SonarSource
{{Short description|Swiss software development company}}
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| name = SonarSource
| logo = SonarSource-en.png
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| industry = Opensource Software
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| founder = *Olivier Gaudin
- Freddy Mallet
- Simon Brandhof
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| hq_location_city = Geneva
| hq_location_country = Switzerland
| area_served = Worldwide
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| products = *SonarQube Server
- SonarQube Cloud
- SonarQube for IDE
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| website = {{official website|https://www.sonarsource.com}}
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SonarSource is a Swiss company founded in 2008. It develops open source software for continuous code quality and security.
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.{{Cite news|date=2018-01-22|title=Compuware and SonarSource Add COBOL Testing to DevOps|language=en-US|work=Database Trends and Applications|url=http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Compuware-and-SonarSource-Add-COBOL-Testing-to-DevOps-122770.aspx|access-date=2018-02-08}}{{Cite book|last1=Mens|first1=Tom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y1LFBAAAQBAJ&q=%22SonarSource%22&pg=PA92|title=Evolving Software Systems|last2=Serebrenik|first2=Alexander|last3=Cleve|first3=Anthony|date=2014-01-08|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9783642453984|pages=92|language=en}}{{Cite news|date=2018-01-18|title=Compuware e Sonarsource, insieme per promuovere l'agilità digitale delle aziende {{!}} ZeroUno|language=it-IT|work=ZeroUno|url=https://www.zerounoweb.it/software/sviluppo-software/compuware-e-sonarsource-insieme-per-promuovere-lagilita-digitale-delle-aziende/|access-date=2018-02-08}}{{Cite book|last=Hüttermann|first=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yEqrMNX3LAgC&q=%22SonarSource%22&pg=PA54|title=DevOps for Developers|date=2012-09-12|publisher=Apress|isbn=9781430245698|pages=54|language=en}}{{Cite news|title=Une entreprise genevoise lève 45 millions de dollars|language=fr|url=https://www.letemps.ch/economie/une-entreprise-genevoise-leve-45-millions-dollars|access-date=2018-02-08}}{{Cite web|title=La société genevoise SonarSource lève 45 millions de dollars|url=http://www.ictjournal.ch/news/2016-11-30/la-societe-genevoise-sonarsource-leve-45-millions-de-dollars|access-date=2018-02-08|website=www.ictjournal.ch|language=fr}}{{Cite web|title=Qui est l'éditeur genevois SonarSource qui a levé 45 millions?|url=http://www.ictjournal.ch/articles/2017-03-20/qui-est-lediteur-genevois-sonarsource-qui-a-leve-45-millions|access-date=2018-02-08|website=www.ictjournal.ch|language=fr}}
In 2017, they had more than 6,000 customers, including eBay, Bank of America, BMW.
As of 2022, SonarSource has more than 7 million users, 21,000 enterprise customers, and they now support more than 400,000 organizations.{{Cite web |title=the home of clean code |url=https://www.sonarsource.com/company/press-releases/sonar-record-growth-2022/ |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.sonarsource.com |language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Sonar Quality Dashboard 3.0: New Commercial Editions And The Developer's Cockpit |url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/05/sonar-quality-3 |access-date=2018-02-08 |website=InfoQ}}{{Cite book |last=Arapidis |first=Charalampos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VbWugJpp5tMC&q=%22SonarSource%22 |title=Sonar Code Quality Testing Essentials |date=2012-08-24 |publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd |isbn=9781849517874 |language=en}} The company offers three products: SonarQube Server, SonarQube Cloud, and SonarQube for IDE.{{cite web|url=https://www.sonarsource.com/company/press-releases/sonar-streamlines-product-naming-to-reflect-core-mission-of-code-quality-and-security/|title=Sonar Streamlines Product Naming to Reflect Core Mission of Code Quality and Security|accessdate=2024-12-14}}
- SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) is an open core product for static code analysis, with additional features offered in commercial editions.
- SonarQube Cloud (formerly SonarCloud) offers free analysis of open source projects.
- SonarQube for IDE (formerly SonarLint) is a free IDE extension for static analysis.
Financial backing
In 2016, the company raised {{Currency|45 million|passthrough=yes}} of funding from Insight Venture Partners, a US investment firm.{{Cite news|url=http://fortune.com/2016/11/30/term-sheet-wednesday-november-30/|title=Term Sheet -- Wednesday, November 30|work=Fortune|access-date=2018-02-08|language=en}} In 2022, SonarSource received with CHF 394.6 million the second largest venture capital financing round of Switzerland of that year.{{Cite news|url=https://www.startupticker.ch/assets/files/SVC%20Report%202023_web.pdf|title=Swiss Venture Capital Report 2023|publisher=JNB Journalistenbüro |work=startupticker.ch|access-date=2023-03-01}}