Measure Application Risk
Software is the backbone of the enterprise’s value chain. But current technological and business conditions make modern value chains increasingly difficult to animate without incurring large amounts of business risk. Production outages, security breaches and products late to market are real and common threats that keep executives awake at night. No one can predict the future, but gaining visibility into potential causes of these risks is certainly possible.
In order to promote agile practices, businesses seek to drive down maintenance costs and adapt to shorter project life cycles. These efforts must be focused on a broader definition of quality. In addition, organizations will need to invest in tools and skills to deal with complexly distributed applications.
CAST Makes the Invisible Visible
CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) analyzes systems to identify risks. CAST AIP is more than a code review tool; it is an essential part of a sophisticated risk mitigation strategy that is required by today's high performing organizations. CAST AIP measures critical application health metrics like robustness, maintainability, transferability, performance and security and allows for the assessment of their compliance to programming best practices.
CAST Management Tools
- Identify application issues before they become production problems and drill down directly to the underlying code at risk to help speed remediation
- Enhance or maintain the quality of your applications assets for reduced maintenance cost and increased stability and performance
- Manage the activities of local, remote and outsourced development teams more easily by measuring and benchmarking the quantity and quality of work delivered, and by verifying the justification for workloads and costs
- Benefit from the enhanced productivity, predictability and risk reduction resulting from internal and external teams empowered with technical documentation and application structure exploration capabilities
Data-driven Guidance to Reduce Application Risk
- Reduce risk of problems experienced by the business (i.e. production outages)
- Expedite time to market with shorter release time lines and improved business agility
- Ensure compliance with technical standards
- Gain greater visibility through automated code review
- Utilize factual information to manage outsourcing relationship
- Remove risk in sourcing negotiation with transparent effort estimation
- Control change request costs with objective measurement of outcomes to proactively manage quality of applications
- Shorten quality assurance “time-to-acceptance”
- Increase agility and responsiveness to end-users needs
- Optimize maintainability with internal teams and/or vendors and ensure ongoing responsiveness
- Manage the transferability of software and against lock-in to specific resources
CAST AIP provides tangible savings across the IT supply chain. Applying lean principles to application development can lead to at least a 10+% overall cost and risk reduction, mostly based on waste elimination and driving desired behavior among AD teams. We have a mature and proven ROI model, and have real world examples of hard dollar savings from major clients who have scientifically measured the benefits from defect prevention.