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What is CAST Highlight?
CAST Highlight is a software intelligence product, available as SaaS, that provides rapid insights across a portfolio of applications. It acts as an application ‘control tower’ by automatically understanding the source code of hundreds of applications in hours and delivering actionable insights on Software Health (resiliency, agility, technical debt), Cloud Maturity, Software Composition Analysis (open source risks), and Green Impact. Built-in surveys capture organizational context for more informed decision-making about application portfolios enabling smarter portfolio governance, faster modernization for cloud, better open source risk control, and greener software.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
88 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+97 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love CAST Highlight?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Automated Code Scanning
Software Intelligence
Code Performance Monitoring
Risk Analysis
Analytics and Reporting
Technical Health Assessment
Inventory Control
Application Rationalization
ALM Integration
Business Value Analysis
State Alternatives Analysis
Vendor Capability Ratings
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Ease of Customization
Usability and Intuitiveness
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CAST Highlight Reviews
Jose Antonio R.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Electronics
- Involvement: Vendor Management and Renewal
Submitted Apr 2024
Easy to use. Great product. Features are plentifu.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CAST Highlight from other similar products?
Interface, user friendliness
What do you dislike most about this product?
I don’t have any dislikes
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Company implemented
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
Erik W.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2021
Great product for application portfolio management
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CAST Highlight from other similar products?
Highlight helps organizations manage application portfolio risk, cost, and quality in a number of key areas, offering a wide range of features and capabilities not normally available in a single product.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The speed by which it is possible to create a multi-faceted view of application quality, risk, and cost, and cloud readiness at the portfolio level.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The user interface is not consistent throughout the product, and some of the features are not as intuitive as they could be.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider Highlight as a way to rapidly launch an application portfolio assessment and get started with a continuous improvement program for your application portfolio. It serves well as part of an ecosystem of other tools to help automate and accelerate application portfolio management activities - key for any application transformation or migration program. Do not look to Highlight to do everything - the product integrates well with other products through a rich RESTful API, and can work alongside other tools which provide additional IT discovery, analysis, reporting, and transformation planning capabilities.
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Caring
- Respectful
Ruari J.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2021
An excellent product. rapid code insights.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CAST Highlight from other similar products?
Cast Highlight provided fantastic code analytic insights rapidly which helps speed up and support decision making processes . Its Cloud readiness index for PaaS migration is a key differentiator and now with Containerization patterns being added its value add continues to grow.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
easy to integrate into DevOps tool chain. Cloud readiness assessment has helped with our cloud strategy and rationalization of our portfolio. The speed at which you get an incredible amount of insight as part of one code scan.
What do you dislike most about this product?
there is very little to dislike, the team at Highlight are constantly evolving the product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The highlight team do have cater for trial access, give it a go on some of your apps to gauge the fit and insight it will bring. While the product is very easy to use , i would recommend attending Highlights training and certification to get the most out of the solution.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing