Versioning: It's more than just for software

Versioning : It’s for more than
just software
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A Perforce Webinar in association with
Creative Intellect Consulting

Agenda
• Introduction
• Versioning: It’s more than just for software
– Bola Rotibi & Ian Murphy, CIC
• Perforce & Version Everything
– Mark Warren, Perforce
• Discussion
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Versioning – it’s more than just
for software
Bola Rotibi, Research Director
Ian Murphy, Principal Analyst
Creative Intellect Consulting
SCM: From developer tool to
corporate versioning
3rd July 2013

© Copyright 2013 Creative Intellect Consulting Ltd
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Developer Sapien Circa mid 1990s to mid 2000s

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New Age Developer: Version 2

CIC: Who are we?
 Analyst research, advisory
and consulting firm
 Focus on Software
development, delivery and
lifecycle management
 Combined 90+ years IT
industry and analyst
experience
 Authored many reports and
thought leading research
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CIC IT Decision Maker Study
2011/2013
 Three industry sectors
 Financial
 Retail & manufacturing
 Communications
 Two interviews per organization
 Business
 Technology
 Role level
 Senior business management
and technical leads
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Resulting drivers raising the
bar
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Driving business growth &
competitiveness
Raising the operational bar
Market reach &
engagement
Actionable Insight
Business, Operations, Customer, Supplier – Big data correlations and support

Business imperatives
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Systems of
record
Systems of
engagement

Technology opportunities
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 For systems of record and engagement
 Clients and employees
How we
can do it
What we can
do to the
experience

Challenges
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A shift in focus and potential
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ser Power & Control
Choice Expectations
Influence Involvement
Self determination & service
Making User Experience & Engagement Matter
Shifting liability & risk

Balancing competing
concerns & pressures
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Transparency
Visibility, Insight
Globalization &
Distributed teams and
systems
Multiple Sourcing Flexibility of choice &
Managed governance
End-to-end velocity with
disparate workflows & team
dynamics
Interoperability
Skill utilization &
transfer
Automation

What is SCM?
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An effective &
disciplined means of
managing software
evolution

Traditional SCM Targets
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Application
Typical
Users

16SCM Evolutions: Content Explosion
 Increasing volume of Content
 Multiple formats
 New target roles
 Multiple authors
 Team expansion
 Collaboration
 Parallel development
 Multi points of return
 Geographical input
 Roll back
 Change control
 Non linear editing processes

17New Alignments: Broader reach
Technical
Non-Technical

Poll
 Do you have versioning problems in the office?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure what ‘versioning problems’ are
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A need for version control
beyond IT
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A business case for
corporate versioning
 83% of Knowledge workers admitting to losing or wasting time each day on
document version issues.
 73% not being able to find the right file
 57% confusion over the right version
 47% working on the wrong version
 48% of users admit to sending the wrong version of a document, to co-workers,
their boss, to customers and suppliers.
 90% of users still use email for document collaboration
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Imperatives for Version control
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Governance
Process
Improvement
& Productivity
Legal
Security
Version Control

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An active market with a broad
spectrum of solutions
SCM/CMDB
Software
/Source Code
Configuration
Management
Document
Management
Content
Management
Light weight
Doc
Management
+ file sharing
Version
Control
Direction of complexity
A Host of others

What is needed: Version by
default not exception
 Usability & Accessibility
 Intuitive -non linear interaction
 Multi platform and device
 Cloud delivery
 Wide range file formats
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 Robust Security Controls
 Core Version Control
 Process workflow &
orchestration
 Collaboration support
 Social media controls &
notification

Future Opportunities
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LAW: Legal
Development
NHS Patient
Record
Control
Version by
Design

Version Control Considerations
 Identify and assess Version Control needs
 Determine scope of application
 Departmental / Function
 Enterprise wide interoperability
 Delivery and access model
 Cloud
 On-premise
 Client management portal or embedded
 Skill capabilities
 Technical/non-technical
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Thank You
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Perforce
• Over 400,000 licensed users Worldwide at over 5,500
customers
• Worldwide Availability & Support
Experts in Enterprise Version Management

Perforce Software
• Headquartered in Alameda, California,
international operations in the United
Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
• Trusted with storing and versioning the
most valuable IP for the world's most
innovative companies
– From start-ups to Fortune 100

What Files Do You Store in Perforce?
84%
68%
64%
62%
45%
97%

84%
68%
64%
62%
45%
97%
What Files DON’T You Store in Perforce?
3%
16%
32%
36% 38%
55%

of All Knowledge Workers Every Day
Actually…

Of the 68% using
document management
or file sharing…
88% still suffer from
versioning issues

Know What “Versioning Issues” Are
Only

What Departments Are Using Perforce?
42%
37%
20%
11% 5%
99%

42%
37%
20%
11% 5%
99%
What Departments Aren’t Using Perforce?
63%
68%
80%
89%
95%
1%

63%
68%
80%
89%
95%
1%
Bring Them into the Flow

Perforce Versioning Engine
Analytics
Digital Assets – Source Code, Media, Docs
Versioned, Secure, Distributed
Business ToolsDevelopment Tools
& Workflows
Document Collaboration
Perforce – Versioning across the Business

Discussion
www.perforce.com
Twitter: @mark_warren
Email: mwarren@perforce.com

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