Managing Medical Technology with Perforce

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 enterprise version management 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.

Perforce is powerful without being difficult to use. It is designed to operate with a minimum of user administration. Perforce is a very well designed and integrated set of tools.

Tony Oakden, Producer

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 software version management performance, Perforce underpins the rigorous version documentation required for FDA compliance. Perforce'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.

Accelerate Team Collaboration

Perforce's distributed architecture, with advanced collaboration tools for remote teams, gives organizations flexibility without sacrificing project transparency, process management, or security. Distributed teams can collaborate together on the same products regardless of their location.

Improved Time to Market

Perforce makes everyday tasks simple and quick. To promote rapid delivery of high quality products, Perforce's shared versioning service easily scales to support the work of your diverse team members using their preferred methodologies and tools of their trade. With real-time updates of all development activity, you can avoid costly changes based on outdated information.

Easy to Maintain

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