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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/19/2023

"Deeper Insights about Highlight"

5/5

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

A bit challenging part in Highlight is the vulnerbilities being reported and the fixes for the same. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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.

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Bernhard D.

Business Strategy Specialist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/3/2024

"CAST Highlight as Control Tower for your Application"

5/5

What do you like best about CAST Highlight?

Reading source code automatically locally either by source code repository or with CI/CD tool chain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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.

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Madanmohan M.

Global Director Software Intelligence COE

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/6/2022

"CAST Highlight for Application portfolio rationalization modernization cloudification"

5/5

What do you like best about CAST Highlight?

More features on cloudification, oss vulnerabilities identification. Decision making on Application portfolio rationalization, modernization, cloudification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about CAST Highlight?

No dislikes, All my suggestions are accepted and added features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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.

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Chethan T.

Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/23/2024

"CAST Highlight- Simplify your Application Cloud Migration and Modernization Journey"

4.5/5

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.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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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CB

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/21/2023

"CAST Highlight - Portfolio Analysis Platform"

5/5

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.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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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nidhi r.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/5/2024

"User friendly"

4/5

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.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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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Vishal G.

Chief Architect

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/16/2023

"Excellent cloud maturity assessment solution"

5/5

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.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/21/2023

"Cast Review"

5/5

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.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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

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Verified User in Accounting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/15/2023

"CAST Highlight provides helpful insight to our software."

5/5

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.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/27/2024

"Streamlining Code Efficiency: A Comprehensive Review of Cast Highlight Software"

5/5

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.

Response from Greg Rivera of CAST Highlight

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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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