We compared Fortify on Demand and SonarQube based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Fortify on Demand is praised for its robust security, comprehensive scanning capabilities, and prompt vulnerability reporting, with positive feedback on customer service and pricing. SonarQube stands out for its support for multiple languages, seamless integration, and comprehensive features, with exceptional customer service and positive feedback on pricing and ROI. Areas for improvement include enhancing performance and usability for Fortify on Demand, while SonarQube could focus on analysis speed, UI navigation, setup instructions, documentation, performance, and integration options.
Features: Fortify on Demand is highly appreciated for its robust security, comprehensive scanning capabilities, user-friendly interface, and timely vulnerability reporting. SonarQube stands out with its support for multiple languages, simplified design, integration with DevOps pipelines, and ability to detect vulnerabilities and code smells. Additionally, SonarQube offers configurability, flexibility, and a user-friendly interface.
Pricing and ROI: Fortify on Demand's users have found the setup costs to be manageable and appreciate the flexible licensing options. On the other hand, SonarQube's pricing is considered reasonable and competitive, and its setup cost is straightforward and easy. SonarQube also offers flexible licensing options to cater to different needs., Fortify on Demand users expressed satisfaction with the platform's effectiveness and value for their investment. SonarQube helped improve code quality, detect vulnerabilities, and ensure code compliance, resulting in cost savings and increased productivity.
Room for Improvement: Fortify on Demand could benefit from enhancements in performance, scanning capabilities, customization options, reporting features, and user interface. SonarQube should focus on improving analysis speed, user interface, setup instructions, documentation, performance, and integration options.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for Fortify on Demand and SonarQube show that the duration required to establish a new tech solution can vary between users. While both products have similar timeframes mentioned by users, Fortify on Demand has a wider range of deployment and setup durations compared to SonarQube., Fortify on Demand's customer service is praised for its prompt and helpful assistance. Users appreciate the attentiveness and expertise of the support team. SonarQube also receives praise for its exceptional customer service and support, with users acknowledging the prompt and knowledgeable assistance provided. The support team is commended for their responsiveness and willingness to go above and beyond.
The summary above is based on 51 interviews we conducted recently with Fortify on Demand and SonarQube users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"Fortify on Demand can be scaled very easily."
"Its ability to perform different types of scans, keep everything in one place, and track the triage process in Fortify SSC stands out."
"The solution scans our code and provides us with a dashboard of all the vulnerabilities and the criticality of the vulnerabilities. It is very useful that they provide right then and there all the information about the vulnerability, including possible fixes, as well as some additional documentation and links to the authoritative sources of why this is an issue and what's the correct way to deal with it."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Fortify on Demand is the information it can provide. There is quite a lot of information. It can pinpoint right down to where the problem is, allowing you to know where to fix it. Overall the features are easy to use, you don't have to be a coder. You can be a manager, or in IT operations, et cetera, anyone can use it. It is quite a well-rounded functional solution."
"What stands out to me is the user-friendliness of each feature."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to submit your code and have it run in the background. Then, if something comes up that is more specific, you have the security analyst who can jump in and help, if needed."
"Fortify on Demand's best feature is that there's no need to install and configure it locally since it's on the cloud."
"Each bank may have its own core banking applications with proprietary support for different programming languages. This makes Fortify particularly relevant and advantageous in those cases."
"The overall quality of the indicator is good."
"It's a great product. If you are in a hurry and just want to focus on the functional requirements of any kind of project, SonarQube is highly helpful. It enables the developers to code securely. SonarQube has a Community edition, which is open source and free. There are also three proprietary or paid versions: Enterprise edition, Data Center edition, and Developer edition."
"The most valuable feature of SonarQube I have found to be the configuration that has allowed us to can make adjusts to the demands of the code review. It gives a specified classification regarding the skill, prioritization, and it is easy for me to review and make my code."
"Integrate it into the developers' workbench so that they can bench check their code against what will be done in the server-based audit version."
"If code coverage is a low number then that's of great value to me."
"The most valuable features are the wide array of languages, multiple languages per project, the breakdown of bugs, and the description of vulnerabilities and code smells (best practices)."
"This solution has helped with the integration and building of our CICD pipeline."
"SonarQube is a fantastic tool which saves us precious time."
"The thing that could be improved is reducing the cost of usage and including some of the most pricey features, such as dynamic analysis and that sort of functionality, which makes the difference between different types of tools."
"During development, when our developer makes changes to their code, they typically use GitHub or GitLab to track those changes. However, proper integration between Fortify on Demand and GitHub and GitLab is not there yet. Improved integration would be very valuable to us."
"We would like a reduction in the time frame of scans. It takes us three to five days to run a scan now. We would like that reduced to under three days."
"Sometimes when we run a full scan, we have a bunch of issues in the code. We should not have any issues."
"It does scanning for all virtual machines and other things, but it doesn't do the scanning for containers. It currently lacks the ability to do the scanning on containers. We're asking their product management team to expand this capability to containers."
"We want a user-based control and role-based access for developers. We want to give limited access to developers so that it only pertains to the code that they write and scanning of the codes for any vulnerabilities as they're progressing with writing the code. As of now, the interface to give restricted access to the developers is not the best. It gives them more access than what is basically required, but we don't want over-provisioning and over-access."
"There's a bit of a learning curve. Our development team is struggling with following the rules and following the new processes."
"I would like to see improvement in CI integration and integration with GitLab or Jenkins. It needs to be more simple."
"I would also like SonarQube to be able to write custom scanning rules. More documentation would be helpful as well because some of our guys were struggling with the customization script."
"It would be better if SonarQube provided a good UI for external configuration."
"The interface could be a little better and should be enhanced."
"The BPM language is important and should be considered in SonarQube."
"Code security scanning could be improved."
"There needs to be a shareable reporting piece or something we can click and generate easily."
"There could be better integration with other products."
"We had some issues where the Quality Gate check sometimes gets stuck and it is unclear."
Fortify on Demand is ranked 10th in Application Security Tools with 56 reviews while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Application Security Tools with 110 reviews. Fortify on Demand is rated 8.0, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortify on Demand writes "Provides good depth of scanning but is unfortunately not fully integrated with CIT processes ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Easy to integrate and has a plug-in that supports both C and C++ languages". Fortify on Demand is most compared with Veracode, Checkmarx One, Coverity, Fortify WebInspect and Snyk, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx One, SonarCloud, Coverity, Veracode and Mend.io. See our Fortify on Demand vs. SonarQube report.
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