CAST Application Intelligence Platform vs Klocwork comparison

The compared CAST and Perforce solutions aren't in the same category. CAST is ranked #3 in SDA , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 33.5% mindshare in the category. Perforce is ranked #23 in AS , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of CAST users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

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83% willing to recommend

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91% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

CAST Application Intelligen...

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Development Analytics (3rd)

Klocwork

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (23rd), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (16th), Static Code Analysis (7th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Application Lifecycle Management solutions, they serve different purposes. CAST Application Intelligence Platform is designed for Software Development Analytics and holds a mindshare of 33.5%, up 25.3% compared to last year.
Klocwork, on the other hand, focuses on Application Security Tools, holds 1.4% mindshare, down 1.5% since last year.

Software Development Analytics

Application Security Tools

Featured Reviews

Jayanti Rode

Technical Associate Manager at Accenture

Apr 25, 2022

Application Intelligence Platform that offers useful insights into violations and improvements

There are different products of the CAST solution that we use for different reasons. For quality improvement, we use CAST AIP which is an Application Intelligence Platform. We have a health dashboard where we can view improvements and violations that have been fixed. Our clients use CAST Highlight…

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AnirbanSarkar

Head - Solution Management Group at Meteonic Innovation Pvt. Ltd.

Oct 18, 2022

Lets you find defects during the development phase, so you don't have to wait till the development is over to find and address flaws

What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity. What I'd like added in the next release of Klocwork is the peer code review Cahoots which used to be a part of Klocwork, and the architecture analysis and both have been taken out of Klocwork. I found the two critical for specific deployments, so if those can be brought back to Klocwork, that would be very good.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients."

"CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform."

"Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality."

"It supports most programming languages."

"The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out."

"Klocwork's most valuable feature is the static code analysis feature. It detects the potential problem earlier to allow the developer to receive feedback quickly and then address it before it becomes a problem."

"The tool helps the team to think beforehand about corner cases or potential bugs that might arise in real-time."

"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is finding defects while you're doing the coding. For example, if you have an IDE plug-in of Klocwork on Visual Studio or Eclipse, you can find the faults; similar to using spell check on Word, you can find out defects during the development phase, which means that you don't have to wait till the development is over to find the flaws and address the deficiencies. I also find language support in Klocwork good because it used to support only C, C++, C#, and Java, but now, it also supports Java scripts and Python."

"The reporting helps us understand the trend of our results and whether we improve over time. We can see the history within Klocwork's server architecture and know that we're making things better. It creates a great story for our management. We can demonstrate value and how our software is developing over time."

"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."

"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."

"Technical support is quite good."

"The most valuable feature is the Incremental analysis."

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Cons

"Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering issues."

"It has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed."

"The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code."

"Implementation could be made more simpler as it is complex."

"The integration of this solution could be improved."

"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."

"The main problem is that since it only parses the code, the warnings or the problems that are given as a result of the report can sometimes require a lot of effort to analyze."

"We'd like to see integration with Agile DevOps and Agile methodologies."

"Under NIST cybersecurity standards, we must address vulnerabilities within a specified time after discovering them. When we try to propagate those updates and fixes through the system, it would be nice if the clients could reconnect to the existing server or have the server dynamically updated in some way. I know that isn't easy, but maybe processes could be enhanced to make that more streamlined from a DevOps perspective."

"The way to define the rules is too complex. The definition/rules for static analysis could be automated according to various SILs, so as to avoid confusion."

"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."

"This solution could be improved if they offered support of more languages including Ada and Golang. They currently only support seven languages."

"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do know how the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is licensed, but I'm not able to give the cost because the price is not listed. My company works with individual vendors, so pricing is on a case-to-case basis, but the vendors give specialized pricing because of the enterprise deployment, though my team is aware of product pricing based on lines of code, based on the number of applications, etc., I'm unable to give the exact licensing costs of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. My company doesn't have to pay extra for some features or services because all are included as part of the enterprise license. On a scale of one to five, with five being very cheap and one being very expensive, I would rate the CAST Application Intelligence Platform as three out of five."

"Klocwork should not to be quite so heavy handed on the licensing for very specific programs."

"Klocwork is still tight on their licensing. If Klocwork would loosen up on the licensing, and where the license could be used, and how many different programs could be run on it, then we have several development programs that I would love to be able to use it for going forward."

"There are other solutions on the market such as Microsoft Visual Studio. They have been adding more static code analysis features that come for free. It is getting better all the time. That is one of the possibilities is that we've been considering that we may stop using the Klocwork because it doesn't give us any added value."

"This solution offers competitive pricing."

"The pricing for Klocwork is very competitive if you compare it from apple to apple. It has competitive pricing regarding the licensing model and the per-license cost. Klocwork isn't a high-end investment for anyone deploying it; even SMBs can afford it. The Klocwork cost per user would depend on the license type, so I'm unable to mention a ballpark figure because it would depend on the type of installation and how the deployment will be, and the nodes to give an accurate calculation or figure. The total price depends on the package, so my company could never publish pricing for Klocwork on the website. My team first collects information from potential clients on the deployment scenario, project environment, etc., before suggesting a package for Klocwork. My rating for Klocwork in terms of pricing is a five because of its flexible license models. There's a license model for every type of organization, whether small, midsize, or enterprise, so it's a five out of five for me."

"Licensing fees are paid annually, but they also have a perpetual license."

"When it comes to licensing, the solution has two packages, one for a fixed and the other for a floating server, with the former being more cost effective than the latter."

"The limitation that we have is that Klocwork is licensed to certain programs, and if you want to license them to other programs, you have to pay more money."

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Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Insurance Company

11%

Educational Organization

40%

Manufacturing Company

19%

Computer Software Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platfor...

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What needs improvement with CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering iss...

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What is your primary use case for CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

CAST AIP is a valuable solution for quality metrics and application security. It is beneficial for software architecture detection.

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What do you like most about Klocwork?

It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Klocwork?

Our purchasing department is responsible for tracking costs. It's one of the most widely used tools in our organization. It likely does not have a high price point. I don't have insights into licen...

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What needs improvement with Klocwork?

The main problem is that since it only parses the code, the warnings or the problems that are given as a result of the report can sometimes require a lot of effort to analyze. It will show all poss...

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Compared 4% of the time

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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.

Klocwork detects security, safety, and reliability issues in real-time by using this static code analysis toolkit that works alongside developers, finding issues as early as possible, and integrates with teams, supporting continuous integration and actionable reporting.

Sample Customers

Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini

ACCESS Co Ltd, Risk-AI, Winbond Electronics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, University of Southern California, Alebra Technologies, SIMULIA, Risk Management Solutions, Brigham Young University, SRD, HRL

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