Getting the most out of existing application assets

Too often, IT organizations don’t have a clear understanding of their critical business applications. Years of work have gone into the applications that run our organizations today, based on multiple technologies and languages, built upon the intelligence of people who are most likely no longer part of the team. Because of this, IT managers need to analyze existing applications and systems within the portfolio. Specifically, they need to understand what is in place and what the dependencies are across applications. Then IT managers must effectively build a plan that serves as a guide on how to maintain key applications, mitigate risks and adapt easily to future development standards. All this must be done while ensuring that the changes made to the applications do not make them less capable of evolving in the future.

The value of better code quality

Time, business and cost pressures have all pushed developers to make sub-optimal choices that impact the quality and future performance of critical applications. The risk is great – over time poor code quality results in applications that are:

Poor and/or erratic in performance
Incredibly difficult to change
Very costly to maintain

Impossible to move from one team to another
A regulatory compliance liability
A potential security risk

To manage the risk of poor quality to your projects and to your business, you need to have a thorough understanding of the Technical Quality of your critical applications.

Automated solution, powered by CAST

CAST’s network of partners offers application assessment services that are designed to deliver the detailed information to measure, monitor and control one or more of your critical applications. Leading systems integrators, relying on CAST’s advanced source code analysis technology, will help you to understand areas of concern, including areas of high complexity, high risk and lack of adherence to architectural, coding, documentation and security standards.

Assessing the health, internal quality, complexity, maintainability and functional size of an application can be a daunting manual task that takes time and expert resources. Application Assessment Services provide a huge, instant return on investment (ROI) by helping fix distressed projects, or improve your core business application assets.

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