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Vincent Delaroche, Chairman & CEOTo get software out of the ‘IT black box’ and transformed into an asset that can be mined for smart decision making, organizations must move beyond just relying on software to run operations toward truly understanding the software itself. The software landscape that powers a digital business is enormous and increasingly complex. The structural health of that software determines how quickly new marketing programs can be launched, how smooth customer experience is, how efficient the organization is in meeting business demands, and the likelihood that a software breach can take down services and impact valuation.
According to Delaroche, “Decision makers in IT lack effective means of communicating information about software health, cost, risk and security to other lines of business that also need such data to make investment decisions, plan new market programs and drive business and IT transformation.”
Software is the engine for digital business, yet business leaders are driving blind while pushing the pedal to the metal. As a pioneer and market leader in the Software Intelligence space, CAST has effectively solved this major pain-point: the need for reliable and accurate insights into the structure of complex software systems. This insight is derived from a deep introspection of software systems but presented in business terms that can be used by digital leaders to properly communicate, make informed decisions, drive transformation and protect business units that depend on software.
In an era where the software underpinnings of business are becoming increasingly challenging to manage, CAST provides executives, department heads and developer teams with fact-based analytics to navigate this mounting complexity. The company’s Application Intelligence Platform (CAST AIP) analyzes any kind of software application with unparalleled accuracy by blueprinting transactions, software frameworks, database access and other procedures.
While business leaders need intelligence to run their companies, Software Intelligence is seen as an expansion of Business Intelligence that enables digital leaders to run theirs
CAST AIP’ send-to-end analysis of multi-technology applications identifies technical vulnerabilities in addition to whether an application conforms to architectural best practices, according to standards upheld by the Consortium for IT software Quality (CISQ), which is backed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Based on this analytical framework, AIP then computes quality “grades” about software structural health, which includes the Robustness, Efficiency, Security, Maintainability and Scalability of the application in question.
For a fast, portfolio-level view of software assets, CAST Highlight, a SaaS product, can scan and analyze hundreds of applications within a week, identifying high-risk areas and cost saving opportunities. CAST caters to a clientele comprised of more than 300 organizations in financial services and insurance, telecommunications, public sector firms and others, each of which has derived completely new insights about software productivity and cost.
Currently, CAST has a solid foundation in the US, Europe and India, and is looking forward to growing its presence in China, where the company opened a new branch last year. CAST has built an impressive network of go-to-market partners, many of which have been instrumental in ushering in the eras of Business Intelligence and Digital Transformation, including the Boston Consulting Group. Delaroche feels these partnerships are a major contributor to the success of CAST, which also maintains a healthy ratio of research and development spending.
CAST Imaging expands use of generative AI to speed up application modernization
Monday, June 10, 2024
NEW YORK and PARIS,-- CAST, the global leader in software intelligence, has announced the latest release of CAST Imaging, including a new and intuitive generative AI-powered (genAI) chatbot and new visualization functionalities that significantly enhance the platform's capabilities to simplify and accelerate understanding and documenting complex software systems.
Building on last year’s capabilities that enable users to click on any element of the auto-generated software blueprint and receive a full-text explanation, the latest release further expands its genAI functionality, making it even easier for users to explore, comprehend, and document large software systems. Key additions of the release include:
CAST Imaging Assistant: This new genAI-powered assistant allows users to query their applications using natural language and receive text-based answers that can be visualized in graph format making it less daunting for new users to delve into the inner workings of their applications, providing an intuitive, interactive experience.
Transaction Visualization: Users can now obtain instant explanation of the elements comprising and end-to-end transaction, and also view the entire cross-technology call graph representing the transaction – from an interface layer element (e.g., a webpage) to the data storage layer (e.g., a SQL table), significantly accelerating and simplifying understanding and documenting complex software.
“This is a major step forward in our mission to help technologists navigate and master complex software applications,” said CAST Imaging Vice President Luc Perard. “The enhanced genAI capabilities and new features make it easier than ever for users to gain deep insights into their applications, speeding up discovery, maintenance, and modernization efforts.”
The newest release also enhances the capability to view an application at different detail levels, from individual code or data elements to higher levels that aggregate similar elements together to facilitate application understanding. With the new release, dependencies between aggregated elements are shown as arrows of different widths and colors, visually representing how tightly or loosely coupled they are.
CAST Imaging, known as the MRI for software, automatically understands how a software application works and visually maps its tens of thousands of code elements and all their relationships into a living knowledge base of the internal architecture. By reverse-engineering the source code and data structures into detailed, interactive maps of its internal architecture, it empowers technologists to see in minutes what otherwise takes months to find, enabling them to modernize and refactor twice as fast, ramp up newcomers 20-30% faster, and markedly increase ADM productivity.
CAST software intelligence products can be purchased directly from CAST or through partners, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. CAST also offers flexible plans for central departments that use CAST Imaging to support multiple projects and teams. For more information on CAST Imaging, visit castsoftware.com/imaging.
Red Hawk Technologies doubles its business, slashes assessment times by using CAST software intelligence
Tuesday, July 09, 2024
NEW YORK and PARIS - Kentucky-based software development firm Red Hawk Technologies has more than doubled its business in the last twelve months while significantly enhancing its operational efficiency by integrating CAST Highlight into its novel and unique software development as a managed service (“SDaaMS”) offering.
The adoption of software intelligence technology has enabled the firm to cut software evaluation times from eight weeks to just two, adding significant value to their innovative business model, which bundles software development and technical support services for a fixed monthly fee. This model offers agile development processes, financial predictability, reduced costs, and operational stability for the mid-market segment.
“CAST Highlight has been pivotal in transforming how we manage software evaluations, in particular by dramatically reducing the time required for initial assessments from eight weeks to two weeks, allowing us to pass on these efficiencies to our clients,” said Red Hawk CEO Matt Strippelhoff. “This improvement in process efficiency not only boosts client satisfaction but has helped accelerate Red Hawk’s rapid growth, distinguishing the company in the competitive mid-market sector and transforming how our clients do business.”
Embedding CAST software intelligence into its SDaaMS offerings has enabled Red Hawk to accelerate and rapidly scale their model for digital transformation and modernization initiatives; among other offerings, the firm now quickly migrates client software applications from on-premise servers to the cloud, addresses tech debt, and mitigates legal and security risks around open-source software—all at a fraction of the operating cost of an in-house software development team.
CAST Highlight is a software intelligence product that serves as an application control tower, rapidly assessing application portfolios for cloud maturity, technical debt, resiliency, agility, open source risks, and environmental impact. It automatically understands source code of hundreds of applications in hours, empowering organizations to accelerate optimization for cloud, reduce obsolescence, streamline maintenance, reduce IP risks and security exposures, and make their software greener and more resource efficient.
Company
CAST
Management
Vincent Delaroche, Chairman & CEO
Description
Helps digital leaders and doers see the truth, become software geniuses and deliver resilient, responsive, safe and secure software
