# CAST Highlight Reviews **Vendor:** CAST **Category:** [Application Portfolio Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/application-portfolio-management) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 90 ## About CAST Highlight By scanning the source code of your applications, CAST Highlight instantly maps your software, generating the insights to understand, improve, and transform it. CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects use CAST to: - Get the true view of all technologies and frameworks - Quantify technical debt and the ways to pay it down - See what’s going to break next, and how best to fix it - Drive cloud adoption faster, knowing what to move and optimize - Prove progress to the board with facts and industry benchmarks Businesses move faster using CAST technology to understand, improve, and transform their software. Through semantic analysis of source code, CAST produces 3D maps and dashboards to navigate inside individual applications and across entire portfolios. This intelligence empowers executives and technology leaders to steer, speed, and report on initiatives such as technical debt, GenAI, modernization, and cloud. As the pioneer of the software intelligence field, CAST is trusted by the world’s leading companies and governments, their consultancies and cloud providers. See it all at castsoftware.com. ## CAST Highlight Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of CAST Highlight, enabling quick and efficient application portfolio assessments effortlessly. (8 reviews) - Users commend the **easy setup** of CAST Highlight, allowing seamless integration into their existing workflows and tools. (4 reviews) - Users value CAST Highlight for its **excellent cloud migration insights** and support in assessing technical debt effectively. (3 reviews) - Users benefit from CAST Highlight's **efficient analysis** of applications, providing fast, objective insights for informed modernization strategies. (3 reviews) - Users value the **real-time monitoring** of CAST Highlight for its speed and simplicity in portfolio analysis. (3 reviews) - Users find CAST Highlight to be incredibly **useful** for assessing software health and managing technical debt effectively. (3 reviews) - Visibility (3 reviews) - Users value the **comprehensive insights** from CAST Highlight, enhancing software health and risk control effectively. (2 reviews) - Scanning Efficiency (2 reviews) - Users value the **practical actionable recommendations** from CAST Highlight, enhancing their ability to improve code quality effectively. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users often find **complex navigation** in CAST Highlight, which hampers their overall experience and efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users find that the **dashboard issues** in CAST Highlight can complicate customization and metric interpretation for new teams. (1 reviews) - Users find the **delayed detection** challenging, as the insights may lack depth for detailed technical analysis. (1 reviews) - Users find that CAST Highlight's **difficulty in customization and initial setup** can hinder effective use and analysis. (1 reviews) - The price of CAST Highlight is a **significant barrier** for many organizations, limiting its accessibility for larger firms. (1 reviews) - Users find the **inadequate reporting** of CAST Highlight limits understanding of dependencies and usage in code. (1 reviews) - Integration Issues (1 reviews) - Lack of Customization (1 reviews) - Limited Customization (1 reviews) - Overwhelming Interface (1 reviews) ## CAST Highlight Reviews ### 1. Efficient Analysis & Confident Modernization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neha C. | Senior Lead Application Development **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2026 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I find CAST Highlight really helpful in analyzing our applications in a very efficient way. As a Mainframe modernization SME, I appreciate how CAST Highlight provides fast, objective insights into legacy technologies, helping me understand COBOL footprints, integration complexity, tech debts, and modernization risks early. These insights make my transformation strategies and cloud decisions fact-based rather than assumption-driven. The features like analyzing legacy code, understanding COBOL footprints, and assessing integration complexity give me early, clear visibility into these areas. The initial setup of CAST Highlight was easy, and I use it with enterprise tools. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** NA **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight helps us analyze applications efficiently, providing visibility into large portfolios, uncovering technical debts, risks, and cloud readiness gaps, leading to confident modernization and investment decisions. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Thank you for the review and feedback! ### 2. Rapid Insights for Cloud Readiness & Tech Debt **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tamilselvan P. | Senior Lead, Software Engineering **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2026 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I like CAST Highlight most for its speed and simplicity in portfolio analysis - it quickly surfaces cloud readiness, technical debt, and open source risks, giving clear, actionable insights without heavy manual effort. The initial setup was straightforward and quick. It requires minimal configuration, and the automated portfolio scanning made onboarding easy without heavy manual effort. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Some areas that could be improved in CAST Highlight are deeper customization of reports, more intuitive UI navigation and enhanced integration with CI/CD pipelines for smoother adoption. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use CAST Highlight for cloud readiness analysis, tech debt measurement, open source risk management, and portfolio rationalization. It saves time by delivering automated, rapid analysis, allowing us to prioritize modernization, reduce risk, and accelerate digital transformation. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello Tamilselvan, thank you for your review and feedback. Regarding your comments, UI modernization is on our roadmap for this year. And, you can find some good options for report customization and CI/CD integration in our Extensions Marketplace. ### 3. Fast, Actionable Insights for Portfolio Analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** CAST Highlight provides a fast and efficient way to assess application portfolios for software health, cloud readiness, and open-source risks. It offers actionable insights through easy-to-read dashboards and metrics that help prioritize modernization efforts. The automated scanning process is lightweight and quick, making it ideal for large organizations that need scalable portfolio analysis without deep code-level integration. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** While CAST Highlight offers valuable high-level insights, it can sometimes lack the depth needed for detailed technical analysis. The dashboards, although informative, may require customization to align perfectly with specific organizational KPIs. Additionally, the initial configuration and interpretation of some metrics can be challenging for teams new to the platform. