CAST Highlight is a SaaS platform for fast & code-level Application Portfolio Analytics. Track software value & risks to align IT decisions with your business strategy.

1. CAST HIGHLIGHT
Solution Presentation

2.  About CAST and our ecosystem
 Our mission
 Application Portfolio Analysis, what for?
 How does it work?
 CAST Highlight at a glance
 Questions & Answers
Agenda

3. 250+ ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS
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GLOBAL SI’S ADM DELIVERY
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CONSULTING FIRMS
RECOMMEND CAST
GLOBAL PRESENCE
USA, UK, India, Italy, Spain,
France, Belgium, and Germany
LONG-TERM, RELIABLE,
SELF-SUSTAINING VENTURE
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MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Our mission is to provide a unit of measure
for those who build, buy or sell software
GLOBAL SI’S PROVIDE
SERVICES POWERED BY CAST
CAST Ecosystem

4. Rapid Portfolio
Analysis
Rapid portfolio analysis
Assess the risk, complexity & cost for the
Application Portfolio with a code-level
analytics
SaaS, Cloud based., Secured
Software
Measurement &
Analytics
Continuous measurement of business
critical applications or ADM team / vendor
performance
Structural Health
Assessment
One time evaluation of application
health, risk, adaptability, scalability
Structural Testing
ID structural flaws leading to data
integrity issues, security breaches,
outages, performance degradation,
collapse
Industry
Benchmarks
Services
Over 3,000 apps and 1.5 billion LoC
Query by industry, technology and geos
CRASH Annual Report
CAST Research Labs
SoftwareAnalytics
SoftwareFlawDetection

5.  Hi-level portfolio health assessment
 Objective software analytics
 Code-level analysis
 Lightweight SaaS platform
Mitigate Software Risks
Reduce Application Costs
Optimize Resource Allocation
The IT Portfolio from 30,000 Feet
Fast & Secure Application Portfolio Analysis
Visibility through metrics
 Production Risk
 Adaptability Risk
 Software Complexity
 Technical Debt
 Application Size
 Business Value
 Software Maintenance Effort
 Code Analysis

6. Measures the likelihood of defects
occurring in production
Clearly understand the applications that are more likely to fail, break or disrupt
production and consequently impact the image of the IT department or even the
company. Mitigate the impacts on profitability, revenue, customer satisfaction and
experience
Measures the cost and effort to
maintain an application
Monitor the maintenance estimate to align with the budget. Anticipate the effort of
transferability and keep the overall agility of your application portfolio
Measures the technical complexity of
the application
Identify the underlying and inner complexity of the application portfolio that might
slow down the roadmap execution.
Leverage this objective knowledge to reduce your time to market and engage with
sound innovations
Measures the criticality and
importance of an application
Increase business value to engage teams and stakeholders in the transformation.
Highlight the most critical applications with the highest business value in order to
guarantee the best SLAs. Monitor the business and IT alignment and manage
resource prioritization
Measures the effort required to fix
coding and architectural violations
that remain in the code when an
application is released
Reduce both technical debt and maintenance estimates to record tangible savings
to be reinvested into innovation. Convey the consolidated technical debt to justify
new enterprise standards adoption within the IT roadmap
Make the invisible, visible!

7. Executive sponsorship
established through global
communication (i.e. email to all
project leads).
Initiate
Scan&Assess
App owners across the globe complete
an application survey and download
agent from Highlight portal to analyze
code stacks.
Analysis is performed in minutes, on
their network.
Step 1
Launch & Planning
Step 2
Distributed Analysis
Insight
Insightful software analytics and portfolio-wide risk
heat map available online, includes: short-term vs.
long-term technical risk and cost; technology mix;
technical debt estimation and distribution, etc.
Enterprise-wide portfolio intelligence available on a
secure, private cloud.
Step 3
Results interpretation & Recommendations
Application Portfolio Analysis Process

8. Application Portfolio Analysis Helps
You Face Critical IT Challenges (Videos)
Digital Transformation
Make strategic decisions around
transformation and modernization with
application measurement
IT Rationalization
Identify the risk of the applications in
your portfolio to determine those assets
to invest in or retire
Technical Due Diligence
Know the health of the applications your
organization is acquiring or integrating
IT Health Check
Quickly diagnose areas to mitigate
risk and reduce cost
CIO Onboarding
Gain objective insight into the
health of the application you
have just inherited
Outsourcing Assessment
Assess the quality and effectiveness of your
outsourced software and offshore
partnerships
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9. Increasing Confidence & Value By Adding
Objective Metrics To Your Practices
PPM
Project Portfolio
Management
EA
Enterprise Architecture
APM
Application Portfolio
Management

10. APA MUST fit with complementary Disciplines
Project Portfolio
Management / PMO
Enterprise Architecture
Application Portfolio
Management
IT Service Management

11. CAST HIGHLIGHT
Demonstration

12. Application Portfolio Analysis Helps
You Face Critical IT Challenges (Videos)
Digital Transformation
Make strategic decisions around
transformation and modernization with
application measurement
IT Rationalization
Identify the risk of the applications in
your portfolio to determine those assets
to invest in or retire
Technical Due Diligence
Know the health of the applications your
organization is acquiring or integrating
IT Health Check
Quickly diagnose areas to mitigate
risk and reduce cost
CIO Onboarding
Gain objective insight into the
health of the application you
have just inherited
Outsourcing Assessment
Assess the quality and effectiveness of your
outsourced software and offshore
partnerships
>> Watch the demo >> Watch the demo >> Watch the demo
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13. CAST HIGHLIGHT
Appendix

