Rapid Portfolio Analysis (RPA) by CAST helps organizations quickly assess and improve their IT application portfolios, reducing costs and enhancing business value through cloud-based, automated analysis. The service identifies poorly performing applications, enables proactive remediation, and supports decision-making regarding application modernization. RPA is beneficial for CIOs and large IT shops, providing insights that minimize risks and facilitate better resource allocation.

1. CAST Highlight powers
Rapid Portfolio Analysis
Measure your applications quickly,
inexpensively, and accurately

2. Rapid Portfolio Analysis
Powered by CAST

3. Agenda
 Industry APM Challenges
 Rapid Portfolio Analysis (RPA)
– Value
– Visibility
– Key Reporting
 How RPA Works
 RPA In Action
– Case Study
– Summary of Benefits
 Partner Value
– Solution for Account Penetration
– Leads to Insights to additional Opportunities
 Partner GTM Plan
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4. Today’s Industry Challenges
 The business wants it all – speed, growth and lower costs
 Lots of legacy application modernization remains
 Disruptive forces create application and portfolio complexity
– PaaS, IaaS, Public/Private Clouds, Mobile, Outsourcing
 Still struggling to get an inventory of systems
let alone visibility into these systems.
20-25% of applications budget is spent on ageing legacy applications and
60-70% on maintenance and support, leaving little to respond to the
challenges of the business.
- Fujitsu Consulting
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5. Application Portfolio Challenge: Blood from a Stone
Application portfolio management (APM) is a process using information and analytics that
produces objective and transparent decisions around investing, consolidating, modernizing,
or replacing applications.
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6. Rapid Portfolio Analysis Powered by CAST Highlight
 Proactive identification of poorly performing applications to reduce costs, focus efforts to
areas of highest return, and maximize the IT portfolio business value.
 Subscription based, affordable SaaS profiling of IT portfolios.
 Automated Analysis
– Software Quality, Complexity, Application Size, Technical Debt
and Annual Software Maintenance Effort.
 Zero Deployment
– No dedicated hardware, No transfer of source code.
 Technology Coverage
– C, C++, Java, VB, VB6, .NET, C#, COBOL, PL/SQL, & PL1.
Highlight is a lightweight
portfolio analysis platform
which enables organizations
to quickly assess an entire
IT portfolio against a set of Rapid Portfolio Analysis
PO W E RE D B Y C AS T
industry quality standards.
- Olivier Bonsignour
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7. Value of Rapid Portfolio Analysis
 Identify Portfolio Risks
– Within mission critical systems that drive maintenance cost.
 Lightning-fast Evaluation
– Quickly profile large and distributed portfolios.
 Insight into the State of the Portfolio
– Software Quality, Complexity, Size, Technical Debt, Business Value
 Mitigate Business Risks
– Higher quality applications means better business resiliency and
continuity.
– Risk-proofed projects more likely to deliver business benefits on time.
– Establish control of portfolios prior to sourcing to vendors.
Highlight is a powerful on-demand APM solution that is available when
and how you need it. For one time evaluations or continuous
monitoring of portfolio risks.
- Olivier Bonsignour
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8. RPA Creates Visibility Needed to Reduce Risk
 Survey
– Programmatic, strategic classification,
SURVEY level of enhancements, planned staffing
 Automated Analysis
– Software Quality, Size, & Complexity
Rapid Portfolio Analysis
– Production and Maintainability Risks
 Industry Metrics
– Gartner Research Technical Debt Calculation
AUTOMATED INDUSTRY
ANALYSIS METRICS – USC Center of Software Engineering
Software Maintenance Model
– Capers Jones’ Productivity Benchmarks
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9. Must-have reports
 Exposes Structural Quality Risk within portfolio.
 Provides metrics & trending to measure changes in quality.
 Assess portfolio by sourcing strategy.
 Visibility to reduce portfolio risk and maintenance cost.
 Assess applications by Business Value & Technical Risk.
 Identify root cause of software risk & complexity.
Large organizations
with extensive application
portfolios could derive
considerable benefit from
CAST, the leading product
of its type.
- OVUM Technology Audit,
Alan Rodger
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10. How RPA works
Rapid Portfolio Analysis
PO W E RE D B Y C AS T
 The Process:
