Crucible vs Perforce Helix Core | TrustRadius

What users are saying about

Score 7.5 out of 10

Based on 8 reviews and ratings

Score 9.5 out of 10

Based on 25 reviews and ratings

Pros

Supports all major source control systems such as SVN and Git.
Integration with Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket, to have a complete end to end development experience.
Easy to use UI/UX for reviewing code changes amongst different team members.

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Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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The branching mechanisms in Perforce allow for an enormous codebase to be duplicated into release versions weekly with little impact upon things such as the speed of queries against the version control.
Action triggers permit such things as automated builds of software versions, dynamic messaging when issues are identified either within or prior to a build process, and much more.
Locking provides the ability to prevent modifications of stable, tested versions in order to ensure validity when they are released.

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Team Lead in Professional Services

Marketing and Advertising Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

Crucible notifications of changes or updates to the code review are delayed as well as loading more source code is slow.
Crucible is formatting could use improvements for viewing customization features. For instance, allowing the user to create a new tab per file to be reviewed would be nice to have.

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Professional in Information Technology

Investment Management Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Perforce tends to feel backwards in how it approaches certain tasks, like branching and integrating - even once you figure out how it wants you to perform these tasks, you will likely forget when it comes around to the next time you need to do them again.
Perforce has a higher price tag, comparatively.
Perforce make some tasks very easy, and yet other tasks very difficult - it doesn't always seem to have found its target user's proficiency.

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Senior Software Engineer

AMDSemiconductors, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Perforce Helix Core 6.6

Based on 5 answers

We are fully committed to our use of Perforce. It works well within our organization and our desire to share our code base with our customers. Their support staff are responsive, inquisitive, and eager to improve their software. I feel like we have a direct line to their design/feature team as they often solicit our feedback.

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Josh Markiewicz

Senior Gameplay Programmer

Epic GamesComputer Games, 201-500 employees

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Usability

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Perforce Helix Core 10.0

Based on 2 answers

With Perforce Helix, you can use it via the command line, via P4V, or any of the other APIs included with the product. It is extremely easy for new users to get up and running. Users of Perforce Helix only have to pull in the files of interest to them. Also, Perforce is very easy to script and integrate into your CI/CD pipeline. Streams allows you to have pinpoint control of your workflow, and P4Search is the absolute best--I wish Perforce (the company) would talk more about this. It is absolutely fabulous!

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Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Perforce Helix Core 9.0

Based on 2 answers

In our large environment, Perforce is rarely "down". We have regular maintenance windows and from time to time Perforce can feel a little slow, but its always available. Tech support has always worked with our engineers and IT department to make sure that any real performance or stability issues are addressed quickly.

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Josh Markiewicz

Senior Gameplay Programmer

Epic GamesComputer Games, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

Crucible 8.8

Based on 3 answers

Good support overall being an Atlassian product, with options including free/paid official support and community provided help.

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Employee in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Perforce Helix Core 6.7

Based on 5 answers

I had two representatives from Perforce contact me after downloading it but never responded when I had questions. I also had a difficult time finding good training material for getting started. There is a lot of available support material when running into issues, though, because of how many large companies use it.

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Engineer in Engineering

Industrial Automation Company, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

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Perforce Helix Core 7.0

Based on 2 answers

This rating is related to setting up an environment from an existing Perforce repository. Initial setup of Perforce as the repository for the company was done by a separate team long prior to my inception.

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Team Lead in Professional Services

Marketing and Advertising Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Crucible was first on the market and the price is inexpensive. Crucible integrates with Jira Software and Atlassian Fisheye, providing the ability to track defects efficiently. SonarQube compares code to 'best standards' but not 'internal standards' and does not integrate to issue tracking. GitHub offers effective peer review, and has some integration with GitHub issues but costs more.

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Systems Administrator/Programmer

Indiana UniversityHigher Education, 10,001+ employees

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Perforce has a better built native visual client that is much simpler to use than Git's. It has a lot of optimizations in the workflow that can execute common patterns during a usual workday. Perforce also has an easier to understand method of presenting merge conflicts and does a better overall job of handling merges.

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Senior Firmware Engineer

Spirent CommunicationsTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

It has had a large ROI for our team, as it has helped us find issues sooner than we would have had we not reviewed things properly.

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Engineer in Engineering

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Decreased our implementation costs by allowing versioning and back out of customizations made in the field.
saves developers time through automation of changes between branches - they think less of the plumbing and have more time to write code.
Downside is training/managing expectations of new developers who come in assuming they will use Git.

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Manager in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Entry-level set up fee?

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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