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Commons: Extend the Power of Perforce Throughout Your Organization

John Palmer Product Specialist

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Perforce Commons The Best Place for Your Files

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47%  work  on  the  wrong  version  

56% have to manually

merge edits from others

73% waste time looking

for the right version of a file

48%  email  the  wrong    version  to  a  boss,  client  or  coworker  

*  2012  Knowledge  Worker  Survey  by  Harris  InteracAve,  commissioned  by  Perforce  

83% of knowledge workers are impacted by version management issues EVERY DAY

Collaboration Solutions Aren’t Working

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Commons: Advanced Versioning for Everyone

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Commons: Advanced Versioning for Everyone

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A Complete Collaboration Solution Requires…

Secure Industrial-Grade Data Store

Powerful Versioning Engine

Intuitive Collaboration & Sharing

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&Too many ways to share files & collaborate

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Can’t I work in parallel like the developers do?

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What is this file? ?

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Commons 13.1 Demo

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Commons Availability §  Commons is FREE for…

§  Up to 20 users and an unlimited number of files §  Open source projects & educational institutions

§  FREE for current users of Perforce §  Commons-only licences significantly less than full

Perforce user licence

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Questions? See us in the Demo Area Try Commons Today Commons 13.2 Available For Download Participate in UX Testing Impact the Product Roadmap Billie Mandel: bmandel@perforce.com Dan Auker: dauker@perforce.com