CAST Highlight - Rapid analysis of application portfolios
Make more informed decisions about application portfolios
CAST Highlight
Rapid insights across your entire portfolio
Automated. Portfolio views. Instant drilldowns. Recommendations. Operational in a week. Across hundreds of applications.
Cloud Readiness Insights
Automatically Segment App Portfolios for Cloud Migration
Automatically build an objective migration roadmap across an entire application portfolio in seconds using the Portfolio Advisor for Cloud. Segment and prioritize each application into categories such as Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, or Retire.
Visualize Inter-App Dependencies
Visualize application to application dependencies to uncover inter-application linkages that could break during a migration and avoid issues before a migration.
Cloud ready effort estimation
Automatically generated, customizable estimates assess the effort required to make changes when moving to cloud PaaS.
Pinpoint Cloud Migration Blockers
Automatically identify if patterns blocking migration to cloud are used (e.g., COM components or use of persistent files). Get accurate guidance where and how to remediate such blockers.
Leverage Cloud Migration Boosters
Automatically identify if patterns that make cloud migration easier are used (e.g., web configuration files or MySQL) to find opportunities for faster migration.
Cloud Service Recommendations
Identify specific cloud native platform services that are good candidates for an application to utilize once migrated to the cloud for Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM Cloud.
Accelerate Cloud Containerization
Automatically discover specific source code patterns that prevent adoption of containers and get precise recommendations on how to remove these container blockers.
Ensure Multi-Cloud Readiness
Receive automated insights on the specific cloud patterns in applications that make it easier to be deployed across multiple cloud platforms.
CloudReady Extension for Visual Studio Code
Modernize software faster by shifting left application Cloud readiness assessments. This CloudReady extension for Visual Studio Code identifies Cloud Blockers and line numbers directly within the developer’s environment.
Software Composition Analysis
Open Source Safety score
Automatically detect all open source frameworks and 3rd party components from a proprietary knowledgebase of 100 million+ components. Use the unique Open Source Safety score to prioritize remediation efforts across entire portfolios and focus on the most business critical applications first.
Auto-Generated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
Automatically generate SBOMs including an inventory of all OSS components used within the codebase, licenses, versions, and security vulnerabilities. Export SBOMs in various formats including industry standards such as CycloneDX, Word, Excel, PPT, XML, and REST API.
Portfolio Advisor for Open Source
Rapidly prioritize applications with Open Source and third-party component risks across your application portfolio and get automated recommendations on actions to take to reduce vulnerability, license and operational risks.
Detect Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures
Automatically identify all CVEs that pose security risks at the portfolio and application levels. Receive automated email notifications on new CVEs as soon as they are discovered.
Detect Common Weakness Enumerations
Expand security risk insight coverage by identifying CWEs that represent possible future vulnerabilities that have not yet been reported officially as CVEs. Automatically detect CWEs via CAST’s exclusive Open Source Software Intelligence Database (OSSIDB) and structural code quality technology that analyzes the most popular OSS components.
Reduce legal risks
Detect all licenses in use across components at the portfolio and application levels to identify possible legal issues. Customize the license profile policy to meet specific needs of the organization.
Automated Recommendations on Safer Component Versions
Instantly detect which applications use obsolete or unsecure component versions that require upgrades and get automated recommendations on safer versions to use where CVEs have been removed/reduced.
Uncover hidden risks
Detect open source vulnerability and license risks buried in dependent components that your open source components use. Get insights on how to remove these harder to find threats.
SCA Extension for Visual Studio Code
Shift left open source risks to address them earlier in the development cycle. Get open-source component information (version, vulnerabilities, license risk, allow/deny status, etc.) directly in the Visual Studio Code IDE.
SCA Chrome Browser Extension
Get Open Source component information (vulnerabilities, license risk, allow/deny status, available versions, etc.) directly in Chrome when visiting component repository web sites.
Green Software Insights
Automated score of applications’ green impact
Automatically analyze software applications and calculate the Green Impact score at both the portfolio and application levels along with trends over time.
Pinpoint green deficiency patterns in application code
Automatically identify code patterns that contribute to excess resource utilization and energy consumption (e.g., SQL queries inside a loop). Get remediation advice and effort estimates.
Portfolio advisor for green
Automatically segment and prioritize applications to focus on improving green impact. Identify Quick Wins and opportunities for the largest green impact.
Monitor sustainability progress
Continuously analyze application portfolios automatically and view progress being made to improve green impact of software systems.
