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CAST Highlight for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) automatically creates SBOMs across all of your applications with speed and accuracy.

2022 SPARK Matrix™ Research for Software Composition Analysis by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions

Willkommen bei CAST und herzlichen Dank alles rund um das Thema „Legacy System Modernisierung“ Seit geraumer Zeit erreichen uns immer mehr Anfragen zu diesem komplexen und herausfordernden Thema. Als Experte für analytische Software Intelligence führen wir daher zahlreiche Gespräche mit Unternehmen und unseren Partnern, um aktuelle Modernisierungsprojekte zu begleiten. Wir haben uns daher sehr gefreut IDG Research / Foundry bei dieser Studie mit unserer Expertise zu unterstützen und stehen Ihnen für einen unverbindlichen Austausch gerne zur Verfügung.

Open Source License Rulebook and Reference Guide

Open-Source Safety & Compliance

Raising Developer Productivity - A Practical Guide

Application Portfolio Rationalization: A definitive guide to understand the business benefits and the process

This Microsoft-CAST joint paper, put together based on the learning from numerous successful PaaS migration experiences attempts to answer questions around: What are the top challenges and pitfalls when migrating to PaaS? What are the keys to avoid these pitfalls? How to conduct your migration the “leaders and doers” way?

This is the fifth CRASH Report produced by CAST on global trends in the structural quality of business application software. The data are drawn from CAST’s Appmarq Repository which contains structural quality analyses of large called Health Factors: Robustness Transferability and Changeability. This report focuses on quality levels that can be used as benchmarks in industry.

Accelerating Application Refactoring - A Practical Guide

This report based on research and in-depth interviews with technology leaders from top banks software leaders are revisiting their near-term cloud migration plans.

Turn Security & License Risks into Innovation Many Open Source licenses coexist in the software ecosystem. Before integrating a third-party piece of code, it is essential to ensure that your license complies with the intended distribution format. The risk here is essentially legal and financial;

Financial Services (FS) firms consistently have systems which are less reliable and of poorer quality than other industries[1]. Many of us as customers of banks and other FS providers have experienced the frustration of systems and processes that fall short of our expectations, sometime dramatically so. And there have been many examples of major banking and payment system failures in the news over the years which cause huge frustration and hardship for people and companies. Clearly this is not a great starting point for banks that are trying to digitally transform their operations and services. But why is this, and what does it tell us about how to prepare for a Digital Transformation?

Micro-service architectures allow systems to be broken down into independent services. They differ from service-oriented architectures (SOAs) Amazon such as Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) etc.)

Computer systems designers have for decades been arguing that a key principle of good systems design is to have modular which in turn improves reliability and maintainability. This holds true for systems as simple as individual apps on your phone all the way up to complex cloud- or mainframe-based distributed systems.

It’s no surprise that organizations are moving their business-critical systems to the cloud because of its availability security, and performance of those systems? In this Guide you'll get an insight on: Today’s Software Architecture Opportunities and Challenges 3 Simple Tips to Maintaining a Rock-Solid Software Architecture 4 Questions to Ask About Your Software Architecture Ways to automate architectural compliance

CAST recently surveyed 500 IT leaders at mid- to large-size organizations regarding their technology objectives and their ability to meet these goals based on the Software Intelligence they have around existing software portfolios. This research exposes key areas where IT leaders lack Software Intelligence and digs deeper into top challenges as they look to meet the digital imperative while trimming IT costs, improving security and enabling the adoption of emerging technologies.

Application security there is a need for a method that provides information security requirements to the supplier prior to development. In this recording we will discuss international standards and best practices for adopting security by design why you need it and what is about

Demand for IT enabled capabilities is increasing and at the same time there is an expectation that IT becomes more of a strategic business partner. Budgeting to improve the application landscape sets the tone for how technology leadership is partnering with the rest of the organization and its perceived value to the company. In this document, we focused on helping our readers by presenting a framework on how to assess the needs for application landscape improvements. Those needs have to be assessed from the business imperatives perspective such as time to market and then tied to IT metrics.

Application maintenance costs can certainly add up over time many companies tend to believe that adding new people to the staff will bolster production and these approaches can be used as smaller parts of bigger application maintenance plans, but they cannot be the only steps taken.

Having trouble knowing when to retire an application? Want to rationalize but don’t know where to start? Thinking about moving to the Cloud? Answering “Yes” to any of those questions means that our free eBook download, will help you understand how application portfolio assessment helps you – and maybe revolutionizes your development. With so many changes in technology, our application portfolios are becoming larger and more complex than ever before – and you may need to make some changes in order to keep pushing forward.

