Perforce Software has unveiled a significant upgrade to its Intelligence platform, targeting one of the most pressing problems in enterprise technology right now: organisations are deploying AI at scale but have little idea what it is actually doing.
The update, announced today, bundles three new capabilities: an agentic gateway, an autonomous testing platform, and a unified compliance layer – into what Perforce is billing as a control plane for AI-driven software delivery. The timing seems deliberate. With boardrooms under mounting pressure to justify AI spending, the company is betting that governance and visibility are becoming as commercially important as capability.
The numbers support that argument. A 2026 Harris Poll survey of over 900 CEOs found that 80% fear their position is at risk if their company fails to demonstrate measurable AI returns by the end of the year. Yet most enterprises still cannot answer basic questions about where AI is operating inside their organisation, what decisions it is making, or whether its outputs are compliant.
The centrepiece of the update is the Perforce Agentic Gateway, a centralised orchestration layer that controls how AI agents interact with code, data, infrastructure, and testing environments. It also manages third-party model context protocols – an increasingly fraught compliance challenge as organisations plug multiple AI tools into their technology stacks – and helps reduce token consumption, which is quietly becoming a significant cost issue as agent use grows.
Autonomous Testing takes aim at a longstanding bottleneck in software delivery. By allowing non-technical users to describe test requirements in plain language and letting AI handle execution across functional, performance, mobile, and accessibility testing, Perforce is making the case that quality engineering no longer needs to be the exclusive preserve of specialist testers. The capability is built on BlazeMeter and Perfecto, two established testing platforms already in the Perforce portfolio.
The third pillar, Unified Compliance, addresses the gap that regularly catches regulated enterprises out: the distance between having a security policy written down and actually enforcing it. The platform translates written policies into operational controls, monitors continuously for drift across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, remediates violations, and maintains the audit trail that regulators expect.
Jim Mercer, Programme Vice President at IDC, said the release reflected a broader industry shift. “There’s a lot of money being spent with AI, but the next evolution needs to be on ROI of AI, which can only be measured if you have control mechanisms in place and visibility into what it’s doing,” he said. “Perforce’s vision for Perforce Intelligence reflects the industry’s shift toward more connected, governed, and autonomous software delivery environments.”
Anjali Arora, CTO of Perforce, was direct about where the company sees its competitive positioning. “The future of AI in the enterprise will be defined by how effectively organizations can control, scale, and operationalize AI workflows, models, and deliver real business results with clear visibility and traceability,” she said. “Perforce is uniquely positioned to be that control plane.”
The Agentic Gateway is available now via GitHub. Autonomous Testing and Unified Compliance are live as part of the broader Intelligence platform update. Perforce’s customer base spans over 80 countries and includes more than 75% of the Fortune 100.
