Kiuwan Reviews and Pricing

it_user697062

Process and Software Quality Lead at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

Jul 6, 2017

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Offers integration with SDLC tools and API.

Pros and Cons

"Software analytics for a lot of different languages including ABAP."

"I would like to see additional languages supported."

What is most valuable?

Constant evolution
Software analytics for a lot of different languages including ABAP
Excellent feedback
Integration with SDLC tools
API

How has it helped my organization?

SAP and no-SAP static source code analysis, including security integrated in the continuous delivery process of our SDLC.

What needs improvement?

I would like to see additional languages supported.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for one and a half years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There were no stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

There were no scalability issues.

How are customer service and support?

I would give technical support a rating of 9/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We used Sonar and we switches due to costs with ABAP and the iOS modules.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup could not be simpler. It is a SaaS solution. Integration with Jenkins and the local analyzer is a great solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Check with your account manager.

What other advice do I have?

Integrate it with your SDLC.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user615723

Gerente at a tech services company

Jun 28, 2017

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I have found the security and QA in the source code to be most valuable

Pros and Cons

"I have found the security and QA in the source code to be most valuable."

"The QA developer and security could be improved."

How has it helped my organization?

The solution gave us a KPI regarding risk and quality in the development process.

What is most valuable?

I have found the security and QA in the source code to be most valuable. I test code to pass PCI DSS requirements. I have improved my QA acceptance process with risk evaluation.

What needs improvement?

The QA developer and security could be improved.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not encountered any issues with stability.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have not encountered any issues with scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

I would give technical support a rating of 10 out of 10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I did not use a different solution in the past.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was easy.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I did not evaluate other options before choosing this one.

What other advice do I have?

Try the solution and you will likely want to implement it into your organization. The solution will measure your development team, give a KPI for the CISO, reduce the time it takes to find and correct coding errors, and more.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

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it_user635388

Manager

Apr 9, 2017

Supports continuous integration tools.

Our client requests our expertise to audit their business-critical applications. Before using Kiuwan, we were using other solutions. We switched to Kiuwan for 8 reasons:

Ease of use and deployment: No hidden expenses, no complex deployment or complex administration. At last, we were able to help our clients to focus on improving quality without getting delayed by infrastructure issues. Upgrades are done automatically, no migration...
Clear licensing model: Kiuwan has different licensing models, all easy to understand. We were able to select the model suitable to our client needs without paying extra money for unwanted features.
Technology coverage: Kiuwan covers most of the known technologies including mobile applications.
The quality model: We have the complete freedom to customise the quality model, per application, per technology or per client. On the ground, every application has its own context and should be monitored differently with a different quality model. Having the possibility to customise the quality model, to modify existing rules configuration or to remove some is a must and with Kiuwan, we can do it easily. Developing new rules was never that easy; Kiuwan have the best tools to develop new rules.
Integration: Kiuwan supports continuous integration tools. Beside that, most of the features, like launching an analysis, or creating reports, can be automated. Once the analysis is industrialised, all we to have to do is focus on providing recommendations to improve quality, nothing else.
Speed of analysis: Do you know any other tools that can analyse 2.5 millions line of code in 3 hours? The tools we used before took 15 hours for a single analysis on the same code. Real time saving.
Support team: We can chat with the support team directly from the interface. This saves us lot of time, when we have a question or facing a critical issue. The support team is always here, reliable and fast. We had most of our questions answered in a couple of hours.
Great features: Follow-up quality evolution, compare analysis versions to detect new or removed defects, define and prioritise action plans, security analysis, governance dashboard. We have all we need to help our clients set up SLAs, detect risks, repair critical issues...

With Kiwuan, we were able to help our clients get a better visibility of their development activities and to mitigate risks. We are using Kiuwan for 4 years now and we are getting good feedback from our clients.

What could be improved:

Kiuwan has two levels of KPIs, compared to ISO 9126-3 that defines 3 levels of KPIs. Adopting the ISO 9126-3 model definitively simplifies quality investigations. But the ISO 9126-3 makes the action plan management (or improvement plan) more tricky. Maybe a way of improving the quality model in Kiuwan would be adding the ISO 9126-3 model on top of the existing model to simplify investigations without complicating the action plan management.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partnership

it_user293733

Managing Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Mar 7, 2017

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Provides technology coverage from COBOL to JS through ABAP.

What is most valuable?

