Case Study: Cardinal Health achieves 1,100% ROI and faster, more productive development with Perforce

Cardinal Health - Customer Case Study

Cardinal Health, a major distributor of pharmaceuticals and medical products, faced persistent software development challenges for its embedded medical-device code: strict FDA compliance and audit-trail requirements, high complexity with up to 300 developers and many code branches, frequent hot fixes, and delays caused by difficult merges and slow rebuilds. Its configuration-management team relied on a mix of off‑the‑shelf and homegrown tools that could not keep up with these demands.

Cardinal selected Perforce for its focused version-control features, usability, and lower cost, deploying it in three months, partitioning the environment into 20 product silos, securing a dedicated server, and training super users. The change cut configuration-related bugs by 60%, saved developers about an hour a day, boosted testers’ configuration testing productivity by 35%, and allowed project managers to complete 13% more projects annually. Financially, the rollout delivered a 1,100% ROI with roughly a two‑month payback and average annual benefits of $2.51 million against total deployment costs of about $499,000.

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