CAST and the Research Center Henri Tudor organize a lunch seminar in Luxembourg, about stakes and risks of outsourcing. Experts of CRP, Cetic and CAST will share best practices in outsourced developments management, giving your outsourcers a higher sense of responsibilities with appropriate SLA indicators while keeping the control of your application portfolio.

Join us for a webinar on January 27 at 11am EST (5pm CET, 4pm GMT, 8am PDT) and lively discussion with Capers Jones, a world-renowned authority on software measurement. Mr. Jones is an expert in function points, and has written extensively on function point sizing, automated function points, and function point methodology.

Join us for an in-depth discussion with Capers Jones, a well-recognized authority on software measurement. Having written some of the most widely read books on software productivity, Mr. Jones is an expert regarding Function Points and the state of the art in productivity measurement

In the current economic conditions in 2009, heads of IT face a seemingly impossible mission - to significantly cut hard IT costs while simultaneously improving business end-user productivity. This is no longer a choice - the tradeoff between cost and business performance must be broken

Mr. Carlos Goncalves, Head of IT, Société Générale Global Equities & Derivatives will share his practical experiences and insight on how his team is enhancing software quality and aiming to increase business productivity at Societé Generale.

Over the last decade agile methods have been evolving to incorporate practices that address some of these concerns. Please join us for a discussion with Dr. Bill Curtis, Chief Scientist at CAST, about how an organization should implement agile methods and approach the decision to use them on business-critical applications. In particular he will address the issues of sustaining architectural integrity, ensuring application quality, and managing team coordination in a highly distributed environment.

Join us online on October 2nd, as our Chief Scientist, Dr. Bill Curtis, navigates the jargon and techniques of lean and explains what's fad and what can actually be useful in application development and maintenance.

Dr. Bill Curtis is senior vice president and chief scientist of CAST Software. He is a globally recognized expert in software process and quality, who co-authored the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Prior to CAST, he was the co-founder and Chief Scientist of TeraQuest, a global leader in providing CMM-based services, which was acquired by Borland. Formerly the Director of the Software Process Program in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, he has published four books, more than 150 articles, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Measure the technical quality of your applications, from a portfolio view to the subroutine details. Improve delivery to the business and reduce maintenance costs

During this lunch, Olivier Paijens will explain how the implementation of the CAST AI Platform on RTBF’s corporate applications supports and completes their proactive approach to quality management and how automatic code controls enable them to have a wider view of application developments and to better control risks, timescales and associated costs.

Measure the technical quality of your applications, from a portfolio view to the subroutine details. Improve delivery to the business and reduce maintenance costs.

During this lunch, some of our clients (Lombard, Dexia-Bil and Editus) have agreed to share their experiences in this domain. A representative of the IT department at Lombard will, in particular, explain why Lombard decided to acquire CAST solutions to exert more rigorous and automated technical control over its strategic applications. Their aim was to ensure the stability of the IT system without compromising its adaptation to business needs, nor impacting on development budgets.

Traditional outsourcing models have resulted in significant tradeoffs and dissatisfaction between the Enterprise and the Outsourcer. The majority of the enterprises feel that the cost of outsourcing has been as or more expensive than doing the same work in-house. On the other hand, Vendors, in spite of aggressive pricing resulting in razor-thin margins and aggressive cost reduction curves, constantly face the wrath of customer dissatisfaction.

The reality - outsourcing is here to stay. So, just how do you make this partnership a win-win?

Carey Schwaber, Sr. Application Development Analyst with Forrester Research, will discuss how organizations must take a proactive approach to managing the quality of their custom applications. This Webinar will outline a holistic approach for managing technical quality and the functional quality of software, as well as how quality management ties in to the overall governance of application development. It will include case studies of global organizations already using these software quality strategies.

Gebaseerd op het Cast Application Intelligence Platform, biedt deze softwareoplossing een unieke technologie die getest is op velerlei broncode analyses die wereldwijd zijn uitgevoerd. Het ondersteunt een brede set van industrie-standaard ontwikkelomgevingen, waaronder ABAP en Java. In de SAP wereld maken grote namen zoals Deutsche Telekom, Electricité de France, Gaz De France, Aéroports de Paris, Etam, CEA en CSC reeds gebruik van Cast.

Het Web-seminar zal plaatsvinden op dinsdag 18 september 2007 om 10:00, waar onze experts tevens al uw vragen kunnen beantwoorden.

Despite heavy investment in testing resources and technology, strategic business applications still fail in production or face serious performance issues causing extensive, even disastrous damage. This damage affects the image of the company as well as the image of the IT department. As such, production failures and under achievements are a CIO’s worst nightmares.

We invite you to explore the sources of these software failures during a special 30 minute web-seminar and how to prevent them with the implementation of an automated Application Quality Gate without any impact on the current Application Development organization.

The relationship between an outsourcer and his customer is, by nature, difficult given the technical and financial issues that may arise. Although current SLAs allow the results to be measured, they do not provide a means to anticipate any application drifts. Moreover, they do not cover certain areas, such as the evolution in the IT system's complexity and maintainability or the justification for evolution amendments. The CAST solution can complement these SLAs by automatically producing metrics and indicators that allow the customer to monitor the current state of the outsourced application portfolio and that can also provide support for steering and piloting the outsourcing contract. The aim is to facilitate dialogue between the outsourcer and the customer by basing it on factual indicators that are accepted and shared by the two parties and based on ISO-9126 standards and the work of the SEI.