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight helps identify technical debt, software risks, and cloud readiness across large application portfolios quickly and efficiently. It enables teams to make informed decisions about modernization priorities and resource allocation without performing time-consuming manual code reviews. By providing clear metrics on code quality, maintainability, and open-source component risks, it supports better planning, reduces long-term maintenance costs, and accelerates digital transformation initiatives. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Thank you for your review and feedback. We are working on a new AI Advisor to be released later this year that will help new users with interpretation of reports and metrics. ### 4. Simple Configuration and Promising Capabilities **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lvira N. **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I like that the configuration of CAST Highlight is simple and straightforward. I also appreciate how it provides information about the status of applications, helps identify risks proactively, and facilitates decision-making for modernization. The centralized management of information is useful for when I am absent, ensuring accessibility for my colleagues. The information about open source seems quite interesting to me. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** I wouldn't know how to indicate what I don't like. I would surely expand functionality, but I wouldn't remove any of the ones currently included. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight centralizes business information, ensures data security, facilitates management during absences, proactively identifies risks, and allows for decision-making to modernize applications with the information it provides from the source code. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Ivira, thank you for your review and feedback. Please stay tuned for new capabilities coming to CAST Highlight soon especially in the area of AI recommendations. ### 5. CAST Highlight Evaluation for Cloud Readiness and Modernization Planning **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 振宇 . | Senior Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Quick Portfolio-wide Analysis With only a local scan of source code, CAST Highlight provides scoring and reports across cloud readiness, software health, and open-source exposure. It enables cross-application comparisons, which is extremely useful when prioritizing modernization candidates. Intuitive Dashboards The visual presentation and scoring are easy to understand even for non-technical stakeholders, allowing smoother internal and client communication. Rapid Time-to-Insight Compared to traditional assessments, CAST Highlight delivers results in a matter of hours or a few days, making it ideal for quick diagnostics and early decision-making. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Requires Local Access to Source Code The tool requires local scanning of source code, which may necessitate coordination with development teams and compliance approval, particularly in environments with strict governance policies. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight solves this by providing: Automated, rapid code-level analysis across multiple application Objective scoring of cloud readiness, technical debt, and software health Identification of modernization priorities based on business impact and technical risk Open-source component risk assessment, including license and security vulnerabilities For us, the key benefits are: Faster decision-making on which applications are good candidates for cloud migration Clear, data-driven prioritization of modernization efforts Improved communication with stakeholders through simple and visual dashboards Reduced assessment time and cost, especially useful during early project phases or proposal development **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Thank you for the thoughtful and detailed feedback. Regarding your feedback on source code scanning, we continue to provide many new extensions and plugins to automate code scanning. Can can view them on our Extensions Marketplace. ### 6. Vital for Cloud Migration and Technical Health Insights **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saritha R. | PMO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I really like how CAST Highlight helps identify technical details and offers core-level insights into our software. It's incredibly useful for assessing technical debt and migrating applications from on-premises to the cloud. The setup process was very easy, and the support team provided excellent assistance. The insights into the overall health of the software are particularly beneficial. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** A minor drawback is that the wide range of metrics and features can feel overwhelming at first for new users. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I find the product helps us migrate from on-prem to cloud and identifies technical debt, offering core level insights into software health. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Saritha, thank you for your feedback on the product. We have added an AI Assistant to the user interface as an option especially for new users learning about the product. We are also working on a modernized user interface coming soon. ### 7. Experience as a Beginner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Deepika P. | ROM Ranger, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I took the CAST Certification and had a good experience with it. It helped me to understand how the code quality and software health can be checked which is very new to me. The hands on experience is an add on for this. I recommend t everyone who wants to know more about software health and code quality. I think I can now work on it well but will definitely reach to the team if I need any sort of help **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Getting the access is taking time also there is no quick support happening **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to understand the health and risks of applications in the portfolio. Also it is easy to see which apps need attention and which ones **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Sai, thank you for your review and feedback. If you experience any additional delays in access, please contact our support team using this link for prompt assistance. ### 8. Very complete product for professional use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David T. | IT M&A Intern Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Offers so many metrics to have a very detailed view on an application portfolio. Also, it can analyze a wide range of programming languages without having to setup anything, just give it a directory and it works out of the box ! The certification process if very easy and quick to go through and become competent in using the platform. The process is very fast so you can run it continuously without having to wait long periods of time to get some results. It can be integrated into the CI pipeline **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** This tool could be of great use in the Open-Source/Non-profit world but the price sets a restriction for it to be used in big companies; **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight gives an overview of the portfolio to see when efforts should be directed, and then it gives very detailled suggestions for each application **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > David, thanks for your feedback on the product. Regarding pricing, we do offer a freemium product called CAST SBOM Manager that may be of interest to more price-sensitive organizations. You can check it out at the link here. ### 9. Software health, code quality, Elegance, Agility & we can check if it's cloud readiness or not. