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Management Visibility - CAST
Management Visibility
Why Measuring Application Software Quality is Important
Building software, especially multi-tier, multi-platform, multi-language, multi-sourced
systems is an endeavor of immense complexity.
Mission-critical applications come with risks that have sizeable business consequences.
The conditions that produce these risks are growing steadily worse as two trends
collide. First, business applications are growing larger and more complex by an
order of magnitude every decade. Second, greater agility is increasingly required
to compete in fast-moving markets.
"In essence, we must accelerate the pace of adding new functionality to an object
that already is growing more complex daily—and do it for less money each quarter."
These are exactly the conditions that cause performance lapses that throttle business
productivity. Since we cannot control the pace of markets, we must control the quality
of the critical business applications we work with every day, so that our productivity
can scale even as the size and complexity of our systems increases.
Why Measuring Application Software Quality is Hard
How well an application is built – the engineering quality of its construction –
determines how well it performs in the production environment, how reliably it will
continue to perform, the speed with which it can be enhanced, the cost of transferring
it to a third party, and the cost of maintaining it through its lifetime.
And, how well an application performs in the production environment is completely
determined by how the designers and developers of the application satisfied its
functional requirements. As IT executives, we know this; the problem is we don’t
know what to do about it.
CAST is a Data-Driven Operational Management Platform
The CAST Application Intelligence Platform provides instant visibility and control
– cutting thorough the immense complexity of building, enhancing, or maintaining
a mission-critical system.
- Application Software Quality Factors => Software Product Visibility
- Software Factory Performance Factors => Software Progress Visibility
- Software Product Visibility + Software Progress Visibility => Data-Driven Operational
Management Platform for IT
CAST is a powerful, yet practical operational management platform for IT. It gives
IT and business executives the management visibility and control to significantly
improve business productivity and reduce IT costs.
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