Klocwork vs OpenText Core Application Security comparison

Perforce and OpenText are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. Perforce is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.1, while OpenText is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.0. Perforce holds a 1.4% mindshare in AS, compared to OpenText’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Perforce users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 19, 2025

OpenText Core Application Security and Klocwork compete in the application security category. OpenText Core has an edge with its comprehensive compliance and broader security functionalities, while Klocwork stands out for its strong static code analysis and ease of integration.

Features: OpenText Core offers compliance with HIPAA, powerful static and dynamic analysis, and detailed vulnerability tracking. It provides centralized reporting and robust API integrations. Klocwork focuses on static code analysis and is effective in detecting vulnerabilities early, providing on-the-fly and incremental analysis. It is known for its customization features and seamless IDE plugin integrations.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Core users seek better reporting features, quicker scans, and reduced false positives. It also requires enhanced integration with incident management systems and support for newer programming languages. Klocwork needs broader language support and better handling of global variables to minimize false positives. Users also desire improvements in licensing terms and upgrade processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText Core offers flexible deployment options, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, with mixed customer service reviews. Klocwork supports primarily on-premises and private cloud deployments, generally receives positive customer service feedback, but needs better availability across time zones.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Core is perceived as costly but provides flexibility with subscription models and perceived value in enhancing security posture. Klocwork is competitively priced, appealing to small and mid-sized businesses, and offers flexible licensing. Its robust security features contribute positively to ROI, despite licensing criticisms.

To learn more, read our detailed Klocwork vs. OpenText Core Application Security Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Categories and Ranking

Klocwork

Ranking in Application Security Tools

19th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Code Analysis (5th)

OpenText Core Application S...

Ranking in Application Security Tools

14th

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

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No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Klocwork is 1.4%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Core Application Security is 4.0%, down from 5.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OpenText Core Application Security	4.0%
Klocwork	1.4%
Other	94.6%

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AnirbanSarkar

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

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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Jonathan Steyn

Principal Technical Consultant at EOH

Source code analyzer, FPR file generation, reduction of false positives and generates compliance reports, for in-depth analysis

Not challenges with the product itself. The product is very reliable. It does have a steep learning curve. But, again, one thing that Fortify or OpenText does very well is training. There are a lot of free resources and training in the community forums, free training as well as commercial training where users can train on how to use the back-end systems and the scanning engines and how to use command-line arguments because some of the procedures or some of the tools do require a bit of a learning curve. That's the only challenge I've really seen for customers because you have to learn how to use the tool effectively. But Fortify has, in fact, improved its user interface and the way users engage the dashboards and the interfaces. It is intuitive. It's easy to understand. But in some regards, the cybersecurity specialist or AppSec would need a bit of training to engage the user interface and to understand how it functions. But from the point of the reliability index and how powerful the tool is, there's no challenge there. But it's just from a learning perspective; users might need a bit more skill to use the tool. The user interface isn't that tedious. It's not that difficult to understand. When I initially learned how to use the interfaces, I was able to master it within a week and was able to use it quite effectively. So training is required. All skills are needed to learn how to use the tool. I would like to see more enhancements in the dashboards. Dashboards are available. They do need some configuration and settings. But I would like to see more business intelligence capabilities within the tool. It's not particularly a cybersecurity function, but, for instance, business impact analysis or other features where you can actually use business intelligence capabilities within your security tool. That would be remarkable because not only do you have a cybersecurity tool, but you also have a tool that can give you business impact analysis and some other measurements. A bit more intelligence in terms of that from a cybersecurity perspective would be remarkable.

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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

"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."

"The best advantage of Klocwork is the reduced setup time."

"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."

"The best advantage of Klocwork is the reduced setup time."

"On-the-fly analysis and incremental analysis are the best parts of Klocwork. Currently, we are using both of these features very effectively."

"Klocwork is user-friendly, with a client-server architecture that provides all needed compliance."

"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."

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

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"Once we have our project created with our application pipeline connected to the test scanning, it only takes two minutes. The report explaining what needs to be modified related to security and vulnerabilities in our code is very helpful. We are able to do static and dynamic code scanning."

"The most valuable feature is that it connects with your development platforms, such as Microsoft Information Server and Jira."

"It helps deploy and track changes easily as per time-to-time market upgrades."

"It has saved us a lot of time as we focus primarily on programming rather than tool operational work."

"Audit workbench: for on-the-fly defect auditing."

"The source code analyzer is the most effective for identifying security vulnerabilities."

"Fortify on Demand can be scaled very easily."

"Almost all the features are good. This solution has simplified designing and architecting for our solutions. We were early adopters of microservices. Their documentation is good. You don't need to put in much effort in setting it up and learning stuff from scratch and start using it. The learning curve is not too much."

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Cons

"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork. They have recently added Kotlin as a part of their project, but we would like to see more languages in Klocwork. That's the reason we are using Coverity as a backup for some of the other languages."

"Customers using different static analysis tools report more issues than with Klocwork, indicating that Klocwork's engine is not as superior."

"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."

"There are too many warnings, and it requires expertise to determine the correct category for them."

