Perforce provides version control and collaboration software that enables continuous delivery. It can handle large files and datasets for industries like gaming, film, and chip design. Perforce allows for distributed workflows and scales from small to very large teams of thousands. Customers like Apple, Twitter, and large financial institutions rely on Perforce's security, flexibility, and ability to integrate with their development pipelines to deliver software continuously.

3. Perforce Overview
• Fastest, most scalable,
Version Management
and Collaboration
• Commonly used for
all types of content
– Code
– Binaries
– Movies
– Chip Designs
– Gaming
– Images
Global
Availability
and
Support
Versions
Everything

4. Perforce Solves Critical Issues
Development
Development
The
imag
e
cann
T
h
e
Manufacturing
Headquarters
Th
e
im
ag
e
ca
nn
ot
Massive Scalability
From 10 to 10,000+ on a each trunk/mainline
Flexibility
Distributed or centralized workflows
Collaboration
Comprehensive review and pre-flight checks
Multi-site Teams
Enables geographically distributed organizations
Big Stuff
Efficiently handles large, often binary, data
Secure
Unified policies, auditing and compliance

5. Industry Leaders Depend on Perforce
13,000
à
20,000
users
9,500
users
500+
terabytes
5,000+
users
coders
&
designers
Complete
delivery
pipeline
7,000+
releases/year
11,000+
users
10+
sites
2,500
users
>
10,000,000
Perforce
xact/day
Everything!
11,000+
users
Mobile
ICs
Games
&
AnimaLon
Cloud/SaaS
Electronics
Finance
Enterprise

6. Analyst Perspective
Waterfall
• Annual
releases
• Mostly
manual
Agile
• Release
more
than
once
a
year
• Some
automaLon
ConLnuous
• Weekly/daily
updates
• Massive
automaLon
“ The days when a
successful organization
could release software
once every 12 to 18
months are over.
Forrester,
“ConLnuous
Delivery
is
reshaping
the
Future
of
ALM,”
Kurt
BiWner,
July
22,
2013

7. Untangling Continuous Delivery
Mark Warren
Perforce
mwarren@perforce.com
@mark_warren

8. Continuous Delivery Adoption
• Evans Data Corporation surveyed 600
software professionals
• 300 in the U.S. & 300 in the U.K.
• 1/3rd Developers, 1/3rd Managers and
1/3rd Executives
• Company size > 100 employees

9. Growing Awareness
Not
at
all
Somewhat
familiar
Very
familiar
I
live
and
breath
it
Developers
Managers
ExecuLves
How
Familiar
Are
You
with
the
Term
“Con;nuous
Delivery?”
According
to
a
2013
survey
of
US
and
UK
so]ware
professionals,
conducted
by
Evans
Data.

10. “What Does CD Mean to You?”
“It’s
a
process
to
improve
so]ware
performance
on
a
conLnual
basis,
with
the
use
of
automaLc
triggers.”
“It’s
a
process
that
ensures
conLnuous
tweaks,
addiLons
and
improvements
to
our
so]ware
systems.”
“The
ability
to
conLnually
adapt
so]ware
in
line
with
user
feedback
and
changes
in
business.”
“Releasing
early
and
o]en
so
that
the
act
of
learning
is
accelerated,
risk
is
idenLfied
and
you
can
react
quicker.”
[
Automa;on
]
[
Time
]
[
Con;nuity
]
[
Process
]

11. User Data: Gaining Traction Fast
65%
65%
28%
of
so]ware
developers,
managers
and
execuLves
report
that
their
organizaLons
have
started
down
the
path
to
Con;nuous
Delivery
At
Least
Some
Projects
All
Projects
According
to
a
2013
survey
of
US
and
UK
so]ware
professionals,
conducted
by
Evans
Data.

12. It’s Not Just for SaaS Anymore
80%
of
SaaS
companies
are
pracLcing
ConLnuous
Delivery
• 47%
across
ALL
projects
• 33%
across
some
projects
Non-­‐SaaS
Companies
18%
51%
All
Projects
At
Least
Some
Projects
According
to
a
2013
survey
of
US
and
UK
so]ware
professionals,
conducted
by
Evans
Data.

13. What’s Driving the Move?
Faster
Time
to
Market
BeWer
Quality
Product
CompeLLve
Advantage
Customer
SaLsfacLon
Lower
Costs
According
to
a
2013
survey
of
US
and
UK
so]ware
professionals,
conducted
by
Evans
Data.

14. Keeping up with the Joneses
46%
think
their
compeLtors
have
fully
embraced
ConLnuous
Delivery
According
to
a
2013
survey
of
US
and
UK
so]ware
professionals,
conducted
by
Evans
Data.

15. Perforce Customers
So]ware
Dev
Code
Review
ConLnuous
IntegraLon
Metrics
QA
Staging
&
Release
HW
Layout
Chip
Rev
Firmware
OS
Apps
So]ware
Dev
ConLnuous
IntegraLon
QA
Analysis
ConLnuous
Delivery
Rollback
So]ware
Dev
ConLnuous
IntegraLon
QA
Staging
Deployed
Binaries
ConLnuous
VerificaLon
Instant
Rollback
Capability
“THE”
Cloud
BeaLng
Apple
ObsoleLng
DVDs
TWTR
Picks
NYSE

16. Version Everything
• Version “absolutely everything”
• Branching – “where it makes sense”
• “Nobody is born a versioning hero”
“ Versioning everything
takes an investment, it’s
worth it.
Halldor
Fannar,
CTO
Versioning
is
the
nerve
centre
of
the
organiza;on

17. Mainline Model
• 150 teams, 5,000 testing VMs, 500,000 files.
• Up to 10 million Perforce transactions per
day, heading towards 15 – 20 million
• Mainline code model
• Fast feedback is key
• Security, audit, compliance. Easy audit
process
“ Doubling the
transactions,
no increase in
admins
Mainline
is
cri;cal
to
collabora;on

18. System of Record
• 14,000 servers, 6,600 production
releases per year, 198+ active projects
• Build artifacts stored in Perforce
• Version management enforces security
• Deploy “bridge” into production &
rollback
“ Perforce is
boring!
Single
Source
of
Truth

19. Key Requirements
Complete
Visibility
Distributed
Teams
C O O R D I N A T E
T E A M S
(design,
dev,
release,
devops,
etc.)
C O O R D I N A T E
A S S E T S
(code,
scripts,
artwork,
binaries,
etc.)
Flexible
Workflow
Unified
Repository
Universal
Security
Scalable
&
Performant
P I P E L INE
Req’s
Dev
Test
Integrate
Deploy
HQ

20. Integrates With Your Pipeline
Swarm
Developer
CollaboraLon
Commons
Design
CollaboraLon
Insights
Development
AnalyLcs
Perforce
Version
Management
P4
100s
of
Terabytes
Globally
Distributed
DVCS
Any
File
Type
Git
End-­‐to-­‐end
CollaboraLon
P I P E L INE
Unified
Asset
Versioning
Req’s
Dev
Test
Integrate
Deploy
DEV
DEV
HQ
MFG

21. Rich Ecosystem of Partners
Agile
ALM
IDEs
Code
Review
Build/CI
Quality
Deployment

22. In Summary: Untangling in 5 steps
1. Think beyond the code – version
everything
2. Automate, automate, automate
3. Make everything fully visible
4. Track every change
5. Put it all in one place

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