We performed a comparison between FlexNet Code Insight and Mend.io based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Synopsys, Snyk, Veracode and others in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)."It had a web interface into the reporting tools that was decent, and open source components could be reported per project and/or aggregated similar to other software composition tools."
"We find licenses together with WhiteSource which are associated with a certain library, then we get a classification of the license. This is with respect to criticality and vulnerability, so we could take action and improve some things, or replace a third-party library which seems to be too risky for us to use on legal grounds."
"For us, the most valuable tool was open-source licensing analysis."
"We can take some measures to improve things, replace a library, or update a library which was too old or showed severe bugs."
"The most valuable features are the reporting, customizing libraries "In-house, White list, license selection", comparing the products/projects, and License & Copyright resolution."
"Enables scanning/collecting third-party libraries and classifying license types. In this way we ensure our third-party software policy is followed."
"The best feature is that the Mend R&D team does their due diligence for all the vulnerabilities. In case they observe any important or critical vulnerabilities, such as the Log4j-related vulnerability, we usually get a dedicated email from our R&D team saying that this particular vulnerability has been exploited in the world, and we should definitely check our project for this and take corrective actions."
"The license management of WhiteSource was at a good level. As compared to other tools that I have used, its functionality for the licenses for the code libraries was quite good. Its UI was also fine."
"Its ease of use and good results are the most valuable."
"I found the user interface cumbersome and difficult to use."
"WhiteSource needs improvement in the scanning of the containers and images with distinguishing the layers."
"The turnaround time for upgrading databases for this tool as well as the accuracy could be improved."
"WhiteSource only produces a report, which is nice to look at. However, you have to check that report every week, to see if something was found that you don't want. It would be great if the build that's generating a report would fail if it finds a very important vulnerability, for instance."
"I rated the solution an eight out of ten because WhiteSource hasn't built in a couple of features that we would have loved to use and they say they're on their roadmap. I'm hoping that they'll be able to build and deliver in 2022."
"I would like to see the static analysis included with the open-source version."
"Mend supports most of the common package managers, but it doesn't support some that we use. I would appreciate it if they can quickly make these changes to add new package managers when necessary."
"At times, the latency of getting items out of the findings after they're remediated is higher than it should be."
"The dashboard UI and UX are problematic."
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FlexNet Code Insight is ranked 18th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) while Mend.io is ranked 4th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 29 reviews. FlexNet Code Insight is rated 4.0, while Mend.io is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of FlexNet Code Insight writes "A decent web interface for reports, but the snippet style code matching requires too much effort". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". FlexNet Code Insight is most compared with Black Duck, whereas Mend.io is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Snyk, Veracode and Checkmarx One.
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