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CAST Company Overview
CAST Company Overview
Propelling Application Development from Craft to Manufacturing
Our Mission
The CAST mission is to transform application development from a complex and obscure
process, into one that’s transparent, driven by data, performance and operational
excellence.
CAST serves as a maturity agent in the IT system development industry, providing
metrics and intelligence on software applications to demystify the “craft” of architecting,
engineering and constructing exceptional software. Application Intelligence from
CAST arms IT managers with the insight they need to establish a predictable, repeatable
and, eventually, optimized software development capability in a truly professional
manner.
Our Value Proposition
With the CAST software platform, IT executives have the visibility to measure and
improve the Technical Quality of applications and development team performance:
- Management Visibility. Factual, balanced and actionable metrics and intelligence
introduce the transparency for management to run system development as a business
- Application Quality. With the business risk related to IT systems identified
and measured, IT managers can improve end-user satisfaction, while driving down
maintenance costs over time.
- Team Performance. Less rework, more reuse, objective KPIs, and the means
to help developers learn best practices, add up to higher productivity, capability
and motivation.
Company History
- 1990-1995 Company founded, initial R&D efforts
- 1996 Launch software
product v1; 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 Mining Tools to enterprise solution
- 2005-2007 The Application Intelligence era has come
Launch
of the current enterprise solution, the CAST Application
Intelligence
Platform
Key figures & Facts 2007
- €31 million, $45 million revenue, profitable
- Revenue growth +34% for 2007
- $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
Our Technology
The CAST solution can read, analyze and semantically understand all technologies
in any typical systems portfolio. By analyzing all tiers of a complex application
(UI, logic and data), CAST measures quality and adherence to architectural and coding
standards. Managers and developers can see how applications evolve with developer
“touches” and have the power to identify software issues before they become production
problems. Drilling down to the code, at risk, they get contextual technical documentation
that helps speed remediation.
Our Customers
Major institutions in Financial Services, Telecommunications, Transport & Logistics,
Government and other IT-intensive sectors are using CAST to measure outsourcer performance,
improve the quality of critical business applications, and upgrade the maturity
of their application development shops. CAST enjoys one of the highest maintenance
renewal rates in its market space.
"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."
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