– IT management distributes link and password to connect to the CAST cloud
– App teams follow an easy process to upload analysis and survey (5 minutes)
– Executive-level Portfolio Analysis report is produced and presented by consultants
 Deal size: $50,000 – $250,000 (mostly SaaS cost)
 Cost of Delivery: Limited consulting effort (interpretation and presentation)
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11. RPA in action: Commercial Banking
Problem
 200 apps to be analyzed before budgets submission.
Very High
14.6%  Budgets pressures mounting and IT team needs to show value.
High
14.1%
Acceptable
 The client is focused on scrutinizing IT spend and lights-on costs.
56.5%
Low  Need a fact-based strategy to provide visibility to make tough choices.
14.8%
Solution
Structural Quality Risk
 The bank turned to Highlight to perform a Rapid Portfolio Analysis.
as a Percentage of the Portfolio
 Highlight analyzed the 200 applications without transferring source code.
 Highlight determined which applications need further investigation or ongoing
monitoring for structural issues.
"Both the increase in application Result
incidents and maintenance costs
 The Senior Vice President received a documented portfolio analysis
have been going up dramatically in within two weeks – something that traditionally take 6 to 12 months.
the financial industry. A solution
 Quality, technical debt and size measures were the basis
like CAST Highlight allows us to of a data-driven strategy in support of global budgeting.
analyze the health of our
 12% of the applications were designated for more in
applications through the cloud
depth analysis for potential remediation
quickly, without stressing the
organization."  10 of these were classified High Priority as they are strategic to the business
– SVP Corporate Applications, and demonstrated high complexity and technical issues.
Major Financial Services
Institution
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12. Summary: Rapid Portfolio Analysis
 WHAT: RPA is a service powered by CAST Highlight that enables the proactive
identification and remediation of poorly performing applications to help CIO’s reduce
costs, focus efforts to the areas of highest return, and maximize the business value of
their IT portfolios.
 WHEN: RPA is executed as part of a one-time portfolio assessment or instituted as a
part of an on-going portfolio monitoring service to identify and track software quality risk
and eliminate technical debt.
 WHERE: RPA is a cloud-based service operated 24/7 by CAST.
 WHO: Targeted at CIO, VP – Applications, Business Application Owners with large,
complex IT portfolio.
 HOW: RPA is run as a managed service by the Service Provider on behalf of the
customer to assess portfolio structural quality of at a selected frequency.
Reduce Align IT/ Prioritize Fund the
Costs Business Delivery Projects
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13. Value to Partner: Scalable Solution to Drive Margins
 A smart way to penetrate accounts at C-level
 Surface new service opportunities:
– Structural Quality Assessments
– Remediation services
– AD/AM contracts
 Positions servicer provider as an Innovator
 Powerful weapon when used for Bidding Due Diligence
 Targeting:
– CIOs /VP with 50 - 200+ apps portfolio size
– IT transformation in progress, APM initiative etc
– Large IT shops: Larger and more distributed the better
– All industries / verticals
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14. Due Diligence Industrialization
 When bidding new AMS projects, visibility into quality and size reduces
risk of over/under-pricing bids.
 In Due Diligence phase, Highlight rapidly creates competitive insight.
 Insight that supports:
– The amendment of the SOW to adjust pricing/resourcing to match the risk
– Justification of additional work in the bid based on identified risks
– Managing risk with the customer upfront
– Reducing the risk of the projects becoming “troubled”
– Protecting margins on Fixed Price engagements
– The rationalization of additional revenue & FTEs during transition phase
– Building credibility & professionalism with the client.
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15. RPA Return on Investment in Due Diligence Phase
 Payback from better visibility
– Data drive resource planning
– Fact-based quality measurement & benchmarking
 Payback from risk mitigation during due diligence
– Drastic reduction of taking ownership of “Troubled Projects”
 Payback from cost reduction:
– Ability to identify Technical Debt
– Addressing Technical Debt reduces maintenance effort over time
 Payback from Business Impact
– Win more profitable business
– Better customer satisfaction
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