CAST Highlight vs Kiuwan comparison

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We performed a comparison between CAST Highlight and Kiuwan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed CAST Highlight vs. Kiuwan Report (Updated: September 2022).

CAST Highlight vs. Kiuwan

September 2022

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Categories and Ranking

CAST Highlight

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (9th)

Kiuwan

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (19th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (15th)

Mindshare comparison

CAST Highlight and Kiuwan aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. CAST Highlight is designed for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.8% compared to last year.
Kiuwan, on the other hand, focuses on Application Security Tools, holds 0.9% mindshare, down 1.1% since last year.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Application Security Tools

Featured Reviews

Chris Van Poele

Owner at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 30, 2024

Offers efficient portfolio management through enhanced application insights

I have used CAST Highlight in combination with application portfolio management, application lifecycle management, going cloud-ready, and other applications. My main occupation involves software completion analysis and working with various solutions like firewalls and storage One of the…

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Mustufa Bhavnagarwala

CyberRisk Solution Advisor at Deloitte

Nov 27, 2023

Though a stable tool, the UI needs improvement

Kiuwan is useful because it provides functions related to secure code review, source code review, detection of security vulnerabilities, and development of proper input validations to get proper output and coding to see if all the systems in our environment are properly used. Some SQL queries are…

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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

"It offers good performance."

"CAST Highlight provides a clear overview of the role portfolio and allows users to assess the overall quality of the environment. Users can see where improvements are needed and follow up on trends of the application."

"The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages."

"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."

"CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard."

"The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with."

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

"I've tried many open source applications and the remediation or correction actions that were provided by Kiuwan were very good in comparison."

"Lifecycle features, because they permit us to show non-technical people the risk and costs hidden into the code due to bad programming practices."

"We are using this solution to increase the quality of our software and to test the vulnerabilities in our tools before the customers find them."

"I like that I can scan the code without sending it to the Kiuwan cloud. I can do it locally on my device. When the local analyzer finishes, the results display on the dashboard in the cloud. It's essential for security purposes to be able to scan my code locally."

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

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

"I find it immensely helpful because it's not just about generating code; it's about ensuring efficiency in the execution."

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Cons

"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."

"Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time."

"The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user."

"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."

"There could be potential improvements or additional features added to CAST Highlight to make it better."

"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."

"The configuration hasn't been that good."

"Integration of the programming tools could be improved."

"The development-to-delivery phase."

"Kiuwan's support has room for improvement. You can only open a ticket is through email, and the support team is outside of our country. They should have a support number or chat."

"I would like to see additional languages supported."

"Perhaps more languages supported."

"In Kiuwan there are sometimes duplicates found in the dependency scan under the "insights" tab. It's unclear to me why these duplicates are appearing, and it would be helpful if the application teams could investigate further."

"It could improve its scalability abilities."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it."

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution."

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions."

"Basic support is included with the standard licensing feed but it can be upgraded for an additional cost."

"Check with your account manager."

"Nothing special. It's a very fair model."

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

"Kiuwan is an open-source solution and free to use."

"I recommend contacting a sales person who will create the best plan payment plan for you, as we did."

"This solution is cheaper than other tools."

"The price of Kiuwan is lower than that of other tools on the market."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

21%

Computer Software Company

18%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CAST Highlight?

The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CAST Highlight?

CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten.

What needs improvement with CAST Highlight?

The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight.

What do you like most about Kiuwan?

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is quick when processing and giving an output or generating a report.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kiuwan?

I'm not entirely sure about the price and business aspects, but I assume Checkmarx might be less expensive. I think Checkmarx might offer more affordable options, especially in its smaller business...

What needs improvement with Kiuwan?

Kiuwan can improve its UI a little more. The user experience can be made better. Kiuwan offers a user interface that is similar to the one offered by Windows 7 or Windows 98, which I saw when I ran...

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Overview

CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.

CAST is the software intelligence category leader. CAST technology can see inside custom applications with MRI-like precision, automatically generating intelligence about their inner workings - composition, architecture, transaction flows, cloud readiness, structural flaws, legal and security risks. It’s becoming essential for faster modernization for cloud, raising the speed and efficiency of Software Engineering, better open source risk control, and accurate technical due diligence. CAST operates globally with offices in North America, Europe, India, China. Visit www.castsoftware.com.

Software analytics technology with a breadth of third party integrations that takes into account the wealth of applications your teams are currently using.

We facilitate and encourage work between unlocalized teams. We understand the complexity of working on multi technology environments, constantly striving to increase the number of programming languages and technologies we support.

Sample Customers

Wells Fargo, Bank of NY Mellon, Northern Trust, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, BMW, AT&T, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, John Hancock, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Volkswagen, Boston Consulting Group, London Stock Exchange, Telefonica, Saur France, Total Energies France, SNCF

DHL, BNP Paribas, Zurich, AXA, Ernst & Young, KFC, Santander, Latam, Ferrovial