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."I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"It is able to drill down to the source level."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"The most valuable feature is the vulnerability scanning, and that it's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature for me in Black Duck is its ability to scan binary files effectively."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"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 most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"It offers good performance."
"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 is a cloud-only solution. In many cases, companies like to evaluate the software, but they're very reluctant to give you the software. It would be great if they could offer an on-prem component that could be used to scan the code and then upload the discovery results to the cloud and get all the information from there, but there is no such possibility. You have to upload the code to the Black Duck cloud system. Of course, they have a strong legal department, and they offer some configuration, but it is never enough. You have to give the code, which is a drawback. In modern designs like Snyk or FOSSA, you don't need to give the code. It requires more native integration with Coverity because they go together technically. You need both Coverity and Black Duck Hub. It would be really helpful for companies working in this space to get a combined offer from the same company. They should provide an option to buy Coverity for an additional fee. Coverity combined with Black Duck Hub will provide a one-step analysis to get everything you need and a unified report. It would be really great to be able to connect Black Duck Hub with Coverity unified reports."
"They are giving a lot of APIs and Python scripts for certain functionalities, but instead of using APIs and Python scripts, they should provide these functionalities through the UI. Users should be able to customize and add more fields through the UI. Users should be able to add more fields and generate reports. Currently, they are not giving flexibility in the UI. They're providing a script that simply generates an Excel file or CSV file. There is no flexibility."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"It needs to be more user-friendly for developers and in general, to ensure compliance."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"The product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"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."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while CAST Highlight is ranked 10th 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 Sonatype Repository Firewall, whereas CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx One and GitLab. See our Black Duck vs. CAST Highlight report.
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