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."It is able to drill down to the source level."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"The UI is the solution's most valuable feature since it allows for easy pipeline integration."
"The product enables other applications to be secure."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"The most valuable feature for me in Black Duck is its ability to scan binary files effectively."
"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 most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"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."
"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 needs to be more user-friendly for developers and in general, to ensure compliance."
"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."
"The solution must provide more open APIs."
"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."
"It's still a bit inconsistent. For example, if I scan today, it might not show the same results tomorrow."
"The documentation is quite scattered."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"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 13th 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 Debricked Security, whereas CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx One and Sonatype Lifecycle. See our Black Duck vs. CAST Highlight report.
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