Software Health Insights
Software Resiliency
Make software more robust and reliable with insight into which code patterns are likely to cause production issues and recommendations on how to improve them.
Software Agility
Make software changes faster with insight into which code patterns make applications harder to maintain and recommendations on how to improve them.
Software Elegance
Make software less complex and reduce technical debt with insight into which code patterns are likely to create long-term resiliency risks and recommendations on how to improve them.
Prioritize Business Critical Apps
Capture qualitative information using the survey feature that is mapped to code analysis data for more contextual insights. For example, utilize the business impact of each application to help prioritize decisions across entire portfolios.
Optimize Maintenance Costs
Automatically identify where and why you should increase or decrease your maintenance effort based on code metrics and COCOMO II (latest industry-standard cost estimation model for software development projects).
Identify risky coding practices
Automatically detect hundreds of problematic code patterns and programming practices that reduce health and increase cost. Resiliency, Agility, Elegance metrics give you the facts about your portfolio along with specific recommendations on improvement.
Portfolio Advisor for Technical Debt
Instantly identify where to focus remediation efforts across a portfolio to have the greatest impact on reducing technical debt.
What Our Clients Experienced
"We needed a turn-key solution that would provide us with actionable indicators across our portfolio."
Pascal Bernal
CIO
"Application cloud readiness assessments went from 3+ weeks down to 3 days with the same accuracy."
Jeremy Woo-Sam
Azure Blackbelts Lead
"CAST accelerates the assessment & analysis phases of app modernization by up to 30X."
Sunil Agrawal
Chief Architect
1 - Gartner Report - 10 IT Cost Optimization Techniques for Private and Public Sector Organizations
2 - Cloud migration study by QA-Vector Research
3 - Gartner Software Composition Analysis Report Techniques for Private and Public Sector Organizations
Reviews from Real Clients
CAST Highlight accelerates your Cloud Migration Project
Secure code analysis- only encrypted analysis results upload to the SaaS product.
Effortless Code scan provides Cloud Blocker/Booster, PaaS recommendations, Resiliency and CVVE scores.
Manish S.
Principal Software Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
CAST Highlight Reviews & Product Details
SaaS implementation means ready for Cloud, code scanning for OSS vulnerabilities and IP checks, works seamlessly with most languages and provides deep insights like blockers, effort estimates, to developers on Cloud readiness for their apps. Etc
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Administrator in Banking
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
CAST Highlight for Application portfolio rationalization modernization cloudification
More features on cloudification, oss vulnerabilities identification. Decision making on Application portfolio rationalization, modernization, cloudification.
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Madanmohan M.
Director center of excellence
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Great Tool to assess your applications
It's easy to use and intuitive. I like that you can download a pdf to have the information of the code of the application that you are assessing.
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Consultant in Capital Markets
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
An Insightful and value-driven Software Intelligence solution, with large technology coverage
large technology coverage
very easy and quick to setup
customization options
vulnerabilities analysis (SCA features)
export of reports in editable format
Internal Consultant in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Using CAST for enterprise application modernization
The facility to scan, analyze and present the results for the application
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Javier Esteban C.
Solution Sales Specialist
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Automated Assessment Solution is good
Agnostic Solution that fits all Cloud Migration
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Udit A.
Solution Architect
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
CAST Highlight features are excellent and makes the product outcome as best in industry
Excellent design of UI looks and easy way to check all and portfolio insights. Based on the different features, the decision of product migration to cloud , improving code-quality in SDLC process makes easier job.
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Lakshmi A.
Senior Member Technical
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
CAST Highlight is very user friendly and good for application scan and cloud migration analysis
Application Dashboard, Application Health, Cloud readiness, Roadblocks
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Kalees T.
Technical Architect
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Aiming to migrate to Cloud or understanding your applications environment? Look for CAST Highlight
I have been through a few iterations of a cloud migration effort, and how I wish we had at our disposal a tool that could give us insights such as those offered by CAST Highlight.
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Maamar F.
Director
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
CAST Highlight gives a 360 view of an application
It assesses an application on Software Health, Elegance, and Agility and also indicates the cloud readiness percentage.
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Bharat P.
Project Manager Cloud Solutions
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
CAST Highlight portfolio based on 2 business applications, CAST Highlight basic certification
Clear and compelling view on software elegance, views on Code Insights provide helpful and relevant software improvement candidates; Cloud Ready view on the application provide great recommendations based on local code scans.
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Aleš .
Project Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)