We compared Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
In summary, Black Duck excels in comprehensive code scanning and open-source software management, with positive customer service feedback. JFrog Security Essentials stands out for its outstanding customer support and advanced security features, with competitive pricing. However, Black Duck needs improvement in user interface and documentation, while JFrog should focus on UI and performance enhancements.
Features: Black Duck's valuable features include comprehensive code scanning, open source software management, real-time vulnerability alerts, customizable dashboards, and integration with development tools. JFrog Security Essentials offers comprehensive security, seamless integration, efficient vulnerability scanning, reliable artifact analysis, and proactive alert notifications.
Pricing and ROI: Black Duck's setup cost is intuitive and adaptable, with flexible pricing options. On the other hand, JFrog Security Essentials offers a straightforward and hassle-free setup cost, ensuring a smooth installation process with flexible licensing agreements., The ROI from Black Duck has been positive according to user feedback. Users found JFrog Security Essentials to be highly effective in enhancing security measures, mitigating risks, and safeguarding valuable assets.
Room for Improvement: Black Duck could benefit from improving the user interface, search functionality, performance, and documentation. JFrog Security Essentials needs enhancements for its user interface, performance, documentation, and additional features for a more robust security solution.
Deployment and customer support: The reviews suggest that there may be variations in the duration required for establishing a new tech solution, depending on the specific context. For Black Duck, one user spent three months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while another user spent a week on both. As for JFrog Security Essentials, one user took three months for deployment and an extra week for setup, while another user took a week for both. These differences highlight the contrasting approaches to deployment and setup between Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials., Black Duck's customer service receives positive feedback for their efficient assistance, responsiveness, and willingness to go above and beyond. JFrog Security Essentials excels in providing outstanding customer service with promptness, professionalism, and going the extra mile to resolve issues.
The summary above is based on 12 interviews we conducted recently with Black Duck and JFrog Security Essentials users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
Black Duck is a comprehensive solution for managing security, license compliance, and code quality risks that come from the use of open source in applications and containers. Named a leader in software composition analysis (SCA) by Forrester, Black Duck gives you unmatched visibility into third-party code, enabling you to control it across your software supply chain and throughout the application life cycle.
JFrog is on a mission to enable continuous updates through Liquid Software, empowering developers to code high-quality applications that securely flow to end-users with zero downtime. The world’s top brands such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Uber, VMware, and Spotify are among the 4500 companies that already depend on JFrog to manage binaries for their mission-critical applications. JFrog is a privately-held, global company, and is a proud sponsor of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation [CNCF].
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