MERGE 2016 Opening Remarks
Transcript of MERGE 2016 Opening Remarks
About Me
• 30 years in software
• Former CEO of HelpSystems
• Grew both organically and through acquisition
• First U.S. software certifiedunder the ISO 9001 standard
OUR MISSION
Around The World
We Believe In…
World Class Customer Support
Satisfaction surveyaverage last year
Time tomeaningfulresponse
• The Perforce Foundation –supports employee giving
• Perforce Giving Committee
• $4.8 million in donations since 1999
• Community support and education
• Students are hands on with Perforcefor free
Giving Back To The CommunityThe Little Ice Rink
Boys and GirlsClubs of America
East Bay BoxingAssociation
The MalalaFund
• We use our own technology to ensure quality
• We store every change in Perforce
• Our products are subjected to a total of170,000 automated tests and we don’trelease one until it passes all
• QA works side by side with our developers
• Code reviews in Swarm to catch problemsbefore submitting code
Quality Matters
Gathering Customer Feedback
• Customer surveys
• MERGE and other conferences
• Customer support desk
• Customer Advisory Group
• Beta program feedback
• Partner relationships
Deep Technical Talent
70% of our employee base consists of technical staff
• Leverage our experts this week• Many familiar faces and names
Janet DryerCEO
Mark TiesCFO
Colleen KulhanekVP, Marketing
Steve JezierskiVP, Sales
North America
Matt AttawayVP, Community Support
Chris DobbrowVP, Strategy &Key Accounts
Tony SmithVP, Engineering
Konrad LitwinManaging Director,
International
Executive Team
What You’ll Hear This Week…
• Great traction on our enterprise-gradeGit solution
• Large deployments of our native DVCS
• Significant performance improvementsin our core
• 10x growth in code review usage
• Helix in simplified Chinese, Japanese,and Korean
Significant Accomplishments
Unified ExperienceWith Helix
Helix Cloud
Git Enterprise Management
Helix Core
Development Focus Near Term
Featured Sessions
• Features built intoHelix the last 18 months
• What’s coming preview
InnovationsShowcase
• Gene Kim keynote comingup next
• DevOps panel this afternoon
• Scania on adopting DevOpsin the automotive industry;and adopting CD internallyat Perforce (Thurs.)
• J. Paul Reed on Friday
DevOps/CD
• NVIDIA and EA latertoday on how they’redepending on Helix tosupport their businesses
• Everyday Git (Thurs.),using Helix DVCS forthose familiar with Git;making Git work for theenterprise - GitSwarm
Showcase/Best Practices
Please Take Our Survey
• Your input is important
• Conference feedback
• How you use Perforce and Helix today
• Future needs
• Only 10-15 minutes