Perforce Delphix Reviews

I worked as a DevOps engineer for a company like Axoft, where I held roles as a system engineer, cybersecurity specialist, and software engineer. I have accumulated almost 10 plus years of experience across different streams, domains, and clients, using various tools. As part of my day-to-day responsibilities, I build, deploy, troubleshoot, and support systems whenever needed.

My experience with Perforce tools was primarily related to code check-in. I also handled user management responsibilities, such as providing credentials and repository access to new users joining the company. Initially, I struggled with the check-in process because it was new to me, but after that initial period, I found it straightforward. As part of my role, I learn new tools continuously, and that initial struggle was just part of the learning process.

The best features Perforce offers from my experience are user administration and code management. After that initial project, I never received exposure to more Perforce tools and never worked with another client using Perforce. I used it for almost two years on that one project.

Previously, I used different solutions before Perforce, which were Subversion and ClearCase. Since my Perforce experience was about 10 years ago and not recent, I felt that Git and Bitbucket were better options in recent times. They are decentralized repositories with options that felt more appropriate, which is why I shared those same preferences with you.

The best features Perforce offers from my experience are user administration and code management. Both the user administration and code management made those features useful in my day-to-day work. Everything has its own pros and cons. For the code side, it was very secure, and when it comes to user management, it was very user-friendly. The onboarding process was easy, and adding and managing users was straightforward.

Regarding specific outcomes or metrics, such as time saved or reduced errors, I noticed improvements were quite direct. Code check-in, check-out, and all those command line operations were fine. The UI was easy to access. If I were to see the current upgraded version of your tool, I might be able to evaluate what the past looked like compared to what the current version offers. However, based on what I know from my experience, that is what I can comment on.

Perhaps you should focus mostly on Identity Access Management for Perforce, as the market is heading toward IAM, and it has become mandatory. Additionally, based on my experience, I would suggest trying to use a decentralized approach similar to Git, where when a user clones the repository, it becomes their own repository. This decentralized method is what Git is doing right now, and implementing it might help the company.

If you take a decentralized approach to the repository, it would be easier for users. Additionally, implementing Identity Access Management aligned with current cybersecurity tools in the market might also help the company. Focusing in that direction would be beneficial.

I used Perforce on only one project for almost two years.

Perforce is stable in my experience. I felt downtime only one time, but it was not significant.

Perforce's scalability was fine. The security and everything was straightforward. The code and everything was pretty much fine. The users were doing well. Handling users and managing increases or decreases in user count was straightforward. The administration aspect was easy.

The customer support was fine. When the license renewal came into the picture, we reviewed and checked with customer support. The response was quick.

Previously, I used different solutions before Perforce, which were Subversion and ClearCase. Since my Perforce experience was about 10 years ago and not recent, I felt that Git and Bitbucket were better options. They are decentralized repositories using decentralized approaches.

Perforce was deployed in my organization as on-premises because at that time, there was no cloud option available.

I did see a return on investment with Perforce in the sense that managing the users and the work was taken care of fine. However, regarding return on investment overall, I am probably not the right person to comment on that because it is higher management who can provide insights on that, not me.

It is hard for me to remember the pricing, setup cost, or licensing for Perforce. I think the licensing was based on user count. I felt the pricing was a little higher at that time, which is what I heard from my boss.

I never used Perforce Delphix. I only used the Perforce version control tool, which was around eight or nine years ago. We were checking in code and doing builds from there using Jenkins for build and deployment. I never used Perforce Delphix.

Maybe this sounds odd because it is a version control tool and there is nothing more to define about it. It is simply a version control tool where you secure your code. Based on my experience, it was fine. However, I do not know how far you have updated the tool since it has been 10 years, so I cannot comment on the current state because I did not use it recently.

Maybe single sign-on would be a useful feature. I do not remember the specific tool name, but that is just a suggestion.

It is hard to answer whether I would advise someone to use Perforce because the market has moved far ahead of Perforce. I have not used Perforce recently, so it is hard for me to advise anyone to use it. Without knowing much about the current state, I cannot advise someone. I am not the right person to advise on this matter. Overall, I would rate this review an 8.

