blackfire.io vs. Helix ALM

blackfire.io

3 Reviews and Ratings

Helix ALM

8 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
blackfire.io	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	Blackfire.io is designed to empower PHP developers to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance in development, testing, staging and production. It makes it possible to drill down to function/method call level to understand and fix performance bottlenecks. The vendor says its wide variety of automation options makes it a breeze to add it to a development and testing workflow. The Blackfire Player, an Open Source Web Crawling, Web Tester, and Web…	N/A
Helix ALM	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Helix ALM (formerly TestTrack) is an application performance testing and application requirements management suite.	N/A

Pricing

blackfire.io

Helix ALM

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
blackfire.io	Helix ALM
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	blackfire.io	Helix ALM
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Risk management
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Not intuitive Minus Template creation Minus Issue tracking

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User Ratings
	blackfire.io	Helix ALM
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	blackfire.io	Helix ALM
Likelihood to Recommend	Blackfire Blackfire.io is super helpful in allowing proactive testing of applications before releasing on the production environment. Blackfire.io provides actionable insights to improve code proactively by integration with the development software. Also tracks the live production environment and is able to highlight any loading issues or unusual bounce rates. Blackfire.io also monitors HTTP requests and SQL queries which again help improve efficiency for developers and reduce development time. Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Perforce Software Helix ALM is very well suited for maintaining traceability between user needs, requirements and tests for medical device design controls. It allows users to customize the reports to create a traceability matrix or any other reports that are needed. It is also a good program for tracking issues and bugs and for storing/linking verification and validation test protocols and reports. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Blackfire Provide details on processes eating up valuable server resources Alert against bottlenecks and find bottlenecks Performs load tests in code before moving to production environments Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Perforce Software Traceability for design controls. Managing workflow of bugs/issues. Maintaining risk management information. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Blackfire They count same API endpoint AND same method (e.g. POST, OPTIONS, GET etc) as different profiles Customer service needs a lot of improvement The documentation can be a bit more detailed to remove any scope of doubts Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Perforce Software Better integration with electronic document control systems like Arena PLM. Easier setup in the back end (customization is available but the interface is not intuitive). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Blackfire No answers on this topic	Perforce Software The support from Perforce has been extensive and allowed us to customize the setup of Helix ALM specific to our needs. They also hosted training sessions for our users and administrators and provided us with troubleshooting help during initial setup. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Blackfire blackfire.io definitely provides an edge over competing products such as Datadog due to the level of monitoring and analysis it provides. Datadog is a great tool however when evaluating and catching inefficiencies in lower non production environments, blackfire.io provides a level of reporting that were did not find any competing products. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Perforce Software The other tools that we evaluated did not have all of the capabilities and customization that Helix ALM had to offer and therefore we decided to select Helix ALM. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Blackfire Reduce in bugs by 50%, more happy customers 2x decrease in load time for the website 100% performance validation before production release Incentivized YG Yatin Garg Product Manager Read full review	Perforce Software Improved management of requirements, risks and bugs to make sure they don't get lost in emails or long documents. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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