Every day CIOs are asked to choose between things that are seemingly incomparable, but now you have objective analysis and standard metrics to compare Apples and Oranges with CAST HIGHLIGHT. CAST HIGHLIGHT is a scalable, cloud-based Application Portfolio Analysis service that requires no licenses, hardware, or outside consultant. Learn more at www.casthighlight.com

1. IT APPLES & IT ORANGES
AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER CONUNDRUM

2. Every day CIOs are asked to choose between
things that are seemingly incomparable.
Yet they still must choose
between IT Apples and Oranges.

3. An Apple lover thinks their fruit is better because…
“They come in red,
green, and yellow.”
“They keep the doctor away.”
“They are crisp and sweet.”
“They make a great pie.”
“And they are affordable!”

4. While the Orange lover thinks their fruit is better because…
“They are bright orange.”
“They are high in Vitamin C.”
“They are sweet and juicy.”
“They make a great jam.”
“And they are affordable!”

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“Development said the
latest release is all green.”
“The system integrator said
the upgrade is easy as pie.”
“We can’t afford not to move
this system to the cloud.”
And every day CIOs make decisions based
on subjective & incomplete information.
“We need to sunset this system
and move to the other one.”
“If you give me this one little
feature I can close my deal.”
“The new ERP version has some
sweet features we’ve got to have.”
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6. So how do you make the best choice?
To make objective decisions you
need a standard set of data and
benchmarks to balance against
all the opinions.
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7. The food nutrition label
provides facts and perspective.
APPLE FACTS
Color Red, green, yellow
Skin Edible
Health No doctors
Taste Sweet and crisp
How to eat In a pie
Serving size 100 grams
Calories 52
Carbohydrates 13.81 grams
Fat 0.17 grams
Protein 0.26 grams
Cost $2.11/lb
ORANGE FACTS
Color Orange
Skin Not edible
Health High Vitamin C
Taste Sweet and juicy
How to eat As a jelly
Serving size 100 grams
Calories 47
Carbohydrates 11.75 grams
Fat 0.12 grams
Protein 0.94 grams
Cost $1.17/lb

8. A set of data that provides
standard assessment of size,
definitions of good stuff and
bad stuff, normalized costs,
and industry benchmarks.
What if there were a nutrition label for applications?
How much more confident
would you be in your decisions
when armed with standardized,
objective visibility into your
critical systems?

9. Objective visibility into your critical systems is possible!
BILLING NUTRITION FACTS
TECHNICAL
Production Risk Medium
Adaptability Risk Medium
Complexity Low
Size 2.1 MLOC
System Age 13 years
Ingredients: JSP, EJB, PL/SQL, COBOL
VALUE
Criticality High
Number of End Users +5,000
COST
Number of Developers 18
Annual Maintenance Effort 8 FTEs
E-PAYMENT NUTRITION FACTS
TECHNICAL
Production Risk High
Adaptability Risk Medium
Complexity High
Size 1.2 MLOC
System Age 8 years
Ingredients: PHP, Java, T-SQL, VB.NET
VALUE
Criticality High
Number of End Users +10,000
COST
Number of Developers 25
Annual Maintenance Effort 5 FTEs
Application nutrition label
powered by CAST HIGHLIGHT.

10. Reliable analysis and standard metrics
to compare your IT apples and oranges.
Introducing CAST HIGHLIGHT
Source code analysis that uncovers
quality issues and vulnerabilities
Insight needed to make
objective decisions
Rapid portfolio inventory that
documents system characteristics

11. CAST HIGHLIGHT: Rapid Portfolio Analysis
Benchmark your applications
against other organizations
Compare systems or drill down
into individual system details
View applications against standard
size, complexity and health metrics
Systems rated objectively based
on source code analysis

12. When you can’t tell apples from oranges
you usually end up with a bunch of lemons.
CAST HIGHLIGHT is a scalable
portfolio analysis service that
requires no license, hardware,
or transfer of source code.
Try the CAST HIGHLIGHT demo
today!
www.casthighlight.com/demo