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Accelerating IT Transformation with Software Intelligence
Accurate software intelligence can make the difference between a good deal and a risky one.
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Accelerating IT Transformation with Software Intelligence
Pragmatic and efficient IT transformation roadmaps require extensive, factual understanding of the condition of existing software assets and resources. Learn how Boston Consulting Group, a top consulting firm partners with leaders in business and IT to tackle their most important challenges:

  • Accelerates IT transformation cases for their global clients by leveraging objective insights about the resiliency, scalability and technical debt of core systems
  • Delivers roadmaps for transforming legacy systems into modern digital and data platforms
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Software Intelligence for Critical M&A Decisions
Accurate software intelligence can make the difference between a good deal and a risky one.
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Software Intelligence for Critical M&A Decisions
Accurate software intelligence can make the difference between a good deal and a risky one. Learn how Ernst & Young, global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services:

  • Accelerates the gathering of accurate intelligence about the condition of software assets during M&A due diligence
  • Applies the findings for valuation, risk assessment, and post-acquisition planning
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La maîtrise des risques techniques et juridiques liés à l'Open Source
Alors que plus de 80% des nouvelles applications embarquent de l'Open Source, les problèmes de gouvernance qui y sont liés augmentent proportionnellement et les risques encourus doivent être maîtrisés.
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Faster Modernization and Cloud Migration with Software Intelligence
Cost restructuring acceleration is becoming an imperative in 2020. Yet, modernizing and migrating custom applications to the Cloud can be slow and complex, with too many unknowns about the state of the applications at stake.
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Faster Modernization and Cloud Migration with Software Intelligence - Jeremy Woo-Sam from Microsoft

Cost restructuring acceleration is becoming imperative in 2020. Yet, modernizing and migrating custom applications to the Cloud can be slow and complex, with too many unknowns about the state of the applications at stake.

Jeremy Woo-Sam is a senior Solution Architect leading a team of Microsoft blackbelts helping organizations migrate complex custom build applications to Microsoft Azure and taking advantage of its cloud-native services.

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Optimieren von SAP-Systemen mit CAST
Wir zeigen Ihnen in 60 min, wie Sie CAST bei der Optimierung Ihrer SAP Systeme unterstützen kann.
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CIO POV: Making critical decisions based on facts about your software
Learn from the experience of successful CIOs how to cut through the complexity, how to apply software intelligence for greater objectivity in making critical decisions and governing your software assets and development resources.
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Greater Objectivity in Government IT through Software Intelligence
Clear visibility into the condition of government software systems is critical for their effectiveness and continued funding.
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¿Todo listo para la nube?
El valor de adopción al 'cloud' requiere un cierto nivel de remediación por parte de las organizaciones para hacer que los sistemas de TI estén más orientados o preparados para la nube. De hecho, Gartner alega que la nube es "uno de los segmentos de gasto en TI de más rápido crecimiento" lo que se traduce a una mayor conocimiento y manejo de las herramientas que habilitan la migración.
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Greater Objectivity in Government IT through Software Intelligence - with Tony Scott
Clear visibility into the condition of government software systems is critical for their effectiveness and continued funding.

Tony Scott, former Federal CIO for the U.S. Government, raised the transparency and effectiveness of Federal IT modernization programs.
Video Interview
Putting Software Intelligence Into Dev and Sourcing With Measurable Results - with Josh Mordin
Clear visibility into the condition of government software systems is critical for their effectiveness and continued funding.

Josh Mordin, responsible for delivering software for the General Services Administration, applies software intelligence to adhere to federal IT polices and manage complex software supply chains based on facts.
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Resilienz & Cloud-Readiness von Software-Applikationen
Analyse von Resilienz, Open Source Risiken, Kosten und Cloud Readiness mit CAST Highlight.
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Profiter de la virtualisation en accélérant la modernisation de ses applications
Impossible de ne pas vouloir tirer parti des bénéfices attendus des modèles d’infrastructure de plus en plus virtuels pour exécuter vos applications.
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Legacy-Modernisierung mit CAST
Analyse von Resilienz, Open Source Risiken, Kosten und Cloud Readiness mit CAST Highlight
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¿Necesitas información más objetiva acerca de tu porfolio de aplicaciones para tomar decisiones de negocio?

Seguro que estás de acuerdo en que sólo conociendo el estado de tus aplicaciones puedes mejorar aquello que sea prioritario para ti: Costes, Time to Market, Riesgos, Cloudificación... ¿Dispones de herramientas que te ayuden?

CAST Highlight, permite analizar cientos de aplicaciones en cuestión de semanas proporcionando información objetiva acerca del estado del porfolio y que acelere tu viaje de Transformación digital.

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Bain Delivers Faster Insights for Application Rationalization & Modernization with CAST Highlight
Bain Delivers Faster Insights for Application Rationalization & Modernization with CAST Highlight
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EY Executes More Objective Technology Due Diligence for M&A using CAST Highlight
EY Executes More Objective Technology Due Diligence for M&A using CAST Highlight
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Les faux positifs : un risque dans la sécurité logicielle
Il n’y a plus de doute aujourd’hui sur l’importance de mettre en œuvre l’Analyse de Sécurité Statique des Logiciels (SAST) dans un dispositif global qui traite aussi l’analyse dynamique et les tests de pénétration. Il faut cependant, dans un contexte de ressources rares tant au niveau du développement que dans les équipes de sécurité, être à même de faire la part entre les vrais et les faux positifs. En effet, il ne sert à rien de détecter même 100% des vrais positifs s’ils sont noyés au milieu d’un plus grand nombre de faux positifs.
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CAST Automated Function Points
CAST has developed a sophisticated algorithm for automatically counting function points, the result of 5 years of intensive R&D. CAST Automated Function Point Counts closely replicate the IFPUG manual standard and are objective, repeatable, and cost effective.
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CAST Benchmarking Services (Appmarq)
With a proprietary repository of objective application quality data, CAST can benchmark your applications to identify strengths, weaknesses and areas for improvement. This analysis allows you to make critical decisions about your application portfolio to set individual and organizational goals, determine opportunities to reduce risks and control costs, and manage the performance of vendors.
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CAST Application Assessment Services
Over time, organizations can no longer effectively maintain key applications with limited knowledge of what’s in place and the dependencies across applications. CAST provides services across a portfolio for automated application assessments and profiling using multi-parameter metrics and indicators broken down by quality and quantity categories.
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Manage Architecture and Technical Debt at Agile Speed

When working with Agile, you need to control architecture, satisfy non-functional requirements, and reduce technical debt in short iterations. In this paper find out how the CAST AIP can be incorporated into a continuous integration environment to evaluate if newly integrated components violate rules of good architectural and coding practice affecting security, robustness, changeability, performance efficiency, and maintainability;  adhere to the application’s architectural rules; and have structural problems that create technical debt.

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CAST for the Project Manager

Project managers need to ensure an application isn’t just delivered on time, but that it is stable, flexible and secure.  CAST helps project managers ensure that development teams are following industry and internal coding best practices, architectural standards and designs, and documents development activity.

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Maximizing the Value of CAST AIP

Operationalization of CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) through Continuous Improvement Model (CIM) is a proven, repeatable and successful approach to rolling out CAST AIP. CIM is a full cycle of implementation, adoption, consumption and improvement that ensures client’s success through proper use and adoption of CAST.

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CAST for the Architect

Application architecture is required to ensure the structural integrity of an application portfolio, but it can seem impossible to ensure adherence to these standards. CAST changes all of that by automatically analyzing applications across all tiers and languages to provide Architects with the actionable metrics and information needed to assess the how well the architectural designs, rules and standards have been followed.

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CAST for Oracle Applications

With CAST, the process of integrating and adapting Oracle applications becomes more automated with complete and accurate knowledge of the applications’ inner structure.  IT teams no longer need to manually reverse-engineer their source code and can instead focus on quickly adapting them to company-specific needs.

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CAST for Vendor Monitoring and Control

An organization can achieve transparency over application quality for outsourced Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) with assessments from CAST.  You gain objective measurement to monitor compliance with development best practices and architectural guidelines, reducing risk and increasing transferability between teams.

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CAST for SAP

Many organizations manage huge portfolios of custom applications on top of SAP. A number of them are mission-critical so it is vital to preserve or enhance the quality, robustness, maintainability and performance of these applications, whether developed in ABAP, Java or other languages, to reduce application maintenance costs and better manage outsourced development and maintenance.

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CAST Application Intelligence Platform: The Source of Superior Business Performance

Modern mission-critical applications are multi-platform, multi-language and multi-sourced.  CAST AIP gives you the comprehensive visibility and control needed to achieve significantly more business productivity from complex applications with an objective and repeatable way to measure and improve the application software quality.

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CAST AIP – Support for The Open Web Application Security Project

The aim of this document is to describe CAST AIP’s current support and future roadmap for OWASP Top Ten 2013 (the document applies the very same way to OWASP Top Ten 2007).

CAST Strategy for the on-going support of OWASP Top Ten is to provide users with the means to check that valid protection is in place and whenever possible to provide development teams detect places where vulnerability is left in the code.

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CAST for PeopleSoft

CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) provides repeatable, automated analysis of PeopleSoft configuration and custom development in PeopleCode, checking over 100 PeopleSoft configuration and PeopleCode development rules. Allowing for improved control of PeopleSoft application quality. 

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CAST Federal Solutions
CAST’s U.S. Federal group helps government agencies maximize IT investments and optimize performance through the use of proven technologies and best practices.
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CAST Company Overview
Founded in 1990, CAST is a pioneer and world leader in Software Analysis and Measurement, introducing fact-based transparency into application development and sourcing to transform it into a management discipline.
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How Auto Tech Firm Accelerates Large Scale App Containerization for Cloud with CAST Highlight
CAST Highlight outputs include a detailed list of cloud migration blockers organized by technology, impact, criticality, location, and the estimated effort to remediate. This automated and objective assessment approach enabled the CIO and CTO to make migration decisions with confidence.
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Bain Delivers Faster Insights for Application Rationalization & Modernization with CAST Highlight
Bain Delivers Faster Insights for Application Rationalization & Modernization with CAST Highlight
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EY Executes More Objective Technology Due Diligence for M&A using CAST Highlight
EY Executes More Objective Technology Due Diligence for M&A using CAST Highlight
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Application Security Assessments for a large manufacturing firm
The new CISO commissioned CAST to perform the security assessment of critical applications. The applications were assessed for code security, OSS compliance, and overall health
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Global Bank Security Assessment by CAST
Using CAST AIP, we assessed critical applications of the Global Bank. The Bank was already using other SAST tools which did not improve the quality. CAST findings and the associated remediation prevented some embarrassing reputational loss for the Bank.
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Ensure Resiliency of Cloud-Native Microservices Applications
Using CAST Software Intelligence, we helped in the assessment of a Cloud Native Microservices application. The CAST assessment provided deep insights into the as-is architecture and made recommendations to improve the quality attributes of the application.
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Accelerating the Modernization of a Mainframe-Based “Moving Target” While Mitigating Risk
Using CAST Software Intelligence, our Partner, Princeton Consultants helped a Fortune 500 company accelerate its Digital Transformation journey.
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Highlight Help SmashFly Navigate It's Recruitment Platform to the Cloud
Lacking visibility into the cloud readiness of the 50 applications in their product portfolio, SmashFly used CAST Highlight to perform a rapid scan of all applications. As a result, they were able to quickly gain visibility into application-level blockers that could prevent smooth and rapid migration to the cloud.
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Software Risk management at Leonardo
During the 15th ISMA International Conference, organized by the International Function Point User Group, the Land & Naval Defense Electronics Division of Leonardo SpA shares their approach to software engineering tools to manage software risks. Among the results: team efficiency and reduction of development costs. This is a summary of the insights identified during the event by Piero Todorovich, journalist of Zero One Web.
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Eliminate vulnerabilities while improving performance
CAST AIP was implemented for a Federal Law Enforcement Agency in the US. CAST AIP helped identify and resolve several critical violations and flaws in the software leading to an immediate saving of ~ $250K in software maintenance.
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Finding system level security vulnerabilities
Our Customer - a large insurer in the US - used CAST AIP to prioritize the list of the applications where the security flaws had to be fixed. CAST was used alongside Veracode to identify flaws missed by Veracode.
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FDA Compliance for Medical Device Manufacturer
Using CAST AIP, we helped our customer - leader in medical device manufacturing - to comply with the stringent standards of FDA. The CAST solution was implemented across several product lines and supports the compliance process for all the products.
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AIP trims down the cost of application development and security using DevSecOps for a major European Banking Institution

As one of the major financial institutions in Europe, our customer was striving to reduce increasing costs of compliance. With CAST, the bank has been able to not only reduce cost of compliance but also reduce the downtime/outages of application

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CAST Highlight Case Study: How CanLII de-risks Mergers & Acquisitions with Highlight

Just acquired a company and don't know your most valuable IT asset? Want to rationalize your applications? Thinking about moving to the Cloud?

Answering “Yes” to any of those questions means that, while you have been through a Merger & Acquisition, you will need to create a successful migration plan. This process can be complex and we have a solution that uses fact-based diagnostics to give you an objective view into your application portfolio.

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Testimonial: How Fannie Mae leverages Highlight analytics

Fannie Mae is the leading source of residential mortgage credit in the U.S. secondary market. In this customer testimonial, discover how Fannie Mae leverages CAST Highlight analytics to help build fact-based decisions for its application portfolios.

This testimonial is based on the interview of Fredric Veron, SVP, Head of Business Application Development & Management Services, Fannie Mae. Mr. Fredric Veron is responsible for building, deploying and maintaining applications to support business. Fannie Mae deployed CAST Highlight analytics to help build fact-based decisions for its application portfolios.

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GRDF Case Study
For over a year, the IT department of GRDF has relied on CAST Highlight to assess the health of its application portfolio. It has become an essential solution for teams involved in business transformation and innovation for their customers. In order to support these strategic and tactical objectives, GRDF turned to CAST Highlight – a SaaS solution that provides a value and risk assessment of its application portfolio.
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Telecom Giant: Immediate impact cutting significant business risks and costs
Telecom providers must offer best-in-class customer experience to stand out, requiring tight integration across many systems.  To achieve this capability, a Telecom giant is using CAST to mitigate risks, lower IT costs, improve relationships with outsourcers, and achieve better visibility with information needed to ask the right questions and make quicker decisions.
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Atradius: Fewer defects, a significant reduction in rework, reduced costs in development and maintenance
As a leading global credit risk insurer, Atradius is subject to heavy regulations. They are using CAST to help with regular audits and compliance in their application environment, along with automating and industrializing software development with objective metrics and information to improve  application quality and team efficiency.
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Areva: Benefits from fact-based conversations with outsourcers
AREVA is a world leader in engineering, nuclear services, and heavy component manufacture. They are using CAST to manage their outsourcing relationship while retaining control of intellectual capital, providing assurance that changes are properly implemented, and accelerating knowledge transfer.
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Allianz Austria: 230% increase in application functionality with a 20% annual cost reduction over 3 years
The insurance management system at Allianz Austria is used to manage over 10 million customers and process 8 million claims a year. Allianz implemented CAST as part of a Quality Management initiative and have seen substantial savings in time devoted to bug correction and have increased user satisfaction.
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Maritz: Avoids SLA financial penalties with improved quality and performance
Maritz is one of the largest privately held companies in the Fortune 500, providing IT-intensive business services. Over time, multiple development platforms and standards emerged.  CAST allowed Maritz to standardize development across business units, and most importantly, ensure the high level of security needed for compliance requirements.
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Deutsche Bahn: Reduces application time-to-market while improving overall quality
Deutsche Bahn is one of the world’s largest mobility and logistics service providers.  Rapidly changing market conditions require flexible, frequent and short-term adaptations to their existing systems.  To achieve quick time-to-market, they implemented CAST to improve the overall quality of their applications and facilitate system flexibility and faster delivery.
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Wells Fargo Retirement Services: Reaching up-time of 99.99% with improved application quality
Wells Fargo’s WYSTAR is one of the country’s largest retirement services companies, and has grown significantly through several M&As. Their technology stack became quite complex with multiple technologies and overlapping systems, so they used CAST to consolidate core technologies and reduce maintenance costs. On an ongoing basis, they can maximize internal resources and outsourced labor, while ensuring application quality continually improves.
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Vienna Insurance Group: Manages risks in one of the world’s largest SAP implementations for the insurance industry
Vienna Insurance Group needed to improve visibility of their SAP implementation, and CAST was selected to help manage the project.  They use the data provided by CAST to make objective decisions based on facts, mitigate risks with early defect detection, eliminate manual code reviews, and reduce maintenance costs—all leading to reduction in the long term costs of the SAP solution.
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AXA Equitable: Cut IT budgets by more than 35% while increasing the speed of delivery
The CTO at AXA Equitable Life Insurance was looking to swiftly navigate through changing market conditions, increasing the pace of product releases.  AXA implemented CAST to help manage coding done by offshore partners, drive Six Sigma and CMMI efforts, bring process and discipline through objective data, and drive change and reduce costs while controlling risk.
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Steria: Addressing clients transformation challenges efficiently and profitably - a double-digit benefit for Steria & their clients

Steria delivers IT-enabled business services and is the Trusted Transformation Partner for private and public sector organizations across Europe. The Steria Quality Management Solution powered by CAST is fully integrated in Steria Services such as RightApps Management. It has demonstrated the capability of improving client’s application reliability, maintenance and value to the business. The solution brings real value to clients in Portfolio Management and Investments.

