Capabilities

Hard facts to steer, accelerate, and report on key initiatives

Effortless
code analysis

It takes only minutes: local code scan, short web-based survey, instant insights.

50+ technologies

Cross-portfolio
navigation

See the big picture, search, and get answers using built-in maps, drilldowns and dashboards.

Augmented
with AI

Built-in AI Advisor helps navigate maps, interpret results, and get recommendations.

Software Health

Quickly prioritize applications for greatest impact on reducing tech debt
Technical debt
Automatically identify applications at risk of causing outages
Resiliency
Find which applications are hard to maintain and how to change that
Agility
Identify applications that are overly complex and how to improve them
Elegance
Add context by capturing qualitative information via built-in surveys
Business context
Pinpoint specific code issues that reduce health and increase cost
Code insights
Automatically identify where to optimize resources, skills, and turnover
Optimizations
Optimize maintenance resources based on COCOMO II guidance
Software maintenance

Cloud Maturity

Empirically determine the appropriate cloud strategy for each application
Migration roadmaps
Find potential breaking points moving to cloud or cloud native services
App to app dependencies
Automatically estimate the effort required to optimize applications for cloud
Effort estimates
Pinpoint specific code issues requiring optimization for cloud and how to fix them
Cloud blockers
Identify best-fit PaaS services on AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, or IBM Cloud
Cloud native services
Automatically identify patterns that elevate the cloud maturity level
Cloud Boosters
Discover code issues that prevent adoption of containers and how to fix them
Container insights
Understand how ready each application is to deploy across multiple clouds
Multi-cloud readiness
Shift left cloud maturity insights for developers in Visual Studio Code
IDE Extension
Identify the ideal path to migrate off VMware
VMware departure

Software Composition

Detect framework use from a knowledgebase of 100M+ OSS components
Auto OSS detection
Generate or import SBOMs in multiple formats and customize them
SBOM management
Get recommendations to reduce vulnerability, license and operational risk
Prioritization advice
Surface all legal exposures across the entire portfolio and customize polices
IP license exposures
Detect Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures + Known Exploits from multiple sources
Security vulnerabilities
Spot weaknesses representing unreported, possible future vulnerabilities
Emerging vulnerabilities
Instantly detect unsafe component versions and get upgrade advice
Technology obsolescence
Govern proprietary frameworks across an application portfolio and set policies
Proprietary components
View the entire dependency tree for all components to uncover hidden threats
Transitive Dependencies
Shift left open source risk insights while coding or browsing repositories
IDE & browser extensions

Green Impact

Automatically analyze software applications and calculate Green Impact
Green impact score
Pinpoint inefficient code with remediation advice and effort estimates
Green deficiencies
Estimate potential emissions savings based on the SCI standard, ISO 21031
CO2 emissions estimates
Automatically prioritize applications to focus on improving green impact
Automated recommendations
Track progress improving the green impact and efficiency of your portfolio
Green impact trends
Compare your Green Impact scores by industry, technology, and more
Benchmarks
Shift left green software insights for developers within the IDE
IDE extension

Chart your course

Extensions
Marketplace

Add enhanced capabilities with one click. Turnkey extensions include automating GitHub, BitBucket, Azure DevOps and Jira code scanning, create tickets, and more.

Application
Benchmarks

Benchmark against 10,000+ applications comparing metrics using more than a dozen dimensions (e.g. industry, technology, app type, etc.)

Trend
Tracking

Track progress over time to understand if health, cloud readiness, and open source safety is improving across the portfolio and for each application.

Customizable
Everything

Customizable surveys add more context by enhancing technical insights with qualitative data. Define custom calculations and reporting to develop tailored views.

Standard
Exports

Export results in PowerPoint, Excel, and XML for local analysis or integration into other tools.

CD/CI
Connection

Connect with any CI/CD pipeline or DevOps toolchain through a configurable command line to automate source code analysis.

Public
REST APIs

Key metrics can be extracted and integrated with other systems such as EA, APM, or PPM tools, using the public REST API.

Role-based
Access

Enroll users with different permissions and access levels. Select a pre-designed dashboard for your specific role such as CIO, CISO, Cloud Architect, Compliance Lead, etc.

Your risk-free discovery

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  • Discover fact-based views of application health, resiliency, and tech debt
  • Understand the cloud maturity of each application
  • See your software composition, including open source vulnerabilities
  • Get green software insights
  • Monitor metrics to track progress
  • Explore a pre-loaded sample portfolio