--- title: P4 Reviews meta_title: 'P4 Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 95 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how P4 works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 95 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # P4 Reviews **Vendor:** Perforce **Category:** [Version Control Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-software) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 95 ## About P4 Perforce P4 is an industry-standard version control platform built for teams working with large, complex codebases and digital assets. Designed to handle scale where other tools hit limits, P4 helps teams accelerate production, eliminate file sharing chaos, and keep every version tracked and recoverable. Whether your team is distributed or moving fast toward release, P4 makes it easy to collaborate efficiently and stay in control—no matter the size or complexity of your projects. P4 is trusted by the world’s most innovative brands, including Pixar, NVIDIA, Scania, EA, Ubisoft, and VMware. ## P4 Reviews ### 1. Best for large-scale deployments as well as the little guy. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Teresa K. | Senior Configuration Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** 1) It's so easy to learn, even artists, writers, and other "less-technical" users can get it right away; 2) It's FAST; 3) It's a very, very strong product, best I've ever tried; 4) It scales really well. One depot can handle ALL of your needs; can handle file-sizes and types that Git can only dream about; 5) The Perforce Support organization is THE BEST; 6) Free for up to 20 users; 7) up-and-running in minutes; 8) DVCS option; 9) Support. And FAST; 10) Did I mention it's FAST? And no one does Support better; 11) Their Support is FAST, too. **What do you dislike about P4?** They need to do a better job of letting people know how great their product is. Seriously, more people need to use it. It lets us develop better software, faster. Up until recently, it used to be very easy to find older versions of the product. This could be pretty useful. Currently, it's much harder to find the older versions. I get that this is what companies do, and I understand that they might not want to *support* older versions, but it's really a nice thing to have if I want to do some testing. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Take it for a test drive. Talk to Support. It's free for up to 5 users, so give it a whirl. Used to be 20, which I preferred. I think they'd be better off giving it away for free and just charging for their excellent Support. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its spectacular scriptability makes it easy to do continuous integration and continuous delivery. It is also easy for non-developers to use. ### 2. Developer Support **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike W. | Principal Tier 3 Developer Support Engineer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** It is easy to pull and maintain along with a good command tool **What do you dislike about P4?** This is a good product, but if there was something that I would improve would be the GUI **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using to pull and maintain local builds of our application for debugging and maintenance. ### 3. Solid versionning software that is scalable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurent B. | IT Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** The tool do it's job. It's easy to customize it to adapt it to your need. Whether you want multiple depots, branches, workflow with intergrations, reviews or lock submit unless code is do build you can do that with little troubles. It's scalability with clustering make it now an awesome tool that can be strong and efficient. **What do you dislike about P4?** Beginners users will get lost in the tool chain by not understanding how p4 work exactly. The concept of file workspace knowledge based on the server side is hard to assimilate for them and leading to troubles Admin could get lost in the knowledge base that is sometime too scattered. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the pain of versioning files and ability to revert and jump back to a previous version. Ability to have several teams working on different feature in the same set of files without conflicts. All what you can ask of a versioning solution but without the troubles of others ### 4. Fastest source code control software on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** I like the speed, and handling of binary assets, and integration with Git via Git-Fusion **What do you dislike about P4?** Git-Fusion performance is too slow, and doesn't support locking of binary assets. It's one of the last remaining things they need to fix. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Better Git-Fusion integration. We think the new Graph depo is not in the right direction. Please improve Git-fusion and make it faster and more easy to interoperate with P4V. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** all of our company source code, game design documents, and art is stored in Helix. ### 5. Java Souce Version control **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sangwoo L. | 과장, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Branch Release, Hige speed performence. Swarm code review. Gii-fusion. **What do you dislike about P4?** When we first used it, it was hard to use it as a difficult term. And it had difficulty understaing login tikect policy. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** High performance. Branch management extensibility. Code review. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Release Souce Management. ### 6. Finally version control for our digital assets! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** The ability to roll back to a distinct point in development. The free Proxy Server. **What do you dislike about P4?** Sometimes administration of Helix Server is a bit complicated and often involves support. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving time by being able to roll back to certain versions. Better continuous delivery. ### 7. Safe working **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin B. | Chief Product Officer (Produktleiter), Motion Pictures and Film, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** It runs and does everything that it is supposed to. Team is great you get quick support. **What do you dislike about P4?