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Resource T-Systems Multimedia Solutions: Rapidly responds to changing market conditions with affecting application quality
T-Systems MMS is Germany’s most successful Internet and multimedia company.  Their application development encompasses projects for both internal and external customers, and they have created a Code Quality Management Center to enforce quality standards.  CAST runs regular, automated and exhaustive checks of applications so they can maintain productivity and quality while managing bigger and more complex systems.
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Atos Origin: Achieves as much as 17% efficiency in Application Management projects
Systems Integrator Atos Origin's Application Management (AM) unit standardizes and industrializes Application Development with CAST, and they are able to provide de direct returns to customers both in terms of quality and cost.  They also see major benefit in knowledge acquisition during service transitions.
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Accenture-Edgar Consolidated: Customization project delivery time cut by 2/3
Accenture manages all application development and maintenance for Edcon, South Africa’s dominant fashion retailer. They use CAST to facilitate the rapid adaptation of the company’s highly customized Retek (Oracle Retail) implementation and other software packages.
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Capgemini: More than 10% improvement in tangible productivity gains for maintenance activities
Capgemini Group is one of the world's largest providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services.  They are committed to helping clients get the most out of their software assets, since Application Management takes up by far the largest share of IT resources.  CAST showed demonstrated ability to run on many technologies in distributed systems, making a big impact on the bottom line for both Capgemini and their clients.
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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%

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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.

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CTTI: CAST improves efficiencies in a multi-sourced environment for Government of Catalonia

Using CAST AIP, the CTTI is able to analyze its application portfolio and classify applications by risk level. In addition, CAST enabled CTTIT to implement organization-wide process for quality assurance analysis and reporting.

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Winning in the Marketplace with Software Intelligence
Contracting large IT modernization and business engineering programs hinge on both the client and vendor confidence in reaching the desired outcomes. Learn how CGI, a leading IT and business consulting services firm.
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Generating business value by accelerating the modernization journey
Experts from Wipro and CAST unveiled the blend of strategy, design and technology that helped numerous customers succeed in their modernization journeys.
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Accelerating IT Transformation with Software Intelligence
Pragmatic and efficient IT transformation roadmaps require extensive, factual understanding of the condition of existing software assets and resources. Learn how Boston Consulting Group, a top consulting firm partners with leaders in business and IT to tackle their most important challenges:

  • Accelerates IT transformation cases for their global clients by leveraging objective insights about the resiliency, scalability and technical debt of core systems
  • Delivers roadmaps for transforming legacy systems into modern digital and data platforms
Video Interview
Software Intelligence for Critical M&A Decisions
Accurate software intelligence can make the difference between a good deal and a risky one. Learn how Ernst & Young, global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services:

  • Accelerates the gathering of accurate intelligence about the condition of software assets during M&A due diligence
  • Applies the findings for valuation, risk assessment, and post-acquisition planning
Video Interview
Faster Modernization and Cloud Migration with Software Intelligence - Jeremy Woo-Sam from Microsoft

Cost restructuring acceleration is becoming imperative in 2020. Yet, modernizing and migrating custom applications to the Cloud can be slow and complex, with too many unknowns about the state of the applications at stake.

Jeremy Woo-Sam is a senior Solution Architect leading a team of Microsoft blackbelts helping organizations migrate complex custom build applications to Microsoft Azure and taking advantage of its cloud-native services.

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Greater Objectivity in Government IT through Software Intelligence - with Tony Scott
Clear visibility into the condition of government software systems is critical for their effectiveness and continued funding.

Tony Scott, former Federal CIO for the U.S. Government, raised the transparency and effectiveness of Federal IT modernization programs.
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Putting Software Intelligence Into Dev and Sourcing With Measurable Results - with Josh Mordin
Clear visibility into the condition of government software systems is critical for their effectiveness and continued funding.

Josh Mordin, responsible for delivering software for the General Services Administration, applies software intelligence to adhere to federal IT polices and manage complex software supply chains based on facts.
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Software Intelligence for System Resiliency - Kevin Fedigan, Former CIO, Bank of New York Mellon
Highlights from panel discussion. Kevin Fedigan, Former CIO of BNY Mellon, talks about applying software intelligence to left shift quality and system resiliency.
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Software Intelligence for Higher Quality - Ramesh Chandrasekaran, LTI
 
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Software Intelligence for Modernization Business case - Waheed Mahmood, IBM
Highlights of presentation by Waheed Mahmood, where he talks about leveraging software intelligence to provide IBM clients with a baseline of their IT state thus helping them develop the business case for future modernization and innovation investments.
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Software Intelligence for Faster Modernization - Vishy Padmanabhan, Bain & Co.
Highlights of presentation by Vishy Padmanabhan, Bain, on applying software intelligence for faster modernization.
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Software Intelligence for M&A - Erik Oltmans, E&Y
Highlights from the E&Y presentation by Erik Oltmans, on applying software intelligence for greater objectivity while making critical M&A decisions.
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Software Intelligence for Agile Development

Harold van Heeringen, a Principal Consultant at METRI - Netherlands, joined us at the Software Intelligence Forum and shared his experience in leveraging Software Intelligence to manage agile delivery.

Harold speaks about the challenges of an IT leader in monitoring the productivity of agile development teams. He states that CAST’s capability to size software using Function Points is a perfect solution to address the challenges. Furthermore, he explains how the quality and quantity metrics from the CAST platform go hand in hand in ensuring a successful IT organization.

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Software intelligence prioritizes data over opinions

Vishy Padmanabhan, a Partner at Bain & Company, shared his thoughts with us on why software intelligence is crucial to his work when he consults his clients on leveraging technology to drive business growth.

Vishy explains that Software Intelligence has helped him weed out biases and opinions in the decision-making process and that he presents the recommendations to the client along with the data that calls for such advice. He further elaborates on how the data caters to a broad audience, ranging from a CEO to a Technical Architect. He also provides anecdotal evidence on how they helped a large bank go through their IT portfolio rationalization journey, using Software Intelligence.

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Steering the Modernization Journey Using CAST Software Intelligence

Ramesh Chandrasekaran, Delivery Head of the Nordics Business Unit at LTI (Top 10 System Integrator) joined us at the Software Intelligence Forum in Paris to share his experience using CAST for application modernization.

Ramesh describes how CAST products help in Portfolio Rationalization of applications for clients who have grown inorganically. On being asked about Cloud adoption, he details LTI's engagement with an automotive client and how CAST Highlight plays a vital role in making their applications Cloud-ready.

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The Power of Software Intelligence in Strategy Planning

Bala Parameshwaran, a Principal at Bain & Company in the Enterprise Technology division, joined us at the Software Intelligence Forum. From his experience devising technology strategies for Fortune 10 companies, Bala gave invaluable insights on how Software Intelligence has become crucial to the strategy formulation process.

He details how CIOs and technology executives often find it challenging to identify the projects to bet their money on. He further added that technology strategy is now a board room agenda and that the software intelligence data from CAST has enabled CIOs and CTOs to have fact-based conversations with the other CxOs.

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Software Intelligence for a successful CIO

Kevin Fedigan, the former CIO of a large multinational custodian bank, spoke to us during the Software Intelligence Forum in Paris. 

He talks about the challenges of running the IT organization of a large bank with legacy systems and how CAST addresses the need for a product that could give objective insight into the most complex software systems. He elaborates on how the data from CAST was used in several processes in his IT organization to drive success: to reduce risk, to proactively ensure cyber resiliency, and to influence individual team behavior through gamification.

