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VISUAL ASSIST vs. Black Duck Polaris Platform

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricVISUAL ASSIST

by Idera, Inc.

Black Duck Polaris Platform

by Black Duck

Overall rating4.44.2
Review count29104
Ease of use9.18.6
Ease of setup8.68.6
Quality of support8.98.7
Meets requirements9.38.9
NPS58.6206947.572816
Small Business65.5%16.5%
Mid-Market24.1%31.1%
Enterprise10.3%52.4%
Total page views223614
Total LLM citations673133

VISUAL ASSIST

Visual Assist (VA) is a productivity plugin for Microsoft's Visual Studio developed by Whole Tomato Software. VA has been enhancing the overall IDE experience for thousands of C/C++ and C# developers for over fifteen years. Things You Can Do with Visual Assist • Navigate your code effortlessly • Inspect code and syntax automatically • Restructure code without affecting external behavior • Modernize legacy code • Improve readability • Access to a variety of accessibility features • Tailored support for Unreal Engine The plugin lets programmers code

Pros

    Black Duck Polaris Platform

    Black Duck builds trust in software by enabling organizations to manage application security, quality, and compliance risks at the speed their business demands. Black Duck solutions help developers to secure code as fast as they write it, development and DevSecOps teams to automate testing within development pipelines without compromising velocity, and security teams to proactively manage risk and focus remediation efforts on what matters most.

    Pros

    • Open Source
    • Accuracy of Findings