Founded in 1990, CAST is a pioneer and world leader in Software Analysis and Measurement, introducing fact-based transparency into application development and sourcing to transform it into a management discipline.

CAST and IBM Rational are providers of solutions that address application software quality in the distributed application development life cycle. CAST and IBM Rational believe there is a signifi cant opportunity to capitalize on their combined strengths by offering an integrated technical solution. This solution will deliver a single collaborative environment that multiple user roles can use to manage enterprise application quality.

Modern mission-critical applications are multi-platform, multi-language and multi-sourced.  CAST AIP gives you the comprehensive visibility and control needed to achieve significantly more business productivity from complex applications with an objective and repeatable way to measure and improve the application software quality.

Operationalization of CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) through Continuous Improvement Model (CIM) is a proven, repeatable and successful approach to rolling out CAST AIP. CIM is a full cycle of implementation, adoption, consumption and improvement that ensures client’s success through proper use and adoption of CAST.

Many organizations manage huge portfolios of custom applications on top of SAP. A number of them are mission-critical so it is vital to preserve or enhance the quality, robustness, maintainability and performance of these applications, whether developed in ABAP, Java or other languages, to reduce application maintenance costs and better manage outsourced development and maintenance.

An organization can achieve transparency over application quality for outsourced Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) with assessments from CAST.  You gain objective measurement to monitor compliance with development best practices and architectural guidelines, reducing risk and increasing transferability between teams.

With CAST, the process of integrating and adapting Oracle applications becomes more automated with complete and accurate knowledge of the applications’ inner structure.  IT teams no longer need to manually reverse-engineer their source code and can instead focus on quickly adapting them to company-specific needs.

CAST helps software vendors efficiently deliver high quality software by ensuring discipline in customization work for clients. Vendors can effectively manage distributed and offshore development teams to deliver applications with fewer bugs, and improved performance, security and maintainability.

Project managers need to ensure an application isn’t just delivered on time, but that it is stable, flexible and secure.  CAST helps project managers ensure that development teams are following industry and internal coding best practices, architectural standards and designs, and documents development activity.

Application architecture is required to ensure the structural integrity of an application portfolio, but it can seem impossible to ensure adherence to these standards. CAST changes all of that by automatically analyzing applications across all tiers and languages to provide Architects with the actionable metrics and information needed to assess the how well the architectural designs, rules and standards have been followed.

With a proprietary repository of objective application quality data, CAST can benchmark your applications to identify strengths, weaknesses and areas for improvement. This analysis allows you to make critical decisions about your application portfolio to set individual and organizational goals, determine opportunities to reduce risks and control costs, and manage the performance of vendors.

Over time, organizations can no longer effectively maintain key applications with limited knowledge of what’s in place and the dependencies across applications. CAST provides services across a portfolio for automated application assessments and profiling using multi-parameter metrics and indicators broken down by quality and quantity categories.

The CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) provides the visibility managers need to measure, control and improve application technical quality and development team performance. With objective metrics, executives can better manage and support both internal and outsourced development teams.