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rakesh V. | Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Software quality/health is good upside of Highlight Cloud readiness - Tool simply gives whether our application is cloud readiness. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Everything which CAST Highlight offers is good. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** To transition - mostly business-critical applications which are of legacy Technlogies, as part of App dev & maintenance deal. Analyzed business critical applications using CAST, identified key areas of risk upfront, software health & cloud readiness. Planning staffing based on the application risk factors. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Rakesh, thank you for the positive feedback. We are especially encouraged to see how the product is helping you manage legacy technologies and staffing. ### 10. Find many things you can't even imagine **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jose Maria F. | Development & Cloud Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** The obsolescente report, the Cloud and green report **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** i think that they need more static review like sonar **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have already commented on it before: find things in your dependencies that others cannot, analyze your queries, see the ability to take it to the containers so you can move it to the cloud. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Jose, thank you for your review and feedback. We continue to invest in making our UI more intuitive and have recently added tutorial icons throughout the various dashboards to help users navigate more easily. We will continue to look for ways to improve this even more. ### 11. A Quick Snapshot of the Applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dudekula S. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** In CAST Highlight i like the Scores which are displayed on the home page like it depicts the overall Software Health,Cloud Maturity, Open source Risk Control and the best part of CAST Highlight is the Green Impact of the Applications which are there in the user account.The Application user can easily track the Voilations and roadblocks in thier code to improve the software health core, it would be very useful to user to track them and aslo we can also check robustness and elegance and software egligity of an particular application or with all applications too.One more best Feature i liked in CAST Highlight was the Technical Debt it shows how many person perday is required to improve the score of an application , so it is the best option for the application owner to save their time and increase the score and quality of the code. "THE CAST HIGHLIGHT TOOL IS THE CONTROL TOWER OF THE ALL APPLICATIONS." Cast Highlight also provides the CAST Highlight code reader so that we can run the code scan locally in our machine and also very good custommer support . I am using this CAST higlight frequently in work to find score of Application.It is a usery friendly interface, it is easy to use and implement.Cast Highlight is very useful tool which works very well in all comapatable machines and also making it easy to analyze abd understandthe Software Scores of an application.It also provide CLI Version of CAST Highlight so that we can run the codelocally in our machine. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Actually there are no downsides of the CAST Highlight, I want to inform that there is an small issue in login page it's not an big issue but some some times it would take long time to login in to the account, rest of that i like the Tool. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** The CAST Highlight solves the major issues like identifying the road blocks that are available in code are stopping from moving to the cloud.It also helps the Appication owner to monitor thier code health and quality of the code and also the Risk control of the code in the CAST Highlight Portal. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello Dudekula, thank you for your detailed review and feedback. We will also look into the login page feedback. ### 12. Solution Architect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RAVIKUMAR K. | Solution Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Provides deep insights for application portfolio across varied technologies. It's ability to enable enterprises to drive decisions around portfolio modernization, migration and rationalization. A deep dive analysis on Software Health, Cloud readiness, Software Composition and Green Impact help enterprises reduce operational cost, improve user experience, enhance portfolio visibility and drive business outcomes. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Cast Highlight is a good product. Nothing to mention about shortcomings **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Portfolio Analysis Identifying candidates for migration, modernize and rationalize Application vulnerability **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Ravikumar, thank you for the positive feedback. ### 13. Assessment of 10 system(11 application) for AWS migration and modernization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I had no idea that portfolio assessments could be carried out so easily. The point I felt was excellent is that results are output from various perspectives, such as ease of operation and analysis speed. I was able to easily grasp the man-hours and risks involved in modernization. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Just one thing. My customer want to see the report in Japanese. Some page on CAST Hightlight site is not Japanese on my browser. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Traditional Japanese companies still have many old systems and applications. It shows how to modernize old systems that have technical debts. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Thank you for your feedback on the product. We are always looking to improve our international language support. Although we do support Japanese, we will investigate improving the number of screens available in this language. ### 14. CAST Highlight Review: Essential for Code Quality Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denzil P. | Business Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** 1. It goes beyond identifying poor quality code and finding technical debt, offering practical recommendations on addressing these issues. 2. It transforms complicated data into actionable items, enabling teams to tackle problems before they become significant. 3. Deep analysis and actionable guidelines elevate the software development process, leading to real improvements in code quality. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** 1. This phase might be lengthy and time-consuming for a first-time user or someone likely to handle complex environments. 2. An added improvement that will enhance user experience is adding some simplicity in the setup process and adding some more intuitive onboarding resources. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Code Quality and Technical Debt: Problem: Poor code quality and technical debt lead to costly maintenance, security issues, and slower development. Benefit: CAST Highlight identifies these issues early, reducing costs and improving project efficiency with more maintainable code. 2. Development Workflow Integration: Problem: Development tools often work in isolation, causing workflow inefficiencies. Benefit: CAST Highlight integrates with CI/CD tools, ensuring seamless analysis and maintaining a consistent, productive development pipeline. