PRODUCT BRIEF
The World’s Most Scalable Version Control
Perforce Helix Core is the version control platform trusted by 19 of the top 20 AAA game studios, award-winning VFX houses, and the largest semiconductor firms, with an unrivaled ability to handle the expanding size and complexity of today’s projects. Helix Core can store and track changes to all of your digital assets—from source code to 3D assets—while enabling your team to collaborate like never before.
Scale Endlessly Without Sacrificing Performance
The largest technology companies trust Helix Core for its unrivaled ability to scale across multiple dimensions — the size of your team, the size of the assets they work with, and the volume of work they produce. When your teams work without limits, their creativity and innovation accelerates. That’s why Helix Core is built to support:
- Large individual assets over 100MB
- Project repositories over 10 TBs, and PBs of total data
- Granular access control down to the file level and by IP address
Collaborate Globally with Best-in-class Security
- Exclusive file locking with global lock visibility
- Content distribution server that protects your source code from 3rd parties
Helix Core offers a data management system that eases collaboration. Protect your most valuable IP by giving team members, contractors, and partners access to only the files they need. Support highly regulated industries with these advanced capabilities:
- Authentication with your preferred Identity Provider via OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0
Empower Your Development with Intelligent Workflows
Helix Core accelerates development and minimizes wait times through a powerful set of branching options and syncing capabilities you won’t find anywhere else. Lower your operational expenses and uncover hidden efficiencies with:
- Lightweight and instantaneous branching with Sparse Streams
- Advanced branching models with builtin visualization (via Streams)
- Virtual File Sync
- Delta Submits and Delta Syncs of File Revisions
- S3 (and S3-compatible) Object Storage Support
Version Within Your Existing Tools and Processes
Helix Core is specialized for your industry, with out-of-the-box integrations that let you version in the background and within your core workflows. Bring version control to all of your artists, designers, and developers, by connecting Helix Core to many of the most popular development and creation tools, including:
- Game and real-time 3D engines: Unreal and Unity
- Graphical tools: Photoshop, 3ds Max, Maya
- Project management: Jira
- IDEs: IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, JetBrains Rider
- CI/CDs: Jenkins, TeamCity
Helix Core’s flexible API also supports seamless integration with your team’s existing tools. In addition, with the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) Integration for Structured Logs, Helix Core structured logs can be easily imported into observability platforms like New Relic, Grafana Loki, and Kibana.
Deploy Your Way
- Helix Core (On-Premises): An ideal solution for organizations that require an on-premises or hybrid solution for security and compliance.
- Helix Remote Administration: Let our experts administer and maintain your Helix Core server for you, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Our Helix Remote Administration package can be added to any of our Helix Core offerings and includes world-class support that lets you focus on your development.
- Helix Core Cloud: A turnkey, instant deployment of Helix Core that is fully managed and hosted by Perforce. Designed for teams under 50, and available at $39 / user / month.
Supercharge Your Productivity with Tools for the Entire Team
Helix Core isn’t just the world’s most scalable version control, it’s a platform that offers an integrated suite of tools for your designers, developers, and managers. Support your entire team with tools trusted by today’s leading companies.
- Helix DAM: A digital asset management tool designed to store, find, preview, review, and track the progress of all art assets — including 2D, 3D, video, and audio files.
- Helix Plan: An enterprise Agile planning tool that provides a single platform for decision-making at the project, program, and portfolio levels.
- Helix Swarm: A web-based free code review tool for Helix Core that ensures changes get reviewed by the right people, fast.