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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Perforce P4

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/APerforce P4 (formerly Helix Core) is the company's version control and peer code review solution. Perforce offers add-on products for code review for free, and Git support products.N/A

    Sonatype Platform

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Sonatype secures the software supply chain and protects organizations' vital software development lifecycle(SDLC). The platform unites security teams and developers to accelerate digital innovation without sacrificing security or quality across the SDLC. With users among more than 2,000 organizations and 15 million software developers, Sonatype tools and guidance help users to deliver and maintain exceptional and secure software.

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    for use of the Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition

    Pricing
    Perforce P4Sonatype Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Nexus Repository
    $175
    per year per user
    Sonatype Repository Firewall
    $224
    per year per user
    Sonatype Repository Firewall for Artifactory
    $224
    per year per user
    Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Repository Firewall
    $230
    per year per user
    Sonatype Repository Firewall Cloud
    $265
    per year per user
    Sonatype Lifecycle
    $690
    per year per user
    Sonatype Lifecycle Cloud
    $810
    per year per user
    Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Lifecycle
    $825
    per year per user
    Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro
    $960
    per month (billed annually)
    Sonatype Nexus Repository
    $960
    per month (billed annually)
    Sonatype SBOM Manager
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    Pricing Offerings
    Perforce P4Sonatype Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Community Pulse
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    Perforce Software
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Perforce P4Sonatype Platform
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Perforce P4 and Sonatype Platform
    Feature
    Perforce P4
    7.9
    1 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Sonatype Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Branching and Merging8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version History8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pull Requests8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review Tools8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Access Control8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branch Protection8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Perforce P4Sonatype Platform
    Small Businesses
    GitHub
    Score9.2 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    Git
    Score10 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Perforce P4Sonatype Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.5
    (15 ratings)
    8.8
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Perforce P4Sonatype Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Perforce Software
    While Perforce Helix is the best version control software out there, it can also be used to track your documentation, training videos and materials, and requirements. If you have strict compliance requirements, it can be used to ensure that those requirements are satisfied. Perforce Helix is incredibly flexible and can meet the needs of individual users as well as companies with thousands of users.
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    Sonatype
    - Guidance on remediation is very good - Vulnerability detection is very good - Support is very good - Ability to ask PMs/POs open questions at Office Hours every month is very good - Support for languages is lacking (TIOBE Index Top20) - Some features are un-neededly hidden and make the usage more complex then it needs to be
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    Pros
    Perforce Software
    • 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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    Sonatype
    • Nexus firewall is a great feature enabled for all our proxy repositories which are used to download the third-party opensource packages.
    • Nexus IQ is integrated with build stage to analyze the component against evaluation policy. This helps to figure out the application security standards.
    • Nexus IQ is also having a feature to scan container images before it uploads to our private repository. This is great feature for container platforms.
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    Cons
    Perforce Software
    • 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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    Sonatype
    • Support on the end of life lifecycle of known open source components that are going end of life, or already went end of life
    • Support for emerging infrastructure as code frameworks
    • Support for native/ default retention, archiving and clean up policies for hosted repositories
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Perforce Software
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sonatype
    Sonatype supports more than 200 dev(s). It proves with the repository to store the artifacts. Allows for governance of open source software used by the different teams. It is used by security teams to scan for vulnerabilities in software(s) and in the deployed containers. It helps ensure code quality.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Perforce Software
    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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    Sonatype
    Overall experience is great with the Platform; however, I see some opportunity with upgrading the platform as it is missing with data of historical scans to allow reviewer to get view of trend how the application/product development team is considering fixing the issues.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Perforce Software
    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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    Sonatype
    Extremely good
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    Performance
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sonatype
    Sonatype products are great value as I said but a few areas like how products use underlying resources in order to make it further lightweight, is something I would like them to consider.
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    Support Rating
    Perforce Software
    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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    Sonatype
    Monthly touchpoints with Sinisa has been very valuable.
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    Implementation Rating
    Perforce Software
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Sonatype
    easy to implement and performing the scans via automations as well
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    Alternatives Considered
    Perforce Software
    Git is great, I love Git. But it's not great for dealing with binary assets, even when using Git LFS. Locking is not as simple as on perforce. Git presents some problems on using for non-tech people it can get overwhelming and tech people have to come by and help.
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    Sonatype
    Out of other products we evaluated before choosing Sonatype, the later looked far more user friendly, easy to understand and work with. This was key for us, as the tool needs to be used by many engineers that don't have security as their main focus. Having a tool that is easy to understand and work with, makes the process of evaluating open source dependencies much easier and appealing for developers.
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sonatype
    Great value for money
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    Scalability
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sonatype
    Everything is very good except a little concern regarding large scale docker usage.
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    Professional Services
    Perforce Software
    No answers on this topic
    Sonatype
    Very good
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    Return on Investment
    Perforce Software
    • 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.
    Incentivized
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    Sonatype
    • Sonatype's centralized management of artifacts have made it very easy for developers to share code in an efficient manner.
    • Sonatype's low false positive rate has made it easier to convince developers to remediate vulnerabilities
    • Sonatype's archaic architecture has made it more expensive to manage than it could be.
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