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CAST Highlight

Overview

What is CAST Highlight?

CAST headquartered in New York offers Highlight, an application portfolio management solution providing software component analysis , application security, application benchmarking, and technical due diligence.

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Pricing

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Cloud

25k

Cloud
Portfolio Size 25

SCA

$26k

Cloud
Portfolio Size 25

Complete

33k

Cloud
Portfolio Size 25

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
    Optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $25,000 per year
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Product Details

What is CAST Highlight?

CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.

CAST operates in the software intelligence category. CAST technology can see inside custom applications, boasting MRI-like precision, automatically generating intelligence about their inner workings - composition, architecture, transaction flows, cloud readiness, structural flaws, legal and security risks. The solutionaims to drive faster modernization for cloud, raising the speed and efficiency of Software Engineering, better open source risk control, and accurate technical due diligence. CAST operates globally with offices in North America, Europe, India, China.

CAST Highlight Features

  • Supported: Application Portfolio Management
  • Supported: Software Composition Analysis
  • Supported: Cloud Readiness Insights
  • Supported: Open source risks
  • Supported: automated source code analysis
  • Supported: surveys
  • Supported: Software health insights (resiliency, agility, complexity)
  • Supported: technical debt
  • Supported: private data risks
  • Supported: container readiness
  • Supported: open source security risks
  • Supported: open source license risks
  • Supported: cloud migration recommendations

CAST Highlight Screenshots

Screenshot of Application Portfolio ManagementScreenshot of Software Composition AnalysisScreenshot of Portfolio Advisor for Open SourceScreenshot of Portfolio Advisor for CloudScreenshot of Cloud Migration Blockers and Boosters

CAST Highlight Videos

CAST Highlight Application Portfolio Management
CAST Highlight - Controlling Open Source Risks at Scale
CAST Highlight - Automated Cloud Readiness Insights

CAST Highlight Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesEnglish, Chinese, French, Japanese

CAST Highlight Downloadables

Frequently Asked Questions

CAST headquartered in New York offers Highlight, an application portfolio management solution providing software component analysis , application security, application benchmarking, and technical due diligence.

CAST Highlight starts at $25000.

Black Duck Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Mend SCA, and Snyk are common alternatives for CAST Highlight.

The most common users of CAST Highlight are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

CAST Highlight Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)0%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)0%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)100%
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Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users have found CAST to be an invaluable tool for assessing the quality, cloud readiness, and overall health of their application portfolio. By utilizing CAST's code analysis capabilities, users are able to identify blockers for cloud migration and develop recommendations and solution plans. The tool allows for comprehensive portfolio analysis on over 250 custom applications, enabling users to easily identify frameworks and technology stacks recognized by code analysis to support their migration strategies. Additionally, CAST Highlight has been praised for its ability to save time by providing clear assessments on application metrics such as cloud-readiness and software elegance. Users have also reported leveraging CAST to prioritize app modernization initiatives, resulting in a significant 20% yearly improvement in developer productivity. Overall, CAST provides valuable insights into application health and resiliency, helps identify vulnerabilities in code, ensures compliance with licensing terms and privacy regulations, and assists in the decision-making process for application portfolio rationalization, modernization, cloudification, and OSS vulnerabilities.

Speed of data collection: Several users have praised the application for its fast and efficient data collection process. This feature has been mentioned by multiple reviewers as a significant advantage, allowing them to quickly gather the necessary information without any delays or bottlenecks. Visual charts for analysis: The visual charts provided by the application have received positive feedback from many users. These charts offer a clear and intuitive representation of the application portfolio data, making it easier for reviewers to analyze and interpret the information. This feature has proven to be valuable in facilitating informed decision-making. Identification of coding vulnerabilities: Many users have expressed appreciation for the application's ability to identify common coding vulnerabilities. By highlighting potential weaknesses in code, reviewers are able to take proactive measures to improve the quality and security of their applications. This functionality has been commended by several customers for its contribution towards code optimization and risk mitigation efforts. Overall, these features have garnered praise from multiple users who found them helpful in analyzing code, making informed decisions, and enhancing the quality and security of their applications.

Difficult Visualization of Dependencies: Many users have expressed frustration with the visualization of dependencies between applications in CAST Highlight. They find it challenging and sometimes even impossible to understand the relationships between different components, which is crucial for creating a migration roadmap.

Significant Setup Effort for Source Code Upload: Reviewers have mentioned that conducting source code upload activities and analyzing file extensions to recognize uploaded technologies requires a significant amount of time and effort. The setup process can be complex and involves configuring various settings to ensure accurate analysis.

No Desktop Application Functionality: Some users have commented on the lack of desktop application functionality in CAST Highlight. They express the need for an offline version as they always have to log in via the website, which can be inconvenient and may limit their accessibility to the tool.

Users commonly recommend the following for CAST Highlight:

  1. Explore the features - Users suggest exploring the features of CAST Highlight for the best outcomes in product development. They have found the tool to be useful for evaluating and assessing cloud readiness and migration of applications.

  2. Try the free trial - Users recommend trying the free trial of CAST Highlight to see its advantages and usefulness. This allows users to get a firsthand experience of the tool before making a decision.

  3. Utilize the cloud readiness index - The power of the cloud readiness index in CAST Highlight is highlighted by users, who find it helpful for supporting cloud migration initiatives. This feature supports decision-making and planning in IT strategy and Application Portfolio Management (APM). However, some users suggest using another solution for more in-depth software quality analysis at the development level.

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Gene Baker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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CAST Highlight is used to scan code to find vulnerabilities and to address application health. We used this previously to address our portfolio of applications. The enterprise has since selected the tool to be used to review the portfolio across the enterprise.
  • Identifies common coding vulnerabilities.
  • Compares code to industry best practices.
  • Assesses the code for data privacy compliance.
  • Code scans could be faster. A large application may need to be broken down into smaller sub-applications in order to facilitate faster code scans.
  • We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to best structure our code base in the application for ultimate performance.
I think CAST is a great tool to give insight into your applications. The tool can be met with resistance from team members as the tool is going to expose defects that should be addressed. Out of the box, it may need some tailoring to focus on certain areas so that you are not overwhelmed with defects the first time you scan your code. But ultimately, you will want to eliminate all defects in the code and have all violations turned on.
  • I believe once we had the tool working for our code base, we immediately saw positive ROI.
  • We spent some time getting to where our code code be scanned efficiently but some of that was trying to do things ourselves instead of fully utilizing Cast Professional Services. I highly recommend to do an engagement with CAST to have them help setup the tool in your environment or to run it in the cloud for you.
These other tools only do a part of what CAST does. CAST gives a comprehensive view into the code looking at all aspects, code quality, security, maintainability, vulnerability, privacy, reuse, etc. These other tools only focus on one or two dimensions.
Tech support and pro services are top-notch.
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