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Open-source with great extensions and great for identifying bugs
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  • "I was using the Community Edition, which is available free of charge."
  • "The developer edition is based on cost per lines of code."
  • "We are using the open-source version, which is available free of cost."
  • "There is both a free and licensed version. The free version has limitations on development languages and support."
  • "For the Community edition, there is no extra cost. It's totally free. The Enterprise edition, Data Center edition, and Developer edition are the paid versions."
  • "We are using the open-source community version, but there are enterprise licenses available."
  • "SonarQube is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."
  • "I am satisfied with the pricing."

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    Also Known As
    CAST AIP
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    Overview

    CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP), a result of over $130M in R&D investment over two decades, is an enterprise-grade software measurement and quality analysis solution designed to analyze multi-tiered, multi-technology applications for technical vulnerabilities and adherence to architectural and coding standards and then provide business relevant information to the IT organization through various dashboards and products built with end users in mind.

    • Application Analytics Dashboard (CAST AAD): Provides IT executives with accurate business relevant analytics to drive their organization
    • Application Engineering Dashboard (CAST AED): Provides engineering and QA teams with powerful code and system level structural flaw insight and remediation guidance
    • Enlighten: Delivers to developers a powerful deep understanding of their application’s structure
    • Architecture Checker: Gives architects a reliable, automated solution to enforce architectures that deliver stability and performance of their critical applications

    CAST’s underlying system-level analysis technology assesses both the health of an application, as measured through numerous health factors, as well as specific structural and system-level defects that drive performance and stability issues providing true system level analysis.

    SonarQube is the leading tool for continuously inspecting Code Quality and Code Security, and guiding development teams during code reviews. SonarQube provides clear remediation guidance for 27 languages so developers can understand and fix issues, and so teams can deliver better and safer software. SonarQube integrates into your workflow to provide the right feedback at the right time: in-IDE with SonarLint, in pull requests, and in SonarQube itself. With over 225,000 deployments helping small development teams and global organizations, SonarQube provides the means for teams and companies around the world to own and impact their Code Quality and Code Security.

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    Sample Customers
    Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini
    Bank of America, Siemens, Cognizant, Thales, Cisco, eBay
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company42%
    Comms Service Provider12%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Energy/Utilities Company7%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Insurance Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company28%
    Comms Service Provider17%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business30%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise50%

    CAST Application Intelligence Platform is ranked 2nd in Software Development Analytics while SonarQube is ranked 1st in Software Development Analytics with 52 reviews. CAST Application Intelligence Platform is rated 0.0, while SonarQube is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonarQube writes "Good integration and has useful feedback features, such as Quality Gate ". CAST Application Intelligence Platform is most compared with Veracode, Checkmarx, Fortify Application Defender, BlueOptima and Coverity, whereas SonarQube is most compared with Checkmarx, Veracode, Coverity, Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle and CAST Highlight.

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