If your customers want to customize or extend vendor software applications, integrate these into their own information system, replace custom applications, manage the upgrade of existing systems, or outsource all of the above, CAST can help you propose differentiated services that not only address your customers' needs but help you increase business while reducing risk.

The CAST Application Intelligence Platform:

• Assesses the maintainability, quality and transferability of complex software applications from vendors, and of custom applications interacting with them.
• Produces technical documentation of the internal structure of a vendor’s base line applications, and of custom code and interactions between custom code base line application or APIs. This facilitates knowledge acquisition by customers and maintenance of their information system.
• Detects changes between vendors’ original core applications and the customized applications, or between a patched and un-patched version of an application
• Helps identify the impacts of upgrades or patches on the custom code built by the customer*
• Helps estimate the costs associated with impact mitigation work
• Monitors the compliance of custom applications to market standards, software vendors’ requirements for upgrade facilitation, or customer-specific development and architecture rules
• Facilitates compliance and quality improvements by generating lists of non-compliant objects and technical documentation to facilitate remediation
• Facilitates adoption of new software modules from vendors by helping identify which part of existing custom applications should be kept, suppressed, or modified, and what the impact of such modifications are.

By using CAST to provide services on application software, you can:

• Reduce risk and demonstrate your differentiation in bidding for outsourcing work or third party maintenance
• Propose services at reduced costs or improved service levels, such as:
• Production of technical documentation of application software and related applications
• Identification of changes between software versions and their impacts
• Management of patches and software upgrade
• Audits and third party maintenance services of application portfolios related to application software

Working with CAST to enable these services is easy. You can either partner with CAST and be granted short term, limited CAST licenses per assignment, or resell CAST to customers and use their licenses to deliver the service.