SCM: From Developer Tool to Corporate Versioning Bola Rotibi, Research Director Ian Murphy, Principal Analyst Creative Intellect Consulting

Perforce Merge World Tour 2013 London May 16, 2013

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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Market Insights Real world feedback

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The changing world order

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Finding balance is crucial

An expanded conversation

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“Help me reduce costs”

“Help me grow the business”

“Help me be more efficient”

“Help me innovate”

“Help me adapt and deliver quickly”

Business Efficiency & Productivity

Business Agility & Expansion

“Help me improve the quality”

“How can I leverage...”

“How can I scale without scaling costs”

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  

Globaliza7on  &  Distributed  teams  and  

systems  

Mul7ple  Sourcing   Flexibility  of  choice  &  Managed  governance  

End-­‐to-­‐end  velocity  with  disparate  workflows  &  

team  dynamics  

Interoperability    

Skill  u7liza7on  &  transfer  

Automa7on  

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

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15 SCM 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

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16 New Alignments: Broader reach

Technical

Non-Technical

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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20 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 Any Questions?

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