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HCL AppScan vs SonarQube

HCL AppScan
8 Ratings
SonarQube
39 Ratings

HCL AppScan

8 Ratings
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Score 7.8 out of 100

Based on 8 reviews and ratings

SonarQube

39 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 39 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

HCL AppScan

HCL AppScan (formerly from IBM) is well suited for reducing security flaws in my team's secure code development. The software identifies a lot of issues automatically which helps us reduce delivery time and prevent security breaches. HCL AppScan (formerly from IBM) lacks innovation and automation functionalities, while other tools offer artificial intelligence-driven analysis that helps the team reduce time and money. Also, there is a need to reduce false-positives generated by the solution

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Bhavsheel Kohli | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SonarQube

We have a headache every time when making a new commit+push, because:
  • Check rules could be tight and motivate developers to change the source code.
  • Sonar rules insist on their own rules and no way for trade.
  • Sometimes we missed that some piece of code does not cover by the test, so we need to return to the task again
  • SonarCube + SonarLint helps us to achieve the best quality source code but takes so much time for it.

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Aleksei Jegorov | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

HCL AppScan

  • AppScan works well in finding application vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting and all of the OWASP top 10.
  • Flexible reporting allows us to generate executive reports for application owners as well as separate technical reports for developers and system engineers.
  • Technical reports include remediation information and cross reference CVSS scores
  • Because it maintains data on all repeated assessments it helps us to do trending and metrics on compliance

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Seth Shestack | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SonarQube

  • Best thing about it is that it offers an online instance (SonarCloud) where we can dry run an open source project by forking a github repository
  • Provides detailed analysis of the stacks that it checks for bugs and issues in code stacks.
  • Provides a good amount of documentation on how for configuration and installation and how to use it.
  • Provides a strong integration with azure devops and jenkins for creating DSL pipelines.

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Arush Soel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

HCL AppScan

  • Reduce number of false poitives
  • Add automation tools to reduce manual effort
  • improve user experience
  • prepare dynamic dashboards

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Bhavsheel Kohli | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SonarQube

  • SonarQube motivates us to get a big team to write these endless tests to cover everything.
  • Integration with Jira and Jenkins has some tricky moments.
  • Setup process could take a lot of time.
  • Sometimes check rules could be very strict, like 'too many parameters in constructor.'

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Aleksei Jegorov | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Support Rating

HCL AppScan

No score
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SonarQube

SonarQube 9.0
Based on 2 answers
We we easily able to integrate the SonarQube steps into our TFS process via the Microsoft Marektplace, we didn't have the need to call SonarQube support. We've used their online documentation and community forum if we ran into any issues.

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Alternatives Considered

HCL AppScan

We have been using AppScan for about 14 years (Before it was acquired by IBM). A few years ago we did an upgrade from the standard edition to the enterprise edition (to allow several users at once) in order to accommodate the growth of our team. Prior to this upgrade we looked at several other products and decided to stay with AppScan.One of the major reasons was our familiarity with this product so that we could upgrade without the need to train our staff on a new product. All of these products were very close in comparison so we found no compelling reason to change.

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Seth Shestack | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SonarQube

SonarQube is an open-source. It's a scalable product. The costs for this application, for the kind of job it does, are pretty descent. Pipeline scan is more secured in SonarQube. Its a very good tool and its support multiple languages. Its main core competency is of static code analysis and that is why SonarQube exists and it does it exceedingly well. The quality of scan on code convention, best practices, coding standards, unit test coverage etc makes them one of the best competent tool in the market

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Debobrata Bose | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

HCL AppScan

  • Reduced manual effort by 20-30%
  • Integrate 3-4 security solutions with other tools in the system
  • prevent sql injection attacks in our business

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Bhavsheel Kohli | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SonarQube

  • Our client is quite pleased with the demonstration of this tools
  • Our organisation is using a community edition right now but is planning to migrate to a enterprise version to use it commercially.
  • It is quite a costly tool but our organisation is willing to buy it for its enhanced features and security

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Arush Soel | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

HCL AppScan

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

HCL AppScan Editions & Modules

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SonarQube

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No

SonarQube Editions & Modules

Edition
CommunityFree
Developer EDITIONStarts at $1502
Enterprise EDITIONStarts at $20,0003
Data Center EDITIONStarts at $130,0004
  1. 100,000 Lines of Code
  2. 1 Million Lines of Code
  3. 20 Million Lines of Code
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