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"Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients.""The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out.""It supports most programming languages.""CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform.""Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality."

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"It has the lowest false positives.""The interface of Coverity is quite good, and it is also easy to use.""The solution effectively identifies bugs in code.""Coverity is scalable.""The most valuable feature is the integration with Jenkins.""The app analysis is the most valuable feature as I know other solutions don't have that.""I like Coverity's capability to scan codes once we push it. We don't need more time to review our colleagues' codes. Its UI is pretty straightforward.""The solution has improved our code quality and security very well."

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Cons
"The integration of this solution could be improved.""It has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed.""The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code.""Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering issues.""Implementation could be made more simpler as it is complex."

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"It would be great if we could customize the rules to focus on critical issues.""The quality of the code needs improvement.""The solution's user interface and quality gate could be improved.""Coverity takes a lot of time to dereference null pointers.""The solution could use more rules.""The tool needs to improve its reporting.""The solution is a bit complex to use in comparison to other products that have many plugins.""We'd like it to be faster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I do know how the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is licensed, but I'm not able to give the cost because the price is not listed. My company works with individual vendors, so pricing is on a case-to-case basis, but the vendors give specialized pricing because of the enterprise deployment, though my team is aware of product pricing based on lines of code, based on the number of applications, etc., I'm unable to give the exact licensing costs of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. My company doesn't have to pay extra for some features or services because all are included as part of the enterprise license. On a scale of one to five, with five being very cheap and one being very expensive, I would rate the CAST Application Intelligence Platform as three out of five."
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  • "Coverity is quite expensive."
  • "The licensing fees are based on the number of lines of code."
  • "The price is competitive with other solutions."
  • "It is expensive."
  • "Coverity is very expensive."
  • "This is a pretty expensive solution. The overall value of the solution could be improved if the price was reduced. Licensing is done on an annual basis."
  • "The pricing is very reasonable compared to other platforms. It is based on a three year license."
  • "The pricing is on the expensive side, and we are paying for a couple of items."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform… more »
    Top Answer:Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering… more »
    Top Answer:CAST AIP is a valuable solution for quality metrics and application security. It is beneficial for software architecture detection.
    Top Answer:We researched Coverity, but in the end, we chose SonarQube. SonarQube is a tool for reviewing code quality and security. It helps to guide our development teams during code reviews by providing… more »
    Top Answer:The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.
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    CAST AIP
    Synopsys Static Analysis
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    Overview

    CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP), a result of over $130M in R&D investment over two decades, is an enterprise-grade software measurement and quality analysis solution designed to analyze multi-tiered, multi-technology applications for technical vulnerabilities and adherence to architectural and coding standards and then provide business relevant information to the IT organization through various dashboards and products built with end users in mind.

    • Application Analytics Dashboard (CAST AAD): Provides IT executives with accurate business relevant analytics to drive their organization
    • Application Engineering Dashboard (CAST AED): Provides engineering and QA teams with powerful code and system level structural flaw insight and remediation guidance
    • Enlighten: Delivers to developers a powerful deep understanding of their application’s structure
    • Architecture Checker: Gives architects a reliable, automated solution to enforce architectures that deliver stability and performance of their critical applications

    CAST’s underlying system-level analysis technology assesses both the health of an application, as measured through numerous health factors, as well as specific structural and system-level defects that drive performance and stability issues providing true system level analysis.

    Coverity gives you the speed, ease of use, accuracy, industry standards compliance, and scalability that you need to develop high-quality, secure applications. Coverity identifies critical software quality defects and security vulnerabilities in code as it’s written, early in the development process, when it’s least costly and easiest to fix. With the Code Sight integrated development environment (IDE) plugin, developers get accurate analysis in seconds in their IDE as they code. Precise actionable remediation advice and context-specific eLearning help your developers understand how to fix their prioritized issues quickly, without having to become security experts. 

    Coverity seamlessly integrates automated security testing into your CI/CD pipelines and supports your existing development tools and workflows. Choose where and how to do your development: on-premises or in the cloud with the Polaris Software Integrity Platform (SaaS), a highly scalable, cloud-based application security platform. Coverity supports 22 languages and over 70 frameworks and templates.

    Sample Customers
    Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini
    MStar Semiconductor, Alcatel-Lucent
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    Financial Services Firm26%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
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    Manufacturing Company36%
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Computer Software Company20%
    Retailer8%
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    Manufacturing Company29%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Government4%
    Company Size
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    Small Business12%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise77%
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business13%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise76%
    Buyer's Guide
    CAST Application Intelligence Platform vs. SonarQube
    May 2024
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    CAST Application Intelligence Platform is ranked 3rd in Software Development Analytics with 4 reviews while Coverity is ranked 4th in Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with 34 reviews. CAST Application Intelligence Platform is rated 7.0, while Coverity is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CAST Application Intelligence Platform writes "Has a security dashboard that's helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Coverity writes "Best SAST tool to check software quality issues". CAST Application Intelligence Platform is most compared with SonarQube, Fortify Application Defender, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and BlueOptima, whereas Coverity is most compared with SonarQube, Klocwork, Fortify on Demand, Checkmarx One and Veracode.

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