On-premises

My main use case for Perforce Delphix is a split between data de-identification and data virtualization. We have very large databases that we need to create virtual copies of and then de-identify those as test data for offshore compliance. Our databases require a complete certification of data de-identification for offshore compliance so that offshore developers are not working on real or unprotected data.

The best features Perforce Delphix offers are very fast turnaround in creating new database copies and ease of both profiling and data de-identification to HIPAA standards.

The fast turnaround and ease of profiling help my team day-to-day by allowing quicker access to necessary data.

Perforce Delphix has impacted my organization positively by making us much more service-oriented and creating an in-house service that is listed in the application catalog and advertised as the go-to service for internal users to de-identify sensitive PHI and PII data.

The results I have seen from becoming more service-oriented include being able to reduce the refresh cycle of very large 50-terabyte databases from once or twice a year to once a month.

The application of AI and the ability for the AI agent to help with the install of Perforce Delphix appliances and automation of the data de-identification jobs could greatly benefit from AI capabilities.

We would like to see improvements in the network and firewall connectivity between the Perforce Delphix engine and the databases.

Sometimes the complexity of virtualization needs much more documentation, which is what I think could be improved with Perforce Delphix.

I have been using Perforce Delphix for the past seven years, maybe a little longer.

Perforce Delphix is very stable.

Scalability is very robust with Perforce Delphix.

We have had excellent customer support through the Perforce Delphix support portal.

I used several solutions previously before choosing Perforce Delphix, including IBM Optum and the Compuware product.

Most of the ROI comes from improved access to data that is hard to quantify but definitely benefits the organization.

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that pricing was generally good. However, we implemented incrementally, and setup costs were significant over seven to eight years. We ultimately evolved into an enterprise licensing agreement that is currently in place.

Before choosing Perforce Delphix, I evaluated other options, including IBM Optum and Compuware RDX.

My advice to others looking into using Perforce Delphix is to make sure that the use cases driving a Perforce Delphix virtualization and/or Perforce Delphix data de-identification project are a good match for Perforce Delphix capabilities.

I haven't seen the full explanation of governance and security in Perforce Delphix's AI, so I cannot comment on its governance and security.

The AI capabilities are currently mid-flight, so I cannot comment on their accuracy and reliability of output.

I would rate this review a 9 out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use case for Perforce Delphix at Dell Technology is to automate refresh, replication, and masking.

We have used Hangfire to automate the Perforce Delphix API for migration, data masking, refresh, replication, SnapSync, Snapshot, and Gold VDB. We are using automation for all steps through Hangfire.

We are using Perforce Delphix to move main production data to non-prod data for our testing, implementation, and development purposes. We need to mask or encrypt the production data to the non-prod environment, which is a very useful tool we have been using for the last eight years in our project.

Data masking is the best feature Perforce Delphix offers in my experience.

It encrypts our entire production data and brings all data to non-prod data with some fake data or masked information that hides all the emails, contact addresses, and other sensitive data.

DCT is also good, as all the engines now come into one portal, which is a good feature.

Perforce Delphix has positively impacted my organization as the migration became fast. Earlier, migration took four months to migrate our data from prod to non-prod, and now it is just a one-day or two-day task.

It helps productivity, and data availability is fast now, which helps development and testing significantly.

They should improve their support system for the API.

I have worked in my current field for 20 years.

Perforce Delphix is stable.

Perforce Delphix's scalability is good and reliable, and we have been happy with this tool for eight years.

Customer support for Perforce Delphix is good. For other databases like SQL and Oracle, it is good, but for other databases like MongoDB and DocumentDB, which we are newly implementing, we are lacking some support. For SQL and Oracle, it is very good, however, we are facing some problems with MongoDB.

I did not previously use a different solution before Perforce Delphix.

We have not used any other solution; we are only using Perforce Delphix.

Employee-wise, it is more reliable because earlier we had about 10 DBAs, and now we can use this tool with only two to three DBAs, which means it has reduced the cost employee-wise.

