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Perforce
Perforce, legally Perforce Software, Inc., 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. The company is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is equally owned by private equity firms Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners. History Perforce Software was founded in 1995 in Alameda, California by Christopher Seiwald, a software developer and computer science graduate from UC Berkeley. 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. In June 2013, the company released Helix Swarm, a tool for developers working in different geographic areas to collaborate on code review. In June 2014, the compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seapine Software
Seapine Software was a privately held Mason, Ohio-based software and services company. The company developed a suite of software products that managed the full software development lifecycle. Seapine's tools included testing tools, configuration management, test-case management, and requirements management. The company was best known for its TestTrack line of application lifecycle management (ALM) software. The company was acquired in 2016 by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Perforce Software, and TestTrack was rebranded as Helix ALM. History Seapine was established in 1995 by Rick and Kelly Riccetti. The company shipped their first product, TestTrack Pro, in 1996. In 2012, Seapine built a new 50,000 square-foot technology headquarters in Mason, OH for their 100+ employees. In 2016, the company was acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Perforce Software. Six months after the acquisition, Perforce renamed TestTrack as Helix ALM to match other products in Perforce's suite. Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helix ALM
Helix ALM, formerly called TestTrack, is application lifecycle management (ALM) software developed by Perforce. The software allows developers to manage requirements, defects, issues and testing during software development. History Helix ALM's precursor, TestTrack Pro, was developed by Seapine Software, and first shipped in 1996. In November 2016, Perforce acquired Seapine, and rebranded the software as Helix ALM. Functionality The software tracks software development processes including feature requests and requirements to design revisions and actual changes in the code. It keeps track of what tests were done, what was tested, who performed the test and when, on what platform, under which configuration and in what language. It offers the ability to create, manage, and link artifacts from the beginning through the end of a design and development project providing end-to-end traceability of all development artifacts and giving managers a better handle on the shifting requirement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogue Wave Software
Rogue Wave Software was an American software development company based in Louisville, Colorado. It provided cross-platform software development tools and embedded components for parallel, data-intensive, and other high-performance computing (HPC) applications. In January 2019, the firm was acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based application software developer Perforce, which is maintaining Rogue Wave's products. History The company was founded in 1989 in Seattle, Washington, producing a C++ class Library (computing), library in 1989 called Math.h++. In 1990, the company moved to Corvallis, Oregon, and released Tools.h++, which predated the Standard Template Library. In November 1996, they had an initial public offering, listing their shares on the NASDAQ under symbol RWAV. In January 1998, Rogue Wave Software announced they were buying Morrisville, North Carolina-based Stingray Software, a developer of object oriented tools for Windows programmers. In 2001, the ".h++" products ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klocwork
Klocwork is a static code analysis tool owned by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software developer Perforce. Klocwork software analyzes source code in real time, simplifies peer code reviews, and extends the life of complex software. Overview Klocwork is used to identify security, safety and reliability issues in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript and Python code. The product includes numerous desktop plug-ins for developers, metrics and reporting. History Originally Klocwork’s technology was developed to address requirements for large-scale source code analysis to optimize software architecture for C code inside Nortel Networks and spun out in 2001. In January 2012, Klocwork Insight 9.5 was released. It provided on-the-fly static analysis in Visual Studio, like a word processor does with spelling mistakes. In May 2013, Klocwork Cahoots peer code review tool was launched. Awards and recognition In 2007, Klocwork was awarded the 2007 InfoWorld Technology of Year award for best so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PV-WAVE
PV-WAVE (Precision Visuals - Workstation Analysis and Visualization Environment) is an array oriented fourth-generation programming language used by engineers, scientists, researchers, business analysts and software developers to build and deploy visual data analysis applications. In January 2019, PV-Wave parent Rogue Wave Software was acquired by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based application software developer Perforce. History PV-WAVE was originally developed by a company called Precision Visuals, based in Boulder, CO. In 1992, the IMSL Numerical Libraries and Precision Visuals merged and the new company was renamed Visual Numerics. PV-WAVE is closely related to the IDL (programming language), from whose code-base PV-WAVE originated. The shared history of PV-WAVE and IDL began in 1988, when Precision Visuals entered into an agreement with Research Systems, Incorporated (RSI, the original developer of IDL) under which Precision Visuals resold IDL under the name PV-WAVE. In September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akana
Akana is a provider of computer software products for application programming interface (API) management. The company was founded as Digital Evolution and was later known as SOA Software. In November 2016, Akana was acquired by Rogue Wave Software. In January 2019, Rogue Wave was acquired by Minneapolis-based application software developer Perforce. History Akana was founded in 2001 as Digital Evolution. In September 2004, the company acquired enterprise SOA company Flamenco Networks. In March 2005, the company changed its name to SOA Software. In December, the company bought an internal mainframe web services product called X4ML from Merrill Lynch. The product was renamed SOLA. In May 2006, the company acquired Blue Titan, a web services networking company. In May 2008, the company acquired LogicLibrary, an SOA Repository and Governance vendor. In March 2015, the company changed its name to Akana, as the company expanded its product line away from its SOA and web services ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gliffy