** German support would be great because of different time zones. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Buy! **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** VR Experiences creating with Unreal, Maya and Max ### 8. excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek K. | Project Lead, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** version control , easy to upload and download **What do you dislike about P4?** workspace should be chose by user. as current it automatically generate the work space name which is tough to remember . **Recommendations to others considering P4:** NA **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** backup. it help to store backup of multiple version ### 9. Solid reliable source control **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy M. | Sr. Third-Party Software Administrator , Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** The software is easy to manage from an administrative standpoint. We installed and it just keeps going. I support a wide variety of apps, and this is by far the easiest to upgrade/patch. For the few times we have had to do any sort of recovery, it was also quick and painless. This product is a software administrator's dream. **What do you dislike about P4?** I wish that the platform had some sort of reporting capability. The biggest request I get from the community is asking for metrics on the repository that I can't give without some creative scripting. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** When we added Helix Swarm to our existing P4 installation we were finally able to do code review between different geographical sites efficiently. Swarm has helped standardize our code review process, and given us the ability to track our reviews more easily. ### 10. Good interface, good user experience and user friendly tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vaibhavi J. | Graduate Student, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Other tools that come in handy like p4 merge and command line interface. UI also does a great job **What do you dislike about P4?** incapable integration with IDE's, incapable parallel development frameworks. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** integrating JIRA with code repositories, maintaining older versions of code ### 11. Helix Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** What I like best is the Ease of use of the product. **What do you dislike about P4?** What I dislike the most is the Graphical UI. Feels outdated. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing assets. Organization of assets.. ### 12. Version everything, Control everything, protect everything **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** N V N Pavan K. | IT Engineer, Wireless, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Its fast, Low maintenance, APIs, Clients **What do you dislike about P4?** Replica re-seeding in case any issue issue with master **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version everything, Control everything, protect everything. enterprise level issues and managing different components. ### 13. Perforce use from Experienced SW Developer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Stable P4 tools and integration with SW Development tools **What do you dislike about P4?** Broad functionality sometimes requires resort to command line tools **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Software Configuration Control in a large group ### 14. Helix VCS review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Like the ease of use and some of the investigative features it offers. Easy to use features for integration and branching **What do you dislike about P4?** Nothing I have encountered so far. One of the things I look forward to is graphical display of differences between versions in linux. I use it currently with a combination of tkdiff and other custom scripts. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control and code management. ### 15. Nice integration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** HCS has nice options for integrating in all (3) of our IDE's, and exposes all of the day to day functionality that a developer needs **What do you dislike about P4?** The P4Admin UI is not as mature as the P4 Client and can be clumbsy to use **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have development centers in 5 countries, on 3 continents and have been able to integrate all ### 16. Excellent Customer Service Backs up Solid VCS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Rapid and thorough support experience - every time I have a problem they're always on hand and useful. **What do you dislike about P4?** Error logging not thorough enough - sometimes problems don't really seem to log at debug levels sufficient to indicate where an issue may lie. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** This provides excellent version control with a suite of tools and API's to give ease of access. ### 17. Helix Perforce for Source Code Management. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** I like the File Explorer and Photoshop plugins for Windows. This allows me to very quickly check in and check out files without having to find them in the p4v client. **What do you dislike about P4?** Branching is lacking. Unlike Git, branching is very linear. This makes it difficult to identify the ancestry of a commit. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Here at work, we are using Helix Perforce as the version control system for our local web and software development. ### 18. Helix VCS perforce **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** The new distributing software is really well written and very easy to use and administer. It is yet another great addition to the feature set of Perforce. **What do you dislike about P4?** There isn't much to dislike except maybe some more UI improvements as the initial setup can take some time if you haven't done it before. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source control and ### 19. Nice Tool to have **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michel K. | 3D Artist Freelancer, Entertainment, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Customer service. I had a great experience **What do you dislike about P4?