SonarSource

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SonarSource
IndustryOpensource Software
Founded2008 [1]
Founder
  • Olivier Gaudin
  • Freddy Mallet
  • Simon Brandhof
Headquarters
Geneva
,
Switzerland
Area served
Worldwide
Products
Website Official website

SonarSource is a Swiss company founded in 2008. It develops open source software for continuous code quality and security.

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Overview

SonarSource is a company that develops open source software for continuous code quality and security. Founded by Olivier Gaudin, Freddy Mallet, and Simon Brandhof in 2008, SonarSource is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

In 2017, they had more than 6,000 customers, including eBay, Bank of America, BMW. [8]

As of 2022, SonarSource has more than 7 million users, 21,000 enterprise customers. Currently, they support more than 400,000 organizations. [9]

Products

SonarSource provides code quality and security products to detect maintainability, reliability and vulnerability issues on 27 programming languages including Python, Java, C#, JavaScript, C/C++, COBOL. [10] [11] The company offers three products: SonarQube Server, SonarQube Cloud, and SonarQube for IDE. [12]

Financial backing

In 2016, the company raised US$ 45 million of funding from Insight Venture Partners, a US investment firm. [8] [6] [7] [13] In 2022, SonarSource received with CHF 394.6 million the second largest venture capital financing round of Switzerland of that year. [1]

References

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  2. "Compuware and SonarSource Add COBOL Testing to DevOps". Database Trends and Applications. 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  3. Mens, Tom; Serebrenik, Alexander; Cleve, Anthony (2014-01-08). Evolving Software Systems. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 92. ISBN   9783642453984.
  4. "Compuware e Sonarsource, insieme per promuovere l'agilità digitale delle aziende | ZeroUno". ZeroUno (in Italian). 2018-01-18. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  5. Hüttermann, Michael (2012-09-12). DevOps for Developers. Apress. p. 54. ISBN   9781430245698.
  6. 1 2 "Une entreprise genevoise lève 45 millions de dollars" (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  7. 1 2 "La société genevoise SonarSource lève 45 millions de dollars". www.ictjournal.ch (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  8. 1 2 3 "Qui est l'éditeur genevois SonarSource qui a levé 45 millions?". www.ictjournal.ch (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  9. "the home of clean code". www.sonarsource.com. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
  10. "Sonar Quality Dashboard 3.0: New Commercial Editions And The Developer's Cockpit". InfoQ. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  11. Arapidis, Charalampos (2012-08-24). Sonar Code Quality Testing Essentials. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN   9781849517874.
  12. "Sonar Streamlines Product Naming to Reflect Core Mission of Code Quality and Security" . Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  13. "Term Sheet -- Wednesday, November 30". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-02-08.