Benchmarking With Appmarq


Appmarq is the software industry’s first application quality benchmarking repository. The Appmarq database is designed using CAST technology to help organizations manage their application software quality to reach both operational and business goals. Appmarq contains software quality statistics, trend data and best practices collected from a number of industry sectors and geographies.

Appmarq is not survey-based and requires no human input, CAST’s sophisticated quality-measurement algorithms generate data directly from the source code. Appmarq is the industry’s only objective software quality benchmarking database and also the most precise.

As the first benchmarking repository that enables organizations to compare their software quality against their industry, Appmarq provides valuable insight into how an application’s performance, or underperformance, is costing the organization. This enables users to improve the performance of existing applications, reduce IT costs and increase productivity.

The Appmarq database includes more than one thousand applications covering all key industry sectors and technologies.

  • Key industry sectors: Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, Technology, Government, Manufacturing, Energy & Utilities, Retail & Wholesale

  • Application Topologies: J2EE & RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc.); .NET & RDBMS (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, etc.); Mainframe ; Packaged Applications – Oracle ERP, SAP, SEIBEL, RETEK, AMDOCS; and  More than 20+ other languages

Each year, CAST Research Labs publishes a detailed report as a baseline of software trends found in our Appmarq repository. 

The executive summary of the CRASH report (CAST Report on Application Software Health) can be downloaded free of charge by clicking here. The full report can be purchased by contacting the CAST Information Center at +1 (877) 852 2278.


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