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Flavors of Software Intelligence for Systems Integrators

Ramesh Chandrasekaran, Delivery Head of the Nordics Business Unit at LTI (Top 10 System Integrator) joined us at the Software Intelligence Forum in Paris to share his experience using CAST to drive value for LTI’s clients.

Ramesh talks about how CAST is an integral part of application development and maintenance work they do for their clients.  He goes on to elaborate on the use of Software Intelligence for a wide range of activities that include Risk Mitigation, Production Certification, and integration of systems post Mergers & Acquisitions.

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CAST Software Intelligence for Enterprise IT Modernization

Prashanth Panduranga, SVP IT for Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, joined us at the Software Intelligence Forum in Paris to talk about his modernization journey using Cast Highlight.

Prashanth shared his thoughts on why Cast Highlight is unique and how the comprehensive metrics serve the needs of IT executives with large application portfolios to manage. He elaborated on his engagement with Microsoft, who involved CAST to create a cloud migration roadmap for SwissRe. He also expressed his vision for application portfolio management in the context of fully automated build chains and why Highlight is the best solution in that context.

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Software Intelligence at the core of M&A Advisory

Erik Oltmans, an Associate Partner from EY, Netherlands, spoke at the Software Intelligence Forum on how the consulting behemoth uses Software Intelligence in its Transaction Advisory services. 

Erik describes the changing landscape of M & A. Besides the financial and commercial aspects, PE firms now equally value technical assessments, especially for targets with significant software assets. He goes on to detail how CAST Highlight makes these assessments possible with limited access to the target’s systems, customized quality metrics, and liability implications of open source components - all three that are critical for an M&A due diligence.

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Cognizant’s Legendary CEO on Software Intelligence

Francisco D’Souza spoke at the Software Intelligence Forum 2020 in Paris as the vice chairman of the board of Cognizant. As CEO, he oversaw unprecedented and unmatched growth at Cognizant from 2007 to 2018.

During the latter half of that journey, Frank decided to invest in Software Intelligence with CAST. He talks about how he saw CAST as part of the industrialization engine that would make Cognizant go beyond human-only capabilities. Frank also explains the use of CAST as a differentiator that would enable new pricing models and improve the top line.

When asked about the future, Frank describes how software will transition from development to assembly and the importance of having something like CAST to assure resiliency, efficiency and security of resulting systems.

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Leveraging Software Intelligence for Digital Consulting

Harold van Heeringen, a Principal Consultant at METRI - Netherlands, joined us at the Software Intelligence Forum and shared his experience in using CAST Software Intelligence in his consulting engagements.

Harold speaks about the ways METRI uses CAST Highlight to advise clients on managing large application portfolios. He further elaborates on one of his current projects where METRI is using Software Intelligence to enable application sourcing for the client.

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Leverage Software Intelligence improves software risk management
Fabien Delahaye, Application Assets Manager at BNP Paribas CARDIF explains how CAST is improving quality while mitigating software risks.
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Software intelligence brings greater objectivity of the applications portfolio
Jacky Galicher, former CIO of the Académie de Versailles and new CIO of the Académie de Caen, explains how objectivity from CAST-MRI contributed to a major consolidation project.
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A trusted, neutral and objective solution in partner relationships
Benoit Fremaux, VP Retail & CPG at Devoteam, shares his experience as CIO in retail about using CAST as a trusted third-party in the relationship with business partners.
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M&A technical due diligence with Software Intelligence
Jean-Luc Cyrot, managing partner of Time for Growth, explains why he de-risks investments in IT with CAST.
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How to leverage Software Intelligence to improve communication with the board and business
Patrick BELLOT, Deputy CIO of the « Agence de l'eau Seine-Normandie » explains in this video how CAST helps the CIO to improve his communication with the business and the board.
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Software Intelligence to mitigate risk of open source components and manage technical debt
Guillaume Chambonneau, Director Digital Factory at SAUR the first French water company, explains how CAST helps him to identify Open Source Risk and Vulnerabilities, onboard new developer faster and manage technical debt of this core business application.
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How CIOs can leverage Software Intelligence to drive IT Modernization
Pascal Buffard, former CEO of AXA Technology Services explains in this video how CIOs can leverage CAST’s Software Intelligence to drive IT Modernization on a large application portfolio, manage vendors and align his ADM Team.
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Preventing vulnerabilities with Software Intelligence at OptimumTIc
Rosa Ortuño, CEO de OptimumTIC, digs into the importance of Software Intelligence to extend the protection and security of digital solutions and applications.
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Software Intelligence for IT Due Dilligence at Travel Advisors
Albert Ortiz, CIO of Travel Advisors, tells about the Due Dilligence process they followed relying on the Software Intelligence provided by CAST Highlight, to choose the core software product that will support the operations of the travel agencies group.
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Application Portfolio Rationalization using Software Intelligence
Ana de Anca, IT Director at Red Eléctrica Group, explains the value they are getting from the software intelligence provided by CAST Highlight in their Portfolio Rationalization program and how they will extend its use for the applications being developed by their agile teams.
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Software Transparency in Digital Transformation and its Importance
Anders Fausbøll – Managing Director from Omnium Improvement, an IT Management Consultancy based in Copenhagen (DK) explains in this video the importance of software transparency in digital transformation and how this partnership with CAST will bring Software Intelligence-as-a-Service to the Nordic market and help CIOs and executive leadership teams to understand software as a strategic underpinning of business performance.
Video Interview
Reducing Technical Debt and Speeding Modernization with Software Intelligence
Bertrand SOREZ, CIO at Société Générale - Crédit Du Nord, explains and shares how CAST technology has increased transparency into complex legacy applications, arming developers with Software Intelligence to modernize at speed.
Video Interview
Building the infrastructure to track all software source code
Roberto Di Cosmo shares Software Heritage’s mission to collect, index, preserve and make open source software, and source code easily accessible.
Video Interview
Beyond understanding the software landscape and associated risks at IBM
Waheed Mahmood explains how IBM is leveraging CAST software intelligence beyond just understanding the software landscape and associated risks, into actually helping clients with their digital transformation & cloud migration programs. IBM uses software intelligence to troubleshoot past problems and build resilience in to prevent them in future.
Video Interview
Software Intelligence for transforming at speed at E&Y
Malay Shay explains leveraging CAST Software Intelligence for transforming at speed. He talks about how CAST has helped Ernst & Young to move beyond ballot papers and subjective methodologies into leveraging automation and objectivity for quickly rationalizing and modernizing  large complex application portfolios.
Video Interview
The measure of delivery program performances at Tech Mahindra
Abhijit Lahiri explains how Tech Mahindra leverages CAST to measure delivery program performances and deliver solutions at repeatable and predictable quality. Tech Mahindra delivery teams use the transparency provided by CAST as a mirror to reflect and manage their development efforts as part of their New Age Delivery platform.
Video Interview
BCG leveraging Software Intelligence to address CIO challenges
Rishi Varma on CIO challenges and BCG leveraging Software Intelligence to enable CIOs with data driven insights to make key decisions in their digital transformation journey – insights that support legacy modernization, due diligence for new technology acquisitions.
Video Interview
Improving Development Team Productivity using Software Intelligence
Jean-Claude Burtin, Director of Strategy, Quality, Support and Rapid Developments at Orange France, explains how the company’s IT department is using Software Intelligence to streamline productivity and establish itself as a profit center, rather than a cost center, to business stakeholders.
Video Interview
Improving Application Quality with Software Intelligence
Serge Mercadier, Back Office and Energy Transition IT Director at major electricity distribution network ENEDIS, explains how his IT department uses Software Intelligence to improve software quality over time.
Video Interview
Better Application Portfolio Management using Software Intelligence
Eric Le Bihan, IT Risk Director at the Caisse Nationale d’Assurance Vieillesse (CNAV),  shares how the organization is improving application portfolio management with Software Intelligence from CAST.
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Software Intelligence to support the Bank’s IT strategy and the Director Plan in decision-making
María Asunción Gilsanz, Chief Enterprise Architect at Banco Sabadell, explains how Software Intelligence is key value-add for the bank strategy providing fact-based information about the Applications, to make the right decisions.
Video Interview
Identifying Digital Transformation Priorities using Software Intelligence
Cristina Alvarez, Global Advisor at CAST, shares the value of Software Intelligence to manage Information systems,  one of the critical assets for most organizations. Cristina considers CAST Highlight as the “IT Business Information”, providing insight and key information related to software in order to manage the priorities of the digital transformation journey of the company.
Video Interview
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.

