For CAST, I use it in cloud migration roadmap and in open source safety issues. These are my two main use cases.
CAST Highlight
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Simple Configuration and Promising Capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
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 the product?
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 the product 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.
Experience as a Beginner
What do you like best about the product?
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 the product?
Getting the access is taking time also there is no quick support happening
What problems is the product 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
CAST Highlight Evaluation for Cloud Readiness and Modernization Planning
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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 the product?
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.
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 the product 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
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
Assessment of 10 system(11 application) for AWS migration and modernization
What do you like best about the product?
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 the product?
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 the product 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.
Software health, code quality, Elegance, Agility & we can check if it's cloud readiness or not.
What do you like best about the product?
Software quality/health is good upside of Highlight
Cloud readiness - Tool simply gives whether our application is cloud readiness.
Cloud readiness - Tool simply gives whether our application is cloud readiness.
What do you dislike about the product?
Everything which CAST Highlight offers is good.
What problems is the product 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.
Analyzed business critical applications using CAST, identified key areas of risk upfront, software health & cloud readiness.
Planning staffing based on the application risk factors.
Solution Architect
What do you like best about the product?
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.
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 the product?
Cast Highlight is a good product. Nothing to mention about shortcomings
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Portfolio Analysis
Identifying candidates for migration, modernize and rationalize
Application vulnerability
Identifying candidates for migration, modernize and rationalize
Application vulnerability
Identifies migration blockers and boosters while facing challenges with platform-specific roadblocks
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
In cloud migration, I use CAST highlight to identify blockers, which are the negative road patterns, and also the boosters, which are positive code patterns.
What needs improvement?
The solution provides agnostic blockers for platforms as well as for containerization. Within that containerization, it offers generic blockers. However, my project might require it to provide Windows-specific blockers or Linux-specific blockers, as I often work with only one platform at a time. If I received categorization in containerization blockers, it would save time. Understanding only the OS-specific blockers means I would avoid resolving irrelevant issues, thus saving time.
Initially, I receive a response from support, however, if there is involvement from R&D or other teams, it may take longer than expected. The support team is challenging when sharing source code. As this is a static code analysis tool, it sometimes requires source code for R&D. However, CAST clients may be restricted from sharing due to business logic and nondisclosure agreements. This creates a challenge, and I may have to share pseudo code or seek client approval, risking escalation.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used the solution for almost six years.
How are customer service and support?
CAST highlight support is available. I reach out to the CAST vendor for assistance and raise a ticket, which gets assigned to the concerned POC. They could improve, as their main aim seems to be closing the ticket rather than satisfying customer requirements. Some support team members are helpful, and others lack in-depth knowledge of the tool, which might cause challenges.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Negative
What other advice do I have?
My overall product rating is six out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Great use of the product!
What do you like best about the product?
I can easily find any software that I need with CAST!
What do you dislike about the product?
It's more of it would be nice to have more options but even with the options I have are okay.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy integration and ease of use.
Very complete product for professional use
What do you like best about the product?
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
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 the product?
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 the product 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
Comprehensive Code Quality Assessment and Risk Management Tool
What do you like best about the product?
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
Application Modernization
Cloud Risk Assessment
Thrid Party Risk Identification
Open Source Risk Elements - Deep Dive Analysis
What do you dislike about the product?
No Drawbacks as such observed other than the remediations for violations reported in Highlight.
What problems is the product 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.
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