We are using only Perforce Delphix, so we do not need any other review.

Perforce Delphix is a good tool, and I would give this advice to others looking into using it. I give this product a rating of 10.

Private Cloud

Other

My main use case is the CI/CD pipeline itself, which is used across the entire organization, ranging from developer tools to production-related tools.

I have been using Perforce Delphix, the Helix version, for more than four years since I joined Synopsys. Perforce Delphix is the primary CI/CD and source control version management system here.

Perforce Delphix is used for our products, and even though Git is also available, we primarily use Perforce Delphix for one set of products. The best aspect of Perforce Delphix is the multi-modality and the ability to handle a large number of files along with decades of commit history since the inception of Synopsys. This gives us a huge advantage of something well-established compared to other tools, which makes Perforce Delphix a significant advantage. An example would be the standard CI/CD pipeline that goes from development to production branches.

The branching and merging process in our CI/CD pipeline does not have anything particularly unique; however, the advantage is that Perforce Delphix is able to handle a large number of files. I would say that it is able to handle thousands of files.

The most standout feature of Perforce Delphix is its ability to have multiple change lists, which is something Git does not have in a single sandbox version in a single client. Perforce Delphix has this ability and the capability to move changes from one client to another client. These are some of the standout features.

One area where Perforce Delphix could be improved is the ability to handle thousands of files more efficiently.

During the cleanup process, the challenge I face is that residual files remain, which makes it not as effective as I would prefer.

I have been using Perforce Delphix, the Helix version, for more than four years since I joined Synopsys.

I chose the rating of nine because Helix has the features it offers, the scalability solutions it offers, and the support it provides.

Positive

I did not previously use a different solution before Perforce Delphix.

My organization did not use a different solution before Perforce Delphix either.

I believe there is a return on investment with Perforce Delphix, but since I am not involved in those aspects, I cannot provide specific details.

We have covered the main highlights, but I would like to mention that there are some things Perforce Delphix lacks. Something lacking in the product is the CI/CD pipeline built by Git itself. For example, in Git, there is an entire CI/CD pipeline, but for us, there is no in-house CI/CD pipeline tool available that is as easy to use compared to Git. That is one thing I wanted to add.

Without the in-house CI/CD pipeline, what we do is build our own framework of CI/CD, encompassing everything. It includes all types of logging, DBRs, integration with all internal APIs, and internal tools. Everything is done with an in-house tool developed by internal Synopsys itself for decades, and it is quite effective.

I would not say that using Perforce Delphix has reduced errors; it is just an in-house advantage.

The learning regarding the features is all normal, and nothing unusual stands out to me in my day-to-day work. I have assigned an overall review rating of nine to this product.

Private Cloud

Other

My main use case for Perforce Delphix in my previous organization involved two concerns: we had a huge production database that needed replication for non-production environments with real-time data use cases, addressing both the large amount of data and storage issues, which Perforce Delphix helped us with significantly.

One specific project where Perforce Delphix helped with the huge amount of data and storage issues involved replicating large production data for non-production use to run our automated and manual test cases. We created a Perforce Delphix environment to replicate data, allowing us to create multiple non-production environments with the same storage set, where we were running different test cases in parallel, improving performance, coverage, and turnaround time significantly. Additionally, we were able to spin up environments very quickly.

Another important aspect we utilized with Perforce Delphix was point-in-time snapshotting, which allowed us to roll back all changes and restore the original state of the replicated data, thus contributing to its effective use.

Perforce Delphix offers excellent features including a very good UI capability and strong performance, along with reliable connection functionalities.

Regarding the UI, I found it to be very fast and performant from the database side, allowing us to create environments without the need for backend scripts. The UI also provided ways to connect to the database and observe current database usage statistics.

Perforce Delphix has positively impacted my organization by significantly improving turnaround time for test cycles, enabling us to close feature set testing very quickly and enhancing development time due to the availability of real-time data for executing numerous use cases in a non-production environment.

I estimate that our test cycle time has increased by forty to fifty percent and parallel development has had a significant impact as well.