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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.

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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.”
Video Interview
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.
Video Interview
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.
Video Interview
Software Intelligence for Smart Decision Making at NCOI

Toine van Eeden, CIO at NCOI, discusses how he uses Software Intelligence from CAST to make smart decisions on the fly in regards to his organization’s software development efforts. With Software Intelligence, including insights about software security, robustness and efficiency, NCOI has adopted Agile methodologies to modernize its business operations.

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How Software Intelligence Supports Safe and Secure Air Travel

Pradipt Kapoor, Vice President of Products and Solutions Engineering at SITA, discusses the importance of secure, reliable software for the air travel industry and how SITA is incorporating Software Intelligence from CAST across their organization to give executives visibility into overall performance and help developers create even more reliable products..

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Machine Learning and AI – Software Intelligence as a Foundation

Naresh Choudhary, Associate Vice President at Infosys, shares how the company is working with CAST to improve software quality by 10-15%. Combined with machine learning and artificial intelligence practices adopted by Infosys, Software Intelligence is giving unprecedented insight to developers so they can work smarter, not harder.

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Why Software Intelligence is Imperative in a Digital World

Cristina Alvarez, former CIO at Telefónica, shares why it’s increasingly important to understand software as it permeates business operations and everything we do. From executives, to CIOs to engineers, Christina explains how Software Intelligence eases the pain of IT modernization efforts

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Real-Time Software Quality Measurement with ISG

As a leading global technology research and advisory firm, ISG helps customers create robust, efficient software to run their business. ISG is working with CAST to give clients real-time feedback on the quality and risk profile of business-critical software.

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Improving the Safety and Soundness of Insurance Software at AG2R La Mondiale

As a leading French insurance company, AG2R La Mondiale wanted to understand software performance and its ability to modernize applications with minimal disruption. Arnaud Mejean, Directeur des Etudes et Développement, presents how the organization is now analyzing more than 300 applications on CAST.

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Software Quality Measurement at Cognizant

Andreas Golze, VP of QE&A, shares the need for improved software quality as digital transformation and automation continue to drive application development.

Video Interview
Using CAST Analytics to Establish a Common Language at the French Ministry of Defense
Former Colonel Breuille, Directeur of CASID, presents the progressive adoption of CAST AIP to establish a common language with partners and improve the organization’s overall software quality.
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Application Portfolio Analysis with Software Intelligence at Microsoft
Patrice Trousset, CIO at Microsoft France explains, how his IT department uses Software Intelligence to map out their application portfolio, identify KPIs based on business value and accelerate the adoption of DevOps culture.
Video Interview
Outsourcing Control at EDF

Mr. Christian Tronchet, Head of Web Applications & Expertise, reports the benefits he gains from tightly managing his development and maintenance outsourced activities.

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Software Analysis and Measurement at LaSer Cofinoga
Eric Desbordes, Director of Development, LaSer Cofinoga, talks about the management of his outsourcing contract with IBM.
Video Interview
Application Control in the Risk Management Policy of the Ministry of Defense

Col Breuille, Head of IT Management Center, explains the need for application control in the Risk Management Policy of the Ministry of Defense

Video Interview
Application Quality and Cost Control at Societe Generale CIB

Yann Barthelemy, Global Head of Dept, discusses application quality, cost control, and the complementary nature between developers tools and CAST AIP.

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The Sense of IT Metrics at Cognizant

Prakash B. Hemdev, Vice President, Enterprise Transformation at Cognizant recently sat down with CAST to discuss the evolving role of the CIO, software measurement goals, increasing performance while cutting costs, managed services, customer satisfaction, and more

Video Interview
IT Risk Management at BCG

A Conversation with BCG's Benjamin Rehberg on IT Risk Management

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Software Measurement at Capgemini

Thierry Daumas, SVP Industrialization Capgemini Continental Europe shares insight how software analysis and measurement enhances global application development process.

Video Interview
Fannie Mae about CAST Highlight

Interview with Federic Veron , SVP Head of Business Application Development & Management Services - Fannie Mae.

Video Interview
How Coca Cola prevents operation failures with CAST

Michael Furniss, Director of CoE at the Coca-Cola bottling investment group discusses how CAST helps him control the quality of SAP customization to ensure business continuity.

Video Interview
Code and Application Quality at Safran Group

Laurent Riffaud, Director of Software Maintenance, details how Safran measures projects and provides insight into how to implement a successful software analysis and measurement system.

Video Interview
Software Measurement at RWE Supply & Trading

Dr. Andrew Mountford, Enterprise Architect, explains how software measurement helps improve the robustness and resilience of trading systems.

Video Interview
Software Measurement at AG2R La Mondiale

Mrs. Dajon, Director of Development, explains how measurement significantly reduced maintenance cost and number of incidents.

Video Interview
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.

Video Interview
Metri Insights into the structural quality of software applications

Paul Cornelisse, CEO at METRI and André Nadrop, Director Benchmarking at METRI describe how METRI brings value to the market by combining structural quality data via CAST

Video Interview
The Benefits of Software Analysis at ADP

The Benefits Of Software Analysis At ADP By Dominique Rodier , VP R&D France & Italy Director, ADP Global Product & Technology

Video Interview
Digital transformation in the context of a two speed IT environment

Digital Transformation In The Context Of A Two Speed IT Environment By Philippe Trichet, Digital Expert Director At The Boston Consulting Group

Video Interview
Application Portfolio Assessment at GRDF
For over a year, the IT department of GRDF has relied on CAST Highlight to assess the health of its application portfolio. It has become an essential solution for teams involved in business transformation and innovation for their customers.
Video Interview
Software Quality Measurement at Broadridge

Michael Synn shares how the data collected from CAST enables it make better data driven decisions when selecting teams and platforms for application development.

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Understanding Between IT and Business Using CAST Software Measurements at IBM

Chuck O'Connor, Partner & Delivery Executive at IBM Global Business Services explained how CAST Software Measurements helped him creating greater value and understanding between IT and business.

Video Interview
Function Point Counting at Department of Defense

David Seaver, Senior Technical Analyst at Department of Defense, describes how using CAST's automated function point counting maps fulfilled requirements to a technology to identify cost by platform,.

Video Interview
Cost Estimation at Department of Defense

David Seaver, Senior Technical Analyst at Department of Defense, shares how the Department of Defense performs its own independent sizing assessments, quantifying relationships between lines of code to function point. In this practice,.

Video Interview
How CAST fits within devops at Fannie Mae

Barry Snyder shares how Fannie Mae integrates CAST AIP within its DevOps strategy to improve software quality. Fannie Mae uses CAST AIP to assess the architectural and structural integrity of its application portfolio to focus on critical defects within 10% of its items that attribute to 90% of production outages.

Video Interview
How IBM Integrates CAST Function Point Analysis to Minimize Software Risk

Chuck O'Connor, Partner & Delivery Executive at IBM Global Business Services communicates how IBM bridges the gap between IT and business through signature projects, deliverying CAST metrics to help stakeholders better understand the application journey and end value.

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How CAST Assists IBM to Measure Quality Earlier in the Development Cycle

Chuck O'Connor, Partner & Delivery Executive at IBM Global Business Services explains how CAST helps it measure quality and catch defects earlier in its development cycle. This aids IBM in driving down development and production costs.

Video Interview
Managing Supplier Relationships with CAST Measurements
An in depth conversation with Barbara Beech,
Telecom IT Vendor Management Veteran
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Capgemini Innovates In Scaling Lean Software Development

François Hucher, Group Delivery & Support Services Director and Mark Standeaven, Vice President Engineering Technologies & Knowledge discuss how Capgemini innovates in scaling lean software development by industrializing code quality and architectural quality.

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FedEx Interview

Mr. DeBoel talks about the role of Software Analysis and Measurement in ensuring quality, on-time delivery for a core shipping application at FedEx

Video Interview
European Medicines Agency (EMA) Interview

Dr. Wagner, the CIO of a large IT operation, talks about the strong business case for measuring application development and controlling Technical Debt.

Video Interview
Bank of New York Mellon Interview

Mr. Lejeune discussed the history of his experience with Software Analysis and Measurement and how it has recently become important for BNY Mellon in managing outsourcing.