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Denzil, thank you for your review and the detailed feedback. We continue to invest in improving our user interface and will add more in-product user guidance especially for new users. ### 15. Comprehensive Code Quality Assessment and Risk Management Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveenkumar V. | Manager consulting Delivery, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** CAST Highlight is the best tool for Rapid Porfolio Analysis, Lot of our customers are interested towards Cloud Risk Assessment and on the Third Party Risk Assessment. Quick win scenario is more due to Rapid Analysis helps tool to come up with Solution. Good tool to recommend with below use cases Application Modernization Cloud Risk Assessment Thrid Party Risk Identification Open Source Risk Elements - Deep Dive Analysis **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** No Drawbacks as such observed other than the remediations for violations reported in Highlight. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight addresses the issue of assessing risks from code quality, security vulnerabilities, and third-party dependencies. It has the default feature f automatically identifiying critical issues in the codebase, including open-source license violations and security flaws, enabling early intervention. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Naveenkumar, thank you for the review and feedback. We are working on adding more remediation options on the product roadmap. ### 16. Great use of the product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I can easily find any software that I need with CAST! **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** It's more of it would be nice to have more options but even with the options I have are okay. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy integration and ease of use. ### 17. Easy to use underneath a heavy workload! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Haluk D. | Practice Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** It helps in making faster cloud migration by finding blockers and boosters, giving PaaS recommendations, and assessing resiliency and CVE scores. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** User interface can be confusing at first, making it harder for new users to surf and use all features successfully. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides automatic recommendation on priority actions to address critical security vulnerabilities. It makes us ready when migrating to the cloud. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Haluk, thank you for the review and feedback. We are always working on improving our user interface and usability. We recently added in-product user guides to help. ### 18. Cast Scans for Biscom **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alex B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** for managers - nice charts to follow the state of the application from different perspective. although they have to understand the meaning of the picture pretty good customer support from Guru, followed by easy implementation. very useful feedback back to the code when running with debug flag, ability to rerun scans without submitting to the server **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** some issues with ingore files/folders, vscode plugins are flaky and always require cast login **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST uncovers various issues with the code and composition. Some of them are false positive, but they are minor, especially if your 'ingore' flags work ideally code could be fixed, but also issues could be 'mitigated', as happened in our company. i was impressed by comprehensive list of issues and ability to find root and possible fix in exact place in the code **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Alex, thank you for the great feedback. And, I will pass along your nice comment to Guru. :-) Regarding the ignore files and VS Code feedback, this is useful for us to know and we are working on enhancing both of these areas in a future release. ### 19. Deeper Insights about Highlight **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** The most elite features about CAST Highlight feature is that it supports cloud infra model (AWS,Microsoft...) for migration and it takes lesser time for completing the scans when comapred to CAST AIP inturn that makes our end cutomer joyful. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** A bit challenging part in Highlight is the vulnerbilities being reported and the fixes for the same. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is highly beneficial because of the detailed insights from the scan that we get is all about the deeper note on the violation,vulnerbilities and the cloud readiness which inturn helps the cutomer to build their product as a cloud ready product by fixing the violations and vulnerbilities. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello, thank you for your review and feedback on the product. Regarding your comment on vulnerabilities and fixes, we recommend you take a look at a recently released capability of the product: Automated Safe Component Version Recommender. See the link here. ### 20. CAST Highlight as Control Tower for your Application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bernhard D. | Business Strategy Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Reading source code automatically locally either by source code repository or with CI/CD tool chain **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Understanding the various results for Software Health, Cloud Maturity,Open Source Safety and Green Impact is not obvious and takes time. CAST Highlight learning (YouTube) is very helpful. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight is the primary tool for application asssessment and cloud migration assessment **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Bernhard, thank you for your review and feedback. One of the reasons we recently launched our AI Advisor is to help make it easier for our users to understand the various metrics available in the product. ### 21. CAST Highlight for Application portfolio rationalization modernization cloudification **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madanmohan M. | Global Director Software Intelligence COE, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** More features on cloudification, oss vulnerabilities identification. Decision making on Application portfolio rationalization, modernization, cloudification. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** No dislikes, All my suggestions are accepted and added features. **Recommendations to others considering CAST Highlight:** Definetly CAST Highlight make a difference in digitalization. It helps in Application portfolio rationalization to make scientific approach decision making. It helps in moving the applicaitons from on premise to cloud. OSS vulnerabilities helps in secure your application from attacks. License issues prevents us not paying any penalties and follow best practices. