Go2Group - Software Production Line Automation

Go2Group Solutions - Perforce BPD

The Perforce Software Configuration Management (SCM) system is the best foundation for a modern, world-class Software Production Line on the market today. However, large enterprises want more than a foundation – they want the whole house. Go2Group's Perforce Best Practice Deployment (BPD) Package provides a comprehensive, enterprise-grade delivery solution for Perforce. The Perforce BPD Package provides the features that are expected in an enterprise deployment, including:

Deployment Architecture: We consult with your IT staff to design the deployment architecture suitable to your organization's needs. Whether your scalability needs include supporting several thousand of users across a globally distributed environment or ten work-from-home telecommuters, we help select the optimum hardware for your environment.

Our standard BPD package provides a platform-independent Disaster Recovery (Warm Spare) solution. For customers interested in High Availability (Hot Spare), we will create custom solutions that take advantage of your hardware.

Branching Strategy Definition: Perforce provides a powerful, flexible branching engine that can support any number of branching strategies. However, in enterprise environments, there is generally a desire to define a standard branching strategy and stick to it. Go2Group’s BPD Package provides a way to encode any branching strategy as a set of Codelines and Merge Pathways.

These clearly define and communicate a branch plan in a format conducive to automation. And then we provide the automation to promote or enforce the standard branching strategy.

Performance and Scalability Tuning: We have experience resolving performance issues through a combination of approaches, including examination of platforms and hardware configuration, exploring Perforce administration improvements, and usage patterns of humans and automated operations.

Enforced Branching Best Practices: It is well understood by SCM experts that “merge down, copy up” is a best practice. Our BPD Package provides a way to encourage or enforce this best practice, via our AutoMerge utility. AutoMerge classifies Perforce integration operations as either Refreshes or Promotions, based on the defined branch strategy, performing appropriate Perforce interaction for each.

When integrated in to the P4V Tools Menu, AutoMerge makes some of the most powerful features of Perforce accessible to unsophisticated users.

Warm Spare Refresh System: Our Warm Spare Refresh System is a battle-hardened Disaster Recovery solution.

Go2Group are Perforce experts and our Perforce BPD helps our clients better understand our complete deployment service. For more information, including pricing and support, please contact us today.