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GISS: CAST brings transparency and quality assurance to Spanish Social Services IT

GISS scanned the market for available options to improve its overall structural quality, improve transparency into the development and maintenance process, and help set standardized policies throughout its architecture. CAST helped GISS reduce time consuming multiple quality control cycles to a quick single cycle for 17% of GISS projects reducing lead time by 21%

Case Study

RWE Supply & Trading: Software measurement to improve the robustness and resilience of trading systems

RWE Supply & Trading, the leading European energy trading house, decided to take proactive measures to safeguard itself from IT failures caused by increasing systems complexity, which could potentially increase risk and inhibit future change. It opted for CAST’s Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) to perform structural software risk analysis on key systems.

Case Study

Forrester Research: Maintaining Vendor Management Vigilance In The Overheated Global Sourcing Market

To improve transparency, companies are using software analysis tools to evaluate externally developed code and ensure that it meets certain coding and productivity standards. This report is for forward-looking IT Sourcing, Contracting, Vendor Management, VMO, IT Finance professionals looking to greatly improve the maturity in vendor-client relationships.

Analyst Paper

Forrester Research: The Six Most Meaningful Metrics To mprove App Dev’s Business Value

Failure to consider quality requirements results in Technical Debt — the need to rework something in the future based on your failure to pay for it now. Software analysis tools, such as CAST, mine source code to uncover errors, development shortcuts, and complexity all of which contribute to Technical Debt.

Analyst Paper

Gartner Research: How To Monetize Application Technical Debt

Read exclusive analysis from Andy Kyte, Gartner VP and Fellow, on the systemic risk in the typical application portfolio caused by the accumulation of Technical Debt.

Analyst Paper

Gartner Research: Software Risk Management: A Primer For IT Executives

Many organizations use risk management to mitigate delivery risk, typically at the expense of application quality. Learn about the importance of focusing on application structural quality to reduce business disruption risk in this Gartner-CAST paper

Analyst Paper

Gartner Research: Cool Vendors In Application Services

Gartner Research’s paper on improving application services contracting. “Organization’s that outsources custom development should care about CAST, which has become the de facto standard for measuring the quality and productivity of vendor deliveries.” Paper is relevant to IT Sourcing, Contracting, Vendor Management, VMO, and IT Finance professionals.

Analyst Paper

Gartner Research: The Three Dimensions Of Application Development Quality

A formal approach to quality management is needed that recognizes the key dimensions of quality (Stakeholders, Technical Quality, Functional Quality), and a set of measures that enable the organization to identify areas for improvement and focus on the specific changes that they can make successfully.

Analyst Paper

Gartner Research - Measuring Code Quality In Application Sourcing

This paper features Gartner research and related content from CAST, detailing the three main focus areas to implement a successful SAM program with your vendors, as well as a client example of a large telecom firm that used SAM to lower IT costs and gain visibility into vendor performance.

Analyst Paper

Gartner Effective APA - Unlock Business-Driven Sourcing Strategies

This paper, featuring Gartner research and related content from CAST, delivers recommendations to successfully execute a lightweight, sustainable portfolio analysis that improves overall software risk management, whether applications are managed in-house or by vendors.

Analyst Paper

SWOT Assessment - CAST Application Intelligence Platform

Ovum research on the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. This research is a thorough review of CAST AIP, with some comments about its strengths in providing in-depth, holistic view of all application component interactions, for assessment of integration issues as well as simple code quality and complexity analysis.

Analyst Paper

Monetize Application Technical Debt

This is a Gartner-CAST paper which shows the data-driven approach to balancing delivery agility with business risk. The paper features exclusive analysis from Andy Kyte, Gartner VP and Fellow who eloquently illustrates the systemic risk in the application portfolio caused by the accumulation of Technical Debt over the last decade.

White Paper

Paying Down The Interest On Your Applications

In this just-released white paper, Dr. Bill Curtis – SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST– examines the Technical Debt metaphor to explain how it can be used to help executives think about software quality in business terms while governing software changeability and maintainability of their application portfolios.

White Paper

7 Steps To Pay Down The Interest On Your IT Technical Debt

If you already have some knowledge of Technical Debt, this ebook provides a 7-step Technical Debt Management Cycle that provides a clear process that can over time reduce the risk of failure of critical applications---and ultimately pay down the interest of the overall liability inherent in your application portfolio.

White Paper

Build Secure Applications With Software Analysis

Learn how advanced Software Analysis and Measurement (SAM) can help improve application security by analyzing source code to identify vulnerabilities and architectural patterns in the application, and enable development teams to prevent these vulnerabilities right at the development stage with sophisticated Threat Modeling that takes into account cross-tier and cross-technology interactions.

White Paper

6 Steps To Enhance Performance Of Critical Systems

Despite heavy investment in dynamic analysis tools, organizations continue to suffer performance, scalability, and latency issues. This paper describes how automated structural quality analysis improves delivery and DevOps team’s ability to detect, diagnose, and eliminate performance and scalability issues. Read the six-step process to identify performance issues earlier.

White Paper

Modern Software Productivity Measurement:The Pragmatic Guide

This guide describes a method for adjusting productivity with quality results to gain greater visibility into the impact that quality has on the productivity of future releases. It presents best practices that can be integrated into a productivity measurement and analysis process and provide recommendations for implementing an effective measurement-driven improvement program.

White Paper

The Business Case For Software Analysis And Measurement

This practical vendor management guide helps IT sourcing executives in establishing an ADM vendor performance management program. The best practices and tools in here are based on real world experiences of practitioner.

White Paper

How To - Vendor Relationship Via Software Quality

This practical guide helps IT sourcing executives in establishing an ADM vendor performance management program. The best practices and tools are based on real world experiences of practitioners. Forward-looking IT Sourcing, Contracting, Vendor Management, VMO, IT Finance professionals are leveraging software analytics to greatly improve the maturity in vendor-client relationships.

White Paper

Digitizing Insurance Applications at Generali

Renate Bister, Process and Project Management and Software Technology, describes how automated function point counting and software quality analysis from CAST has quickened the company’s digital transformation.

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