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Overview

Perforce ALM

4.1

(29)

Pricing

Starting at $89.00 per month

About Perforce ALM

Perforce ALM (formerly Helix ALM) is an application lifecycle management suite that enables organizations to scope, design, execute and track the application development process. Modules and key features include issue management, project collaboration, resource management, process automation, dashboard creation, and reporting.

Perforce ALM suite includes Requirements Management, Issue Management, and Test Case Management. It also integrates with Perforce's Surround SCM solution to provide users source code management functionalities. Perforce ALM’s item list feature enables project managers to assign projects, track progress, and manage project timelines.

Perforce ALM’s dashboard helps team leaders track performance metrics, create data summaries, visualize data and create reports. Its issues management module lets users track bugs, assign testing tasks, prioritize tasks, and collaborate with team members.

Support is provided through an online portal, email, training, a knowledge base, forums, and over the phone.

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Perforce ALM Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $89.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$89.00

per user, per month

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Perforce ALM Features

Popular features found in Application Lifecycle Management
Bug Tracking
Change Management
Collaboration Tools
Issue Management
Project Management
Requirements Review
Task Management
Test Case Tracking
Version Control
Workflow Management
More features of Perforce ALM
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Administrator Level Control
Agile Methodologies
API
Assessment Management
Audit Management
Automatic Test Generation
Baseline Manager
Code Promotion
Commenting/Notes
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Configurable Workflow
Conflict Tracking
Customizable Fields
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Defect Tracking
Deliverables Management
Document Storage
Iteration Management
Knowledge Management
Lifecycle Management
Multiple Projects
Prioritization
Progress Tracking
Projections
Project Tracking
Project Workflow
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Updates
Release Management
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Requirements Management
Resource Management
Stakeholder Defined Attributes
Status Tracking
Test Case Management
Testing/QA Management
Test Library Maintenance
Test Run Tracking
Third-Party Integrations
Ticket Management
Traceability

Perforce ALM Integrations

Jira

Jenkins

Perforce ALM User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.1

Ratings Breakdown

28%

62%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.6

Value for money

3.7

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

4.1

Abraham H.

Verified reviewer

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Difficult to set up, but quite powerful

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Helix ALM is super flexible, and can be configured in just about any way you need. It can be set up to automate some steps, and when you complain, they have excellent customer support.

Cons:

It is somewhat difficult to set up, and if it set up incorrectly, it is extremely frustrating to use.

Keith T.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Good Managment system

Overall, I like Helix ALM, but I imagine that being the lead manager over the server is a huge pain.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like that this product works better than other alternatives for code management, such as GitHub.

Cons:

The price is high, and I wish it were lower so that I could use this for more projects.

Reasons for switching to Perforce ALM

I made this switch because the code management works a lot better than GitHub

tim l.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

the product is an example of an old desk top application

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

nothing about this product can be said to be good , it is old , cumbersome and clunky . the product needs to be refactored and replaced

Cons:

poor reports - difficult to create can not have different type of issues does not really support scrum approach

Vendor Response

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Tim. We're sorry to hear that your experience hasn't met your expectations. Our support team is always ready to help you and can be reached at support@seapine.com. I'd also like to follow up and learn more details about your experience (and how we can make it better). Helix ALM receives quarterly updates to both the desktop and web clients. You can use both clients with your license. Our top priority with product updates is to make it easier for you to use. It's true that you can't have different types of issues in the Helix IM module. But you can differentiate between issues using a field type (e.g. feature request or bug). Helix ALM also lets you use different item types for requirements, requirement documents, test cases, test runs, and issues. Contact support@seapine.com if you have more questions about this. -Jeni at Perforce Support

Replied March 2018

Harold P.

