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Perforce is an incredibly powerful and flexible centralized source control management system whose support is second to none (not that you'll need it that often). Their development teams are always improving the existing core of the tool in addition to adding new features and support for elements such as security, distributed SCM, and many others. Surrounding the main Helix software are a plethora of equally well developed and maintained satellite services such as Git support (GitSwarm), team collaboration (Swarm), visual merge tools (p4 merge), etc. As to their reliability and scalability, you need only look to the companies who have trusted their source to Perforce to understand its capabilities in this arena, and I will mention again the first rate support you receive with the tool, I have experienced none better. Perforce is extremely stable tool as well, and once it is set up and running as required, it will faithfully continue to run without any fuss or muss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
As the sole (part time) admin of an 834 user system I have found myself wanting for greater granularity in the delegation of certain administrative functionality to trusted development team leaders. Perforce is adding these functions as the tool moves forward (currently running server version 2015.2 as of this writing) which will help me with this, but as of right now, this is a small pain point for me. Another difficulty that can be experienced, especially if migrating from a non-branch based SCM tool, is the learning curve for the use of client workspaces and proper branch policy. This is not an issue with the Perforce service itself, but it is a more powerful (and hence more complicated in some aspects) tool which may require more effort in initial training with the tool and its concepts. Well worth the effort however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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It has been very reliable for us. Diff tools are easy and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some users have a hard time when they run into errors and difficulty resolving issues independently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The upgrade service cost next to nothing and the upgrade to latest version, with Swarm added, is much more stable than my previous version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I could not be more happy with how the upgrade was run so professionally and with all questions answered as we went along. The gentleman that helped me was superb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the interface! It's extremely simple to find what you are looking for and use it to complete tasks and the ability to easily track assets makes it one of the best products available for version control on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not a fan of how licenses are limited based on purchasing (given 6 for a standard license - others MUST be purchased in groups of 5 and not individually). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ability to have multiple versions of source stored at one time has helped us accurately keep track of our releases. Functionality which allows more than one developer to have the code checked out and still update all versions properly has eliminated the issues we had with bugs or incompatible code getting released to the field. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We found that because of the resources required, it was most efficient to have the developers run their own development environment locally instead of on the network. We had to work out how to do periodic backups of their PCs to ensure that we didn't lose any code before check-ins were done. Once we got this worked out, we were able to ensure that all of their work was retained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
P4 Helix Core is a battle-tested solution that supports large file systems. All of the standard and advanced features are here including branching, merging, diffing, file locking and more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
GUI Client is too basic and won't detect local file changes automatically. This makes missing file checkins or misunderstandings about latest version vs. local version very confusing, especially for non-engineers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Robust archive and versioning solution that is scalable with our business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Lack of a defined workflow for streams cost us time to develop and is difficult to train and onboard our specific use of the Helix Core software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The initial setup is relatively easy and you'll be up and running in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
For artists, it's a little bit difficult to get their heads around how it works. It also requires some more complicated steps to set up additional (sometimes necessary) features. It would be great if there was a floating license option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
