An update on what is happening with Perforce's Swarm platform

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MURTAZA AMIJI
Director, Product Management

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• Team collaboration
– Peer reviews
– Code
conversations
– browse/discover
assets
• Pre-commit validation
• All content in P4D

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Review workflow enhancements
Lightweight Tasks Mandatory Reviewers Add/delete Reviewers
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2 Project access control 3 Restful API

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Friction across CD Pipeline
Developer DevOps Enterprise
• Familiar tools/workflows
• Faster time to solution
• Platform for all assets
• Cross-team collaboration
• Seamless experience globally
• Secure intellectual property
• Scalability, high availability
• Ease of administration

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• More choice for developers
workflow
• Collaboration beyond code review
– Component discovery
– Repo/depot admin
– Artifacts across lifecycle
• Local access for global teams
• Fast/simple install & administration

8. Familiar Developer Tools & Workflow
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• Git & P4 (including P4 DVCS)
• Pull request workflow
– for both Git and P4
• Gerrit workflow
– for both Git and P4
Shared Repository
Replicated Shared
Repository
Developer
Repository
Developer
Repository
Developer
Repository
Push
Fetch

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• Discover components
• Reuse & create custom
repositories
• Contribute to shared
components

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Browse Create/Manage

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• Treat Perforce as artifact repository
• Support distributed build/test
• Manage build components
• Reduce software maintenance cost
• Single platform for the entire CD pipeline
Source
code Art assets Build
output
Build
dependencies

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Artist, tech pub Software Developer
Create, showcase,
review
Create, review,
integrate, test
Versioning Engine
Build/test release,
Manage artifacts
DevOps

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Master
Project
members
Partner/
Contractor
Project
members
Fast local
access to
relevant
data
(on-premise)
(on-premise) (Cloud)
Seamless experience worldwide
while protecting intellectual property

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• One platform package (with flexible deployment options)
• LDAP or native Perforce authentication
• Admin Interface — create users, groups, assign roles, etc.

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Q4
2014
H1
2015
H2
2015
Custom repo builder
Artifact Management
Pull request & Gerrit workflow
Access & repo management
P4 DVCS
Enhanced project tracking
Federated Swarm
Swarm - P4V Integration
Review workflow enhancements
This roadmap is subject to change

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Forums

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