CAST Application Intelligence Platform

The CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) is the leading enterprise-grade software quality assessment and performance measurement solution available in the market today. CAST AIP analyzes all tiers of a complex application at the source code level and measures adherence to architectural and coding standards, while providing a bottom-up view of development quality and technical debt and software engineering advice to Application Development teams.

 

CAST Application Intelligence Platform can:

  • Read, analyze and semantically understand most kinds of source code, including scripting and interface languages, 3GLs, 4GLs and web and mainframe technologies, across all layers of an application (UI, logic and data)
  • Identify and track quality issues, and provide the data to monitor development performance
  • Measure quality and adherence to architectural and coding standards, while providing visual specification models by analyzing all tiers of a complex application
  • Provide managers with real-time web access to information needed to proactively monitor, measure and improve application health and development team performance
  • Support all major programming languages, databases and integration middleware used for enterprise application development

 

Application Intelligence Platform

 

CAST AIP primarily offers a way to proactively manage application quality and team performance, whether they are in-house or outsourced.  However, the automated application intelligence from CAST AIP has many other uses: integration and upgrade of software packages, automated application documentation, change management and any activity that requires intelligence about an application.  See Solutions powered by CAST AIP.

CAST puts the information that IT and business executives need at their fingertips through a set of audience-tailored dashboards. These dashboards are designed to communicate the critical information that IT and business executives need to improve business productivity and cut IT costs.

 

Why Choose CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

  • Effortless Transparency: As a fully automated solution, CAST AIP enables continual and objective assessment of the Structural Quality of applications being delivered to the business. At the component and application level, Structural Quality gives actionable insights to all levels of an IT organization. This allows for proactive risk management, improved productivity, and reduced costs.
  • True Enterprise Platform: CAST AIP is the only solution in the market today able to analyze all major technology stacks in use at IT organizations (J2EE/RDBMS; 4GL/RDBMS; .NET; Cobol/CICS/IMS/DB2; ERP customizations like SAP/Oracle/AMDOCS etc.). CAST AIP can analyze more than 28 different programming languages, and with help of CAST Universal Analyzer, analyze even the most esoteric unsupported custom code.
  • Benchmarking: Only CAST, with a large repository of analyzed applications, can benchmark any application to its industry and/or technical peers.
  • Tangible and Measured Value: Using intelligence provided by CAST AIP, customers are able to eliminate waste in both development and operations.
  • Earlier Defect Detection: You can expect a 10-50% reduction in source code defects early in the development cycle, leading to lower cost, and more satisfied users.
  • Faster Time to Market: CAST AIP produces approximately a 10-20% gain in efficiency through the reuse of components and frameworks, and by reducing rework. Good development practice means faster delivery to the business.
  • Lower Maintenance Costs: An automated and continuous structural quality improvement will drive application maintenance cost down by 10-30% over time, starting even within a year.
  • Objective Sourcing Estimates:  Being able to estimate automatically the effort that should have been required for produced work can result in up to 50% savings on change requests.