** Flexibility to create move and erase file **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Files Version controlling ### 20. Helix was intuitive and easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** I tested the Helix platform and found it to work as described and fit the needs of the business at the time. **What do you dislike about P4?** There were not many things to dislike, for budget constraints we were unable to proceed with the product. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It greatly helped us with the version control portion of our code. ### 21. no hassle powerfull vcs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** The clear visual client, the plugins for almost all major softwares, the included Diff tool is also better then other diff tools **What do you dislike about P4?** not possible moving files with keeping file version numbers, not really useable for technical people **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** our own software build management system is build upon the helix API ### 22. Good Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** manages all digital content especially large files — using repository, and delivers files quickly to large, across distributed teams. **What do you dislike about P4?** The product User Experience sometimes complexes things. Ability to add and remove features from UI could be very helpful **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Yes **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to control source code across multiple teams ### 23. Simple and lightning-fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** lightning-fast and easy to learn and use. Freshers also can easily understand the concept of version control through this. **What do you dislike about P4?** Hacker News, Reddit, Stack Overflow Stats, Rust and Ruby, Without the Glue **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control of the software deployed at line of work. Its very useful. ### 24. Decent alternative to other VCS systems **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Once setup, the UI was great to work with. **What do you dislike about P4?** Setting/porting up via Git was more complicated than it needed to be. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Be patient with the setup process. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I wanted to checkout swarm for code review and collaboration. ### 25. Effective Version Control **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Coming from subversion, I appreciate the effortless branching and merging. **What do you dislike about P4?** I dislike how history is tracked on file moves. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helix VCS provides security while making code changes to ensure previous functionality is accessible if needed. ### 26. Not Overly Complex **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Scott P. | Principal Software Engineer, Defense & Space, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** It does the job without the clutter and overhead of more complex alternatives. It is easy to use and performs a lot faster and reliable than the previous two source control products. **What do you dislike about P4?** Streams needs to be updated to be able to manage multiple releases better. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help me maintain multiple common code lines and provide a visual development workflow using streams. ### 27. very good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Advanced features, liked everything , seems to be working efficuienty and directly **What do you dislike about P4?** Not much, I liked everything , seems to be working efficuienty and directly **Recommendations to others considering P4:** yes **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** improved our productivity ### 28. good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** user interface, easy operation, friendly reminder **What do you dislike about P4?** menu outlook, font too tight, may need upgrade in the future **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** updated file ### 29. Perforce SCM **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Pretty good SCM overall. Perforce has very good tech support. **What do you dislike about P4?** Perforce have some well known limitations that have to do with the origins of the product. For instance it has no ability to create empty folders. User cannot work offline like in Git for example. Also a couple things in the client software could be improved. Overall, it works well. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizing the source code for the division. ### 30. Easy Scaleable and helpfull **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin B. | IT Admin, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2017 **What do you like best about P4?** Scalability and easy administration. Amazing serverside data compression. Great support **What do you dislike about P4?** There could be even more integrations to other systems. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version management system ### 31. Powerful software but hard to learn and punishing for beginners **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Radu P. | Game Designer, Computer Games, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Perforce is the most fully-featured versioning system I've worked with. You can resolve pretty much any scenario you can think of. The shelving feature is extremely useful on occasion. It's very stable - never had it hang or crash. **What do you dislike about P4?** It has a steep learning curve. Taking advantage of all the features requires putting some serious time and effort. It's a tool for the tech savvy. "Checking out" files is confusing when you're coming from SVN. Programmers on our team, as well as IT, are routinely asked for help with using even the visual client. Overall it's great for large projects where most people on the team have in-depth knowledge of how to use it. I would still use SVN for small projects where conflicts are less likely. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Perforce is great if you have a tech savvy team, working on fairly large projects. For small teams (<10 people) I would still recommend SVN or Git. