Case Study: Openwave achieves faster, parallel development with Perforce Helix VCS

Openwave - Customer Case Study

Openwave (which acquired Magic4) is a mobile messaging software provider with rapidly growing, globally distributed development teams and extensive product customization needs for handset manufacturers and operators. Faced with a legacy version control system that hindered parallel development, cross‑pollination of code, and efficient management of customer-specific branches—especially over low‑bandwidth VPN links—the company reviewed alternatives to support its evolving development model.

Openwave chose Perforce Helix VCS for its mainline/branching model, low bandwidth requirements, speed and reliability, and integration capabilities. With Perforce support for migration and customization, teams now run isolated branches for releases, fixes and customer work, merge changes back into mainline smoothly, and automate bug-to-job workflows. The result has been faster, more flexible development, lower maintenance and licensing costs, robust global access, and improved on-time delivery and ROI.

Openwave

Cliff Anderson

Director of Software Engineering, Openwave