In terms of improvements for Perforce Delphix, I believe the pricing page should provide more flexibility, as it was costlier before, though I am uncertain about the current pricing structure.

I have been working in my current field for the last eight years, and I have around twenty years of total experience.

Perforce Delphix is stable.

I did not encounter any scalability issues with what I have used, though I am uncertain about its overall scalability.

The customer support for Perforce Delphix is good. I would rate the customer support around seven to eight.

Previously, we were replicating using native database replication, but we switched to Perforce Delphix because we were struggling with data synchronization and storage issues.

I did not evaluate other options before choosing Perforce Delphix.

My advice for others considering Perforce Delphix is that if you are dealing with production database validation or related use cases and struggling with database storage, size, and pricing, Perforce Delphix is a good option. Especially for large organizations where multiple teams are working on the same data set and there are multiple features being released, Perforce Delphix offers a solid solution for logical data separation.

I am not using Perforce Delphix right now, but I was using it in my previous organization for one year.

I am uncertain about Perforce Delphix's AI capabilities, particularly concerning governance and security, as I have not worked much in that area.

Regarding the accuracy and reliability of Perforce Delphix's AI output, I have not had any experience with that and might need to explore it further.

I would rate this review an eight overall.

On-premises

Other

My main use case for Perforce Delphix is for masking jobs and virtualization with clients, and I am involved in pre-sales, support, and troubleshooting for clients.

A specific example of how I use Perforce Delphix for masking jobs or virtualization is a scenario for security in enterprises where we need a database masked and virtualized to optimize space and have a fast database. For masking, it is for LGPD, for security and legal reasons.

I have a lot to add about my main use case as we use Perforce Delphix for many scenarios because we work with Delphix daily, employing it for various different things.

In my opinion, the best features Perforce Delphix offers include Brazilian CNPJ masking for the LGPD profile set on the adaptive engine.

The ability of the adaptive engine to handle Brazilian CNPJ and LGPD profiles are standout features, and the adaptive engine helps me day-to-day because the CNPJ is transformed to an alphanumeric type from a numeric type. This cover for masking is something different from the market and is very important now because all enterprises need to mask these fields.

Perforce Delphix has positively impacted my organization very well because many enterprises call us for projects to virtualize databases and mask their fields in the database.

I face different challenges every day on all of the projects, and I see different bugs and problems, so every day I try a new challenge.

I have many bugs, but I cannot list all of them because there are many bugs every day.

I have been working in my current field for two years.

From my experience, Perforce Delphix is stable.

The scalability of Perforce Delphix is really good as we use it every day for different scenarios.

I use Delphix support which is really good, but the term 'customer support' does not make sense to me.

I have never used a different solution for virtualization and masking of databases.

In the part that I see, Perforce Delphix provides good returns, but I do not know about the specific metrics. However, I know a return exists.

Before choosing Perforce Delphix, I evaluated other options, specifically for masking where we used masking on the Oracle side and another application, but I have never seen anything as good as Delphix. In virtualization, I have also never seen something Delphix, which is really different from other applications.

I rated Perforce Delphix a 10 out of 10.

I chose this rating because Perforce Delphix helps my day and everyone on the project team, including the development teams. It helps everyone on the cost side, development side, DBA side, and support team side, and it is easy to use.

Regarding Perforce Delphix's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are good because you can provide masked fields for training an AI machine learning model, and we have a DCT on Delphix which is an engine for data governance that works well.

I do not know about the accuracy and reliability of output related to Perforce Delphix's AI capabilities.

I would advise others looking into using Perforce Delphix to recognize that it is really fast in its virtualization type and that you can reduce costs with virtualization. You can create a VDB in the database with fast ingestions, fast recovery in disaster scenarios, and fast masking, and the masking feels realistic.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

My main use case for Perforce Delphix was refreshing production databases.

The best features Perforce Delphix offers are quick and easy production-like database management. Refreshing databases is easy and efficient. For example, before using Perforce Delphix, we exported and imported databases to refresh production databases for test cases, but after we implemented Perforce Delphix, we refreshed them more efficiently and quickly.