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're a games studio using Perforce for version control on all of our projects. Perforce is invaluable for programmers maintaining their sanity on larger projects. ### 32. Perforce Helix is a great and powerful SVN client for small teams! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mitchell R. | Content Specialist, Education Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Helix is a great alternative to other git services because any project you make is private and free. My team and I had gone through at least four other services and had left them either because of the limits in file size uploads, or we had simply hit the storage cap way too fast. Perforce Helix in my opinion is the best solution short of renting your own server for indie game devs. **What do you dislike about P4?** My only real complaint about helix is that their versioning client (P4V) tends to act up. When setting up my repo for the first time it decided to send it to System32 instead of the destination I had specified. P4V also seems to dislike stashing or discarding changes which can make it hard to consistently have new data from your project. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Helix is great, free, and powerful, but be aware of possible bugs like the ones I had mentioned in my review and make sure to read through the tutorials and documentation to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Perforce solved our source control problem quite will after fiddling with it and getting used to its quirks, all in all it is a great service and can only get better from here. ### 33. A nice version control for content creators **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Perforce Helix is much more than the version control you are used to, be it Git, SVN or even Dropbox. It brings much more features than you expect: history, branching, reviews, locks. Everything in a unified platform. **What do you dislike about P4?** Don't expect to use it like Dropbox, it's not as easy as dropping files on a directory. The same goes for developers used to other VCS. Coming from git was not smooth. All the features bring complexity for the tool. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Perforce Helix should be taken in consideration if you team is big enough and the usual VCS tools already look too simple for you use case. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a creative studio focused on game development, website creation and animation. With our team growing on the past project we found it really hard to manage the assets generate by the art team. Perforce appeared as a VCS solution, suited for the creative world. ### 34. Love the benefits, hate the price **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca H. | CEO, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Having the repository centrally controlled, without having a .svn or .git folder on your drive is a huge boon. Another feature is the ability to mark files as "one copy on server" only so that binaries can be kept in sync quickly. **What do you dislike about P4?** The integration with game engines like Unity leave a bit to be desired. there doesn't appear to be support for the "p4config" file which we rely on for maintaining multiple servers. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** the free version is a bit limited, and they insist on buying a support contract when buying the software. We NEVER once called their support line, so it's just a money grab **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do game development with a virtual team, source code control is crucial ### 35. Powerful Ecosystem **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** I enjoy the fact that minimal adoption is simple, still using git and the tooling around the base code repository management that most developers are used to. All the other tooling on top is amazing, when used properly. The integrations with the design tool and the office tools looked like they did the job well, although I never had direct hands on with them. **What do you dislike about P4?** Without a proper adoption or internal champion, the software gets mistreated and used only for git repo usage. This isn't a fault of the software per-se, but the adoption process of the software. I would love to see more integrations with 3D modeling and audio tooling, as I work in video games. Additionally, the GUI visual merge tools could do with a little more polish - but I generally use the command-line for my interactions. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Helix is a great toolset, but make sure you processes are in a point to support all it offers. If you implement a software like this in hopes of building processes, you won't get the full benefits or get proper adoption. Trying to give tools to a designer without proper understanding of the end-goal of versioning is not the best way to adopt such a wonderful tool. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are mainly trying to have internal git hosting, but I am sure upper management wanted to keep tabs on our interactions. Some staff had been known to take files from projects and use them in their personal work. I am sure that helped shed light on those aspects with some of the detection tooling. We were also trying to get designers and non-poweruser-developers into the entire project versioning mentality. ### 36. Outstanding Versioning Control. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** What I like best about Helix is the centralized features, full support of Git, and user-friendly and intuitive UI. It's easy for non-technical users to understand which is critical to small and large teams alike. **What do you dislike about P4?** The P4V versioning client seems to have problems from time to time which can cause delays in production. 3rd party tools integration support would be nice to see. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** I would recommend that you give the free trial a chance. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Source code control with an international team can be a difficult task to handle. Perforce helped with this issue and made it easy for all our staff, including non-technical employees, to understand versioning. ### 37. A great source control solution especially for projects containing a lot of binary files. