The Perforce Difference
Perforce delivers solutions for every phase of automotive development, for projects of every size, and for every kind of vehicle on the road. Improve collaboration between teams and make development faster, less error-prone, and more cost-effective.
Deliver on Innovation While Maintaining Safety Standards
- Easily meet functional safety compliance and traceability requirements for critical automotive standards such as ISO 26262.
- Enforce coding standards (like MISRA and AUTOSAR) with TÜV-SÜD certified tools.
- Maintain an immutable history of every digital asset for complete traceability.
- Implement cybersecurity safeguards for vehicles that span the entire supplier chain.
- Fulfill security standard criteria for ISO 21434 and prove compliance.
- Protect IP and ensure secure collaboration with best-in-class, built-in security features.
- Simplify and visualize branching and merging to better understand project status and changes.
- Track and version high volumes of large files and projects that grow rapidly year to year.
- Unite hardware and software teams with a single source of truth for all digital assets.
- Streamline simultaneous contributions from hundreds to thousands of cross-functional developers.
- Efficiently leverage next-gen development technologies like digital twins, game engines, and AR/VR.
- Ensure rapid, seamless, secure file access from anywhere in the world with robust, federated, multisite data management.
Proven Performance
“Using Perforce means that all versions of our products are traceable and auditable. This is key for complying with the various industry regulations.”
- Lennart Kjellén, Configuration Manager at Scania
Top 10
Global Automotive Parts Manufacturers
70 Million+ Vehicles
Rely on Perforce for quality at Elektrobit.
“We're impressed by the performance of Perforce. It is very accurate. It finds issues that other tools have missed.”
- Huw Jones, Senior Software Test Engineer at Protean Electric
Leading OEMs and Suppliers Trust Perforce
The world’s largest automotive companies trust Perforce to help solve their most complex design and development challenges.
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Get to Market Faster with Solutions that Streamline Automotive Software Development
Continuous Safety-Critical Compliance
Accelerate compliance to rigorous coding and functional safety standards for C and C++.
Scalable Static Application Security Testing
Identify defects early and often during development, enforcing security and code quality for C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, and Kotlin.
Scalable Data Management
Improve collaboration, efficiency, and security by gaining a single source of truth for all digital assets.
End-to-End Traceability
Automate traceability across the product lifecycle with unified requirements, issue, and test case management.
Continuous Safety-Critical Compliance
Accelerate compliance to rigorous coding and functional safety standards for C and C++.
Scalable Static Application Security Testing
Identify defects early and often during development, enforcing security and code quality for C, C++, C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, and Kotlin.
Scalable Data Management
Improve collaboration, efficiency, and security by gaining a single source of truth for all digital assets.
Functional Safety
Ensure Functional Safety in Software and Technology Development
Functional safety standards guide developers in producing software that is as safe as possible, and are often a requirement for automotive software (ISO 26262). As modern vehicles add increasingly complex features like advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and artificial intelligence, it’s essential that each component meets compliance with these standards — but enforcing and proving compliance can be time-consuming and challenging.
Perforce Static Analysis solutions QAC and Klocwork accelerate compliance throughout the development lifecycle. Static code analyzers ensure the safety and reliability of automotive embedded software and confirm compliance quickly and efficiently. Apply coding guidelines and guarantee the necessary safety standard requirements are met as you’re writing code.
Security
Keep Automotive Systems Secure and Protect Valuable Code and IP
Automotive product developers, OEMs, and their suppliers must ensure the security of their vehicles, especially as cars become more connected and autonomous.
Design automotive software with security considerations from the start. Implement Perforce Static Analysis tools — like QAC and Klocwork — to enforce specific cybersecurity requirements and meet compliance with key security standards such as ISO 21434.
With P4, protect valuable code and IP with advanced security capabilities like granular access control, a complete history of which changes have been made and by whom, a content distribution server that protects assets from third parties, and more.
Development Complexity
Conquer the Complexity of Growing, Global Projects
Automotive software development projects and teams grow larger year after year, and so does the pressure to get to market faster with safe, innovative products.
P4 helps teams conquer complexity by providing a central repository for all digital assets used in automotive design and development. With intuitive, visual branching and merging, you can easily understand a project’s status and see how it has evolved over time.
Built for unrivaled scalability, P4 tracks and versions large volumes of massive files—from source code to design files and more—without sacrificing performance. It effortlessly handles digital assets over 100MB, project repositories over 10 TBs, thousands of concurrent users, and 10,000+ transactions per minute.
Collaboration
Unite Global Teams with Tools Built for Global Collaboration
Gain a secure foundation to unify hardware and software teams and streamline collaboration on large, global projects.
With P4 data management, team members get nearly instantaneous access to the latest version of their files, no matter where they are located.
You can also control the flow of contributions and changes to large, collaborative projects by ensuring team members can’t duplicate efforts, and only approved changes make it into the final build.
Leverage tools like game engines to build high-fidelity digital twins and next-gen HMI systems — all while saving every version of every file in the background, gaining an immutable history to iterate on or roll back to.
Report
2025 State of Automotive Software Development
Get 60+ pages of insights from automotive software developers across the globe. Our annual report covers:
- Top concerns impacting automotive development today.
- The impact of autonomous, semi-autonomous, connected, and electric vehicles.
- The impact of AI and machine learning on development.
- Methods and practices industry leaders use to keep pace with emerging trends.
More Uses for Perforce Automotive Solutions
Whether you are developing the SDV technology driving advancements in e-mobility and autonomy, or creating digital twins of vehicles with real-time 3D engines, Perforce automotive solutions give your team the foundation they need to accelerate innovation.
Electric Vehicles
A trusted static code analyzer is critical to ensuring EV software functions properly and seamlessly makes over the air (OTA) updates to enhance the functionality, safety, and security of the vehicle.
In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI)
Designing a “smart cockpit” with all the in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) bells and whistles? Fix coding errors quickly in IVI systems with SAST tools that improve code quality, protect against vulnerabilities, and enforce compliance to industry standards.
Digital Twins
Using a game engine like Unreal or Unity to build digital twins? A scalable, high-performant data management system that integrates seamlessly with leading game engines lets your team manage the high volume of files and versions within their tools and workflows.
Get the Power of Perforce Today
Embrace complexity, achieve speed without compromise, improve security and compliance, and run your DevOps toolchains with full integrity.