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, Veracode, Snyk and others in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)."Black Duck is pretty extensive in terms of the scan reserves and the vulnerability exposures. From that perspective, I'm happy with it."
"The most valuable feature is the vulnerability scanning, and that it's easy to use."
"The stability is okay."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"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's documentation and support are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"I found the user interface cumbersome and difficult to use."
Earn 20 points
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 ShiftLeft, whereas FlexNet Code Insight is most compared with Mend.io.
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