Have you ever spent hours working on the wrong version of a document? Worse still, have you sent the wrong copy of a document to a client or the wrong specification to a supplier? What about opening up a PowerPoint presentation in a meeting, only to discover that you forgot to copy the updated version off of your desktop?
You're not alone. In a recent survey carried out by Harris Interactive, these are all common problems that impact 83% of all knowledge workers in today's electronic age. However, less common is the knowledge that these issues could easily be solved by something that software developers have been doing for years. Something called versioning.
These slides illustrate how version management, as a discipline, can be easily used and should be deployed as the norm outside of the development environment.
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Versioning: It's more than just for software
1. Versioning : It’s for more than
just software
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A Perforce Webinar in association with
Creative Intellect Consulting
2. 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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3. 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
28. Perforce
• Over 400,000 licensed users Worldwide at over 5,500
customers
• Worldwide Availability & Support
Experts in Enterprise Version Management
29. 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
30. What Files Do You Store in Perforce?
84%
68%
64%
62%
45%
97%
We also asked who’s using Perforce99% eng 42% doc 37% design 20% ops 13% manu11% sales and mktg 5% financeTurn the chart upside down
Sales & Marketing Playbook -- Not part of the software delivery pipeline?These people are outside the flow of continuous delivery – FB/youtubeAt any company, large category of contributions go unversionedOur goal is to merge them into the flow