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CAST

CAST Highlight

Composite Score

7.5 /10

CX Score

8.0 /10

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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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CAST Highlight Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+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?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 84

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

Average 86

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

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2024

Easy to use. Great product. Features are plentifu.

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2021

Great product for application portfolio management

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2021

An excellent product. rapid code insights.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

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

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CAST Highlight Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

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Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Automated Code Scanning Also helps assess application health, cloud readiness, risks, and security vulnerabilities.

Software Intelligence To help proactively identify recommended actions to remediate problems and modernize applications.

Code Performance Monitoring Tracking application performance at the code-base level.

Risk Analysis Provides the ability to capture, assess and score the risk (security, business continuity, etc.) of an application to influence strategic decision making

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting & easy data extraction for data analysis.

Technical Health Assessment "Provides the ability to capture, assess and score the technical health of an application to influence strategic decision making.

Inventory Control Provides the ability to create inventories with a selection or customizable data fields to capture a variety of application attributes.

Application Rationalization Produces recommendations of strategic directions or changes for applications based on data inputs, including; value, cost, risk, technical and business fit.

ALM Integration Integrate artifacts across ALM phases such as requirements, analysis, design, development, and testing, either internally or through an API.

Business Value Analysis Provides the ability to capture, assess and score the organizational value of an application to influence strategic decision making.

State Alternatives Analysis Includes the ability to perform a cost-benefit, risk and impact assessments to evaluate proposed target-state alternatives relative the current status quo.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

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CAST Highlight Reviews

Jose Antonio R.

Easy to use. Great product. Features are plentifu.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Erik W.

Great product for application portfolio management

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ruari J.

An excellent product. rapid code insights.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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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