CAST product release enables faster application modernization, higher software resiliency
20 Ottobre 2020 - 5:50PM
CAST, the category leader in Software Intelligence, today announced
significant advancements to its products – CAST Highlight, CAST
Imaging and CAST Application Intelligence Platform, aimed at
enabling companies to accelerate their digital transformation.
The new capabilities further enable digital leaders to
accelerate modernization and cloud migration, raise the
productivity of their development teams, and strengthen the
resiliency of their custom-built applications.
CAST products provide intelligence about the structural
condition of custom applications built with virtually any mix of
languages, databases, and frameworks – from mainframe to web,
mobile, cloud.
Faster Transformation
CAST Highlight performs rapid analysis of the
source code of application portfolios and identifies the best
candidates for modernization and cloud migration, enabling
organizations to prioritize their roadmaps based on facts. It also
provides rapid assessment of the resiliency and open source risk
across entire portfolios.
CAST Highlight now expands technology coverage and sharpens the
precision of findings with new capabilities:
- Cloud readiness of
SWIFT applications: CAST
Highlight now provides rapid insights into the Cloud Readiness of
SWIFT applications. With 20+ new code patterns specific to SWIFT,
it helps identify cloud blockers – patterns that impede migration,
and cloud boosters – patterns that make it easier to migrate to
cloud.
- Kotlin programming
language: CAST Highlight now provides insights based on
30+ new code patterns for improving the resiliency and increasing
the agility of applications written in Kotlin.
- Enhanced
CVE lifecycle management: CAST
Highlight now enables users to flag specific Common Vulnerability
& Exposures (CVEs) for automatic exclusion from results, for
various reasons. They can also augment the findings with custom
documentation. Together, the enhancements help focus on the most
critical open source risks across entire application
portfolios.
CAST Imaging automatically reverse engineers an
entire application into an interactive blueprint, visualizing its
actual architecture. It helps speed-up changes and auto-discover
candidates for de-coupling and microservices.
CAST Imaging 2.0 now makes it easier to avoid wrong turns during
modernization with its new capabilities:
- Object Level details in
blueprints: CAST Imaging now visualizes details inside
objects in the application blueprints, raising the accuracy and
ease of understanding the architecture – a crucial step in the
process of refactoring and rearchitecting.
- Enhanced
architecture analysis: CAST
Imaging now provides for easier discovery of modernization patterns
with more intuitive navigation of the application blueprints,
faster object manipulation, and automatic creation of API Call
Graphs as well as Data Access Graphs.
- ‘System of Systems’
dependencies. CAST Imaging now provides
visualization of components and dependencies not only inside of an
application but also between different applications, to help
subject matter experts immediately identify critical links between
systems.
Higher Productivity
CAST Imaging enables distributed teams to
maintain a common knowledgebase, easily onboard new team members,
collaborate seamlessly, and reduce the time spent looking for
answers.
CAST Imaging 2.0 further boosts Application Development
productivity with its new collaboration capability:
- Document-It
capability: CAST Imaging now
allows developers and subject matter experts to annotate the
architecture blueprints, create custom views, specify actions that
need to be taken, and keep track of architecture
modifications.
More
Resilient
Software
CAST Application Intelligence Platform
(CAST AIP) performs deep
analysis of all data structures, code components and
interdependencies within custom-built applications, providing
intelligence about their structural condition and discovering
otherwise undetectable flaws. Prioritizing the flaws that matter
most, while reducing false positives, has always presented a
challenge for application owners and engineering leads.
CAST AIP now removes the friction between finding the critical
flaws and fixing them with its new capability:
- Action Plan Recommendation
engine. CAST AIP now removes the friction between finding
the critical flaws and fixing them. The new Action Plan
Recommendation engine allows users to set an objective for any of
the software structural characteristics – Security, Resiliency,
Efficiency, Maintainability. It automatically provides an optimized
plan with a list of flaws to address to reach the target
objective.
All new capabilities of CAST Highlight, CAST Imaging and CAST
AIP are available today.
For more information, please contact Stephanie Watkins at
s.watkins@castsoftware.com.
About CAST
CAST is the pioneer and category leader in Software
Intelligence, providing insight into the structural condition of
software assets. CAST technology is renowned as the most accurate
“MRI for Software”, which delivers actionable insights into
software composition, architectures, database structures, critical
flaws, quality grades, cloud readiness levels and work effort
metrics. It is used globally by thousands of forward-looking
digital leaders to make objective decisions, accelerate
modernization, and raise the security and resiliency of mission
critical software. Visit castsoftware.com.