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scientific approach on Decision making for Application portfolio rationalization, modernization, cloudification and OSS vulnerabilities. Business performance increased **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Madanmohan, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on the product. Regarding the surveys, they are optional and you can still analyze applications without using them if desired. You can also customize the default surveys to make them simpler if desired. Please reach out to us if you need help in doing any of this. ### 22. CAST Highlight- Simplify your Application Cloud Migration and Modernization Journey **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chethan T. | Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** CAST Highlight provides a quick and Simplified way of Assessing an Application through a Code Scan and Survey to provide valuable insights into the Application Health, Cloud Readiness and Green Impact aspects. At the same time providing pointed recommendations to improve the Application in the aforementioned aspects. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Technology Support can be expanded further **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Health Open Source Safety and Risks Cloud Readiness Maturity **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Chethan, thank you for your review and feedback. Regarding technology support, we continue to add new technologies on a regular basis. See the latest technologies we added at this link. ### 23. CAST Highlight - Portfolio Analysis Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** CAST Highlight provides insights with rapid analysis of entire portfolio on Cloud Maturity, Software Health, Open-Source Safety. The tool recommends remediating the areas to follow the coding best practices based on industry standards to improve the software health. It also focuses on improving the green impact through these code standards. The Open-Source Safety check helps in being up to date with the usage of third-party components providing insights on eliminating the security vulnerabilities and weakness. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** The tool can have rule customization/addition/deletion options enabled for the end users. This feature can be useful. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application discovery in a short span for the portfoilo is crucial and Highlight is helping in this with its rapid analysis. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Thank you for your review. Regarding rule customization, we do offer a few options for this. Please see the links provided: https://doc.casthighlight.com/feature-focus-re-calculate-software-health-scores-real-time-based-folder-exclusions/ https://doc.casthighlight.com/feature-focus-exclude-cloudready-blocker-cast-highlight-results/ https://doc.casthighlight.com/configure-keyword-scan-gdpr-anything-else/ ### 24. User friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** nidhi r. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Concept and the solution, new idea, very good thing for developer **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** You should use more structures & real life examples to describe the definitions **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** In reverse engineering process of my project phase **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Thank you for your review and feedback. Regarding the idea on describing the definitions, we are continuing to invest in adding more detailed explanations to the product. This link shows the kind of content we have available now within the product directly and we will add more. ### 25. Excellent cloud maturity assessment solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal G. | Chief Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Easy to use. Great insights and reporting capabilities. Good depth. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** SBOM excel reports could be simplified to understand dependencies and usage of them in code better. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to rapidly assess large number of applications for cloud maturity and understanding SBOM quickly is super useful. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Vishal, thanks for your review and feedback. Regarding the SBOM comments, we recently added IDE extensions for both VS Code and IntelliJ that might be useful for you. ### 26. Cast Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil Y. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Helps applications to analyze faster and get the applications on-boarded easily **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** There is nothing to dislike about cast highlight **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a application which is in main frames that we want to onboard to cloud. Its benifitting there **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Anil, thank you for your comments on the product. Glad to see if is helping with mainframe application modernization. ### 27. Cast Highlight App Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Silviu Constantin S. | Junior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** In my experience in completing the cast highlight certificate I have found a platform with an easy to use interface and comprehensive metrics. The numerous options it offers to simplify the views of the applications analyzed, as well as the ability to sort nodes by technology, are features in which I see great potential when analyzing large applications. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Although the platform supports a multitude of programming languages, some users may find this limiting. On the other hand, some users may also find Cast Highlight's pricing structure a bit expensive, especially for individual developers or small teams. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the team where I work, we find great potential in its ability to perform a rapid assesment of a client's application portfolio, as well as to sort and display application features in intuitive and easy to understand views. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello Silviu, thank you for your feedback on the product. Regarding technology support, we continue to add new programming languages and support 50+ today. In our latest release we added support for Ruby. You can view our full technology support at this link. ### 28. CAST Highlight provides helpful insight to our software. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** CAST Hightlight is great for showing us any Open Source Security violations as well as valuable insite into the packages we use. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** I can't think of anything that we dislike about CAST Highlight at this time. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Open Source Security monitoring. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello, thank you for your review and feedback on the product. We really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. ### 29. Streamlining Code Efficiency: A Comprehensive Review of Cast Highlight Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** The software provides comprehensive insights into code performance, Seamlessly integrates and is suitable for projects of varying sizes. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Some users may find the customization options restrictive **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight empowers businesses to make data-driven decisions about their software assets, leading to improved code quality, reduced risks, optimized costs, and enhanced performance, ultimately resulting in greater business success and customer satisfaction. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello, thank you for your review and feedback. Regarding customization options, we continue to invest in this area within the product. One recent example is the ability to create personalized user home screens. You can learn more at this link. ### 30. An essential tool for evaluating the applications you want to migrate to the cloud **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arcadio C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Ease of use and a wide variety of options and metrics it offers for a comprehensive evaluation of application code. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** It is a simple yet very comprehensive tool, the enormous amount of detail requires you to carefully select the results you really need for your analyses. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It offers a complete range of features to perform application evaluation. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Arcadio, thank you for your review and comments about the product. Regarding your comment about all the available details, we have a certification program available if you are interested (see the link below). Additionally, we will incorporate more guidance in the product in an upcoming version. ### 31. Cast tool assesment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** APURAV B. | Assistant Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Dashboarding capabilities and easy to scan feature for client **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** No proper user journey , the software is confusing to find relative reports sometimes **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understanding vulnerability and third party components used **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Apurav, thank you for the great feedback. Regarding the usability of the product, in our upcoming release, we will be integrating interactive user guides directly into the user interface to help with this. You can learn more about the release using this link. ### 32. CAST HIGHLIGHT **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Phani G. | Lead Solutions Architect, Fujitsu UVANCE, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Cloud Readiness/Container Blockers is a differentiator Much functionality is also available in tools like Blackduck,Polaris **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Product Licensing - Cost is too high, the dont have pay as you go models. The tool is onlyfor advisory level, one has to look at imaging product for deep dive of code **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recommendations / Advisory **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Phani, thank you for your feedback on the product. We strive to optimize our pricing for different client categories and will continue to evaluate it again for 2024. ### 33. Perception of CAST Highlight **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** charumathi A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** The most significant feature of CAST Highlight is that the duration of scan is very less comparing to the CAST AIP. It helps to get insights whether the application can be migrated to the cloud platform by providing the cloud ready recommendations available in the market. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** The lack of providing deep insights on the application architectural level. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in providing the required insights in a short span of time which intends helping the buisness needs to maintain the SLA. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Charumathi, thank you for the feedback and review of the product. For deeper insights on application architecture, please take a look at CAST Imaging. ### 34. CAST Highlight has been an incredible asset for our team! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Esmeralda S. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** The platform's ability to assess cloud compatibility, identify potential roadblocks, and offer actionable recommendations has been invaluable. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** a short description about acronyms in the web interface **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Risk Mitigation: By highlighting potential risks associated with specific applications or code segments, CAST Highlight helps in risk mitigation strategies. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Esmeralda, thank you for your product review and feedback on CAST Highlight. Regarding your comment on short descriptions of acronyms, we continue to add this helpful content in the user interface and will be adding more in the coming months. Also, if you see a '?' icon in the user interface, clicking on this will display a tutorial. Hope this helps. ### 35. very powerfull tool with great support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacinto P. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** it helped to provide high value information to the customer. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** I don't have any dislike, just suggestions that I already shared with the Cast team. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes us able to provide 100 application analyses and discover open-source libraries' vulnerabilities. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Jacinto, thank you for taking the time to share your valuable feedback! ### 36. Cloud Readiness , Software Resilience and Business Impact Assessment of your on-Premise applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandipan C. | Enterprise Architect Energy domain at British Petroleum PLC UK, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** The portfolio analysis showing the cloud-ready score versus cloud effort is quite insightful. Also, the business impact versus effort is helpful for CIOs/Tech executives thinking of adopting long versus short-term approach to cloud migration to gain maximum effect. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** There could be survey questionnaires for assessing COTS applications whose source code is not available for scanning. Typical such workloads could be SAP HANA, Oracle ERP systems, MS Sharepoint, etc. In the current state, COTS applications assessment is not possible which is a miss in my view. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping me to assess on-premise bespoke applications and identify the correct migration path to AWS cloud. The tool is able to figure out cloud blockers and various technical debt that is required to be resolved for it to move to cloud. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Sandipan, thanks for the feedback and your review of the product. Really appreciate it. On the comment regarding the COTS application survey, there are some surveys already in the product for capturing basic information about COTS applications. However, we will consider enhancing this survey. Also, there is the option to create custom surveys in CAST Highlight which is described in our Getting Started Guide available via this link. ### 37. Tool to help solve voids on the Tetris game of Code Refactor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andre M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** CAST Highlight is very straight forward to start use, easy to learn and implement. Is a potent tool to support Code Refactor and can be used once to start an App Modernization project or recurrently to help adjust the code maturity through the time. