Helix Core vs Rocket ChangeMan ZMF (formerly a Micro Focus product) comparison

"I find the configuration management features of Helix Core particularly valuable."

"The customer service and support are excellent."

"Technical support for routine issues and tutoring beginners is absolutely the best."

"The excellent traceability of all changes made to the product and the support for collaborative work."

"Perforce has given us the capability to manage our deployments on different environments."

"The code comparison functionality and the command line options for automation are valuable features."

"Perforce is very fast, even for very huge assets."

"Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it."

"Scalability is great; it has absolutely met every need for us so far, and we do have some concurrent development paths where we're able to flexibly assign variables while our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."

"We audit once a year for our ChangeMan access, accurate financial programs, and all of that. Auditors really love ChangeMan for how easy it is to get through and how tight the security is on it. Our internal auditors, external auditors, and SOX editors love this solution. We're in the healthcare business, so HIPAA regulations and all such things are a big deal, and this makes all that really simple."

"What’s most valuable to me is the ability to compile the code and move it through the test and productions environments."

"Scalability is great. It has absolutely met every need for us so far. We do have some concurrent development paths and we're able to flexibly assign variables. At the same time, our skeletons assemble where we want them to, so the scalability is very good."

"It has an extensive feature set that leads to a steep learning curve, where users need to learn quite a bit of features to work with it effectively."

"Perforce does not appear to have an enterprise scale software test environment. We sometimes serve as their software QA department."

"The part of Perforce that could be most improved is its automatic resolving of code merge conflicts."

"It scales well, but installation and server management gets technically very complicated when the installation grows."

"There are scalability issues when there is too much traffic, such as when there are extremely huge amount of calls by APIs."

"However, it has an extensive feature set that leads to a steep learning curve, where users need to learn quite a bit of features to work with it effectively."

"The offline versioning needs to be improved."

"Their technical support is not so good. To be perfectly honest, that's one of the reasons we were looking at other solutions."

"I would like to see a better search tool."

"As such, there's nothing wrong with the product. It is great, but there are small things that can be better to make it much more friendly. The way you navigate through fields can be improved. If I'm going to stage a component over something that exists and that I've created in another library, and I want to pull it in and write it over what I've got there in my package, I've got to type in that data set name every time. That can be aggravating. It is not a big deal. The way things are sorted can also be improved. If you're doing a delete of a bunch of components, you can't sort those out by type or anything. Some things are just standard, and you can't look at them in a way that would be helpful."

"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe."

"I would like to see them enable parallel development for online. It's available now for batch stuff on the mainframe. Jenkins, IBM, and Rocket all supposedly already have safe and workable version of Git for the mainframe. With that in mind, we need to know where our feature is."

"It's on a yearly basis. I am not aware of any additional costs."