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, Snyk, Veracode and others in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)."The product enables other applications to be secure."
"The most valuable feature is the vulnerability scanning, and that it's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Black Duck is the seamless integration to scan our Docker binary files, it provides us all open vulnerabilities, and it ensures a reference point from where it finds the vulnerability is up to date. For example, if there is any new vulnerability found, they are immediately available in the Black Duck. There is no delay in finding the vulnerabilities, they are called out in our code immediately."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"We didn't have a central inventory to quickly identify issues or determine how many products were affected. Now under Black Duck, it's all consolidated. You search for a component and immediately see which products use it."
"The cloud option of the product is always available and a positive aspect of the solution."
"It highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"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."
"It's still a bit inconsistent. For example, if I scan today, it might not show the same results tomorrow."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"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 tool's documentation and support are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"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 product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"The documentation is quite scattered."
"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 CAST Highlight, whereas FlexNet Code Insight is most compared with Mend.io.
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