Refreshing UAT databases takes nearly five minutes with Perforce Delphix, but before that, we exported and imported them along with importing the schema. Perforce Delphix has positively impacted my organization as I saved considerable time.

I am not currently using Perforce Delphix, so I cannot comment on how it can be improved. I cannot recall any needed improvements from my past experience with Perforce Delphix. Since I have not used Perforce Delphix for nearly five or six years, I cannot add anything specifically about needed improvements.

I have been working in my current field for nearly 10 years.

Perforce Delphix is stable in my experience. After we tested it in our company, other companies tested it and implemented it to their production environment.

Perforce Delphix reduces storage, so it takes about five minutes to make a UAT test environment, and I did not notice any issues as our data or usage grew.

The customer support for Perforce Delphix, based on my experience, is initially not easy to reach, but in the succession stage, it is easy to reach support.

Perforce Delphix was the first program that we used for refreshing databases.

I used Perforce Delphix for nearly two or three years. I found it easy to use.

I used Perforce Delphix during my junior years, but I left it because I began working at another company.

I have not seen a return on investment from using Perforce Delphix, and I am not the one in charge of investment or licensing information.

I do not know the licensing information or setup cost for Perforce Delphix because I am not the one in charge of that.

I did not evaluate any other options before choosing Perforce Delphix.

My advice to others looking into using Perforce Delphix is that it reduces time, is easy to implement, and also reduces storage. I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10.

On-premises

The current use case is to manufacture or generate synthetic data on the fly in different environments.

The solution's most valuable feature is data cloning. Once we have the rules established, we can clone the data as if it were equivalent to production data. The solution's data masking features reduced the risk of accessing production data, reducing incidents related to data privacy by at least 50%.

It would be good if any CI/CD and DevOps-aligned feature could be triggered through the DevOps pipeline. Right now, we have to trigger the jobs and then integrate them with DevOps, which requires some manual effort. The ideal state would be to have the ability to integrate with the DevOps pipeline.

There is a mainframe virtualization for which Delphix already has a partner. Mainframe virtualization is an important use case, and it would be good if it could be given as a package.

I have been using Delphix for one and a half years.

Delphix provides good stability.

I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten for stability.

The solution's scalability is not an issue, but the clients have their own adoption curve. Around 50 users are using the solution. Our clients for Delphix are enterprise businesses.

I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten.

The solution’s technical support is very good.

Positive

The solution's initial setup requires some technical expertise. The solution's deployment took six to twelve months. That's not because of Delphix. It was because of the client's ecosystem, which is sometimes very complex. I would say anywhere between six and twelve months is a reasonable time frame.

The solution's deployment has a pilot phase where we would take one or two applications and run them past the test data software. Then, we look for the results and accuracy. If they are appropriate and satisfactory, we incorporate more applications in the next release. Since each release takes about one month, we have to postpone it until next month.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup a seven out of ten.

The solution's pricing was reasonable and lower than one million.

We are the solution service integrator. We implement and manage Delphix for the customer. The solution's data virtualization capabilities have resulted in a 30% improvement in velocity, a 50% reduction in incidents related to data security, and an overall 20% reduction in efforts related to test data.

Delphix is deployed on-premises or in the client's private cloud, which can also be classified as on-premises.

Identifying the use cases was challenging because every stakeholder had their unique use cases. We had to baseline the use cases because we couldn't accommodate all of them within the pilot phase.

In terms of the required support, the business users needed to support the pilot phase, which was another challenge. We had to get all the business teams together in one place and agree on the scope. Then, it was more of learning on the job. There was a continuous learning process, and we had to adapt and learn on the fly.

I would recommend Delphix to other users because the company is good and very supportive. The solution has a user-friendly interface, and the support team is also quite proactive.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

My use case for Perforce Delphix will mostly be data masking, and sometimes it will be data virtualization as well.

