The issue

Companies are increasingly pressured on all fronts when it comes to IT: as software complexity increases and sourcing becomes global and more complicated to manage, IT applications need to evolve faster to meet growing business requirements. And they are looking to business and technical consultant to help them to continue to grow their business while keeping their costs down and making the most out of their existing software assets.

Yet in most cases, the clients themselves have no easy mechanism to monitor the performance qualitatively and quantitatively of their development teams for the applications they manage. Most of the assessment work is done manually and at a very high cost. That's why they come to you. Indeed, with very high expectations. In order to provide your clients with the best service possible you need to differentiate your offerings to quickly bring more value and build up client confidence in having made the right choice to work with you, opening up the way for future business opportunities, while keeping your margins as high as possible.

The solution

CAST Application Intelligence Platform can be used to take “snapshots” of applications considered as at-risk to make sure their complexity and size are not “getting out of hand”. Your clients benefit from a preliminary and concrete diagnostic of their system through:

• Applications' health checks - Analyzing quality, changeability, adaptability, solidity, performance and maintainability through automatic audit of all work produced and enforcement of quality and architectural standards
• Assessment and mitigation of risks
  • Identify at-risk application based on industry standard metrics for quality & quantity. This is especially useful to prioritize which application should be looked at first and isolate the ones with the largest, most complex components
  • Critical performance, quality and benchmark information on all applications in the portfolio
  • Complete visibility into application's structure and inter-dependencies with other applications in the portfolio
  • A Deep understanding of which applications are driving the cost of maintenance and why.

Because the analysis is automated, you are able to produce high-quality, fact-based results in a limited amount of time, reducing your overall price for fixed-cost projects and improving your overall margins. By carrying out a technical audit on the applications' health, you are now in a better position to make concrete recommendations and help your clients in their upcoming technical projects spanning their entire portfolio such as: Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Re-Engineering, Modernization, Migration but also AD Governance or Application Outsourcing, and many more

Your clients benefit from all-inclusive services with a high added-value. In return you get:

• Differentiated offer
• Tactical way to penetrate new accounts & up-sell technical projects
• Higher business margins