One of the most difficult things IT leaders and CIOs do is plan for their IT development into the future. It is complex and changes aren’t always easy to anticipate. But what if things were just a little easier? 3 Ways Application Portfolio Analysis Can Revolutionize Your IT Planning, our free eBook download, will help you to better understand how Application Portfolio Analysis may make your job just a bit easier.

The Software Intelligence Report on Application Age looks at 2000 people across multiple verticals. To conduct the analysis, these applications were anonymized and scanned by CAST Highlight. The report identifies two primary outcomes of application age: Older applications are far more likely to impact service continuity in the event of a production failure. The shift toward Agile development teams might not be helping organizations modernize as quickly as the industry anticipated.

Inside this e-book, you will find out some of the most common Application Portfolio Health Mistakes, including: Having too many applications; Thinking maintenance is “Once and Done”; You aren’t investing in security; and Rushing the process

Having trouble adjusting to customer requirements? Have a short shelf-life for your software? Are your delivery schedules becoming unmanageable? If you answered even one of these questions in the affirmative can help you there.

Open source is part of almost every software capability we use today. This report reviews some of the most commonly used open source software projects Robust, Efficient and Maintainable.

Chances are and I would like to share three insights for your agile transformation. The following insights will help you make better decisions about where to begin your agile transformation, how to balance features and foundational coding habits, and how to increase speed and velocity.

This is first CRASH Report describing a distribution of security weaknesses from the Common Weakness Enumeration Repository across a global sample of business applications.

We’ve analyzed applications based on CWE standards for software security to better understand how secure applications are across industry, language, development methodology and more.

This document outlines a new approach to fact-based analysis and identifies the top 3 critical insights to keep in mind when targeting software risk exposure across a set of software assets.

Sourcing managers must conduct an applications portfolio analysis as a prerequisite to formulating their applications services sourcing strategy for both internal teams and outsourcing. In this whitepaper, Gartner provides guidelines for the critical data required for an effective APA execution.

With new trends like Internet of Things (IoT) increase efficiency and better engage with customers. Software is everywhere indeed, but it's still incredibly complex (and getting more complex each day). Application Portfolio Analysis provides a fact-based assessment which is objective, repeatable and cost & time efficient to provide visibility on the products and their evolutions over time.

As companies grow through acquisitions and mergers many of which raise the cost of support. As these applications become more complex, the rate of change slows as a result. In a time when enterprises must be fast and flexible, IT becomes a barrier. The need to rationalize and reduce the duplicate business functionality continues to grow.

As every doctor will tell you and started new projects. It’s easy to lose track of those changes if you don’t have an objective view of the costs, risks and effort hiding inside your portfolio.Companies can run an internal audit through surveys and apply a complex correlation with IT service management activities in order to associate application health with the number of defects in production. Another option is to rely on third party advisors to execute a deep dive into part of the portfolio in order to collect findings and when applicable, set some recommendations.

The "Digital Era" is forcing us to engage with new methods to build while creating significant market differentiators. In both cases, the Cloud has become a key enabler to embrace this digital revolution.

No CIO is hired to maintain the status quo or just "keep the lights on"- It's about innovation and transformation not opinions to drive your strategic plan.Analysis provides a rapid portfolio assessment which is objective, repeatable and cost & time efficient. This document outlines the top 5 critical insights to keep in mind when starting a new CIO position.

The intrinsic benefits of cloud have been touted on countless occasions. The question is no longer Cloud or not Cloud, but more about how and when? This document aims at positioning Cloud in a "dual mode“ - meaning Cloud can be a trigger AND a result. This paradigm shift is meant to describe a balanced strategy where cloud benefits are maximized and created to achieve ambitious goals.

This document lists the key thoughts and steps that large organizations should implement across their application portfolio and teams, in order to establish a strong virtuous circle that will support their Cloud migration strategy that can scale globally. It's a Cloud adoption framework we could summarize in two words: Lift & Extend.

Cutter Consortium paper about how digital leaders drive down business risks borne from complex software. Cutter shows how industrializing software risk management unleashes organizational intelligence to improve application delivery, while ensuring business risk is baked out of applications, putting both human and software intelligence to their best use.

In this white paper, Atos analyzes how an industry leading solution for application code quality and functional size measurement such as CAST impacts application health and quality aspects. We illustrate how a Tier-1 systems integrator can leverage such a tool to deliver the premium quality mandatory for the global digital revolution organizations are going through.

