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 highlights what the developers have done, and it shows the impact from an intellectual property point of view."
"We accidentally use third-party library APIs, which may not be secure. Our technical team may not have the end time or expertise to figure it out. Black Duck helps us with that and saves us time."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"The stability is okay."
"The installation is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the vulnerability scanning, and that it's easy to use."
"The solution is very good at scanning and evaluating open source software."
"The solution works well on Mac products."
"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."
"It offers good performance."
"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."
"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"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."
"The tool needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"We're not too sure about the extension of the firewall. It never shows up in the Hub."
"We have been having some issues with the latest releases where we are not able to scan our applications with the help of Black Duck."
"The solution's pricing model and documentation areas of concern where improvement is needed."
"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 initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"It needs to be more user-friendly for developers and in general, to ensure compliance."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"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."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."
"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."
Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 16 reviews while CAST Highlight is ranked 10th 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 ShiftLeft, whereas CAST Highlight is most compared with SonarQube, Checkmarx One, Snyk, Veracode and GitLab. See our Black Duck vs. CAST Highlight report.
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