As companies begin the selection process for an outsourcing partner, they look for a partner that can deliver what they need in the right timeframe, at the highest quality and best price. For the outsourcer bidding on the contract, it can be a struggle to provide an aggressive and realistic bid in a short timeframe, facing extremely tight competition and with very little knowledge of your potential client's application.

In the very little time allowed during these phases (1 & 2), The CAST Application Intelligence Platform provides the capabilities to conduct an application assessment for those applications identified as at risk. This delivers high-level application complexity, sizing and quality metrics. The information provided by CAST takes your bid process from one that is often lacking insight into what you are really about to take on to one that has the knowledge so that you can better estimate the future cost of maintenance, prioritize which application should be looked at first and isolate those that will require the most maintenance work via support, transformation or remediation.