For data masking, I use Perforce Delphix to import the metadata in the Delphix data masking tool by importing database metadata into Perforce Delphix, and I start with the profiling and preview it with the customer. Then I mask the data and review it. Regarding data virtualization, I use Perforce Delphix to mask a set of databases; for example, if I am masking the production data on the fly, I mask a set of data and virtualize it so all teams can use the same data again.

In my project, I rely mostly on the data masking feature of Perforce Delphix since we have many teams using production data and we mask production data daily. We have more databases as well, which provides enough use cases to mask data.

Perforce Delphix offers several best features, including data profiling, data masking, data subsetting, and even data virtualization.

Perforce Delphix has positively impacted my organization; initially, before I joined the project, the team used some SQL queries to mask data, which involved mainframe masking. After we took over the project, we proposed multiple tools for TDM, particularly for masking, and Perforce Delphix was shortlisted due to its straightforward data masking process. The organization chose Perforce Delphix for masking because of its direct masking capabilities, which mostly involve in-place masking.

After implementing masking using Perforce Delphix, we ensured that all sensitive elements were masked before placing them into QA and Int environments, addressing the issues raised by the client regarding compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI.

In terms of challenges with Perforce Delphix, it would be really helpful if the tool provides a chance to use some transformation features, such as those in Informatica; for instance, if a column contains multi-value data, it would be helpful to separate the data. For example, if a column contains both first name and last name in a single data entry, it would be beneficial to divide it.

To improve Perforce Delphix, it would be helpful if job log details were presented, indicating errors more specifically instead of providing all logs on the same page, and also if it specified the source and target rows more clearly when performing on-the-fly masking.

Perforce Delphix is stable; I have been using it for the past year in my current project without issues.

In terms of scalability, Perforce Delphix has handled multiple requests effectively, and it is performing well.

The customer support from Perforce Delphix partners has been satisfactory; I get enough support when facing any issues.

I would rate the customer support a seven out of ten.

Previously, I have used multiple TDM tools such as Informatica, Delphix, GenRocket, and even now I am learning Datapro; my choice to learn Perforce Delphix was based on project requirements that demanded it.

Before choosing Perforce Delphix, we evaluated several options including Informatica and other tools, but considering support and cost, the business decided to go with Perforce Delphix.

I rate Perforce Delphix an eight out of ten.

I chose the number eight because, even though there are some drawbacks and improvements needed, Perforce Delphix has helped me mask data and do profiling using the tool itself. It greatly aids me in data masking and data virtualization compared to other tools, enabling me to virtualize data without needing to mask the same production data repeatedly; I can mask it once, store it virtually, and then use it in QA or Int environments when required.

My advice for others looking into using Perforce Delphix would be that if you need masking along with virtualization, it is a good choice. However, if you need to generate synthetic data along with data masking, other tools such as Informatica ILM, TDM, PowerCenter, Dataprof, or GenRocket might be better suited since Perforce Delphix does not support synthetic data generation. I rate this product an eight out of ten overall.

Private Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

We use the tool to create scenarios for test data. We have different third-party databases that have huge volumes of data.

The product helps us deal with RDBMS or MongoDB, where we have a large volume of data. It is a valuable product.

The product is efficient in handling large volumes of data.

The solution’s self-service portal must be more interactive and user-friendly. It must give more capabilities to the user. Virtual database capabilities should be added to future releases.

I have been using the solution since 2018. I am using the latest version of the solution.

The tool’s stability is fine. We could export large volumes of data. I rate the stability an eight out of ten.

I rate the tool’s scalability a seven out of ten.

We also use Broadcom Test Data Manager. Delphix has capabilities that are similar to Broadcom Test Data Manager.

The deployment was easy.

We do not see much ROI on the tool because we also use Broadcom Test Data Manager. However, I like how Delphix handles large volumes of data.

The product is a little bit expensive. It is almost similar to Broadcom Test Data Manager.

My advice depends on an organization’s needs. If an organization has a large volume of data, Delphix is a good choice. It is robust and very efficient with large volumes of data and different kinds of databases. If someone is looking for a one-stop solution with all features and capabilities, they must consider a different tool. Overall, I rate the product a six or seven out of ten.

On-premises