Gliffy is software for diagramming via an HTML5 cloud-based app. It is used to create UML diagrams, floor plans, Venn diagrams, flowcharts and various other kinds of diagrams online. Gliffy diagrams can be shared with and edited by users in real time. The SaaS is supported in all modern web-browsers, including Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 9+. Gliffy's developer, the self-funded company Gliffy, Inc., was acquired by Rogue Wave Software in October 2018, and Rogue Wave was subsequently acquired by Perforce Software in January 2019. History Gliffy was founded in 2005 by friends and former coworkers, Chris Kohlhardt and Clint Dickson. The two software engineers saw a need for an online diagramming tool and decided to leave their full-time jobs and start a company to develop it. Kohlhardt contacted Mike Cannon-Brookes, one of the founders of Atlassian, an Australian enterprise software company. With his encouragement, Kohlhardt and Dickson created a Gliffy plugin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Programming Research Limited
Programming Research Limited (PRQA) was a United Kingdom-based developer of code quality management software for embedded software, which included the static program analysis tools QA·C and QA·C++, now known as Helix QAC. It created the High Integrity C++ software coding standard. In May 2018, the company was acquired by Minneapolis, MN-based Perforce Perforce, legally Perforce Software, Inc., is an American developer of software used for developing and running applications, including version control software, web-based repository management, developer collaboration, application lifecycle mana ..., and its products were renamed. References External links Programming Research Limited website Borough of Elmbridge Companies based in Surrey Privately held companies of the United Kingdom Science and technology in Surrey Software companies of the United Kingdom {{computer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helix QAC
Helix QAC, formerly QA·C is a commercial static code analysis software tool produced by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based software vendor Perforce Software.QAC means Quality Assurance and Control. The software was originally developed in 1986 by UK-based Programming Research Limited (PRQA) for the C language. Perforce acquired PRQA in May 2018. Helix QAC was used to make the C source code measurements given in the book ''Safer C'' by Les Hatton. HeliX QAC can be used for quality assurance of C source code and checking the code for conformance to coding guidelines such as MISRA C. Other functionality includes the ability to calculate code metrics for projects with large code-bases. The tools operate through an integrated development environment (IDE) designed to help maintain and understand old and new code using detailed cross references and a variety of graphical views. The tools can be used with a command line interface, and graphical IDE can be called to display the result. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Partners
Francisco Partners is an American private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. Founded in August 1999 and based in San Francisco with offices in London and New York City, Francisco Partners Management L.P. has raised approximately US$24 billion in committed capital as of June 2020 when the firm raised nearly $10 billion for tech company investments. As of 2021, Francisco Partners had more than US$30 billion in assets under management, and invested in over 300 companies in the technology sector. History 1999–2011 Francisco Partners was founded in August 1999, in Menlo Park, California, during the emergence of dedicated technology buyout firms. Founders Sanford Robertson, Dipanjan Deb, David Stanton, Benjamin Ball, and Neil Garfinkel came from a variety of private equity firms. Robertson had been the founder of the technology-focused investment bank Robertson Stephens, while Deb left TPG Capital in August 1999, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summit Partners
Summit Partners is an American private equity firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm focuses on investing in technology, healthcare, life sciences and other growth industries. Background Summit Partners was founded in 1984 by Roe Stamps and Stephen Woodsum, who previously worked together at TA Associates. Greg Avis would also join as a co-founder shortly after. In 2000, the three co-founders handed over daily management of the firm to five partners. In 2015, the firm acquired Alydar Capital. It now operates as the public equity investment arm of Summit Partners. Summit Partners is headquartered in Boston with additional offices in Menlo Park, London and Luxembourg. Business Overview Summit Partners has three main business lines, which are: * Growth & Venture * Credit * Public Equity The firm typically invests in later-stage companies that have already been established with the objective of providing further growth. Its private equity investments typically r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMSL Numerical Libraries
IMSL (International Mathematics and Statistics Library) is a commercial collection of software libraries of numerical analysis functionality that are implemented in the computer programming languages C, Java, C#.NET, and Fortran. A Python interface is also available. The IMSL Libraries were developed by Visual Numerics, which was acquired in 2009 by Rogue Wave Software, which was acquired in 2019 by Minneapolis, Minnesota-based application software developer Perforce. Version history The first IMSL Library for the Fortran language was released in 1970, followed by a C-language version originally called C/Base in 1991, a Java-language version in 2002 and the C#-language version in 2004. Several recent product releases have involved making IMSL Library functions available from Python. These releases are Python wrappers to IMSL C Library functions (PyIMSL wrappers) and PyIMSL Studio, a prototyping and production application development environment based on Python and the IMSL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |