# OpenText AccuRev Reviews **Vendor:** OpenText **Category:** [Configuration Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/configuration-management) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 20 ## About OpenText AccuRev AccuRev is a software configuration management tool which addresses complex parallel and distributed development environments with its stream-based architecture, to accelerate your development process and improve asset reuse. ## OpenText AccuRev Reviews ### 1. Okayish tool for code migration and repository maintanence **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vinit a. | Senior ETL Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** Easy to use and maintain and configure. Visual representation of branches is nice. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** The error code and descriptions are hard to figure out. Sometimes the reconciliation of conflicts is buggy. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** Although its a good tool for configuration management, there are better, more robust and easier tools in the market like jenkins and github. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used micro focus accurev for our code migration from one environment to another as a version controlled, safe environment. Its a good repository maintanence tool and easy to promote or checkin the code and make changes. It has a good branched layout which is easy to understand. ### 2. My experience with AccuRev **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andy Z. | Software Development Team Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** AccuRev supports multiple streams which means you can develop features for different clients in parallel. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** In general the speed of AccuRev is a bit slow comparing with Git. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** You need to understand that it is a bit slower than Git **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can have different streams of codebases. You can pick features you want to include into different streams. It is useful when you have multiple clients with different features. ### 3. Awesome Website **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexis M. | Freelance Videographer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** How helpful it is to run your business in different ways **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Nothing to dislike as of yet. Just started it out. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Different business tools ### 4. Connected but complicated **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** The connectedness between many interfaces **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Not super user friendly - takes training to use **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** Can be complicated at first but simplifies with use **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building connections and working across different environments all on one platform ### 5. AccuRev SCM **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 28, 2017 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** Works on multiple platforms, Windows, Linux, CentOS. Users can have workspaces on several development machines at the same time. Non-changeable, immutable data store, perfect for compliance requirements ISO and similar. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Perl script for changes to system parameters. If you do not have an in-house Perl Script staff member, it is a real process to work with AccuRev to make simple changes in the system. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** For best functionality be sure to have a Perl script team member on-staff. Train users well at inception for best results. Be sure to layout stream paths and names in advance, this is by nature a non-changeable system. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Software change management, excellent for keeping version control up to date, easy to use interface for many different developers. Fairly easy to move workspaces from one machine to another, which is helpful for developers that frequently upgrade machines/equipment (testing and development environments). ### 6. Good Code Repository **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** Accurev does a great job and keeping track of changes, allowing you to keep, and revert easily. Overall, just an easy way to track changes, and maintain versions of your business code. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** I really do not like the interface, maybe that is the best that can be done, but it seems clunky, and often the wording on the options is confusing. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** I would look at free or less expensive solution like Git, but if you want a full featured tool that allows you to write your own plugins, then accurev is a pretty good choice. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a code repository that allowed you to write your own plugins. We found that in accurev. The main benefit is just keeping track of allow the changes taking place with our small development team. ### 7. Good for version control and project management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** Has good flexibility and friendly UI design. It is simple and easy to use. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Cost is high Slow to use Search option is hard to use. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** This product is very well designed. The version control is easy to use. A trial should be given. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use it to test the code. The merging option is great to use. ### 8. Great version Control **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2016 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** UI is very user-friendly. The ability to keep track of streams and modified files easily and quickly. Easy to update and commnt **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** The GUI to search for past file updates is hard to use and the cost is high **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** version control ### 9. iOS of Revision Control **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Satya S. | Staff Firmware Lead Engineer, Semiconductors, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** The ease of using Accurev. I have used SVN and Accurev and feel that for most of the tasks Accurev is simple to use without much learning curve. Espicially for revision control going between version and updating the work space, Merging code is very simple on Accurev. One of the most convenient features of Accurev is creating new branches from a main branch. The other feature, I like the most is the visual representation of all the code branches showing where each branch has originated from. This gives a very good idea of relationship between different branches. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Just iOS (of smartphones), the 'not so commonly used' operations are difficult to access. For example, Blame of SVN (that shows revision number and author of each line) is done better than that in Accurev. While browsing all the branches and searching for branches, I feel that Accurev is littler slower. This is not to say its competition SVN is faster. I just feel that Accurev could step up the game by speeding up browsing different code branches. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** Ease of use = Accurev. Don't think twice. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Accurev for Revision control of Firmware. Maintaining the code and populating multiple branches was made very easy by Accurev. Also, building the code on different branches each with its own specific requirements is way easier. Also, bringing up new hires to use Accurev takes very small learning curve. Enabling us to train and bring new hires up to speed very quickly. ### 10. AccuRev is hard to learn at first and can be slow, but does version control well **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** It works well enough for version control to store old versions, review differences between versions, and promote files when they're ready for the next level. The command line interface is powerful and makes it easy to script and automate tasks. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** It's different from other version control systems with different terminologies, so there is a steep learning curve for new users. It's fairly slow to do a lot of things, sometimes several minutes. When I am updating a workspace I usually switch to another program and switch back later so I don't have to wait. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** Try it before you buy it. If users are used to different version control systems, factor in time and resources for training. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking source code changes over time at different levels with developers' comments and the capability to revert to old versions when needed. ### 11. satisfied with the accurev **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hai W. | Verification Engineer II, Semiconductors, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** changes to the stream will automatically populated to sub streams **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Actually, I'm very satisfied with the product. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText AccuRev:** This product is very well designed. The version control is easy to use and the merging function is very clear. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** The merging function is great feature in this product. ### 12. AccuRev is very well designed **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yiwei W. | Verification Engineer II, Semiconductors, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** The UI is very user-friendly. Syncing and committing speed is fast compared to other similar products. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** The price for licenses is expensive, so our company seeks a free but terrible product instead. Hope you can lower the price. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. We use it to sync code with other team 2. We use it to test our codes locally, and promote it to center. ### 13. Verification Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wesley L. | Sr. Verification Engineer, Semiconductors, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** Clear structure Easy for revision control **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Sometime it takes more time to open and the cost is high **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Revision control Team work Implementation ### 14. idea about accurev **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** have stream and workspace to maintain the verison user friendly text edit like compare difference **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** the price is not low as we want. So our company tried to use the differenr software like SVN/ smart SVN **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** verison control for all the codes ### 15. accurev is great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** I like the merge system and the ability to keep track of streams and modified files easily and quickly. **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** The GUI to search for past file updates is hard to use. It would be better if the graph is more compact. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 16. built up verification environment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Hardware | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** [1] friendly user interface [2] easy to update and commint [3] easy for collaboration **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** [1] should have better verison control [2] should have more help [3] could have a better change list **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** [1] quite good version control [2]good for collaboration ### 17. rtl design user of version control **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anand M. | Senior ASIC Design Engineering Leader, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** checkin/out process, revision history logging **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** tagging. conflict resolution, finding differences in versions **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** design and development ### 18. 5+ years experience. The GUI has some performance issues but it is powerful version control system. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** Ability to effectively track versions and changes, Ability to use 3rd party comparison tools for Diff and Merge **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Performance is rather low in GUI especially when application is kept opened for more than one day. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control for the company having many ongoing projects ### 19. The best enterprise version tool for developers and project managers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** flexibility, easy drag and drop feature, 're-parent' feature **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** Sometimes, it does not promote changes correctly. new changes are lost. **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** The challenge was to use a good version control system to integrate our code with jenkins for nightly builds of our product. Thanks to used accurev plugin for jenkins, we were able to achieve this easily. ### 20. Used Accurev as a developer while working at Nokia **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Capital Markets | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2015 **What do you like best about OpenText AccuRev?** UI is nice showing branches information and differences **What do you dislike about OpenText AccuRev?** It was slow and not possible to use if server is down or unreachable **What problems is OpenText AccuRev solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mobile software development ## OpenText AccuRev Discussions - [StartWrite your reviewFinish Micro Focus AccuRev Micro Focus AccuRev Required QuestionsAdditional Q](https://www.g2.com/discussions/15997-startwrite-your-reviewfinish-micro-focus-accurev-micro-focus-accurev-required-questionsadditional-q) - 1 upvote - [View OpenText AccuRev pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-accurev/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+09%3A02%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=804611fd-dbc2-4412-b016-b072870ebd1d&secure%5Btoken%5D=4c85e5b116a52e570daad5427315bdd4c48e28a343d99978029dcf1b197fb9ee&format=llm_user) ## Top OpenText AccuRev Alternatives - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,276 reviews) - [Git](https://www.g2.com/products/git/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (517 reviews) - [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (192 reviews)