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Helix Core is a version control solution that enables businesses to monitor and manage changes across videos, binary files, IPs, codes and other digital assets via a unified portal. The application helps development teams to...
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- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Hard to master
Perforce is great, when you master it. It becomes a very powerful and useful tool once you know how to use it.
Pros
Perforce is the perfect software if you want to work with a team remotely on the same project. In video game development, you could have 500 people working on the same game at the same time. Perforce allows everyone to work on specific things within the project from their own computers.
Cons
Perforce's user interface is very complicated to understand and to master. Many people that I know, including me, make a lot of mistakes after and there is not enough information online to figure it out.
- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Solid easy to use source control
We use Helix Core to store everything related to software - source code, artifacts, design documents, tests, test results, etc. It handles everything we throw at it with ease. In over 15 years of using Helix Core, we have not had any issues with data integrity, speed or storage.
Pros
The software is hosted by our company, is easy to manage, easy to maintain and does it's job. The primary focus for the tool is source control. While Helix Core allows for integration with other applications, it has remained true to being first and foremost a world-class source control management tool.
Cons
Remote depots were slow and confusing, though that has seen much improvement in the past few years. Setting up the remote depots was not difficult in the final analysis, but getting our remote contractors to manage Helix was problematic. We would use remote depots again if the need arose, but internet speed increases, remote clients can just VPN into our network.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Made more work like very handy.
Helix helped me to find the profiles I need to work on our company whole system basically works on helix. it means the requirements of our company to work on efficiently. It helps to work efficiently under accompany regulations. It helps to manage create and prioritize tasks accordingly overall I’m very satisfied with the app.
Pros
Very easy to navigate and understand even for beginners with zero training
It’s back in the strong and efficient
Faster compared to other similar software
Cons
Sometimes it is very slow and a lot of bugs
They can make it better and more user
They can provide more online training videos on how to use it
German concepts, which are unclear and training would make it much more easier and efficient to use
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- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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Essential but lacks user-friendly set-up process
Pros
It's one of the essencial part of the workflow and a useful tool to manage the game project.
Cons
It's very difficult to set-up and manage.
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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best source control software around
i've been using this product for almost 20 years, and i'm not planning to change any time soon. it does what i want. it's pretty easy to use. it can do just about anything you need it to do. the company stands behind their product, and they support it very well. what more needs to be said.
Pros
i have been using this product (both as Helix and Perforce) since 2000, and it's wonderful. it has just about every feature you could want. on those rare occasions when i had to contact their support department, i got answers immediately, and whatever the problem was, it was resolved very quickly. over the years, there was only one thing i wanted that the software couldn't do, but i easily created a workaround that did exactly what i needed.
Cons
several years ago there was a feature called "windows explorer integration". that feature has gone away in the more recent versions, which is too bad, as it was quite useful. there are other ways to do the same thing, but it was a nice feature to have around.
- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Helix
Helix is used in the main big studios to share files in a project. And is very important to learn and understand well this software before working in the industry.
Pros
Perforce is used in a lot and studios and also used in many 3D animation school. You can share large document/ modify them and post them back in the project
Cons
It could get confusing , there aren't tutorials and you can easily erase files in a important project.
without a good internet connection transfering file could take alot of time

- Industry: Computer Games
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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A powerful tool once you learn how to use it
My overall experience has been both using it for testing and software development. On on hand, I will occasionally be tasked to look at previous revisions to locate when a bug was introduced in our software. On the other hand, I also upload my own work to our repository, as a part of the project.
Pros
What I like most is how powerful it is when it comes to moving between revisions. Even in huge projects, it is not difficult to revert back to and older, or newer, version of your project.
Cons
While this software is powerful, it is also difficult to use. It can take a lot of time and practice, and even some mistakes, before you fully grasp what the software can do.

- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Helix Core Review
Pros
the GUI interface with side-by-side compare is very useful.
the shelve feature is also something better than git stash
Cons
I had a hard time install p4 command line version in Ubuntu 14.
https://www.perforce.com/downloads/helix-command-line-client-p4
it downloaded the website index.html, not any installer file
it might be better to support apt-get for ubuntu version. Or have the app in the Ubuntu marketplace

- Industry: Computer Software
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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High quality product with new features being added continually
Pros
Excellent control at file level, easy tracing of history, multi-platform support, good UI interface. We've had hundreds of developers using it for thousands of lines of code in hundreds of branches over many years and been very happy. We've had very good support.
Cons
It is difficult to rename or move files without causing issues for merging. I hear our enterprise license is very expensive.

