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RAPID (Rapid Application Intelligence for Digital Transformation) Application Portfolio Benchmarking

Digital initiatives are putting tremendous amount of demand on IT applications as they provide key competitive advantage to the business. However at the same time IT department is marred with very high complexity due to:

Large portfolio of legacy applications
Proliferation of new solutions
Distributed hosting architecture – on-premise, private/public cloud, hybrid etc
Complex sourcing models – in-house, offshore, captive, outsourced, hybrid

Watch this recording to learn from experts and accelerate your digital transformation journey.

Software Intelligence Report On Application Age

The Software Intelligence Report on Application Age looks at 2,067 applications, representing 733 million lines of code from 14 different technologies that are developed and maintained by more than 12,000 people across multiple verticals. To conduct the analysis, these applications were anonymized and scanned by CAST Highlight. The report identifies two primary outcomes of application age:

Older applications are far more likely to impact service continuity in the event of a production failure.
The shift toward Agile development teams might not be helping organizations modernize as quickly as the industry anticipated.

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LEONARDO SpA a ISMA 15 "Non si può gestire ciò che non si può misurare"

Nel corso dell'ultima Conferenza organizzata dal GUFPI - ISMA (International software Mesaurement Association) l'11 Maggio 2018, CAST Italia ha avuto l'opportunità di esser protagonista grazie all'interessante contributo relativo alla Case History di Leonardo Spa

Cantiere Sicurezza - Cast: 5 Azioni Per La Sicurezza Applicativa Nella Pa”

Il Cantiere sul tema della Sicurezza nelle Pubbliche Amministrazioni rappresenta per noi un’interessante occasione di confronto e dibattitto su aspetti dell’ICT sempre molto “caldi” ma sempre più declinabili all’interno dei diversi contesti aziendali per via delle molteplici differenze da cui ciascuna realtà di business è caratterizzata.

Forum PA - Servono Sistemi Di Misurazione Della Qualità Efficaci E Automatici

Il convegno Un nuovo procurement pubblico per un’efficace partnership pubblico-privato, nel corso del FORUM PA 2018, ci ha permesso di portare alla luce la necessità di una nuova cultura del procurement pubblico soprattutto in aree innovative, abilitanti per la trasformazione digitale della PA.

Garantir La Pérennité Technique Des Applications Grâce À La Software Intelligence

Grâce à la meilleure connaissance de votre portefeuille applicatif et de la structure intime des applications, vous pouvez construire une stratégie de longue haleine pour maintenir votre patrimoine applicatif dans de meilleures conditions. De plus cette visibilité vous permet de remplir toutes les attentes de vos utilisateurs au meilleur coût et avec la réactivité adaptée aux conditions changeantes de votre business.

Découvrez dans cette web-conférence de 30 minutes comment gérer la pérennité technique selon deux axes :

Mise sous contrôle de la dette technique et de la complexité des applications
Meilleure utilisation des nouvelles technologies : migration vers une plate-forme PaaS, mining de micro-services …

Een Business Aanpak Van Security

Terwijl ook voor doorsnee organisaties digitale dreigingen reëel en aanzienlijk zijn, geven organisaties cyberdreigingen niet de aandacht die ze nodig hebben. Organisaties zijn laagdrempelig via internet bereikbaar en de middelen voor cybercrime zijn breed beschikbaar in de markt. Security incidenten komen daardoor vaker voor. Daarnaast vallen zij ook meer op, omdat het grote publiek zich bewust is geworden van de risico’s van digitale gegevensdiefstal. Deze combinatie van beeldvorming en het besef dat de risico’s aanzienlijk zijn hebben security tot een belangrijk onderwerp voor directies en bestuurders gemaakt.

Structural Quality An Atos Quality Approach For The Digital Age

In this white paper, Atos analyzes how an industry leading solution for application code quality and functional size measurement such as CAST impacts application health and quality aspects. We illustrate how a Tier-1 systems integrator can leverage such a tool to deliver the premium quality mandatory for the global digital revolution organizations are going through.

