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 stability is okay."
"Policy management is a valuable feature."
"The solution is stable."
"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."
"The UI is the solution's most valuable feature since it allows for easy pipeline integration."
"The most valuable feature is the vulnerability scanning, and that it's easy to use."
"I like the fact that the product auto analyzes components."
"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."
"Due to the fact that, with our software developer life cycle, we don't need to scan our source code every day or every week. For that reason, we find the cost is too high. We might only actually use it five to ten times a year, which makes it expensive."
"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 needs to improve its pricing. Its configuration is complex and can be improved."
"The solution must provide more open APIs."
"The solution's pricing model and documentation areas of concern where improvement is needed."
"The initial setup could be simplified. It was somewhat complex."
"The product's pricing is higher compared to other competitor products."
"The scanner client is limited by the size of software it can handle."
"I found the user interface cumbersome and difficult to use."
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Black Duck is ranked 1st in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 16 reviews while FlexNet Code Insight is ranked 17th 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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