Perforce P4

Perforce P4

35 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Perforce P4	Score7.8 out of 10	N/A	Perforce 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

Pricing

Perforce P4

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Pricing Offerings
Perforce P4
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Perforce P4
Considered Both Products	Perforce Software Pavel Petrov Infrastructure engineer in Information Technology at Amdocs (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees) Chose Perforce P4 In my opinion, Perforce Helix Core is on a top level of irritation and anti-user experience. In my experience, I can't do simple things like 1 word file edits, while I have never been confused when using something based on Git. Incentivized Helpful? Luiz Wendt Software Engineer in Engineering at Timberline (Entertainment, 11-50 employees) Chose Perforce P4 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Perforce P4 I am only starting with BiBucket and do not yet have sufficient experience to draw upon for comparison. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Perforce P4 New users of Perforce Helix can be up and running in less than thirty minutes. It is easy to use, but also very powerful. Bitbucket is slow, prone to outages, and (for large teams) requires a team of dedicated administrators. I've had request for information from Bitbucket that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Perforce P4 My last two jobs used SmartSVN but it required a paid license to use regardless of the number of users. The initial setup for Perforce was much more difficult than SmartSVN. There is a lot of parity between the two software packages even though the terminology can be different. … Incentivized Helpful? Kaleb-John Loo Senior Firmware Engineer in Engineering at Spirent Communications (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Perforce P4 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Hank Jones Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Quality Assurance at Omnitracs (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Perforce P4 Perforce is internally hosted, which makes it quite a bit faster. I found it easier to use that GitHub and Bitbucket, at least in terms of checking out files and creating changelists. GitHub and Bitbucket are much better for smaller teams, as they are cloud hosted, making … Incentivized Helpful? Matt King Software Tester in Quality Assurance at Alien Skin Software (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Perforce P4 Perforce is superior in every way to Subversion. I'm never going back. Incentivized Helpful? Filip Witkowski Web Developer in Research & Development at TMP Worldwide (Marketing and Advertising, 501-1000 employees) Chose Perforce P4 Today's web based software makes them easier to integrate into a development process. JIRA with integrated Bitbucket as the versioning tool, is ahead of the competition. However for large organizations, Perforce is still a very good choice. GitHub can be used as free tool, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Perforce P4 Subversion missing many of the features that Perforce provides, but a much more lightweight versioning system Incentivized Helpful? Quentin Smith Senior Software Engineer in Research & Development at AMD (Semiconductors, 10,001+ employees) Chose Perforce P4 Perforce has more features than SVN. However even the simpler tasks in SVN require a degree more technical aptitude with Perforce. Git offers most of the same features, however most of these are only really supported via the command-line in Git, where as most tasks can be … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Perforce P4 Perforce is similar to SVN but the SVN has better command line support. Git surpasses both SVN and Perforce because of its flexibility with multiple branches and code review. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Mielke, PMP, CSM Senior Producer in Information Technology at Boss Key Productions (Computer Games, 11-50 employees) Chose Perforce P4 I've worked with Alienbrain and I like Perforce much better with the streamlined interface. Alienbrain seems a little bloated. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Perforce P4

Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Perforce P4
Feature	Perforce P4 7.9 1 Ratings
Branching and Merging	8.01 Ratings
Version History	8.01 Ratings
Version Control Collaboration Tools	8.01 Ratings
Pull Requests	8.01 Ratings
Code Review Tools	8.01 Ratings
Project Access Control	8.01 Ratings
Automated Testing Integration	8.01 Ratings
Issue Tracking Integration	7.01 Ratings
Branch Protection	8.01 Ratings

User Ratings
	Perforce P4
Likelihood to Recommend	6.5 (15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.6 (5 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	6.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)