founded 1995 headquarters minneapolis mn area served worldwide products helix helix versioning engine helix threat detection helix swarm helix insights number of employees 250 2014 1 website www.perforce.com perforce software is the developer of the commercial proprietary revision control system perforce and the helix version control system . contents 1 history 2 release dates 3 customers 4 references 5 external links history edit perforce software was founded in 1995 by christopher seiwald . 2 the company is headquartered in eden prairie minnesota with offices in alameda california ; sydney australia ; wokingham england ; and victoria canada . 3 its first product was perforce a version control system allowing companies to collaborate on large projects and keep a record of their development . 4 perforce helix built around the perforce versioning engine was launched in march 2015 . 5 other products include helix gitswarm helix swarm helix threat detection and helix insights . 6 in february 2016 seiwald sold the company to investment group summit partners . janet dryer was named as new ceo . 7 release dates edit helix gitswarm released october 2012 8 helix swarm released june 2013 9 helix insights released october 2013 10 helix versioning engine released june 2014 11 perforce helix released march 2015 12 helix threat detection released march 2015 10 customers edit perforce customers include salesforce nyse netflix and samsung as well as games studios such as ubisoft electronic arts sony online entertainment and nintendo and in 2015 computer weekly called perforce the market leader in the gaming sector with 18 of the top 20 games developers using perforce version control . 13 references edit alan shimel perforce the biggest little secret in devops devops.com march 18 2014 . james batchelor develop awards partner spotlight perforce spotlight develop june 20 2014 . stephanie vozza 3 simples steps to eliminate file sharing problems entrepreneur may 1 2013 . philip michaels perforce updates cross platform interface for software versioning tool macworld march 10 2008 . alex handy perforce goes fully distributed in source code management san diego times march 3 2015 . craig chapple 8 production pipeline tools to keep your game on track develop september 26 2014 . batchelor james . perforce acquired by summit partners . develop . retrieved 7 february 2016 . nathan eddy perforce launches scm platform helix eweek march 5 2015 . alex williams perforce swarm a developer platform to compete with the likes of github and atlassian techcrunch june 12 2013 . a b ben kepes using log data and machine learning to weed out the bad guys forbes march 27 2015 . rob marvin perforce introduces concurrency technology into versioning platform san diego times june 11 2014 . david norfolk perforce helix a new incarnation of perforce it director.com april 14 2015 . bob tarzey the software game perforce s new helix platform computer weekly march 6 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title perforce software & oldid 743042884 categories companies established in 1995companies based in alameda californiasoftware companies based in the san francisco bay areacloud platformsgit software cloud computing providershidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages polski edit links this page was last modified on 7 october 2016 at 12 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view