Meratus takes command of software complexity to reduce risk and accelerate innovation

CAST Highlight enabled the Group CIO to gain continuous visibility into their software portfolio, reducing technical debt and improving decision-making across the business.

Challenge

As Meratus accelerated digital innovation, it had to manage a highly diverse application landscape spanning ERP systems, SaaS platforms, and internally developed solutions, all tightly interconnected.

Over time, continuous change and limited visibility made it difficult to understand software quality and risk.

Decisions relied on manual reviews and assumptions, allowing technical debt to accumulate - introducing hidden risks, increasing costs, and making modernization more complex.

Solution

Meratus adopted CAST Highlight and CAST Imaging to establish continuous visibility into their software portfolio. By automatically analyzing applications and applying standardized metrics, CAST enabled teams to set quality thresholds, govern releases, and track improvements over time.

It also created a common language across IT and business stakeholders, while providing the insight needed to guide modernization efforts and make informed buy-versus-build decisions.

Results

With CAST, Meratus replaced manual, subjective evaluations with continuous, data-driven insight across its portfolio.

This enabled the organization to reduce technical debt by over 30%, lowering risk and improving maintainability.

Greater visibility accelerated decision-making for modernization and investment strategies, while more efficient code helped optimize infrastructure usage - contributing to reduced operational costs and more scalable, resilient systems.