The CAST Application Intelligence Platform provides comprehensive visibility and control over multi-platform, multi-language applications to improve software quality. It enables organizations to measure key metrics like maintenance costs, development efficiency, and security risks. Using CAST, companies can reduce costs while improving business productivity from their complex application portfolios. The platform helps optimize software performance throughout the development lifecycle and assists with tasks like outsourcing management and portfolio optimization.

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CAST Application Intelligence Platform
The Source of Superior Business Performance
Are you trying to:
• Quickly assess where the hidden problems lie in a multi-tier, multi-platform, multi-site integration project?
• Reduce escalating maintenance costs without affecting service levels?
• Carve out a large part of an application portfolio to outsource development and/or maintenance?
• Rapidly generate an inventory of application assets that power your mission-critical systems?
• Reduce IT costs while simultaneously achieve significantly more business productivity from your complex
IT software systems?
Improving the performance of software delivery
By creating a software development factory using CAST, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
is able to deliver immediate development productivity gains, lasting improvements to system
security, and reduced maintenance costs with better quality and standards enforcement.
“With CAST we can set clear standards on quality, complexity and architecture. In addition,
CAST also provides a platform to measure development efficiency and to estimate the level
and skill of work required for a project, another key element to our ‘factory’ concept.”
A C H I E V E I N S I G H T. D E L I V E R E X C E L L E N C E .

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Comprehensive Visibility and Control: Only CAST Can Provide It!
The CAST Application Intelligence Platform is an objective and strength of the software to repel security attacks. Application
repeatable way to measure and improve the Application Software Software Quality goes beyond present-day performance to include
Quality of multi-platform, multi-language, and multi-sourced a measure of future performance - how well an application can
applications. meet future business needs.
Application Software Quality is more than high availability and CAST enables you to measure and improve Application Software
low latency. It includes the speed with which the software can be Quality right from the very start of the development phase all the
modified to meet a pressing business need, and the inherent way through an application’s useful life.
Enterprise Applications Middleware Web/Client Server Applications
ASP/JSP/VB/.NET
Presentation
Tier
Web
Services
! !
Application Logic
Java, C++, …
Frameworks Struts MVC, Spring
CICS Business
Connector Logic Tier
Legacy Applications
A
CICS Monitor (Cobol)
Tuxedo Monitor (C)
Data Management Layer
EJB - Hibernate - Ibatis
Batch
COBOL Shell Scripts Data Tier
!
Files Database
Databases
Modern Mission-Critical Software Systems are Multi-Platform, Multi-Language, and Multi-Sourced
Managing outsourcer performance
Deutsche Telekom has established a Quality Service Center based on the CAST Platform to improve the quality of its outsourcers’
delivery - before the applications are delivered - and reduce its outsourcing and quality management costs.
“The quality assurance and integration management department has been reduced by 50% from 170 people due to the new
quality program, while the reliability and stability of application deliveries has increased very significantly.”

3. CAST AIP – Enabling the world’s best
enterprises to achieve significantly more
business productivity from their complex
application software
The Benefits of Application Software Quality
Hard IT Cost Reductions Hard Business Benefits
• Higher Resource Productivity • Higher Transaction Throughput
• Increased Software Asset Efficiency • Faster Speed to Market
• Proactive Risk Avoidance • Improved Customer Satisfaction
Portfolio
Evolution Trends
Business
Value at Risk
Key Portfolio
Attributes
Internal Quality
Drill Downs
Root Causes
of Business
Disruptions
Visibility = Better Business Performance and Lower TCO
“CAST is now a key component in Capgemini’s strategy and CAST solutions are now systematically
integrated into our proposals.”
“We have a new offer based on CAST technology and CSC’s methods and processes in the field of
strategic, IT and business consulting. It meets the strong demand from the market to have greater
visibility and control over their existing applications to improve competitive advantage.”

4. What CAST is Not • CAST is not a testing tool – it goes well beyond any testing
tool to illuminate the root causes of reliability, latency, and
• CAST is not about the “what” – it’s about the “how” and scalability problems, as the system is being built. The best
the “how well”. CAST is not about the functional but about performance tests can tell you how well your system will run
the non-functional requirements; it is about making sure the today. CAST can tell you how well the system will run as the
application has the ability to perform in a complex production software, and the production environment in which it runs,
environment to deliver the business benefits articulated in the evolve over time.
business case.
• CAST is not a source-code scanner – it’s a structural
• CAST is not a development tool – it’s a data-driven operational assessment engine. In a complex software system, the whole
management platform for IT and business executives. is greater than the sum of its parts. Interactions between the
CAST optimizes the performance of the end-state design by system components are complex and cannot be analyzed in
ensuring that the source code – the stuff out of which the entire isolation. CAST captures a complete view of the engineering
application is built – is written to maximize business end-user quality of the entire application across all its tiers to produce an
performance. accurate 360-degree view of Application Software Quality.
EASY To START EASY To USE EASY To MANAGE
• Minimal set up time • Unprecedented Objectivity: • Make smarter decisions informed by
• Fully automated operation Measure application quality and team objective measures of quality and
• Audience-tailored dashboards with productivity – precisely. productivity
KPIs providing precise guidance for • Unprecedented Scalability: • Significantly reduce risk of business
improving Application Software Quality Seamlessly expand coverage over disruption
your most complex systems. • Simplify vendor management by
• Unprecedented Performance: managing to precisely-measurable
Find and fix performance bottlenecks objectives agreed upon by all parties
before they cause repeated business
disruption and escalate cost.
About CAST
CAST’s unique technology is the result of more
than $70 million in R&D investment. Top engineering
talent, dedicated to building the best technology
for assessing the internal quality of mission-critical
Editor’s Choice Award: applications, has made CAST the leader in Automated
A Top-10 Company to Watch. Application Intelligence. CAST’s mission is to
enable the world’s best enterprises to achieve
significantly more business productivity from their
complex IT software systems.
“CAST provides the market leading solution Founded in 1990, CAST has helped more than 650
for distributed environments.” organizations worldwide speed IT delivery to the
business, mitigate risks in production, improve
customer experience, and reduce the total cost
of application ownership. CAST is listed on NYSE-
www.castsoftware.com
Euronext (Euronext: CAS) and serves Global 2000
organizations worldwide with a global network of
CAST Headquarters locations in the US and Europe.
North America : +1 212-871-8330
Europe: +33 1 46 90 21 00