We performed a comparison between Black Duck and CAST Highlight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature for me in Black Duck is its ability to scan binary files effectively."
"The installation is very easy."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"The product enables other applications to be secure."
"Black Duck is pretty extensive in terms of the scan reserves and the vulnerability exposures. From that perspective, I'm happy with it."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"It offers good performance."
"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"The documentation is quite scattered."
"The tool's documentation and support are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"It can be cumbersome to use or invalidate open source software because there is a hold time to check requirements or common regulations to ensure compliance."
"I would like to see more integration with other solutions, such as IntelliJ IDEA."
"I would like to see improvements in Black Duck's reporting capabilities."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while CAST Highlight is ranked 13th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 5 reviews. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while CAST Highlight is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Black Duck writes "Enables applications to be secure, but it must provide more open APIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of CAST Highlight writes "Easy to set up with optimized and automated insights". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, JFrog Xray, Mend.io and Debricked Security, whereas CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx One and Sonatype Lifecycle. See our Black Duck vs. CAST Highlight report.
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