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Fortify on Demand vs Polyspace Code Prover comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

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Fortify on Demand's customer service is valued for excellence, but technical support responsiveness and coordination can sometimes falter.
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Polyspace Code Prover support is appreciated for technical assistance, despite response delays, with online resources sometimes preferred first.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
5.4
Fortify on Demand needs better reporting, faster scans, expanded language support, streamlined UI, CI/CD integration, and improved customer support.
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Users seek enhanced automation, faster processing, improved scalability, flexible imports, better dependency handling, and accurate error reporting.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Fortify on Demand is highly scalable, flexible, and suitable for enterprises, despite occasional pricing and scan limitations.
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Polyspace Code Prover scales well, supporting many users, though floating licenses limit access, impacting processing speed.
 

Setup Cost

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Enterprise users report mixed pricing perceptions of Fortify on Demand, citing high cost but valuable features and scalability.
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Enterprise buyers deem Polyspace Code Prover's pricing high yet worthwhile, highlighting its essential value and favorable cost-to-benefit ratio.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.9
Fortify on Demand is stable and reliable, with minor issues, generally meeting user expectations with high stability scores.
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Polyspace Code Prover is stable with resolved bugs, occasional issues, licensing concerns, and a 90% stability rating.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.5
Fortify on Demand enhances security and efficiency with code scanning, CI/CD integration, real-time dashboards, and detailed reporting.
Sentiment score
8.8
Polyspace Code Prover enhances automotive code safety by detecting critical issues and supporting ISO 26262 compliance with ease.
 

Categories and Ranking

Fortify on Demand
Ranking in Application Security Tools
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
59
Ranking in other categories
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th)
Polyspace Code Prover
Ranking in Application Security Tools
18th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.8
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of Fortify on Demand is 5.2%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Polyspace Code Prover is 1.0%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Security Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Jonathan Steyn - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Pradeep Panchakarla - PeerSpot reviewer
A reliable solution that provides excellent features and detects memory corruption
The run time analysis process must be improved. If we do not run with the main loop, it generates its own main and doesn’t allow developers to modify the execution sequences. The solution must provide more flexibility to the developers to manipulate the runtime analysis tools. The developer must be allowed to modify the main sequence. It will be very easy for them to test their use cases. Otherwise, Polyspace generates a random main file and executes all the functions randomly.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
37%
Computer Software Company
13%
Transportation Company
5%
Financial Services Firm
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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.
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...
What needs improvement with Micro Focus Fortify on Demand?
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...
What do you like most about Polyspace Code Prover?
When we work on safety modules, it is mandatory to fulfill ISO 26262 compliance. Using Prover helps fulfill the standard on top of many other quality checks, like division by zero, data type casts,...
What needs improvement with Polyspace Code Prover?
I'm still trying to use constraints with range propagation, but I can't get it to work properly, and I haven't found any documentation. It require support. There could be an issue with range propag...
 

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Sample Customers

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