Case Study: Ciena Corporation achieves migration of over 70% of its workforce and major productivity gains with Perforce Helix VCS

Ciena Migrates Over 70 Percent of Their Workforce to Perforce

Ciena, a global networking company, struggled with fragmented version control and document chaos after multiple acquisitions—multiple engineering intranet sites, inconsistent document revisions that referenced old indices, and time-consuming manual updates that jeopardized deadlines and traceability. The company needed a single, scalable system that both developers and non-technical staff could use to manage source code, documentation, and digital assets across several sites and time zones.

Ciena migrated over 70% of relevant staff to Perforce Helix, scaling to roughly 750 users and 13 million files across multiple servers and proxies, integrating with automated build tools and enforcing check-ins to preserve originals and track changes. The result was faster submissions, smoother transitions, improved traceability and consistency, successful consolidation of intranet content, higher productivity, and broad adoption of Helix as the preferred tool for new development.

Ciena Corporation

Shawn Jamison

Perforce Administrator, Ciena