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** CAST Highlight is not that simple to configure on CI/CD Pipelines - a Docker image is needed when talking about applications that is already on cloud. And the documentation is a little bit difficult to follow. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used CAST to support App Modernization initiatives helping prioritize the work that should be done and define the amount of effort to perform such activity. At the end, we reach a yearly improvement around 20% on the developers productivity. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Andre, thanks for your review and the helpful feedback. Regarding your comment on CI/CD pipeline integration, we continue to invest in tools and extensions for more easily integrating CAST Highlight with CI/CD tools. You can view some of our latest extensions via this link. ### 38. Tool that help you optimize and prioritize the application **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Subhash K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 15, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Ease of use and transparency of data. data that help you identify risk, pin point the cause and how to resolve **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** I dont find which I dont like, but still there are some sections which can be better **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It help identify the applicantion which can be migrate easily and faster with minimum effort **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Subhash, thank you for the feedback and review of the product. We really appreciate it. ### 39. A tool that works well in assessing Applications for Cloud Migration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** VULLIGADLA R. | Software Development Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Cast Highlight tool provides insights about multiple areas of the application like security, storage, network firewall issues along with their corresponding lines of code. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** 1. CAST Highlight portal not at all works for me as a desktop application. I have to always log in via its site. 2. Sometimes It looks like the suggestions are redundant/repetetive. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Highlight saves us a lot of time and clearly provides its assessment on the application with metrics like cloud-readiness, software elegance etc. The recommendations actually worked for most of our applications. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Vulligadla, thank you for your review and product feedback. Regarding your feedback on the portal, CAST Highlight is a SaaS product and does not offer a desktop portal interface. It is designed to be used as a light-weight web UI via any browser. ### 40. Very good application portafolio analysis tool! / specially at scale for hundreds/thousands of apps. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andres C. | RPA, Cloud and BI Solutions Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I specially liked the ability to upload code samples and see the dependencies and blockers to cloud usage/conversion. The built in reports are very helpful too. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** You have to practice a bit with the user interface, but once you get used to it you will like it. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST provides a great way of grouping and visualizing applications in your company for migration and modernization/upgrade analysis. It also pinpoints in good detail the legacy blockers or dependencies **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Andres, thank you for the review and positive feedback. We are continuously investing in usability improvements. You can check out the newest capabilities in our latest release via this link. ### 41. Great product and very intuitive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** The tool is very Intuitive and elaborate all the features I've been looking to see in a single tool **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** There should be some form of contextual help on the portal for the users which could help guide the process if someone doesn't want to go through the training material again and again **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resolving tech debt and identifying cloud migration candidate in the existing system **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello, thank you for your feedback. We do continue to add contextual tutorial links directly into the user interface of CAST Highlight. If you see a ‘?’ icon, this will pop up a simple tutorial about the current feature. ### 42. Good to have insights into the application **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Venkata R. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** - Giving insights into the application regarding cloud readiness etc.., **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Doesn't have UI support for the MAC OS. doesn't look very accurate for mainframes code **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** helping us get insights into the applications such as software health, resiliency and cloud readiness etc.., **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello Venkata, thank you for your review and feedback. Regarding your comment on MAC OS support, Mac users typically use our Docker container image for scanning applications. You can learn more via this link. ### 43. Useful but not so immediate **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Davide Z. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Tool rich in dashboards and charts based on the different KPIs produced. Various possibilities for customizing the product require a study of the supporting documentation that very extensive but exhaustive. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Conducting source code upload activities are not so straightforward, analyzing file extensions to recognize uploaded technologies requires significant setup effort. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Portfolio Analysis on more than 250 custom applications. Ability to easily identifyframeworksand technology stacksrecognized bycode analysis to support reasoningabout migration strategies **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Davide, thank you for your review and valuable feedback. Regarding your comment on setup, we continue to invest in new capabilities to help automate the setup process. You can learn more about our latest extensions via this link. ### 44. a multi-purpose solution for software health and cloud migration strategy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sonia G. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** is a user-friendly solution that provides quality information for analysis and decision making. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** the visualization of dependencies between applications was not possible and is very important for the elaboration of the migration roadmap. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** identify blockers for cloud migration and determine recommendations and solution plan **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hi Sonia, thank you for your review and valuable product feedback. We really appreciate it. The Application Links feature allows users to view dependencies between applications. You can learn more about how this works via this link here. ### 45. CAST Highlight: Excellent Value add to Enterprises for performing Application Portfolio Analysis **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sajna R. | Cloud Transformation and Migration Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** I like the way the coding vulnerabilities are identified by the tool. The tool also helps assess data privacy compliance. These are critical steps when enterprise applications are planned for a rearchitect. Overall a lightweight tool to better understand the blockers and cloud readiness for the portfolio of applications. