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Application Intelligence Platform - CAST
CAST Application Intelligence Platform
An automated system to measure the technical quality of software and
the performance of development teams
The CAST solution – effortless transparency
CAST enables continual and objective assessment of the Technical Quality of applications being delivered to the business. Technical Quality, at the component and architecture levels, is what must matter to application development (AD) managers because it can:
- Degrade performance, stability and security
- Drive-up maintenance cost
- Delay product releases
- Cause data to become corrupted
- And at worst, bring down the production system
What makes CAST unique
No other product on the market provides the depth, breadth, and scope of analysis
available with the CAST Platform.
- Depth of analysis - structural analysis allows CAST to provide timely and
accurate metrics that management can rely on when making decisions
- Breadth and scope of analysis - no solution covers as many languages and
multi-technology architectures across all layers of an application including UI,
Logic and Data
- Drill-down capability - not just passive monitoring, but the ability for
managers to actively drill down and share technical information that ensures speedy
delivery and remediation. Managers can take control, pro-actively improving project
outcomes
- Scalability - portal-based access to the information needed to understand
application health, adherence to industry and organizational standards, quality,
sizing and structure.
How the CAST Application Intelligence Platform works
The CAST solution can read, analyze and semantically understand most kinds of source
code, including scripting and interface languages, 3GLs, 4GLs, Web and mainframe
technologies, across all layers of an application (UI, logic and data). By analyzing
all tiers of a complex application, CAST measures quality and adherence to architectural
and coding standards, while providing real-time system blueprints.
CAST is available for all the major programming languages, databases and integration
middleware used for enterprise application development.
Tangible value to the customer
With the intelligence provided by CAST, customers are able to benefit from:
- Early detection of defects – Typically 10-50% reduction in source code defects
early in the development cycle. Early remediation means lower cost, and more satisfied
users.
- Faster time to market – Approximately 10-20% efficiency gain via reuse of
components and frameworks, and reducing rework. Good development practice means
faster delivery to the business.
- Maintenance cost control – Continuous internal quality improvement will drive
maintenance cost down by 10-30% over time, starting even within a year.
- Objective sourcing estimates – Up to 50% savings on change requests by being
able to estimate automatically the effort that should have been required for produced
work.
The CAST AD Governance Dashboard
Managers get immediate access to this information via a Web interface – the CAST
Dashboard – by which they can pro-actively monitor, measure and improve application
health and development team performance.
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.
More value for development teams with the CAST Discovery Portal
The CAST metrics and information are based on a structural analysis of an application’s
source code and inherent architecture, which are captured as metadata in the CAST
Knowledge Base.
Customers can access the CAST Knowledge Base via the CAST Discovery Portal to automatically
create real-time system blueprints to gain a fast and in-depth understanding of
any application in their portfolio.
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