Developing software for the medical device, biotech, pharmaceutical, and healthcare industries poses unique challenges. Teams are often large and geographically dispersed. Development and testing is relentless and vigorous. Regulatory compliance demands infinite diligence. With lives at stake, market opportunity dictates precise development at speed.

Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System can help. Over 100 customers in the medical device and healthcare informatics industries use Perforce to bring innovative products and solutions to market for doctors and patients, academics and labs, researchers and clinics.

Concurrent development

Perforce enables designers, developers, and testers to develop software, hardware, and firmware concurrently. An open interface supports a wide range of tools for software development, simulation, and testing.

Compliance and accountability

With the ability to capture all modifications without compromising SCM performance, Perforce underpins the rigorous version documentation required for FDA compliance. Perforce SCM's ability to provide full audit trails, complete notification for change reviews, and clear policy enforcement triggers ensures full accountability for medical device development. Equally, a capacity to support very large teams working with large data sets makes Perforce ideal for enterprise-class decision support in the development of clinical, diagnostic, and healthcare management solutions.

Variant management and rapid prototyping

Perforce offers a fast and efficient branching and merging functionality for the on-demand creation of custom variants and prototypes. Branches are created quickly, using minimal disk space, and changes are propogated easily and automatically between branches. The number of branches that Perforce supports is practically unlimited, allowing developers to isolate changes and create traceability for compliance issues. Branch and merge history can be viewed using intuitive graphical tools.

Perforce accelerates collaboration

Development teams have realized cost saving and time-to-market benefits with global collaboration. The Perforce Proxy (P4P) caches important files locally for each team while ensuring real-time access to the state of development across the entire project. Distributed teams can work together on the same products regardless of their location.

Improved time to market

Perforce makes everyday tasks simple and quick. With real-time updates of all development activity, you can avoide costly changes based on outdated information.

Low administration costs

Perforce requires near-zero administration so additional administrative staff are not required. With a low per-user cost, Perforce offers a strong SCM solution with a low total cost of ownership.

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