Video Interview
Control de los riesgos relativos al uso de software Open Source
En este webinar hablaremos acerca de cómo CAST Highlight proporciona toda la información necesaria para poder controlar y mitigar los riesgos descritos, relacionados con el uso creciente del software Open Source.
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Booster de 20% la productivité des développeurs avec la nouvelle plateforme CAST Imaging

Booster de 20% la productivité des développeurs avec la nouvelle plateforme CAST Imaging

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Migration vers le Cloud et modernisation de vos applications : les bonnes pratiques de Microsoft et CAST
Les projets de migration vers le Cloud et de modernisation doivent être abordés dans le cadre d'un programme global. Ainsi, ces transformations peuvent être réalisées sans heurts pour les utilisateurs et l'équipe IT.
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Accelerating Cloud Migration Projects with Txture & CAST Highlight
In this webinar, we discuss the key tasks and challenges during cloud transformations and share with you knowledge from our past engagements. We show you how you can establish overall IT transparency, identify migration candidates, and roadblocks by combining Txture and CAST Highlight.
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A Software Intelligence Board Room : Keeping Digital Transformation Momentum with Secured Resilient Business Systems
In this digital board room session, we will learn from industry Tech-Leaders on How CIO’s are leveraging Software Intelligence in preparing for this ‘New Normal’ while enabling technology playing a crucial role in keeping the pace of business & Digital Transformation.
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Quand les développements agiles imposent aussi des budgets agiles !
Les processus budgétaires informatiques s'étendent souvent sur 12 à 18 mois, mais en établissant votre budget avant même que vos projets ne commencent, comment pouvez-vous mieux prévoir et allouer les ressources ? Tout comme les processus de développement sont devenus agiles, la gestion des coûts et du budget doit s’agiliser pour accroître l’efficacité globale. Et aujourd’hui, plus que jamais, les leaders de l’IT et du Digital doivent constamment ajuster leurs dépenses tout en améliorant la performance de leurs activités.
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Live talk - Sicurezza dei Dispositivi Medici Connessi: come garantirla

I dispositivi medici connessi possono essere facilmente attaccabili a scapito della sicurezza dei sistemi e di quella del paziente.

CAST e PQE, grazie alla loro azione congiunta, garantiscono la cybersecurity dei dispositivi connessi grazie a una comprensione olistica del sistema , consentendo di identificare le vulnerabilità del software e garantendone la sicurezza, la resilienza e le alte prestazioni.

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Low-Code Quality Governance: Speed Vs Quality
In this recording CAST and Omnext will share their insights on how automated software analysis for low-code platforms can help organizations to face this speed vs. quality challenge.
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Acelera la modernización de tus aplicaciones
La modernización de la arquitectura de aplicaciones legacy y monolíticas suele ser una tarea ardua y muy costosa si no se utilizan los medios adecuados que permitan acelerar y asegurar la ejecución del proyecto correspondiente.
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Overcoming Roadblocks to Faster Modernization with Cloud
In this recording, learn from the LTI and CAST experts about how you can support and transform modernization journeys, making them faster yet safer!
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Green IT et Software Intelligence : allier réduction des coûts IT, développement durable et éco-conception
Dans les approches de Green IT, l'impact du code source des logiciels sur la consommation d'énergie est souvent relégué au second plan, pourtant la manière dont une application est codée affecte réellement la consommation d'énergie des logiciels.
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Agile Development - measuring team performance
In this webinar, CAST partner METRI will share their vision on measuring the productivity of software development teams, focusing in particular on those working with an agile methodology
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Le contrôle de l’architecture : un élément clé du ‘’Security by Design’’ !
La nécessité de prendre en compte la sécurité du code le plus tôt possible dans le cycle de développement (DevSecOps) impose des modèles de contrôle de la sécurité dans le travail quotidien des développeurs, connus sous le nom de "Security by Design". Cependant, il faut comprendre que la sécurité est loin d'être une simple discipline de développement.
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Le contrôle de la sécurité logicielle face à la multiplication des normes !
La sécurité du code est un sujet traditionnellement traité à la fin du cycle de vie par les équipes de sécurité. Si cette position est logique du point de vue du cycle de développement en V, elle est intenable dans le contexte des nouvelles méthodes de développement agiles. La nécessité de considérer la sécurité du code au stade le plus précoce du cycle de vie est devenue la meilleure pratique à mettre en œuvre, selon l'expression désormais populaire : DevSecOps.
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Covid-19: come una crisi crea opportunità digitali e le opportunità possono portare a una crisi
In questi ultimi mesi, l’emergenza sanitaria Covid-19 ha cambiato in modo inarrestabile il mondo che ci circonda. L’adesione allo Smart working, l’utilizzo massivo degli e-commerce e dei servizi online, sono diversi aspetti di una digitalizzazione imperante. Purtroppo, le nuove modalità di lavoro e di vita e l’urgenza del cambiamento, hanno spesso introdotto un degrado qualitativo dei servizi e un aumento delle vulnerabilità nelle applicazioni.
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Generating business value by accelerating the modernization journey
The secret of faster and safer modernization and Cloud migration
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Claves para una racionalización del porfolio de aplicaciones exitosa
Según Gartner las consecuencias económicas como resultado de la situación actual también tendrán un impacto en el departamento de TI en el sentido de reducción u optimización de sus costes. En lo que se refiere al porfolio de aplicaciones, es necesario someterlo a un proceso de racionalización que permita reducir sus costes de mantenimiento, de licenciamiento y de infraestructura. La toma de las decisiones relacionadas serán más fáciles y rápidas de tomar si se dispone de información objetiva acerca del estado y condición de las aplicaciones. CAST Highlight permite acelerar todo este proceso de racionalización para conseguir en el corto plazo una optimización de los costes relacionados con el porfolio de aplicaciones.
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Winning in the Marketplace with Software Intelligence
Contracting large IT modernization and business engineering programs hinge on both the client and vendor confidence in reaching the desired outcomes.
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Accelerating IT Transformation with Software Intelligence
Accurate software intelligence can make the difference between a good deal and a risky one.
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Software Intelligence for Critical M&A Decisions
Accurate software intelligence can make the difference between a good deal and a risky one.
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La maîtrise des risques techniques et juridiques liés à l'Open Source
Alors que plus de 80% des nouvelles applications embarquent de l'Open Source, les problèmes de gouvernance qui y sont liés augmentent proportionnellement et les risques encourus doivent être maîtrisés.
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Faster Modernization and Cloud Migration with Software Intelligence
Cost restructuring acceleration is becoming an imperative in 2020. Yet, modernizing and migrating custom applications to the Cloud can be slow and complex, with too many unknowns about the state of the applications at stake.
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Optimieren von SAP-Systemen mit CAST
Wir zeigen Ihnen in 60 min, wie Sie CAST bei der Optimierung Ihrer SAP Systeme unterstützen kann.
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CIO POV: Making critical decisions based on facts about your software
Learn from the experience of successful CIOs how to cut through the complexity, how to apply software intelligence for greater objectivity in making critical decisions and governing your software assets and development resources.
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Greater Objectivity in Government IT through Software Intelligence
Clear visibility into the condition of government software systems is critical for their effectiveness and continued funding.
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¿Todo listo para la nube?
El valor de adopción al 'cloud' requiere un cierto nivel de remediación por parte de las organizaciones para hacer que los sistemas de TI estén más orientados o preparados para la nube. De hecho, Gartner alega que la nube es "uno de los segmentos de gasto en TI de más rápido crecimiento" lo que se traduce a una mayor conocimiento y manejo de las herramientas que habilitan la migración.
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Resilienz & Cloud-Readiness von Software-Applikationen
Analyse von Resilienz, Open Source Risiken, Kosten und Cloud Readiness mit CAST Highlight.
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Profiter de la virtualisation en accélérant la modernisation de ses applications
Impossible de ne pas vouloir tirer parti des bénéfices attendus des modèles d’infrastructure de plus en plus virtuels pour exécuter vos applications.
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Legacy-Modernisierung mit CAST
Analyse von Resilienz, Open Source Risiken, Kosten und Cloud Readiness mit CAST Highlight
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¿Necesitas información más objetiva acerca de tu porfolio de aplicaciones para tomar decisiones de negocio?

