TechValidate Research on Sonar

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Sonar Customer Research

Where do you run your SonarQube server?

In-my Data Center: 65%
AWS Cloud: 16%
Azure Cloud: 11%
Google Cloud: 3%
Other: 5%

Sonar Customer Research

Which DevOps platform do you use with SonarQube?

GitHub: 18%
Azure DevOps: 23%
Bitbucket Cloud: 7%
GitLab: 30%
Other: 22%

Sonar Customer Research

As your business scales, it becomes mission-critical to have a Clean Code solution that adheres to your organization’s software quality standards.

Strongly agree: 38%
Agree: 50%
Neutral: 9%
Disagree: 1%
Strongly disagree: 1%

Sonar Customer Research

Which challenges in your development process does Sonar help your team address?

Preserving or improving the codebase's quality.
84%
Strengthening security and risk management.
55%
Ensuring the delivery of consistent and high-quality releases.
40%
Streamlining integration into our DevOps platform.
36%

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Do you agree that the secure-by-design practices that Sonar provides have led your organization to develop robust, secure, and reliable code thereby reducing business risks?

Strongly agree: 12%
Agree: 55%
Neutral: 30%
Disagree: 2%
Strongly disagree: 0%

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Has Sonar helped you effectively reduce your code-level technical debt?

Yes: 86%
No: 14%

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How does Sonar help your organization add efficiencies to your DevOps workflow?

Future code changes are easier and faster to implement since the codebase is more maintainable
64%
Development is faster and requires less rework as issues are resolved before code is committed
49%
Reducing rollback of code in production by ensuring only clean code is promoted
48%
Deployments and releases are smoother
24%

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Is your development team using LLM /AI tools in their workflow to generate code? If yes, which tools are they using?

GitHub Copilot
21%
ChatGPT
15%
AWS CodeWhisperer
3%
No, we don’t use AI tools for code generation
48%
Not yet, but plan to use AI tools in the near future
26%
Other
6%

Sonar Customer Research

As your business scales, it becomes mission-critical to have a Clean Code solution that adheres to your organization’s software quality standards.

Strongly agree: 38%
Agree: 50%
Neutral: 9%
Disagree: 1%
Strongly disagree: 1%

Sonar Customer Research

Which challenges in your development process does Sonar help your team address?

Preserving or improving the codebase's quality.
84%
Strengthening security and risk management.
55%
Ensuring the delivery of consistent and high-quality releases.
40%
Streamlining integration into our DevOps platform.
36%

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In which ways does Clean Code help manage and prevent the accumulation of code-level technical debt in your organization?
Automated Code Reviews that identify vulnerabilities, bugs, and areas for improvement.
66%
Ensuring security vulnerabilities are caught early, minimizing the accumulation of issues in new or legacy code.
65%
Focus on the delivery of consistent quality code with Quality Gates to reduce the likelihood of intensive refactoring or
53%
Proactive emphasis on best coding practices coupled with the Clean as You Code approach that focuses on new code.
50%

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How does Sonar help your organization add efficiencies to your DevOps workflow?

Development is faster and requires less rework as issues are resolved before code is committed
49%
Reducing rollback of code in production by ensuring only clean code is promoted
48%
Deployments and releases are smoother
24%
Future code changes are easier and faster to implement since the codebase is more maintainable
64%

Sonar Customer Research

Which capabilities of SonarQube are most useful for the Federal Government?

Which capabilities of SonarQube are most useful for your organization?

Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology
100%
In-context guidance & best practices to address issues
75%
Branch Analysis and Pull Request decoration
25%
Portfolios and executive reporting
25%
Comprehensive security reports
25%

Sonar Customer Research

Top reasons C-suite Executives choose Sonar for their Organization:

What are the top reasons you chose Sonar?

Organizational code quality and security initiative
75%
Establish best coding practices in the team
75%
Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
69%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
38%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
6%

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Computer Software Industry

What are the top reasons you chose Sonar?

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
84%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
80%
Establish best coding practices in the team
76%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
34%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
12%

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Automotive Industry

What are the top reasons you chose Sonar?

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
89%
Establish best coding practices in the team
78%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
78%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
44%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
11%

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Banking Industry

What are the top reasons you chose Sonar?

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
79%
Establish best coding practices in the team
68%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
53%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
37%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
21%

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Government Industry

What are the top reasons you chose Sonar?

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
84%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
84%
Establish best coding practices in the team
63%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
32%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
21%

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Healthcare Industry

What are the top reasons you chose Sonar?

Establish best coding practices in the team
93%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
79%
Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
71%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
29%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
7%

SonarCloud Customer Research

Sonar Customers

When do you plan to prioritize Clean Code in your organizational goals?

Already in progress
85%
In the next year
9%
In the next 2 years
6%
In the next 18 months
0%

SonarCloud Customer Research

SonarCloud Customer Reseach

What are the top reasons you chose Sonar?

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
75%
Establish best coding practices in the team
74%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
68%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
37%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
22%

SonarCloud Customer Research

SonarCloud Customers

Which capabilities of SonarCloud are most useful for your organization?

Automatic analysis for your languages
78%
Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology
71%
In-context guidance & best practices to address issues
56%
Native integration with the major DevOps platforms
46%
Easy installation with no manual upgrades or maintenance required
40%
Immediate access to new features/functionality
21%

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C-suite (CIO/CTO/CISO) Ranking

I would rank Sonar above the competition as the best solution for Clean Code.

Agree
62%
Strongly agree
15%
Disagree
0%
Strongly disagree
0%

Sonar Customer Research

Top 3 Capabilities of SonarQube for Small Business Organizations

Which capabilities of SonarQube are most useful for your organization?

Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology
77%
Branch Analysis and Pull Request decoration
57%
In-context guidance & best practices to address issues
53%

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Large Enterprise Organizations

Do you practice Clean as You Code with recommended Quality Gates on new code?

Always: 60%
Sometimes: 40%
Never: 0%

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Most useful capabilities of SonarQube for Fortune 500 Organizations

Which capabilities of SonarQube are most useful for your organization?

In-context guidance & best practices to address issues
100%
Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology
100%
Comprehensive security reports
75%
Portfolios and executive reporting
75%
Branch Analysis and Pull Request decoration
50%

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Top Reasons Our Customers Choose Sonar

Establish organization-wide Clean Code standards for our codebase
76%
Establish best coding practices in the team
75%
Organizational code quality and security initiative
75%
Minimize application maintenance time and costs
36%
My development team already uses it to help them shift left
18%

Sonar Customer Research

Top 3 Capabilities of SonarQube for Small Business Organizations

Which capabilities of SonarQube are most useful for your organization?

Quality Gates to support the Clean as You Code methodology
77%
Branch Analysis and Pull Request decoration
65%
In-context guidance & best practices to address issues
60%



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