Case Study: ByAllAccounts achieves dramatic time savings and measurable cost savings with Perforce Helix

ByAllAccounts Saves Operation Time by Switching to Perforce Helix

ByAllAccounts, a Woburn, MA–based SaaS provider of intelligent data aggregation for financial services, needed to replace a decade-old Visual SourceSafe system that was slow, insecure, and unable to reliably remove sensitive data. Senior Engineering Manager Steve Munyan ran three-month, head-to-head evaluations of Accurev, Perforce, SVN, Git, Mercurial and Kiln, testing performance, support responsiveness, and the ability to obliterate sensitive information — requirements that many systems and vendors could not meet.

They selected Perforce Helix after the trial. Perforce delivered dramatic time savings (operations that took 30 minutes in SourceSafe now take under a minute; populating a dev system with 32,000 files takes 4 minutes vs. an hour), consistent 1–3 second developer workflows, shelving for one-click code reviews, protection tables for access control, and the P4 obliterate command to remove sensitive data. The rental-to-purchase option eased adoption, produced measurable cost savings, and boosted productivity across ByAllAccounts’ 35 engineering, QA, and validation staff.

ByAllAccounts

Steve Munyan

Expert of software development tools, ByAllAccounts