Seguro que estás de acuerdo en que sólo conociendo el estado de tus aplicaciones puedes mejorar aquello que sea prioritario para ti: Costes, Time to Market, Riesgos, Cloudificación... ¿Dispones de herramientas que te ayuden?

CAST Highlight, permite analizar cientos de aplicaciones en cuestión de semanas proporcionando información objetiva acerca del estado del porfolio y que acelere tu viaje de Transformación digital.

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Les faux positifs : un risque dans la sécurité logicielle
Il n’y a plus de doute aujourd’hui sur l’importance de mettre en œuvre l’Analyse de Sécurité Statique des Logiciels (SAST) dans un dispositif global qui traite aussi l’analyse dynamique et les tests de pénétration. Il faut cependant, dans un contexte de ressources rares tant au niveau du développement que dans les équipes de sécurité, être à même de faire la part entre les vrais et les faux positifs. En effet, il ne sert à rien de détecter même 100% des vrais positifs s’ils sont noyés au milieu d’un plus grand nombre de faux positifs.
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CAST Imaging : Explorez et transformez l’architecture de vos applications !
Les professionnels de l’IT ont un besoin impératif de visibilité dans les systèmes et les applications complexes. Malheureusement l’information n’est pas disponible quand ils en ont besoin : la documentation n’est pas à jour, elle n’est pas cohérente et elle demande un effort manuel intense, soutenu dans le temps, pour être utilisable. Plus l’application est ancienne, plus elle est complexe et plus il est nécessaire de disposer des informations fournies par la Software Intelligence de CAST et de pouvoir y accéder le plus naturellement.
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Cloud-basiertes Application Portfolio-Management
In 30min lernen Sie mit CAST Highlight eine Cloud-basierte Lösung für das Software Portfolio-Management kennen.
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Smarter and Faster Application Modernization
The secret of modernizing legacy applications, de-coupling architectures, and cloud migration with speed
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Don’t Lift & Shift: The Benefits of a Cloud Native Strategy
  • Why are enterprises simply defaulting to a Lift & Shift to IaaS and not migrating to the more advantageous PaaS cloud?
  • What are the benefits of migrating to PaaS?
  • How can an enterprise plan a more strategic cloud migration by developing a prioritized roadmap for an entire portfolio of applications?
  • How can migration be accelerated by identifying exactly how to remove roadblocks to migration?
  • What is the best way to get started and avoid common pitfalls that prevent rapid success?
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How to Plan Modernization while Mitigating Risk

Mitigating risk during the modernization process requires a careful plan that ensures smooth transitions as well as maintaining system operability.

Using CAST, our Partner, Princeton Consultants helped a Fortune 500 company accelerate its Digital Transformation journey. With the integration of CAST’s AIP solution, executives can:

  • greatly reduce time for design and approach and planning
  • align understanding between different technology teams
  • create independent projects for a phased migration
  • preserve flexibility to scale up or down according to complexity
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How to budget for IT Modernization
In this recording, experts from Fortium and CAST have answered some of the most relevant questions around this topic.
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Prevención de vulnerabilidades con Software Intelligence
Rosa Ortuño, CEO de OptimumTIC y CISO de varias compañías, explicará junto a CAST cómo de importante es incorporar Software Intelligence con el fin de extender la protección y seguridad de las soluciones y aplicaciones digitales.
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I Punti Funzione Automatici/AFP sono Standard ISO 19515:2019. Che significa e cosa cambia?

Lo standard di OMG®, elaborato dal CISQ per la misurazione dei Punti Funzione Automatici, è stato approvato come ISO 19515:2019,

I vantaggi di questo standard di misurazione funzionale includono maggior velocità, efficienza in termini di costi e conteggi costanti, coerenti e ripetibili; viene inoltre eliminata la varianza del 10% che può contraddistinguere i conteggi di punti funzione eseguiti manualmente.

Accedi al Recording per saperne di più sui Punti Funzione Auomatici, per capire  come usare gli AFP per le tue baseline applicative o utilizzarli  per il vendor management

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Optimisez le ROI de votre SI grâce à la Software Intelligence
A l’ère de la transformation digitale, la contribution du SI à la performance de l’entreprise est essentielle et la maintenance des logiciels accumulés peut représenter des millions d’euro. CAST, leader de la Software Intelligence propose des mesures et des indicateurs objectifs pour améliorer la productivité des équipes ADM et réduire les risques en production.
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How to overcome the top 3 hurdles in migrating apps to the cloud

There’s no question that the cloud offers tremendous benefit to organizations and government agencies. However, the lack of visibility across application portfolios, the complexity of systems, and the effort and time required to perform responsible due diligence has slowed many cloud journeys.

In this recording, we discuss how digital leaders can tackle the three most common cloud migration issues.

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Budget IT : bien maîtriser la valeur et le poids des applications pour être le meilleur partenaire du métier

Deux bonnes nouvelles : les budgets IT sont plutôt à la hausse et le métier investit de plus en plus dans le numérique. Toutefois cet investissement IT est conditionné par de nouveaux engagements, notamment sur la création de valeur par la DSI au sein de l'entreprise.

La Software Intelligence est une solution majeure pour répondre à cet enjeu et réaliser des économies sur le legacy et la TMA tout en investissant plus dans la transformation digitale apportant de la valeur au métier.

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Take the first step towards transforming your Apps into Cloud Natives

Learn how CAST Highlight can help you identify candidate applications for migration.

Cost is driving many organizations to move to the cloud. However, when applications are not ready, all that we are adding are increased risks and costs related to delayed migrations.

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What's the right path to accelerate your Application Modernization journey?
With the rising onset of digital transformation, organizations are coping to stay relevant and competitive in the transformative age. While it is compelling enterprises to rethink nearly everything they do, legacy applications and redundancies in core IT systems continue to challenge the pace of their digital journey. An area, software intelligence can add immense value by providing efficiency, robust security, cloud readiness to your organization’s software assets.
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The Rise of Open Source – How to Efficiently Manage Security and License Risks

In this recording, you learn about the 3 core areas of risk when using Open Source:

  1. Identify & manage third-party vulnerabilities – Learn how to effectively manage Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVEs) found in your software
  2. Catalogue and manage licenses associated with your open source components – Identify licenses that can expose you to legal risk
  3. Open source obsolescence – Reduce license and vulnerability risk by detecting old/obsolete components that need upgrading
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Software Intelligence in DevOps - with Speed & at Scale

Effective Digital Transformation requires Agile & DevOps at Scale to help delivery organization adopt new technologies, transform legacy systems into high-quality customer-centric experiences, innovate and respond swiftly to the ever-changing customer needs.

The DevOps Research & Assessment (DORA) in recent report identifies elite performers, the 7% who demonstrate DevOps excellence outranked their peers by: 6 times more frequent code deployments and 2,555 times faster journey from “commit to deploy.”  While IEEE documents how automated structural quality analysis within Agile-DevOps methodology results in 21 times (+19,000) more builds per month with half the previous staffing while experiencing a 30-48% improvement in overall application quality and 28% improvement in team productivity.

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IT Modernization & Legacy Systems CAN live together

Gartner predicts that every dollar invested in digital innovation will require three times as much to modernize legacy application portfolio.

This is a result of the complexity of legacy systems, lack of skills and visibility into portfolios, all of which hamper decision making.  This Software Intelligence panel will discuss legacy complexity, the impact on IT modernization programs and strategies to deal with these challenges while ensuring stable and a secure future digital landscape.

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Monoliths, Microservices & Modernization – Practical Strategies & Guidance

In this recording, our Software Architecture expert Philippe Guerin will dig into these essential pre-requisites and share some practical guidance to achieve them. You will learn on:

  • What do you need to know about your application infrastructure?
  • How do you get those insights or intelligence?
  • How would you act upon specific insights?
  • What is the impact of specific insights to your modernization strategy- Refactor Monolith to microservices, Migrate to cloud, Re-platform, Refactor, Migrate databases?
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Visibilité et navigation dans les systèmes logiciels les plus complexes : CAST Imaging System
Dans cette webconférence, vous découvrirez comment naviguer au sein de vos applications dans un modèle à la « Google Map ». Comment bénéficier d’un puissant moteur taxinomique qui organise automatiquement au bon niveau d’abstraction les informations, pour faciliter la découverte de la structure et de l’architecture du code et accélérer la transformation des applications.
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RAPID – Application Modernization

Given the extremely competitive business environment and rapid disruptions happening all around it is critical for organisations to

  • Rapidly respond to challenges and opportunities

  • Standardise process workflows

  • Enhance user experience

Watch this recording which helps answer many questions about Application modernization led transformation in your organization.