14. Screenshots at the Portfolio Level
The following slides capture some key capabilities provided by CAST Highlight
at the Application Portfolio Level

15. Home Page
At a glance through the Highlight Home Page, you take advantage of the consolidated metrics related to the
Risk, the Technical Debt and the Sizing (FTE & LOC)
Quickly identify the latest Onboarded Apps
Monitor the campaign progression and notice
how many applications have not been scanned
yet (88/95)
At any time, use the filters to condition the
analytics depending on: the domains, the
technology or the campaigns

16. Business Value VS Risks
Insights:
 Which applications are most critical to business operations?
 Leverage the Business Value VS Risk Profile mapping to trigger sound recommendations:
 e.g. To be Retired, Replaced, Restructured, Reprioritized, Relocated or Reinvigorated
Interchange the X axis with Production Risk,
Adaptability Risk and SoftwareComplexity Risk
Modify the bubble size parameter to highlight:
the code size, Files, Backfired FPs or the total
FTE
Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it
into a deliverable

17. Insights:
 Which applications are most critical to business operations?
 Leverage the Business Value VS Technical Debt mapping to figure out:
 What applications do carry the biggest technical debt?
 How the overall technical debt is spitted among High VS Low Business Value applications?
Business Value VS Technical Debt
Interchange the X axis with the Technical Debt
and the Technical Debt per Lines of Code
Modify the bubble size parameter to highlight:
the code size, Files, Backfired FPs or the total
FTE
Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it
into a deliverable

18. Insights:
 Sort the applications according to the risk level that they own
 Take advantage of the cross analysis to determine how many FTEs look after your risky applications
 Quickly visualize your asset positioning through the benchmark
Risk Distribution
Switch the inventory according to whether the
Production, Adaptability or Software Complexity
Risk
Reachquickly the application your are looking
for thanks to the search function
Tag the applications you want to follow-up into
your Watch List

19. Software Maintenance
Select the tab “Application Details” to assess
the software maintenance per application
Select one dashboard bar to reach the related
applications list
Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it
into a deliverable
Insights:
 Identify the applications that require the greatest number of FTEs
 Make sure that the business critical applications rely on enough FTEs
 Challenge your FTE allocation against the COCOMO II Standard

20. Insights:
 Understand how your technical debt is distributed among your applications
 Monitor the applications with the largest technical debt
 Follow the technical debt trend for any single application
Technical Debt
Select the tab “Trends” to monitor the technical
debt evolution across the time
Select one dashboard bar to reach the related
applications list
Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it
into a deliverable

21. Insights:
 Understand your technology mix and the consolidated risk per programming language
 Display the number of applications at risk per technology and identify them
 Leverage this type of chart for any survey questions (including the custom ones)
Portfolio Demographics
Select the type of risk you want to highlight
though the three buttons/tabs
Click on the chart to focus on a selected area
and condition the display of the lists
Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it
into a deliverable

22. Insights:
 How do your risks evolve across the time?
 What are the applications that have drastically increased their sizing these last 6 months?
 What are the effects of your latest initiatives upon the technical debt trend?
Trends
Select the type of Trend you want to follow and
use the buttons/tabs to condition the display
Pick the applications to display as well as the
graphical representation (trend or variation)
Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it
into a deliverable

23. Insights:
 What are the top risky applications within your portfolio?
 Identify the applications with the lowest Business Value
 Interject the fact based metrics into PPM, EA, APM or any other 3rd party tools
Application Results
Sort your applications thanks to various metrics
and criteria
Search for specific applications among the
entire portfolio
Export the applications details in CSV or XML
format to interject objective measures into third
party tools

24. Screenshots at the Application Level
The following slides capture some key capabilities provided by CAST Highlight
at the Application Level

25. At a glance through the Highlight Application ID Card, you take advantage of the dedicated metrics related
to the Risk, the Technical Debt and the Sizing (FTE & LOC)
Application ID Card
Add the application into your Watch List
Get the rankings for your application among your
entire portfolio
Understand the trends per dimension

26. Insights:
 What proportion of your lines of code are considered at risk?
 Understand which technology carries the risk for a given application
 Quickly scope and estimate the efforts to improve the situation
Application – Risk Distribution
Add the application into your Watch List
The risk indicators highlight how important is the
risk
Get the full picture of the lines of code
percentage at risk

27. Insights:
 Understand the context of the application through the survey answers
 Reach additional information that cannot be captured through a code based analysis
 Take advantage of the Highlight campaigns to capture additional customized information
Application - Survey
Reachthe questions & answers by typology
Expand the list to consult all the questions for a
given typology
Access to the user-defined questions through
the custom section

28. Insights:
 Understand how many applications have higher and lower Risk score
 What is the application positioning among your entire portfolio?
 What is the application positioning among the entire benchmark?
 What’s your ranking on such or such technology compared to your industry peers?
Application - Benchmark
Modify the benchmarkdimension through the
drop down list
Visualize the number of applications that are
part of the benchmark
Change the bubble chart display by switching
on/offthe scope of the benchmark(internal,
external or both)

29. Insights:
 Visualize the percentage of lines of code that are at risk
 Get the list of the code alerts per type of risk
 Identify the most frequent alerts for the Production, Adaptability and Software Complexity Risks.
Application – Code Alerts
Display the Code Alerts according to the type of
risk thanks to the three buttons/tabs
Count the number of Lines of Code that are
considered at risk
Sort the alerts to highlight the most frequent
ones