Verified reviewer

Medical Devices

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2020

Helix ALM all in one package

Great, used on numerous projects. I prefer it vs a number of other tools I've used: Doors, Confluence, Jira, Jama, Matrix, Trello, Rational, and in house custom.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

There are numerous packages out there but few that are all in one - one support center packages like Perforce Helix. People often forget that the biggest investment is the user's learning time and having s flexible tool with strong support and ownership is essential. Many other tool packages depend on email or user group/forum support that is unpredictable for each of the "linked" parts of the tool set. I've spend many hours to days trying to find help for problems on some of these. That said, I like that Helix in "insanely configurable", flexible and strongly supported with phone center, tutorials, examples and templates.

Cons:

Round tripping items with MS tools as Word & Excel somewhat cumbersome. Editing in Helix vs familiar MS Word limited.

Reasons for choosing Perforce ALM

All in one tool and phone support center.

Reasons for switching to Perforce ALM

Requirements, Test script, test run, Issues, and version control in on tool with one phone support center.

Shannon B.

Biotechnology

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

Powerful tool for product development, learning curve is difficult for new users (using 2015.1.2)

centralized requirement, bug and test tracking with a complete audit trail of edits, as well as "easy" automatically updating trace matrices.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Captures requirements, bugs and testing all in one place, instant update so people are all using the most up to date version, easy to add new users and licenses, can update fields and text easily to better suit project needs,

Cons:

Word export challenges mean that the team won't use the export feature any more and instead has to make the update twice - once in the ALM and once in our "official" word version Test case and Test Run setup isn't WYSIWIG when embedding images into test steps, greatly annoying my developers Test Run system is not adaptable to mechanical testing, where there is one test setup and then many samples to run on a simple test (like a pull test) - so we have testing in multiple places. Validation overhead for medical device software tool requirements means we can't easily update (which means we can't update without spending on re-validation) The tool is not particularly user-friendly - I've used it for years and know where almost everything is, but new users, particularly less tech-savvy ones, have an extremely difficult time moving items through the workflow and executing tests in the system.

Ken W.

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Helix ALM has the necessary core features but needs work in terms of usability

Through this software, I was able to successfully document software specifications that were linked against test cases, and ultimately used for test runs. This allowed our team to much better understand just how much more work was required to be done and how far along we were in terms of the QA testing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The software contains good functionality for linking various bits of information together between the different modules that we use (requirements, test case management, defect tracking). It's also has the flexibility to be configured to work with many different kinds of workflows (we know because we've gone through a number of different design processes over the years that we've used this).

Cons:

The text editing is the portion of the software that I like the least. Copying and pasting seems to mangle linefeeds, building up a nested list of bullets has inconsistent behavior, and trying to create/edit a table is incredibly awkward. The text editor is still functional, but it's fallen below the minimum expectations for a text editor in this day and age.

Verified

Reviewer

Medical Devices

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

Traceability matrix and Helix general use

I do create Test cases, open issues/defects and creating documents via the tool. Also, review and create the traceability matrix

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The way the traceability is shown and connected together in one page. Adding new test cases and requirements, and supporting the while requirements flow from start to end.

Cons:

In test execution , the execution itself it good, but when it comes to sample size where generally should be one Pass/Fail status, i get several results per number of samples.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Using every day.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Dashboard look great really great and have valuable information. Love issues filters. You can easily find required issue with them.

Cons:

Would be better if it's not lag. Some workflow steps could be improved. One flow could be assigned to two users.

Van L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Hardware

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2020

Usage of Perforce

Overall it is a very good source control tool. It also has command line tools in automation scripts.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Shelving files is a great feature for users because they are saved onto the server and if the developers system crashes or the developer left the company, other users can retrieve them.

Cons:

When a new file or folder is created in a "workspace", you cannot add it until you have added the folder in the workspace configuration. It's not intuitive enough if you are a new user.

Judy L.

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2017

It does Everything, but not always easily!

It enforces a decent workflow for trouble tickets and testing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that it ties everything together and if you have things set up correctly, you get great trace-ability. It is VERY powerful, and flexible.

Cons:

With so much flexibility comes a LOT of configuration. And it's not always easy to modify your workflow once it's been in use for a while. I really don't like that I have to kick everyone out of the project to make the tiniest change to the workflow and events. The cost of licenses makes it hard for us to have enough for everyone.

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