"Klocwork sometimes provides too many additional warnings which require expertise to manage."

"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."

"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."

"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."

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"It could have a little bit more streamlined installation procedure. Based on the things that I've done, it could also be a bit more automated. It is kind of taking a bunch of different scanners, and SSC is just kind of managing the results. The scanning doesn't really seem to be fully integrated into the SSC platform. More automation and any kind of integration in the SSC platform would definitely be good. There could be a way to initiate scans from SSC and more functionality on the server-side to initiate desk scans if it is not already available."

"Micro Focus Fortify on Demand cannot be run from a Linux Agent. When we are coding the endpoint it will not work, we have to use Windows Agent. This is something they could improve."

"We typically do our bulk uploads of our scans with some automation at the end of the development cycle but the scanning can take a lot of time. If you were doing all of it at regular intervals it would still consume a lot of time. This could procedure could improve."

"Sometimes when we run a full scan, we have a bunch of issues in the code. We should not have any issues."

"Primarily for a complex, advanced website, they don't really understand some of the functionalities. So for instance, they could tell us that there is a vulnerability because somebody could possibly do something, but they don't really understand the code to realize that we actually negate that vulnerability through some other mechanism in the program. In addition, the technical support is just not there. We have open tickets. They don't respond. Even if they respond, we're not seeing eye to eye. As the company got sold and bought, the support got worse."

"Micro Focus Fortify on Demand can improve by having more graphs. For example, to show the improvement of the level of security."

"During development, when our developer makes changes to their code, they typically use GitHub or GitLab to track those changes. However, proper integration between Fortify on Demand and GitHub and GitLab is not there yet. Improved integration would be very valuable to us."

"I would like the solution to add AI support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"It's a yearly contract, but I don't remember the dollar amount."

"Fortify on Demand is affordable, and its licensing comes with a year of support."

"We used the one-time application, Security Scan Dynamic. I believe the original fee was $8,000."

"The licensing was good because the licenses have the heavy centralized server."

"If I exceed one million lines of code, there might be an extra cost or a change in the pricing bracket."

"Buying a license would be feasible for regular use. For intermittent use, the cloud-based option can be used (Fortify on Demand)."

"It is cost-effective."

"The pricing model it's based on how many applications you wish to scan."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

27%

Computer Software Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

Transportation Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	43

Questions from the Community

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?

Klocwork's pricing seems attractive, as it uses a per-user license model that does not have a lot of overhead.

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What needs improvement with Klocwork?

One area for improvement is that when customers use different static analysis tools, they report more issues compared to Klocwork. The static analysis engine of Klocwork has areas that need improve...

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What do you like most about Micro Focus Fortify on Demand?

It helps deploy and track changes easily as per time-to-time market upgrades.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Fortify on Demand?

In comparison with other tools, they're competitive. It is not more expensive than other solutions, but their pricing is competitive. The licenses for Fortify On Demand are generally bought in unit...

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Fortify on Demand?

There are frequent complaints about false positives from Fortify. One day it may pass a scan with no issues, and the next day, without any code changes, it will report vulnerabilities such as passw...

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

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.

Perforce

OpenText Core Application Security offers robust features like static and dynamic scanning, real-time vulnerability tracking, and seamless integration with development platforms, designed to enhance code security and reduce operational costs.

OpenText Core Application Security is a cloud-based, on-demand service providing accurate and deep scanning capabilities with detailed reporting. Its integrations with development platforms ensure an enhanced security layer in the development lifecycle, benefiting users by lowering operational costs and facilitating efficient remediation. The platform addresses needs for intuitive interfaces, API support, and comprehensive vulnerability assessments, helping improve code security and accelerate time-to-market. Despite its strengths, challenges exist around false positives, report clarity, and language support, alongside confusing pricing and package options. Enhancements are sought in areas like CI/CD pipeline configuration, report visualization, scan times, and integration with third-party tools such as GitLab, container scanning, and software composition analysis.

What features define OpenText Core Application Security?

Static and Dynamic Scanning: Offers thorough analysis to identify vulnerabilities during development.
Real-time Vulnerability Tracking: Continuously updates and monitors potential security threats.
Seamless Development Platform Integration: Enhances security processes without disrupting workflows.
Cloud-Based Service: Provides flexible, on-demand security capabilities with accurate results.
API Support: Allows smooth integration and automation within existing systems.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Reduced Operational Costs: Optimizes resources by lowering costs associated with security management.
Efficient Remediation: Speeds up the process of identifying and resolving vulnerabilities.
Enhanced Code Security: Strengthens overall application security during the development lifecycle.
Accelerated Time-to-Market: Streamlines development stages by integrating essential security tools.

Industries like mobile applications, e-commerce, and banking leverage OpenText Core Application Security for its ability to identify vulnerabilities such as SQL injections. Integrating seamlessly with DevSecOps and security auditing processes, this tool supports developers in writing safer code, ensuring secure application deployment and enhancing software assurance.

OpenText

Sample Customers

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

SAP, Aaron's, British Gas, FICO, Cox Automative, Callcredit Information Group, Vital and more.

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