By Matt Attaway, Open Source Community Manager at Perforce (@p4mataway) & Charlie McLouth, Director of Technical Sales at Perforce The what’s and why’s of Perforce Swarm, our global code collaboration platform.

1. Swarm
Matt Attaway & Charlie McLouth
PERFORCE

2. Today’s Development Environments
Replication
Service
D/R
Versioning
Service
Proxy
Build
Replica
Proxy
“It’s hard to work with the
team in Bangalore.”
“How do I release products
faster without mistakes?”
“How do Git
repositories fit in?”

3. Perforce Swarm
• Collaborate, share and validate for faster
delivery of better software
• Remove errors through flexible reviews
• Enable large distributed teams
to do fast Agile
• Across Git and Perforce
• Employ continuous delivery via CI hooks;
manage final binaries in one place

4. Web-based Collaboration
Platform
• Direct & contextual comments
across code, projects & teams
• Intuitive, minimalist interface
• At-a-glance views into
projects you care about
• Social features like
@mentions

5. Typical Trade-Off
Communication
Freedom
Administration
& Security

6. Swarm Delivers...
Developer Speed
& Collaboration
Admin Security
& Control
• Across projects, teams,
geographies and SCM tools
• Code conversations are
automatically stored to Perforce,
right there with the code.
• Get the feedback they need,
when they need it.
• No additional steps
• No additional database required
• No concerns for back-ups,
auditability, security, etc.

7. Swarm Tour

8. Extending
Swarm

9. Coming Soon!
Perforce
Workshop
Check it out at
workshop.perforce.com
• One stop shop for all your Perforce
tool needs
• Sample code and tutorials to get you
hacking Perforce
• Source code for Perforce products such
as P4Java and P4Eclipse
• Powered by Perforce: Swarm, Git Fusion,
Insights, and more

10. • Asset collaboration built by Perforce
for Perforce
• Beautiful, clean interface
• Built for extensibility
• Works with Git and Perforce
• CI hooks integrated into the
review process

11. Roadmap
2013.2
• Versioned reviews
• Stream support
• Improved JIRA
integration
Future
2013.3
• Full Git support
• Enhanced
workflow
• Large binary
support
• File level reviews