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CAST Highlight Overview

What is CAST Highlight?

CAST Highlight is a software intelligence product, available as SaaS, that provides rapid insights across a portfolio of applications. It acts as an application ‘control tower’ by automatically understanding the source code of hundreds of applications in hours and delivering actionable insights on Software Health (resiliency, agility, technical debt), Cloud Maturity, Software Composition Analysis (open source risks), and Green Impact. Built-in surveys capture organizational context for more informed decision-making about application portfolios enabling smarter portfolio governance, faster modernization for cloud, better open source risk control, and greener software. CAST, the software intelligence leader, provides software that ‘understands’ multi-technology software systems and automatically derives insights about their inner workings–interactions between all its elements, transaction flows, data access paths, changes needed to move to cloud, open-source risks, green impact, ISO 5055 compliance, etc. It is used globally by thousands of digital leaders, helping them make smarter decisions, maintain, and transform custom software with greater speed, and exert better ongoing control of the risks involved. Visit castsoftware.com.

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Rapid application portfolio analysis. Automated source code analysis of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Open Source risks, Resiliency, Agility. Objective software insights combined with qualitative surveys for business context.

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CAST Highlight is a SaaS product that provides rapid Software Intelligence insights across a portfolio of applications. It acts as an application ‘control tower’ by automatically understanding the source code of hundreds of applications in hours and delivering actionable insights on Software Health (resiliency, agility, technical debt), Cloud Maturity, Software Composition Analysis (open source risks), and Green Impact. Built-in surveys capture organizational context for more informed decision-making about application portfolios enabling faster modernization for cloud, better open source risk control, smarter portfolio rationalization, and greener software.


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CAST
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Year Founded
1990
HQ Location
New York
Twitter
@SW_Intelligence
1,864 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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1,205 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
EPA: CAS
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$45
Description

CAST, the software intelligence leader, provides software that ‘understands’ multi-technology software systems and automatically derives insights about their inner workings – interactions between all its elements, transaction flows, data access paths, changes needed to move to cloud, open-source risks, green impact, ISO 5055 compliance, etc. It is used globally by thousands of digital leaders, helping them make smarter decisions, maintain and transform custom software with greater speed, and exert better ongoing control of the risks involved. Visit www.castsoftware.com.


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Recent CAST Highlight Reviews

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"Great use of the product!"
I can easily find any software that I need with CAST!
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David T.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Very complete product for professional use"
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...
Naveenkumar V.
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Naveenkumar V.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Comprehensive Code Quality Assessment and Risk Management Tool"
CAST Highlight is the best tool for Rapid Porfolio Analysis, Lot of our customers are interested towards Cloud Risk Assessment and on the Third Par...
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CAST Highlight Demo - CAST Highlight Home Screen
Rapid application portfolio analysis. Automated source code analysis of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Maturity, Open Source risks, Resiliency, Agility, Green Impact. Objective software insights combined with qualitative surveys for business context.
CAST Highlight Demo - Software Composition Analysis
Automatically detect all open source frameworks and 3rd party components from a proprietary knowledgebase of 100 million+ components. Use the unique Open Source Safety score to prioritize remediation efforts across entire portfolios and focus on the most business critical applications first.
CAST Highlight Demo - Portfolio Advisor for Open Source
Rapidly prioritize applications with Open Source and third-party component risks across your application portfolio and get automated recommendations on actions to take to reduce vulnerability, license and operational risks.
CAST Highlight Demo - Detect Common Weakness Enumerations
Expand security risk insight coverage by identifying CWEs that represent possible future vulnerabilities that have not yet been reported officially as CVEs. Automatically detect CWEs via CAST’s exclusive Open Source Software Intelligence Database (OSSIDB) and structural code quality technology th...
CAST Highlight Demo - Portfolio Advisor for Cloud
Automatically build an objective migration roadmap across an entire application portfolio in seconds using the Portfolio Advisor for Cloud. Segment and prioritize each application into categories such as Rehost, Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild, or Retire.
CAST Highlight Demo - Cloud Maturity Blockers and Effort Estimates
Identify code level Cloud Maturity Blockers and estimate the effort to remove them.
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Chethan T.
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

Technology Support can be expanded further Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Application Health

Open Source Safety and Risks

Cloud Readiness Maturity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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/

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What do you like best about CAST Highlight?

Concept and the solution, new idea, very good thing for developer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

You should use more structures & real life examples to describe the definitions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?

In reverse engineering process of my project phase Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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.

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What do you like best about CAST Highlight?

Easy to use. Great insights and reporting capabilities. Good depth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

SBOM excel reports could be simplified to understand dependencies and usage of them in code better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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.

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Anil Y.
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What do you like best about CAST Highlight?

Helps applications to analyze faster and get the applications on-boarded easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

There is nothing to dislike about cast highlight Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

Anil, thank you for your comments on the product. Glad to see if is helping with mainframe application modernization.

Silviu Constantin S.
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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

I can't think of anything that we dislike about CAST Highlight at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Open Source Security monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

Hello, thank you for your review and feedback on the product. We really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

Some users may find the customization options restrictive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

It is a simple yet very comprehensive tool, the enormous amount of detail requires carefully selecting the results you really need for your analyses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?

It offers a complete range of features for application evaluation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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.

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What do you like best about CAST Highlight?

Dashboarding capabilities and easy to scan feature for client Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

No proper user journey , the software is confusing to find relative reports sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is CAST Highlight solving and how is that benefiting you?

Understanding vulnerability and third party components used Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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.

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