We performed a comparison between Black Duck and ShiftLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Synopsys, Snyk, Veracode and others in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)."Policy management is a valuable feature."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"The installation is very easy."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The knowledge base and the management system are the most valuable features of Black Duck Hub. It has a very helpful management environment. They offer an editor where we can check the discovered license, which is retrieved from their knowledge base. They have a huge knowledge base build over the years. It gives you some possibilities, such as this license with possibility A could cause a vulnerability issue or a potential breach."
"The most valuable feature for me in Black Duck is its ability to scan binary files effectively."
"The most valuable feature is the vulnerability scanning, and that it's easy to use."
"When it comes to ShiftLeft, the most valuable feature is definitely its ease of use and cost-effectiveness."
"The tool's documentation and support are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"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 documentation is quite scattered."
"It needs to be more user-friendly for developers and in general, to ensure compliance."
"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."
"The solution's pricing model and documentation areas of concern where improvement is needed."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"Having support from senior management is crucial in making it mandatory for teams to collaborate with the security team throughout the development process."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 19 reviews while ShiftLeft is ranked 11th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 1 review. Black Duck is rated 7.8, while ShiftLeft is rated 10.0. 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 ShiftLeft writes "Effectively in identify and fix bugs early in the development lifecycle". Black Duck is most compared with Snyk, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, JFrog Xray and Mend.io, whereas ShiftLeft is most compared with SonarQube and Semgrep Supply Chain.
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