Easy, intuitive UI loaded with information about the software quality
Automated lifecycle management
Application portfolio governance support
Technology coverage from COBOL to JS through ABAP: ideal for large organizations with legacy core systems trying to leverage new digital capabilities

How has it helped my organization?

Monitor outsourced development and maintenance to assert each € spent has adequate return in quality and security.
Helped outsourcers to increase the capacity to deliver acceptable code.

What needs improvement?

Identification of OSS usage and multiple versions in use throughout portfolio

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used it for one year.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We have not encountered any deployment issues whatsoever; pretty straightforward analysis both on-premises or in the cloud.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not encountered any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not encountered any scalability issues; applied it both for small portfolios and millions-of-lines portfolios.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Customer service is excellent; extremely helpful and knowledgeable about the subject matter.

Technical Support:

Technical support is excellent; only needed to revert to customer support once, and I got immediate support and resolution on my request.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used several tools. We switched because Kiuwan covers the entire SDLC; provides direct information to act upon, for the developer, architects, QA, CIO and CISO, in a few seconds; automatically, fully integrated in any CI/CD setup.

How was the initial setup?

It is extremely simple to setup, either to run on-site or in the cloud; and plenty of hooks to integrate with any automation engine.

What about the implementation team?

It was implemented by an in-house team with direct support from Kiuwan.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Loads of bang for the buck.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before choosing this product, we evaluated other options.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user618204

Partner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 5, 2017

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Provides the ability to create specific action plans that determine the effort required by our teams to correct defects and ensure better code.

What is most valuable?

By far, the best feature we have found is the possibility of creating specific action plans that automatically determine the effort required by our teams in order to correct defects and ensure better code.

How has it helped my organization?

Code reviews have significantly improved, and it allows our teams to work together in a collaborative cloud environment.

What needs improvement?

More languages and frameworks would enhance this tool.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used it for three years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not encountered any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Customer service is excellent. They have a very solid documentation site, as well as in-app support.

Technical Support:

Technical support is 9/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used SonarQube. We have a portfolio of apps in different programming languages. With Sonar, our costs escalated too much, having to pay for plugins for each language.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup is very straightforward; plug and play.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented it in-house with the aid of Kiuwan engineers.

What was our ROI?

We have had an improvement of 20% in our time to market and it significantly improved the quality of our code.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I believe pricing varies according to the size of your apps.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at Fortify and Checkmarx, but the costs were way too high

What other advice do I have?

We also use other features of the product. We scaled from security to the entire lifecycle and governance management of our stack, which has given us a full control over our application portfolio.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

it_user617070

Technical Team Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 28, 2017

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Integration with Jenkins and JIRA, and the security support, are valuable.

What is most valuable?

Very easy to use
Integration with Jenkins and JIRA
Security support

How has it helped my organization?

Code reviews are quicker and more reliable.

What needs improvement?

Indicators regarding metrics

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used it for three years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

We have not encountered any stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Customer service is excellent.

Technical Support:

Technical support is very good.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used a different solution. I switched because of the quotes and security rules.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup is straightforward, no doubt.

What about the implementation team?

An in-house team implemented it.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.

reviewer1570362

Information Security Specialist at a tech company with 51-200 employees

May 10, 2021

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An application security platform that provides detailed reports about the risk index

Pros and Cons

"I like that it provides a detailed report that lets you know the risk index and the vulnerability."

"The integration process could be improved. It'll also help if it could generate reports automatically. But I'm not sure about the effectiveness of the reports. This is because, in our last project, we still found some key issues that weren't captured by the Kiuwan report."

What is our primary use case?

I'm currently working at a FinTech company, and we normally use Kiuwan for code analysis. This helps us ensure that our product complies with proper codes.

What is most valuable?

I like that it provides a detailed report that lets you know the risk index and the vulnerability.

What needs improvement?

The integration process could be improved. It'll also help if it could generate reports automatically. But I'm not sure about the effectiveness of the reports. This is because, in our last project, we still found some key issues that weren't captured by the Kiuwan report.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Kiuwan since 2019.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I'm not sure if it's stable, but it's working fine.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I don't know if it's scalable, but we have about 30 to 60 users. It all depends on the scope of the project. If they have made the last point of implementation, then we can perform the code analysis.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

It follows a subscription model. I think the price is somewhere in the middle.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to new users.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give Kiuwan an eight.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.