Helix Core Reviews

Name: Helix Core
Brand: Perforce
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

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Perforce, the Fast Software Configuration Management System, is a tool that versions and manages source code and digital assets for enterprises. Perforce is easy to install, learn and administer; seamlessly handles distributed development; and supports developers across a large number of platforms. Perforce ensures development integrity by grouping multi-file updates into atomic changes, enables concurrent development, and intelligently manages multiple software releases using its Inter-File Branching system.

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Helix Core is the #11 ranked solution in top Version Control solutions and #12 ranked solution in top Software Configuration Management solutions. PeerSpot users give Helix Core an average rating of 8.4 out of 10. Helix Core is most commonly compared to Bitbucket: Helix Core vs Bitbucket. Helix Core is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 61% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 23% of all views.

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it_user596502

Senior Data Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 31, 2017

We moved all our collaborative storage into Perforce servers. It fits our types of assets (big size, mostly binaries). Perforce is very fast, even for very huge assets The branching strategy of helix is still too technical to handle for a non-technical user, like a graphic artist. The…

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it_user541425

SCM administrator at NVIDIA

Sep 5, 2017

* Perforce does not appear to have an enterprise scale software test environment. We sometimes serve as their software QA department. * The database engine is very fast, but has proven difficult for them to debug. Their attempts to work around the scalability issues with its original table-locking design have become a kludge. * The “shelving” feature (an answer to Git’s lightweight branching) was released in a half-baked state. We still don’t have a simple, reliable process for terminating a user who left shelved files behind. * Perforce tries way too hard to be platform-neutral. Since process management works differently on MS-Windows, they have avoided using Unix inter-process communications features. It’s a forking server that doesn’t use signals or shared memory! They’d be better off if they abandoned Windows as a server O/S, or bite the bullet and start using #ifdef. * Edit: In 2017, Perforce dropped support for FreeBSD and Raspberry Pi. Very unfortunate, considering the performance and reliability limitations of the Linux NFS client. Since Windows is not a suitable server OS, that leaves only MacOS and Linux.

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it_user607377

Senior Technical Consultant at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Feb 12, 2017

The code comparison functionality and the command line options for automation are valuable features. It gives a nice pictorial view of different file versions. It is easy to manage/merge issues. The command line gives options for those who are willing to integrate it with the automation tools…

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