To enable the world’s best enterprises to achieve significantly more business productivity from their complex application software.

CAST is a powerful, yet highly-practical system for ensuring that the complex software that powers the modern enterprise is working to its fullest potential. More than 650 Global 3000 companies rely on CAST to enable their complex software systems to significantly increase business productivity and cut IT costs.

The CAST Application Intelligence Platform is an industrial-strength, highly - sophisticated software system that operates at the heart of an enterprise’s IT systems - the very systems that serve as the operational platform for the firm’s critical revenue-generation activities. Yet, CAST is easy to install, completely automated, and requires very little ongoing administration.

CAST is a powerful and automated IT application software assessment engine that can be used on existing assets or on new software assets as they are being built. A CAST scan digs deep into an application to reveal a great amount of detail about the software systems that power the business goals of the enterprise. The details are not at the business process level, but many levels deeper - at the architecture level.

Using highly-sophisticated language analyzers and more than 850 industry-best-practice rules for building software, CAST identifies quality lapses in an application’s source code, and provides precise guidance on how to fix the problems. The CAST Application Intelligence Platform reads, analyzes, and semantically understands most kinds of source code, including scripting and interface languages, 3GLs, 4GLs, Web and mainframe technologies, across all layers of an application (user interface, business logic and data layer).

CAST is available for all the major programming languages, databases and integration middleware used for enterprise application development.

CAST puts the information that IT and business executives need at their fingertips through a set of audience-tailored dashboards. These dashboards are designed to communicate the critical information that IT and business executives need to improve business productivity and cut IT costs.

Visibility = Better Business Performance and Lower TCO

CAST measures the evolving Software Quality of a business application no matter how complex:

1. Application Software Quality is captured at the highest level using a set of five Health Factors. Each Health Factor drills down into a number of constituent metrics, each of which can be individually analyzed.
2. In addition to measuring quality, the CAST Application Intelligence Platform provides precise guidance on the actions one can take to improve each of these detailed quality metrics.
3. These very same metrics are then used to measure quality improvements, thus giving IT and business executives a way to quantify the efficacy of quality-improvement initiatives.

Application Software Quality problems are found well before they become major issues at deployment; the root causes of these problems are highlighted, and can be fixed once and for all, thus preventing significant business disruption and customer frustration.

• CAST is not about the "what" – it’s about the "how" and the "how well". CAST is not about the functional but about the non-functional requirements; it is about making sure the application has the ability to perform in a complex production environment to deliver the business benefits articulated in the business case.
• CAST is not a development tool – it’s a data-driven operational management platform for IT and business executives CAST optimizes the performance of the end-state design by ensuring that the source code – the stuff out of which the entire application is built – is written to maximize business end-user performance.
• CAST is not a testing tool – it goes well beyond any testing tool to illuminate the root causes of reliability, latency, and scalability problems, as the system is being built. The best performance tests can tell you how well your system will run today. CAST can tell you how well the system will run as the software, and the production environment in which it runs, evolve over time.
• CAST is not a source-code scanner – it’s a structural assessment engine. In a complex software system, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Interactions between the system components are complex and cannot be analyzed in isolation. CAST captures a complete view of the engineering quality of the entire application across all its tiers to produce an accurate 360-degree view of application Software Quality.

• €30.1 million, $44 million revenue, profitable
• 35% revenue growth from 2006 to 2008
• $6.5M R&D investment per year
• Allianz group as a key long term shareholder
• Europe locations: Paris, London, Munich, Milan, Madrid, Brussels
• North America locations: New York, Washington DC, Chicago
• 650 customers worldwide, most belonging to Global 2000
• Award-winning technology platform, generating recognition worldwide
• Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for Legacy Understanding

All over the world, more than 650 leading companies in all industry sectors – Financial Services, Telecom, Transportation and Logistics, Manufacturing, and Aerospace, to name just a few – rely on CAST to mange the business performance of their IT systems and reduce hard IT costs. CAST enjoys one of the highest maintenance renewal rates in the market.

"The CAST platform has allowed us to create a set of software factories, where we can see exactly how far we are from delivering our end product."

"CAST solutions have enabled us to make a 10% productivity gain across the whole of the project using the same resources. CAST solutions therefore allow us to improve the overall performance of our teams while giving us a very attractive ROI."

"We rely on CAST to manage our sophisticated CMM-certified delivery processes and deliver a high-performance software product to the business."

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CAST enables predictable, high-quality delivery and is at the heart of the services offered by the world's leading IT service providers including Accenture, IBM, Capgemini, and CSC. These established industry players are among the many IT service providers who use CAST to significantly improve the value they provide their customers, building lasting relationships founded on objective Software Quality data and increased business performance.

"We have a new offer based on CAST technology and CSC’s methods and processes for strategic, IT, and business consulting. It meets the strong demand from the market to have greater visibility and control over their existing applications to improve competitive advantage."

"CAST is now a key component in Capgemini’s strategy and CAST solutions are now systematically integrated into our proposals."

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CAST’s Application Intelligence Platform is powered by the best software engineers from the most prestigious institutions worldwide. With more than 15 years of product R&D, development, and product releases, our engineers are dedicated to creating the best product in the software quality market. Our Consultants, Customer Care, Sales and Marketing staff have only one aim - customer satisfaction. We take pride in educating the market about application quality and its role in accelerating the process maturity of the software factory. Our mission requires a great deal of positive energy and perseverance. It requires truly unique people, who choose to work at a unique company.

• 1990-1995 Company founded, initial R&D efforts
• 1996           Launch software product version 1; The Application Mining Suite
• 1996-1997 Rapid, self-financed and profitable growth
• 1999           IPO on Euronext (Paris, France)
• 2000-2002 Global expansion, Europe and USA
• 2003-2004 Move from Application Mining Suite to Enterprise Solution
• 2005-2009 The Application Intelligence era arrives
                     Launch of the current enterprise solution, the CAST Application
                     Intelligence Platform

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