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Accelerate your Pivotal Cloud Migration Strategy

Watch this recording as we share our insights that will help you find answers for:

  • Is my application portfolio ready for Pivotal? Where do I start?
  • What are the best practices for analytics driven application portfolio rationalization strategy?
  • Do I have a robust foolproof plan for cloud adoption ?
  • What challenges have my peers experienced and what should I expect along my Pivotal cloud migration journey?
  • What did my peers learn that I can leverage?
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Is Cloud Migration Really a Silver Bullet?

In this 30-min discussion hosted by Phillip Crenshaw, Vice President and Global Business Engineering Leader CGI and Bill Dickenson, CAST, you will learn about:

  • Limitations of 'lift and shift.'
  • Value of continuous improvement
  • When to assess security and technical risk
  • Hear the lessons learned from organizations that have successfully migrated to the cloud
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Mitigating Business Risk By Building Secure Software
Application security, sometimes referred to as security by design, isn’t easy to implement. In order to get a better grip on security and reduce risks of data leaks, there is a need for a method that provides information security requirements to the supplier prior to development.

In this recording we will discuss international standards and best practices for adopting security by design why you need it and what is about
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RAPID – Agile Transformation and DevOps

Customers are expecting rapid innovation and shorter time to market from enterprises. While many organizations are focused on developing digital solutions to meet customer experience requirements, the method to develop those leading edge solutions is still legacy. This leads to value leakage due to longer time to market, product-customer expectation mismatch and inefficiencies in the development process.

It is therefore imperative that enterprises embrace Agile and DevOps as part of their Digital Transformation journey to:

  • Drive greater frequency of deliver

  • Create faster business value

  • Drive Business / IT alignment

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The Cloud is Ready But Are Your Apps?

Watch this webinar and leverage the results to prioritize your portfolio, estimate scope and effort, manage the transformation process and more. Learn how to customize these rules and metrics to govern cloud deployment decisions, for integration into a differentiated value proposition, or as inputs to a cognitive engine. Explore how a Cloud Assessment uses industry-proven metrics to ensure robust and secure applications.

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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.

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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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GDPR | How Software Intelligence Accelerates Compliance Audits

In this 30-minute webinar, learn how software intelligence is addressing the IT requirements of GDPR. The discussion will show:
- How to leverage this intelligence to build action plans
- Recommendations to resolve security and privacy issues within architectural and transactions

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RGPD : Gagnez en visibilité et remédiez en amont grâce à l’Intelligence Applicative

Le RGPD introduit de nouvelles obligations pour les entreprises et les organisations qui utilisent et stockent des données personnelles et de nouveaux droits pour les personnes.
Découvrez les bénéfices de l’Intelligence Applicative lors de notre web-conférence de 30 minutes.

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Sécurité logicielle : attaquer le mal à la racine

La protection contre la cybercriminalité est enjeu majeur des entreprises et de nombreuses solutions existent.
Découvrez durant cette web-conférence de 30 minutes, comment « attaquer le mal à la racine » et adopter une stratégie efficace non seulement au niveau technologique mais aussi au niveau de l’investissement.

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Mainframe and Legacy System Discovery & Intelligence

The webinar is intended for all IT professionals involved in any IT modernization efforts involving legacy mainframe applications.  See how Software Intelligence provided by CAST will supercharge your IT modernization initiative

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GDPR - Comment l'analyse logicielle accélère la conformité à la réglementation GDPR/ RGPD

Nicolas Derivery, VP Business Dev EMEA, Strategic partnerships & projects Nicolas est responsable des partenariats stratégiques en EMEA avec des partenaires clés du marché et son périmètre de responsabilité englobe un large portefeuille d’acteurs du marché de l’IT. Nicolas a contribué à la construction de partenariats solides et des innovations communes avec des acteurs clé dans le Cloud, l’Intelligence Artificielle et le RGPD. Avant de rejoindre CAST, Nicolas travaillait pour IBM et Sopra Steria où il a aidé ses clients à innover, automatiser et fournir des services IT dédiés aux entreprises. Nicolas a obtenu son diplôme d’ingénieur à l'Ecole Centrale de Lyon ainsi qu’un Executive MBA à HEC Paris et à l'Arizona State University.

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GDPR - Come la Software Intelligence accelera la compliance

Il percorso di adeguamento al General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) è pesantemente manuale, si basa su consulenti esterni e, soprattutto, è soggetto ad un consistente rischio di errore e di incompletezza.

Una radiografia dei sistemi applicativi IT è l'unico modo per verificare il grado di sicurezza dei dati sensibili, mappare dove essi risiedono, da chi sono fruiti, come sono memorizzati e dove esistono problemi di integrità.

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Outsourcing Agile Software Development
Harold van Heeringen, Senior Consultant, METRI and Alexandre Charlet, Head of Field Operations - Benelux, CAST explains why the industry is struggling with the management of agile teams.
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GDPR|How Software Intelligence accelerates compliance audit
In this 30-minute webinar Nicolas Derivery discussed how software intelligence into critical applications can address the GDPR IT requirements.
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Benchmarking to Success with CAST Analytics
In this 30-minute webinar Bill Dickenson discussed around the importance and best practices of using analytics to benchmark. While there are many lines of business that can be measured, this session explores where you should be looking, suggested methodologies to follow and the types of data that have proven to help organizations achieve their goals.
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Creating Vendor Scorecards To Improve IT Sourcing And Governance

In this 30-minute webinar we explored how to use metrics to support vendor managers, sourcing and procurement professionals by improving governance through objective measurement of vendor output. Leverage the best value from IT vendors by taking a data driven approach and make better decisions about vendor management and improve overall business outcomes.

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Avoiding The Black Box: The Journey Through Enterprise Transformation

Digital Transformation has accelerated the need for speed, agility and quality to improve customer engagement. In today's world, IT Programs and Projects bring complexity and evolve at a fast-pace. The lack of visibility contributes to the failure of large enterprise applications.
Partnered by Highlight & Casewise, discover insights and best practices to build an agile ecosystem and solve the pains of bridging the gap between strategy and execution/

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IBM Case Study: Getting To A Performance-Driven Client/Vendor Relationships

During this webinar IBM will explain on how "Getting to a Performance-Driven Client/Vendor Relationships". Frederic Schmitt, Director at IBM will share one client’s journey towards improved performance-based relationship with practical insights into an implementation of a measurement system that demonstrates productivity and efficient improvements during an IT transformation initiative.

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Integrated Application Portfolio Management - Data Driven Rationalization & Transformation

In this webinar you'll get an inside look into a new, innovative and more efficient Application Portfolio Management (APM) solution, partnered by BiZZdesign and CAST to create an integrated application portfolio model, enabling IT managers and enterprise architects to obtain a clear view of their application portfolio. CIOs and IT managers will gain a fact-based and proactive view of the business value, risk, complexity and cost of their application portfolios - aiding in better business decisions when consolidating or transforming the IT landscape.

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BCG & CAST Present How To Avoid Merger Failure & Technology Blindness

Technology continues to be an key asset that principally factors into the overall value and success of a merger. However, in a data driven world, many organizations still rely on basic due diligence and post-merger planning to mitigate the risk of the transaction. In this webinar Rishi Varma, Principal in Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) technology practice and M&A expert, and Lev Lesokhin, CAST EVP of Software Analytics, shared perspectives on how to understand the structural risk of software assets. They will define how to use an analytic-based approach on an organization’s application portfolio, or on a critical software asset, to de-risk the due diligence process and post-merger strategy.

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Make Fact-Based Decisions Using Objective Metrics In Traditional PPM & APM Disciplines

In this webinar you'll learn how incorporating Application Portfolio Analysis into your PPM and Application Portfolio Management (APM) processes enables a new level of visibility, providing the ability to measure and monitor the quality of an application during the project lifecycle. Deliver expectations by seamlessly integrating objective metrics into your current processes, introduce code-level analysis to better manage your application portfolio and increase the overall efficiency and effectiveness of PPM and APM strategies.

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Gartner On Disrupting Digital Transformations

During the webinar, Mr. Kyte, detailed the several barriers to transformation due to excessive complexity within application portfolios and the challenges in improving application health to reverse the situation

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