Software Intelligence for M&A Due Diligence

Mark Uhrmacher, SVP of Technology at Hearst Business Media, shares the value of Software Intelligence for post-merger integrations, a key value-add for Hearst’s business model. With Software Intelligence, Uhrmacher explains, the company now benefits from a much deeper understanding of software performance and quality characteristics as they make integration or sunset decisions post M&A.

Strengthening Application Security with Software Intelligence

Larry Cohen, CEO of Arctangent Solutions, outlines three primary benefits of Software Intelligence for CIOs. Among these is the ability to improve application security for strategic initiatives, such as cloud migration. With Software Intelligence, teams can better fill security gaps with objective insight around critical vulnerabilities and how to remediate those issues before they become news blunders.

Optimisation des budgets MCO : la Software Intelligence au service du DSI

Face aux pressions pour dégager des ressources financières, le DSI doit optimiser ses investissements, renforcer l’agilité et améliorer le time-to-market. Agir sur la réduction de son enveloppe MCO est pour la majorité des DSI un levier important. Cependant on observe que les chantiers classiques tels que l’optimisation de l’outsourcing et des techniques du décommissionnement cèdent de plus en plus le pas aux chantiers d’optimisation des processus, de remédiation applicative et de migration vers le Cloud.

Value of Software Intelligence for Agile and DevOps

Frederic Veron, CIO and Head of Safety and Soundness at Deutsche Bank, discusses the imperative for CIOs to make swift decisions. With Software Intelligence as a foundation, CIOs can determine where investments in IT modernization are most needed while effectively driving teams toward Agile and DevOps methodologies. “With a proper audit trail,” he says, “you don’t need separation of duties, and everyone can go faster. Software Intelligence provides a single source of truth so everyone involved in the project feels comfortable with the development and delivery lifecycle.”

Using Software Intelligence to Drive Automation

Saad Ayub, CEO at Ruminado Group, discusses the digital transformation imperative for CIOs and how Software Intelligence can be used to spread understanding of software for better customer experiences and faster delivery from development teams.

How Software Intelligence Helps New CIOs Score Quick Wins in the Digital Age

Gary Curtis, Senior Advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, explains common challenges for new CIOs, like discovering masses of legacy software. To integrate new digital capabilities fast, Curtis explains, CIOs should gather system-level analysis on business-critical software to minimize architectural complexity and ensure that systems are stable, safe and secure.

7 New Things You Need To Do To Become Truly Agile

Having trouble adjusting to customer requirements? Have a short shelf-life for your software? Are your delivery schedules becoming unmanageable?

If you answered even one of these questions in the affirmative, you may need to something new to become truly agile. 7 New Things You Need To Do To Become Truly Agile, our free eBook download, can help you there.

Improve Business Outcomes with Software Intelligence

Watch to learn about how clients are using CAST data as part of their team’s annual performance objectives. Explore challenges they faced, what they would do differently if they were to start over and specific outcomes and behaviors observed through the process. Recognized by both development teams and IT leaders, the software that’s produced has a direct impact on the business costs, incentivizing improvement. This webinar explores the principles, approaches and recommendations for building management objectives driven by CAST’s software intelligence.

How to regain management control over Agile development

Agile is terrific. But very hard for IT executives to manage or to know whether outcomes and throughput are getting better. The iterations of development keep coming, some teams sprinting faster and some slower, but there’s no way to tell productivity or quality. This is especially difficult when work is outsourced to third party providers.

Watch the recording for a discussion about latest methods for measuring Agile development using automation, and applying Value Driven Contracting when outsourced.

Software Intelligence Report

Open source is part of almost every software capability we use today. This report reviews some of the most commonly used open source software projects, comparing them to each other and to enterprise IT. While it is good to take advantage of open source, we must ensure these foundations are Secure, Robust, Efficient and Maintainable.

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Nouvelle approche du décommissionnement poussée par l’innovation

Les projets d’innovation et de transformation digitale viennent changer la donne en matière de décommissionnement d’applications. Selon Gartner, il y aura dans les deux prochaines années, trois plus fois d’applications mises hors services par les DSI, que depuis les années 2000. Aujourd’hui, il faut inscrire le décommissionnement dans une transformation plus globale qui impacte non seulement les moyens de consommation des services mais aussi l’infrastructure d’hébergement.