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Helix Core, formerly Perforce Helix, is the company's version control software for large scale development environments.

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Perforce develops software used by software developers to manage code during the development process. In April 2022, Perforce acquired the Portland, Oregon-based infrastructure automation software platform, Puppet. In October 2021, Perforce agreed to buy BlazeMeter testing platform from Broadcom Inc for an undisclosed sum. In July, Perforce acquired software developer Methodics, a DevOps software provider of intellectual property life cycle management for semiconductor companies.

In June 2020, Perforce acquired software developer TestCraft Technologies, a provider of automated Selenium-based web application testing. In September, Perforce Software was awarded the 2019 Computer Entertainment Developers Conference (CEDEC) Award for Engineering for Helix Core. In April, private equity firm Francisco Partners acquired 50% of Perforce, becoming an equal partner with Clearlake Capital. In January 2019, Perforce announced the acquisition of Rogue Wave Software, a software company with a focus on development tools for high-performance computing. In October, the company acquired mobile and web automation testing company Perfecto.

In June, the company announced that CEO Janet Dryer was moving to the role of Chair of the Board, and COO/CFO Mark Ties was taking the role of CEO. In May, Perforce acquired UK-based Programming Research (PRQA), a static code analysis firm. In January 2018, Summit Partners sold Perforce to private equity firm Clearlake Capital. Deveo's products were merged into Perforce's Helix TeamHub, its first solo venture for Git-based development teams. Also in September, Perforce announced it had acquired Finnish repository management services company Deveo. In September 2017, the company acquired Uppsala, Sweden-based Hansoft, a developer of Agile planning software. Seapine's TestTrack ALM software was rebranded as Helix ALM. In November, Perforce announced the acquisition of Seapine Software, a provider of application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. The company headquarters was relocated to Minneapolis. In February 2016, Seiwald sold the company to investment group Summit Partners, and Janet Dryer was named as new CEO. In October, the company collaborated with GitLab to release GitSwarm, a software tool that combined git distributed workflow for developers with Perforce's single code repository. Helix's security capabilities included IP threat detection, co-developed with analytics vendor Interset. In March 2015, the company renamed its product to Perforce Helix, which now supported distributed development and included security features allowing suspicious usage tracking.

In June 2014, the company released a version of its Perforce versioning engine, by then known as P4D, which supported concurrency. In June 2013, the company released Helix Swarm, a tool for developers working in different geographic areas to collaborate on code review. Its first product was also called Perforce, and was a version control system allowing companies to collaborate on large software projects by keeping track of changes to both the source code and binary files. Perforce Software was founded in 1995 in Alameda, California by Christopher Seiwald, a software developer and computer science graduate from UC Berkeley. The company is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is equally owned by private equity firms Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners. is an American developer of software used for developing and running applications, including version control software, web-based repository management, developer collaboration, application lifecycle management, web application servers, debugging tools and Agile planning software.