We performed a comparison between Black Duck and FlexNet Code Insight based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Synopsys, Snyk, Veracode and others in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)."The solution is stable."
"Policy management is a valuable feature."
"It is able to drill down to the source level."
"We accidentally use third-party library APIs, which may not be secure. Our technical team may not have the end time or expertise to figure it out. Black Duck helps us with that and saves us time."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"Black Duck is pretty extensive in terms of the scan reserves and the vulnerability exposures. From that perspective, I'm happy with it."
"The product enables other applications to be secure."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"It had a web interface into the reporting tools that was decent, and open source components could be reported per project and/or aggregated similar to other software composition tools."
"Black Duck can improve the time it takes for a scan. Most of the time it's not ideal when integrated with the live DevSecOps pipeline. We have to create a separate job to scan the library because it takes a couple of hours to scan all those libraries. The scanning could be faster."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"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."
"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."
"We have been having some issues with the latest releases where we are not able to scan our applications with the help of Black Duck."
"The solution's pricing model and documentation areas of concern where improvement is needed."
"The product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"I would like to see improvements in Black Duck's reporting capabilities."
"I found the user interface cumbersome and difficult to use."
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Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while FlexNet Code Insight is ranked 18th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA). Black Duck is rated 7.8, while FlexNet Code Insight is rated 4.0. 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 FlexNet Code Insight writes "A decent web interface for reports, but the snippet style code matching requires too much effort". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, JFrog Xray, Mend.io and CAST Highlight, whereas FlexNet Code Insight is most compared with Mend.io.
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