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** The time taken for code scans of larger applications is slightly more. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprises would benefit from the detailed insight the tool gives in checking the cloud readiness of an application. The code scan helps to identify OS Vulnerabilities. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hi Sajna, thanks for your feedback on the product. Regarding your comment on the analysis time for larger applications, we continue to optimize our analyzer to make it faster. In fact, in our latest release we optimized it for C# applications based on valuable feedback like this. ### 46. CAST Highlight accelerates your Cloud Migration Project **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manish S. | Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Secure code analysis- only encrypted analysis results upload to the SaaS product. Effortless Code scan provides Cloud Blocker/Booster, PaaS recommendations, Resiliency and CVVE scores. Multiple Informational Dashboards and PPT/Excel Exports of findings at summary and Detail (individual code file) level available. Portfolio level analysis enabled to identify low hanging fruit for quick successful migrations and the most important ones. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Would like a broader Technology coverage, especially for legacy technologies such as C, Pro*C, Shell Scripts, ColdFusion, etc. for Cloud Readiness analysis. Would also like to get LOE Estimates on re-platforming legacy technologies to newer technologies based on lines of code , complexity, etc. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improving Cloud Migration velocity via quick, automated code analysis revealing vulnerabilties, resiliency issues, and cloud blockers to be resolved prior to migration to public cloud. Augments manual code analysis efforts and provides a lot of useful metrics around technologies in use, complexity, lines of code, etc. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Manish, thank you for your review and feedback. Regarding technology coverage, we are adding support for new technologies on a regular basis. You can keep track of our current coverage at the provided link. ### 47. Excellent code scanning tool in SaaS environment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** SaaS implementation means ready for Cloud, code scanning for OSS vulnerabilities and IP checks, works seamlessly with most languages and provides deep insights like blockers, effort estimates, to developers on Cloud readiness for their apps. etc **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** Pricing makes this tool not readily available for all development teams since it is a costly tool, hence organizations have to self-manage the licenses to scan apps. Also, some key dashboarding features are available in CastAIP which means one needs to but both tools CastAIP and CASTHL to get a complete picture of their apps. **Recommendations to others considering CAST Highlight:** if you are looking for a code scanning tool to tell if your apps are ready for cloud or not then Cast Highlight will fit the bill since it gives a very good viewpoint on where your app stands from cloud readiness perspective. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us with scanning our code base for OSS vulnerabilities and IP checks, Bu the key feature that we use a lot is checking which apps are cloud-ready and which ones are not. **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello, Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback on CAST Highlight. Regarding the pricing feedback, we recently released an updated pricing model and have new options such as a price for a single application. You can learn more about the new options via the link provided. ### 48. A good tool for portfolio analysis. it make easy to detect problematic application & cloud readines **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** Allows rapid scanning of multiple applications simultaneously. Supports GDPR Provides insight into Software health, cloud readiness, licensing issues, threats and risk **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** There is nothing i dislike about in CAST **Recommendations to others considering CAST Highlight:** I highly recommend CAST Highlight if you want to start the digital transformation of the applications **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cast is currently helping us assess client portfolio, understand the effort involved in modernizing the applications, estimate effort involved and arrive at cost and time model. It will provide a documentation proof and evidences for our estimates. ### 49. Great Tool to assess your applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Capital Markets | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** It's easy to use and intuitive. I like that you can download a pdf to have the information of the code of the application that you are assessing. **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** At the beginning there was too much info **Recommendations to others considering CAST Highlight:** Great help for work! **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** Is solving the speed at which I can know the status of the Apps I want to analyze. Im more productive since you are able to recognize which apps will need more work **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We continue to invest in optimizing our user interface and creating more tutorial content to help new users quickly ramp up on all the insights available in the product. You can see some of our latest tutorials via the link here. ### 50. An insightful and value-driven Software Intelligence solution, with large technology coverage. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Highlight?** - large technology coverage - very easy and quick to setup - customization options - vulnerabilities analysis (SCA features) - export of reports in editable format **What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?** - more flexibility regarding custom metrics might be great - licensing/pricing lacking flexibility for consulting services or AMS companies (more oriented towards the management of a fixed application portfolio) **Recommendations to others considering CAST Highlight:** CAST Highlight is particularly suited for APM and AMS at a Software Application Portfolio level and IT strategy level, but you need another solution for in-depth Software quality solution more integrated with the IDE, at the software developement level. **What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?** - technical debt identification & estimates - vulnerabilities and obsolete components identification - maintenance effort estimates and verification - overall software quality **Official Response from Greg Rivera:** > Hello, thank you for the feedback and taking the time to review the product. We are working on introducing some more custom metrics capabilities in an upcoming release. Also, we recommend checking out the new custom segmentation capability that was included in our latest release. 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