The primary use case is controlling and documenting project documents, requirements, tests, traceability between them, and coupling to the execution of text. Helix ALM is also used to track bugs and link them to validation testing.
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What is Helix ALM?
Helix ALM is a comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software platform offered by Perforce. It provides organizations with tools and features to manage the entire lifecycle of software development and product engineering. Helix ALM combines requirements management, test management, issue tracking, and version control into a unified solution, enabling teams to collaborate effectively and ensure the delivery of high-quality software products.
Helix ALM Features:
- Requirements Management: Helix ALM allows for capturing, organizing, and managing requirements, ensuring clarity, traceability, and alignment with stakeholders.
- Test Management: The platform provides tools for creating, executing, and tracking tests, enabling comprehensive test coverage and quality assurance.
- Issue and Defect Tracking: Helix ALM offers robust issue and defect tracking capabilities, allowing teams to log, track, and resolve issues throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Version Control Integration: It integrates with version control systems, such as Helix Core, enabling teams to manage source code, track changes, and maintain version history.
- Traceability and Impact Analysis: Helix ALM establishes relationships between requirements, tests, defects, and code changes, facilitating traceability and impact analysis to understand the impact of changes and make informed decisions.
- Collaboration and Workflow Management: The platform supports collaboration among team members, streamlines workflows, and provides notifications and approvals to ensure efficient progress and timely delivery.
- Reporting and Analytics: Helix ALM offers reporting and analytics capabilities to gain insights into project status, quality metrics, and overall performance, aiding in decision-making and process improvement.
Helix ALM Benefits:
- Streamlined Development Process: Helix ALM provides a centralized platform that streamlines the software development process, promoting efficient collaboration and coordination among team members.
- Improved Collaboration and Communication: The platform facilitates effective collaboration and communication among cross-functional teams, reducing miscommunication and fostering better teamwork.
- Enhanced Requirement Management: Helix ALM helps ensure clear, traceable, and well-managed requirements, leading to better understanding and fulfillment of customer needs.
- Comprehensive Test Management: With Helix ALM, teams can create, execute, and track tests, ensuring comprehensive test coverage, early defect detection, and improved product quality.
- Effective Issue and Defect Tracking: Helix ALM's issue and defect tracking features enable teams to log, track, and resolve issues throughout the development process, ensuring timely issue resolution and reducing the risk of defects in the final product.
- Regulatory Compliance Support: Helix ALM provides features to support compliance with industry regulations and standards, offering documentation, audit trails, and version control to meet regulatory requirements.
- Increased Visibility and Control: Helix ALM offers transparency and visibility into project status, metrics, and performance, empowering teams with actionable insights to make informed decisions and manage projects effectively.
- Scalability and Customization: Helix ALM is a flexible solution that can be tailored to fit the specific needs of different organizations and projects. It scales to accommodate growing teams and supports customization to align with unique processes and workflows.
Reviews from Real Users
Harold Pogue, Global IT Director of Digital Platforms, says that, “The initial setup is complexly straightforward. The vendor offers support where they come and set up the solution for a fee”, and also adds, "The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility.
Helix ALM was previously known as TestTrack.
Helix ALM Customers
Invision, Softing, CACI, Hunter Industries, ITSO, Itron, EEC, Database Consultants Australia, VirtualScopics, March Networks, WorkForce
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Global IT Director of Digital Platforms. Digital and Connected Commerce at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Helix ALM is insanely configurable, with great traceability, and flexibility
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
- "The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Helix ALM is insanely configurable. We can really configure the solution and change it to do pretty much everything we want with only a couple of people. I have been in different roles along the way from principal contributor to project manager and with Helix ALM I rarely need IT, people, to make changes. I can be at an admin level and make the changes I need quickly and deploy them.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility.
One thing that distinguishes Helix ALM from other solutions is that it is a hybrid cloud model. Helix ALM is not a full cloud implementation like Valerian, Jira Jama, or Atlassian, where we just go through a browser onto the cloud. In the case of Helix, we have code that goes on our computer and then that communicates to the cloud. We have the backup and distribution capability of the cloud, but we have code executing on our machine, and we don't need to worry much about speed and internet lag problems.
What needs improvement?
The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement.
Adding snapshots for testing would be a valuable addition to Helix ALM.
The functionality to import and export from Microsoft Word within Helix ALM would be a great improvement.
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For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable and I give the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The solution is scalable and we currently have 100 users.
How are customer service and support?
The technical support is excellent.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Previously to Helix ALM, I used Atlassian tools, Rational Rose Suite, Rational Unified Process, and the web-based Jama Jira.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is complexly straightforward. The vendor offers support where they come and set up the solution for a fee.
I give the setup a nine out of ten.
The deployment can take between a few days to weeks depending on the workflow and requires two people.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was completed in-house with the help of a consultant.
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment with Helix ALM.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I give the solution a nine out of ten for pricing.
What other advice do I have?
I give the solution a nine out of ten.
I suggest when implementing the solution, focus on the automation which allows us to configure and start simple before going complex. Do not try to deploy using all the bells and whistles at once.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Hybrid Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Last updated: Dec 8, 2022
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