- Industry: Computer Networking
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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I love properties of perforce like finding differences, merging, code review capabilities and...
Pros
File comparison between different versions. Labeling and branching. Filtering with different user names, dates, and changelists.
Cons
Merging should be more intelligent. I get sometimes unwanted changes also merged when automatic merge is on. The merge UI is not so great.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Great tool, easy to use but missing some important functions like searching capabilities and...
It is a good source control program
Pros
Easy to use, has most common features intuitive.
I like most the revision graph that assists in finding the history of a file.
Cons
Search capabilities are poor. There is not enough filtering capabilities while searching for files, jobs, Change Lists or any other entity.
I would also expect the ability of more complex searches to combine filters. e.g. search all jobs/Change lists by a certain user for a specific branch. Such option does not exist.
- Industry: Semiconductors
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Good version control system for code collaboration etc.
Pros
Helps to organize and mange project database and share it with others. Ease of use and also UI version makes it more easy to use.
Cons
crashes at time and also has issues connecting to server at times.

- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used for 2+ years
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i don't think i would trade this software for anything
it keeps track of everything. i find the labelling feature particularly useful, so you can retrieve all the files (exactly) that went into a particular release.
Pros
i have used other CM systems before Helix. this product has all the features of the others, works on more platforms, and is easier to use.
Cons
sometimes administration can be a little counter-intuitive. there are certain administrative tasks the force you to go from screen to screen to screen to find what you are looking for. also, the upgrade process requires too many manual steps (at least it used to, perhaps that has changed).
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Good software but not easy to setup
Pros
The GUI use is well done. You don't have to use a third party software to connect to this server and start using source control.
Cons
We had somme weird behavior while using this code source control. Probably cause by us but it was desapointing.

- Used Daily for 2+ years
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it was awesome and very user friendly
Pros
it was so good very user friendly, especially features like label and conflicts tracking. checkin and checkout features are awesome..
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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I have grown accustomed to this software.
Peace of mind for source control. Being able to roll back changes.
Pros
I like the Eclipse plugin. Branch history display is fairly intuitive. Merging tool works pretty well.
Cons
Sometimes something will go wrong with a check-in and your files will get locked. Eclipse requires restart to reconnect to eclipse plugin. Eclipse perforce client does not remember my password. With the upgraded perforce Helix client some of my changelists are now indicating different colors (blue and black) and have become difficult to resolve. The eclipse plugin does not recognize added files.
- Industry: Computer Hardware
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Build and Manage Complex Software Across Its Entire Lifecycle
It helps me manage all digital content'even large files'in a single repository, and delivers files quickly to large, distributed teams.
Pros
It's amazing to use Helix Visual Client (P4V) on different OS platform with similar user experience, really like perforce's strong notion of a changelist.
Cons
It would be expensive for small & medium scale project. If the data infrastructure is loosely bonded (there is off-line time), svn rocks. You can do a lot even if the server would not be reachable. Perforce essentially requires an always-available server connection.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Its pretty decent version control software and easy to understand and use.
Pros
File level permissions.
Difference against multiple versions of source code.
Can work on it while offline. Its centralized to my organization.
Very flexible (and partial) checkouts (with customizable workspaces/clients), whereas it only supports full clones
Cons
Somehow I feel that is slower than git and also it takes lots of space in disk. I have to keep track of merges in P4v.
- Industry: Gambling & Casinos
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Fairly easy to use
We are transitioning to use test track as our primary management system for releases. It helps keep track of everything with the releases.
Pros
Requirements documents have made running through our test cycles must faster. Easy to create test cases off the requirement docs my company creates.
I also like the ability to regenerate test runs.
Cons
There is no good way for us to 'only' use Helix for releases. We must rely on other ways to track when releases are started, in development, ready for QA, and ready to be deployed. Right now we use folders for only QA, but it isn't ideal.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Very good product. Easy to use. Stable.
Pros
The Perforce diff and merge tool. Very nice way the tool works when merging files, split screen and colors.
Cons
Installing updates or recover the database (we had a server with a defect HDD) is for me a kind of avoiding thing. I have had errors when recovering the P4 server, and in the end skipped the update, waited for the next release, which recovered without errors.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Really good tool for maintaining documents and code.
Pros
Integration with C# and Java application - API features.
Label feature - to bundle the code
Merge and Integrate feature - it is must for teams working in multiple iterations of code.
Very easy and intuitive look and feel.
Cons
Renaming of folder looses version history. There got to be some easy mechanism to keep a log of operations on the folder (renamed)
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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It just works !!!
Great version control, it always seems to work, developers never complain.
Pros
Easy to use, developers are familiar with Helix Core and are easily able to check files in and out. Great Version Control.
Cons
Sometimes there is latency. Getting new users up to speed takes a bit longer the average. We still have to contact support for some of the administrator tasks.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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I have been Perforce Administrator for the last 4 years, the customer service is the best in...
We use this for version controlling and to document our artifacts
Pros
The ease of use and simple user interface is very simple to use. We did not need to explain more about the product to the new users.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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There were no real problems yet, everything is just fine
Our development process became much cleaner and smoother
Pros
Easy to use, everything works as described in manuals and I don't know of any user (20 users) having any complaints
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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Easy to use website
Pros
Easy to set up a free trial and start using. Website is very detailed to navigate and throughly explains the product.
Cons
Not very useful for real estate which is the field we're in at this time. Product seems great but not for us.