports employee giving • Perforce Giving Committee • $4.8 million in donations since 1999 • Community support and education • Students are hands on with Perforce for free Giving Back To The Community The Little Ice Rink Boys and Girls Clubs of America East Bay Boxing Association The Malala Fund
- 9. • We use our own technology to ensure quality • We store every change in Perforce • Our products are subjected to a total of 170,000 automated tests and we don’t release one until it passes all • QA works side by side with our developers • Code reviews in Swarm to catch problems before submitting code Quality Matters
- 10. Gathering Customer Feedback • Customer surveys • MERGE and other conferences • Customer support desk • Customer Advisory Group • Beta program feedback • Partner relationships
- 11. Deep Technical Talent 70% of our employee base consists of technical staff • Leverage our experts this week • Many familiar faces and names
- 12. Janet Dryer CEO Mark Ties CFO Colleen Kulhanek VP, Marketing Steve Jezierski VP, Sales North America Matt Attaway VP, Community Support Chris Dobbrow VP, Strategy & Key Accounts Tony Smith VP, Engineering Konrad Litwin Managing Director, International Executive Team
- 13. What You’ll Hear This Week…
- 14. • Great traction on our enterprise-grade Git solution • Large deployments of our native DVCS • Significant performance improvements in our core • 10x growth in code review usage • Helix in simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Significant Accomplishments
- 15. Unified Experience With Helix Helix Cloud Git Enterprise Management Helix Core Development Focus Near Term
- 16. Featured Sessions • Features built into Helix the last 18 months • What’s coming preview Innovations Showcase • Gene Kim keynote coming up next • DevOps panel this afternoon • Scania on adopting DevOps in the automotive industry; and adopting CD internally at Perforce (Thurs.) • J. Paul Reed on Friday DevOps/ CD • NVIDIA and EA later today on how they’re depending on Helix to support their businesses • Everyday Git (Thurs.), using Helix DVCS for those familiar with Git; making Git work for the enterprise - GitSwarm Showcase/ Best Practices
- 17. Please Take Our Survey • Your input is important • Conference feedback • How you use Perforce and Helix today • Future needs • Only 10-15 minutes
Editor's Notes
- Need more description here
- Perforce currently provides the world’s fastest and most scalable version management and collaboration platform. Put simply, we let companies track versions, or iterations, of their software assets as they’re developed. Right now, 15,000 customers trust Perforce Software to safely version their code, assets and intellectual property. Our plans for Perforce include bringing in new technologies through partnerships and even acquisitions to extend the capabilities and reach of our platform The great news is… as you all know… with Perforce Helix we’ve got a great platform to build upon Perforce is in a unique position to expand our position in this market given our years in this business and the variety and complexity of user environments we serve.
- The Perforce Foundation was started in 1999 so that employees could annually direct Perforce money to charities and causes they choose. In 2011, a staff-operated Perforce Giving Committee was established to serve as a voice for all employees to direct additional charitable giving. Through Perforce’s Giving Program, each employee can donate $1,500 annually to three 501(c)(3) charities or good causes of their choosing. Combined with the additional donations made by our Giving Committee, the Perforce Foundation has donated over $4.8 million since its inception. In addition, many Perforce technical experts donate their time to community education in areas of technology and programming – for example some of our engineers teach a game development course for the Boys and Girls Club of Alameda and team with the College of Alameda leveraging their facilities for the course CAN WE ADD SOME LOGOS of the charitable organizations and the Boys and Girls Club
- As I to learn more and more about you, our customers, and how you use Perforce products I am continually amazed at the breadth and depth of our footprint - spanning from indie shops releasing their first games to Fortune 500 companies that lean on our Helix platform to coordinate the efforts of thousands of product contributors from around the world. We have extraordinary customers who are accomplishing extraordinary things. If you look at the customers we have—from game developers to companies like Intel, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce… the products they build and the reach of those products, a significant portion of the world’s population uses something built on Perforce everyday. We store every change to every thing in Perforce. Any problem which comes from a change to not only the product but also the automation, infrastructure and deployment can be fixed quickly and confidently by rolling back. We test every product at every level (unit to installation) after every change. Developers know quickly when a problem arises anywhere in the product and they can fix it right away. We include QA from the beginning of the development process (planning review) to the end (acceptance testing) and they work side-by-side with developers. This collaboration keeps a focus on quality and reveals problems and risks in time to fix them before release. We have XX,XXX (getting this number on Friday) automated tests and we don't release until they pass. This comprehensive coverage gives us confidence that the product will work when the customer gets it. We perform code reviews using Swarm and GitSwarm. The second set of eyes filters out problems before ever entering the system. We have a policy to submit automated tests with every product change. This ensures that new functionality works as expected today and every release after. We fix problems quickly. When a serious issue comes in expert Support Engineers with directly with Developers and QA to address it. Once fixed a patch can be released practically right away thanks to continuous build/test and push-button release automation. We monitor the quality of our products using our products. With Perforce tools, integrations and APIs we can keep a close eye on product quality both before it goes out the door and once customers are using it. We take ownership of our products. Every year when we meet our customers at MERGE we want know we've given them a quality product.
- Taking in feedback from you all is critical to our development process in order to deliver you what you need to succeed Vehicles: Our MERGE conference Customer surveys Regular conversations with customers at various conferences Beginning to add usage data to our products to understand how you use our products and what is important to you Visit our P4 Idea X web site to submit feature requests and vote on others
- Technical staff is the whole: 45% Development 30% Community Support and Services 25% = Technical Communications, Professional Services, Product Management As I’ve gotten to know the people here at Perforce I have been enormously impressed with the level of talent and deep expertise at this company. I’m sure you’ll see many familiar faces this week as many of those Perforce experts are here to take your questions and get your feedback. Almost 70% of our employee base is made up of technical staff devoted to delivering Perforce solutions
- I also want to introduce you to my executive team. We are all here this week so feel free to stop anyone of us and introduce yourselves
- We plan to deliver on what you asked for from MERGE this week. We will spend the next 3 days sharing with you our vision and give you many examples of our unique ability to meet modern requirements and support the latest best practices We will share with you our product roadmaps We will do deep dives into our product stack And you’ll hear lots of talks from customers like you Most important of all for us is getting feedback from you, so we better know what direction to steer our company. PLEASE TAKE OUR SURVEY I’m looking forward to spending the next few days with you, and to the work we will do together in the years ahead
- We will have our Innovations Showcase introduced by Colleen Kulhanek, our VP of Marketing. Our product experts will discuss all the great features and capabilities we have delivered since our last MERGE conference We launched our first enterprise Git management solution and gaining a lot of traction with that. We also launched our own native DVCS solution and seeing several large deployments. There continues to be significant investment and improvements in our core server technology We have also seen a 10x growth in usage of our code review capability in Swarm. We added more language support And lastly we just ended a 6 month beta period of Helix Cloud - we received a lot of great feedback and significant interest in a cloud based offering. We are now taking all of this feedback and finalizing our plans for Helix Cloud. We don’t have that detail to share this week but we’ll have more information on our plans for Helix Cloud later this summer.
- Colleen to add talking points We recently ended a 6 month beta period of Helix Cloud - we received a lot of great feedback and significant interest in a cloud based offering. We are now taking all of this feedback and finalizing our plans for Helix Cloud. We don’t have that detail to share this week but we’ll have more information on our plans for Helix Cloud later this summer.
- And many more - it's really exciting that the majority of presentations on day 2 are by customers and users who are sharing their experience
- Most important of all for us is getting feedback from you, so we better know what direction to steer our company. PLEASE TAKE OUR SURVEY We need more description on this slide with bullets.