Enterprises are sailing into an endless event horizon of technical debt. From the moment a company’s first business process is digitized, to when its software is upgraded, and vendors are consolidated — and upon each acquisition event, the amount of change and churn in any serious enterprise’s custom software seems to elude the grasp of even the most disciplined governance efforts.
CAST software is one of the early progenitors of software composition analysis (SCA) solutions, providing deep component and code-level scanning for structural analysis and quality assurance purposes, for instance as a pre-release gateway. But today’s modernization demands go well beyond that.
Technical due diligence involves a portfolio-wide view of a company’s entire extended software investments in labor, tools and infrastructure. CAST calls it an “MRI for software” which provides graphical and data insights to service interconnections and compliance health scores, pointing out potential failures and flaws within each component.
By semantically associating historical and changing software services with business functions, architects and operators can find common collaboration ground for major projects such as a compliance exercise, cloud modernization initiative or corporate acquisition project.
The totally unique portfolio visualization, impact analytics and advice view within their latest CAST Highlight product offering really sets this suite apart for improving dividends on strategic IT investment decisions.
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