Case Study: NYSE Euronext harmonizes software lifecycle and accelerates global deployments with Perforce Helix

NYSE Euronext Uses Helix To Harmonize Its Software Lifecycle Management

NYSE Euronext, the global exchange group that includes the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext, faced rapid technical growth after multiple mergers: a six-person team was responsible for hundreds of projects across a sprawling, heterogeneous estate that grew to 14,000 servers. By 2007 deployments were a slow, patch-based, error-prone process requiring weekend testing and risking SEC noncompliance; an urgent regulatory update exposed the need for a fast, auditable production mechanism.

The team adopted Perforce Helix beyond source control to manage the full software lifecycle — versioning everything, enforcing depot-based workflows, using proxies to reduce latency, running nightly compliance diffs, and enabling fast rollbacks and hot swaps. The result: scalable, automated releases (198 active projects and 6,600+ production releases per year), millisecond deployments, strong traceability for SEC audits, near-zero release-induced outages, and the ability to support up to ~10,000 releases annually with the same small team at roughly 99.9% accuracy.

NYSE Euronext

Valerie Hendrickson

U.S. Head of Release Management