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Perforce Helix Core

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What is Perforce Helix Core?

Multinational company Perforce, headquartered in Alameda, California offers a version control and peer code review solution. Perforce version control is built around Helix Core with add-on products for code review (Helix Swarm) for free, and add Git support products (Helix4Git…

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Users have adopted various revision control packages like Perforce, Git, and SVN to develop and store data independently. Perforce serves …
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Great Once It Is Set up

10 out of 10
March 14, 2020
Incentivized
Each lab site has its own set of developers that operates independently but we are moving towards more collaboration and sharing software …
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Pavel Petrov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Pavel Petrov
Infrastructure engineer
Amdocs (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
Luiz Wendt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luiz Wendt
Software Engineer
Timberline (Entertainment, 11-50 employees)
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What is Perforce Helix Core?

Multinational company Perforce, headquartered in Alameda, California offers a version control and peer code review solution. Perforce version control is built around Helix Core with add-on products for code review (Helix Swarm) for free, and add Git support products (Helix4Git and Helix TeamHub).…

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Product Details

What is Perforce Helix Core?

Perforce Helix Core is a version control system for teams who need to accelerate innovation at scale. It is used to store and track changes to digital assets, from source code to binary to IPs, and connects teams.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Multinational company Perforce, headquartered in Alameda, California offers a version control and peer code review solution. Perforce version control is built around Helix Core with add-on products for code review (Helix Swarm) for free, and add Git support products (Helix4Git and Helix TeamHub). The original Perforce SCM solution was expanded via the Surround SCM, a software configuration management application which was developed by Seapine Software and now owned by Perforce since that company's acquisition of Seapine in October 2016. Perforce integrated the software with its Helix ALM product. Surround SCM integrates with Perforce's Helix ALM to help manage code, along with requirements, tests, and issues.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.6.

The most common users of Perforce Helix Core are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Users have adopted various revision control packages like Perforce, Git, and SVN to develop and store data independently. Perforce serves as the backbone of version control for builds, ensuring everyone has the latest content and code. It is easy to get started with Perforce, allowing users to pull the files they want. However, it can be challenging to perform more complex tasks like branching and integrating. Nevertheless, Perforce supports a rich GUI for most tasks and a command-line interface for automated or advanced tasks, making it suitable for users with varying technical proficiency.

Perforce is accessible globally and externally to product licensees, supporting all major features like branching, shelving, and p4web. The visual client of Perforce is user-friendly, presenting the directory structure conveniently and consistently across platforms. Its merge optimization feature is highly useful for day-to-day operations, providing efficient code merging capabilities. This makes Perforce ideal for agile development, big data services, and marketing materials across thousands of automotive dealerships.

Moreover, Perforce is scalable and suitable for small to enterprise-level projects. It integrates well within a .Net environment and is leveraged by several departments to track changes in software, documentation, and assets, providing quick access to change history and approvals. In industries like healthcare, Perforce Helix Core serves as the source control management system of choice for corporate products, internal applications, custom code, and configurations. Beyond version control purposes, Perforce is also used for collaboration and sharing software between independent developer groups within and across different lab sites. In addition to its version control capabilities, Perforce ensures the integrity of code bases by providing backup and revision control features.

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December 31, 2023

Great for Game Development, with Room for Improvements

Luiz Wendt | TrustRadius Reviewer
Luiz Wendt
Software Engineer
Timberline (Entertainment, 11-50 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I would say that for a game development studio seems like a really good idea because it's easy to use for artists and etc. There are some difficulties with how to handle branching and multi-branch locking, but all version controls can present similar problems. One of the biggest issues is the price which cannot be accessible for every studio.
March 01, 2021

Perforce Helix Core meets the need!

Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
We have found it to be well-suited in all cases except those where Developers are highly predisposed to only using Git. For this case we are starting to experiment with Helix4Git and hope that this will make management easier and at some point he hope for clean integration paths between Git and Classic depots so that development teams can collaborate on code even while differing on the source control paradigm they prefer to use.
November 09, 2020

Perforce Helix -- Easy, Fast, and Rock-Solid

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
March 14, 2020

Great Once It Is Set up

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Industrial Automation Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Once you get used to it, it is straightforward to use and it has a very large feature set for a free software package. It is free for small teams to use, which helps with a larger adoption later down the road. Also, Perforce seems to be the defacto industry standard so once you learn it, you should be able to use it at other developer positions.
September 30, 2019

Great Code Version Control

Kaleb-John Loo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kaleb-John Loo
Senior Firmware Engineer
Spirent Communications (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Perforce is a perfect choice for large or small corporations who need a code version control tool. It is highly capable of handling the tasks that a version control tool should with the added benefit of having an easy-to-use visual client with the option of the command-line interface. It is very useful when doing a lot of merges and branching as it has a good workflow for resolving any conflicts. It is also good if you prefer using visual interfaces since it is built by the same people and is optimized to execute common commands and workflows.
October 25, 2017

Dependable and fast version control

HJ
Hank Jones
Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Omnitracs (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Perforce is great for managing a large scale codebase with a fairly large engineering team. It is fast, powerful, and has solid security features to lockdown specific branches. Perforce is best suited for established software companies with the resources to set up and maintain a Perforce server. Due to the difficult setup, cost, and learning curve, Perforce is not a great fit for small software development team or startups.
October 16, 2017

Perforce from a QA perspective

Matt King | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matt King
Software Tester
Alien Skin Software (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I haven't run into any scenarios where the app wouldn't be suitable for something, but our small team depends on it and it hasn't let us down yet. I don't have any experience using it for larger teams, so I don't know if it's as useful in that respect or not.
June 03, 2016

Enterprise-level SVN software

Filip Witkowski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Filip Witkowski
Web Developer
TMP Worldwide (Marketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
The files view and history view are very clear. You can configure the information you want to see by adding new columns (from very large set of options). It makes work on versioning very pleasant. I use it to see my last changes, then compare with the current version, or I can see who has overwritten my version and ask that developer for details of his/her changes. This history view also gives an easy way to compare two chosen versions and revert to the version you need in just seconds.
November 11, 2015

Perforce - Scalable Enterprise Version Control

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Marketing and Advertising Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For large-scale codebases with fixed and regular releases that do not follow a continuous delivery paradigm, Perforce is certainly well suited. In projects that are small and distinctly separated from other discrete (though potentially dependent) units, the benefits of the Perforce tool may not be as clear of a victor over other systems.
July 08, 2015

Perforce source control is stable, powerful, and feature rich.

Josh Markiewicz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Josh Markiewicz
Senior Gameplay Programmer
Epic Games (Computer Games, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
While I'm not well versed in some of the new version control paradigms (like Git), I find that Perforce and its entire product suite have stood the test of time and continues to be a sound choice in source control management. It is great at code versioning and I haven't found a scenario where it didn't work well. Check ins, shelving, diffing, revision history, and branching all work exactly as needed when working on a product through all phases of development. Integration with Visual Studio is good and for the most part non intrusive. We have a very large code base that puts Perforce through its paces and it performs admirably.
August 22, 2014

Perforce - A full-featured ecosystem

QS
Quentin Smith
Senior Software Engineer
AMD (Semiconductors, 10,001+ employees)
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The most important question to answer when choosing between Perforce and other [version control] packages is how technically proficient your users will be. Most developers can easily get the file they need, while some will want more specific file sets and will need some assistance or documentation to get their client spec just the way they want. For managers, who tend to be less technically on average, they will probably need much more help up front and over time. And for either of these groups, certain tasks will become difficult, however Perforce is processional and robust, and those who have the time and patience will come to appreciate the added power at their fingertips.
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