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Setting up a depot in Helix Cloud is simple and only takes a few minutes. The web interface gives non-technical team members access to the depot without having to deal with the normal perforce client. **What do you dislike about P4?** Helix Cloud's web interface is great for basic operations but there is still a lot that you have to do through a client. I would like to see it's functionality expanded. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to add a team member through Helix Cloud's web interface and they can start downloading and uploading files without having to walk them through how source control software works is hugely beneficial. ### 38. This is a great versioning engine! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** The best part of this software is how elegantly it handles merges and easy it is to use. Shelves are awesome to allow others to look at your work and everything else just makes sense. **What do you dislike about P4?** The interface is not the most attractive, but it works. It can be confusing to understand how workspaces and streams work. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** I definitely recommend that you use this for version control if it works with your develop environment. It is way better than SVN or Git and causes way less problems in the long run. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software helps us version control our code and helps us make games efficiently. ### 39. User-friendly version control for developers and designers **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Perforce comes with a user-friendly and feature-rich GUI client. Keeping the learning curve low is very important for big production teams, which usually consist of people with different technical background. **What do you dislike about P4?** Version control systems should not make use of the read-only flag on files to keep track of open-for-edits. The server only runs on Windows, and there is no straightforward way to backup the depots. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control for source code and digital assets. Perforce is a good option if you need good binary file support out of the box. ### 40. Great product for large scale development. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Perforce and Helix are great solutions for version control. Compared to Git, there is much better control over binary assets, which is extremely important for certain projects. Perforce is heavily used at other companies working on similar products, and many users are more comfortable with these products. **What do you dislike about P4?** Not open source and requires a little more legwork to get set up. Is overkill for small, single person projects or strictly code-based projects. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Group collaboration and keeping everyone in sync and working on the same version of the product. ### 41. Decent version control system **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Easy to use Perforce/Helix UI client for basic usercase **What do you dislike about P4?** Harder to use the functions as you use it more.... **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Make the complex functionality like check in and other other features easy to use or learn. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control for configuration ### 42. Preforce is Great for Independent Developers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lovepreet S. | Front-End Developer, Higher Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** I am an independent developer who uses Preforce to back up data to a local external storage. The program is great and allowed me to recover my data when I did something wrong by accident and restore to a previous storage I had saved. **What do you dislike about P4?** It was a bit difficult to set-up initially. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** Bitbucket had limitations to file sizes so this product was a more ideal solution. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recovering data and restoring data to a previous state. ### 43. Works great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2016 **What do you like best about P4?** Works really well for regular git use, would love to see more repository method support **What do you dislike about P4?** I dislike the setup and selection process, its very hard to figure out exactly what you want. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps with managing code ### 44. Highly recommended development tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2015 **What do you like best about P4?** Tools like Helix Versioning Engine are a must for any SW company. The amount of downtime a loss of data can cause is unacceptable and retaining data against corruption or versioning should be your #1 choice. If I had a choice between no source control and the source control, I'd always pick the "the". **What do you dislike about P4?** 3rd party tool integration could be better but not everyone can play nice. 3rd party client interfacing for mixing with competitor software would be a bonus for already established systems. **Recommendations to others considering P4:** This tool can easily be overlooked as a necessity, don't let it slip your thought before its too late. **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Retaining data from various sources against loss of data and change migration is key. ### 45. My experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Y. Andy C. | Director of Product Marketing, Industrial Automation, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2015 **What do you like best about P4?** I like the ease of use of the software and the intuitiveness of the platform **What do you dislike about P4?** It took a bit longer than I had expected to get the system up and running **What problems is P4 solving and how is that benefiting you?** trying to solve problems on identifying opporutnities and perform competitive analysis ## P4 Discussions - [What does Perforce software do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-perforce-software-do) - [I have a global workforce that requires quick access to digital files. How does Helix Core provide remote teams with the files they need quickly?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/global-scale) - 1 upvote - [My team includes engineers, artists, and designers who all use their own tools. 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