When companies grow but it inevitably reaches a tipping point. It costs too much to support all the applications the process becomes a turf battle – influence and opinion becomes the driving factors in these decisions. By the time application quality/risk is taken into account, it’s often too late to change course. The document outlines the top 5 critical insights to keep in mind when starting a new rationalization or consolidation initiatives.

This practical guide helps IT sourcing executives in establishing an ADM vendor performance management program. The best practices and tools are based on real world experiences of practitioners. Forward-looking IT Sourcing VMO, IT Finance professionals are leveraging software analytics to greatly improve the maturity in vendor-client relationships.

This practical vendor management guide helps IT sourcing executives in establishing an ADM vendor performance management program. The best practices and tools in here are based on real world experiences of practitioner.

Ovum research on the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. This research is a thorough review of CAST AIP for assessment of integration issues as well as simple code quality and complexity analysis.

This paper sustainable portfolio analysis that improves overall software risk management, whether applications are managed in-house or by vendors.

This guide describes a method for adjusting productivity with quality results to gain greater visibility into the impact that quality has on the productivity of future releases. It presents best practices that can be integrated into a productivity measurement and analysis process and provide recommendations for implementing an effective measurement-driven improvement program.

This paper features Gartner research and related content from CAST, detailing the three main focus areas to implement a successful SAM program with your vendors, as well as a client example of a large telecom firm that used SAM to lower IT costs and gain visibility into vendor performance.

A formal approach to quality management is needed that recognizes the key dimensions of quality (Stakeholders and a set of measures that enable the organization to identify areas for improvement and focus on the specific changes that they can make successfully.

This paper presents frameworks for measuring outcome-based IT contracting relationships. Clearly defining deliverables is a worthwhile effort Vendor Management, VMO, IT Finance professionals looking to improve transparency and governance of IT outsourcing or offshoring.

Despite heavy investment in dynamic analysis tools and latency issues. This paper describes how automated structural quality analysis improves delivery and DevOps team’s ability to detect, diagnose, and eliminate performance and scalability issues. Read the six-step process to identify performance issues earlier.

Learn how advanced Software Analysis and Measurement (SAM) can help improve application security by analyzing source code to identify vulnerabilities and architectural patterns in the application, and enable development teams to prevent these vulnerabilities right at the development stage with sophisticated Threat Modeling that takes into account cross-tier and cross-technology interactions.

Gartner Research’s paper on improving application services contracting. “Organization’s that outsources custom development should care about CAST Vendor Management, VMO, and IT Finance professionals.

If you already have some knowledge of Technical Debt, this ebook provides a 7-step Technical Debt Management Cycle that provides a clear process that can over time reduce the risk of failure of critical applications---and ultimately pay down the interest of the overall liability inherent in your application portfolio.

In this just-released white paper, Dr. Bill Curtis – SVP and Chief Scientist at CAST– examines the Technical Debt metaphor to explain how it can be used to help executives think about software quality in business terms while governing software changeability and maintainability of their application portfolios.

This is a Gartner-CAST paper which shows the data-driven approach to balancing delivery agility with business risk. The paper features exclusive analysis from Andy Kyte, Gartner VP and Fellow who eloquently illustrates the systemic risk in the application portfolio caused by the accumulation of Technical Debt over the last decade.

Many organizations use risk management to mitigate delivery risk, typically at the expense of application quality. Learn about the importance of focusing on application structural quality to reduce business disruption risk in this Gartner-CAST paper

Read exclusive analysis from Andy Kyte, Gartner VP and Fellow, on the systemic risk in the typical application portfolio caused by the accumulation of Technical Debt.

Learn how the Lean practices pioneered in the Toyota Production System apply to Application Development, DevOps, and Agile practices to delivery software. Applying Lean decreases application total cost of ownership and improves business responsiveness and operational dependability.

Learn how Software Analysis evaluates the reliability maintainability software IT vendor deliverables. Forward-looking IT Sourcing VMO, IT Finance professionals are leveraging software analytics to greatly improve the maturity in vendor-client relationships. Learn how to take these 8 steps to improve sourcing governance.

When application fails, the loss of revenue can be large and swift. Applications causes highly-visible outages and lapses in business every day. Still, executives struggle to justify proactive investments in application quality. This paper presents a framework for measuring the immediate and positive revenue impact of improving application quality.

Failure to consider quality requirements results in Technical Debt — the need to rework something in the future based on your failure to pay for it now. Software analysis tools development shortcuts, and complexity all of which contribute to Technical Debt.

To improve transparency Vendor Management, VMO, IT Finance professionals looking to greatly improve the maturity in vendor-client relationships.

CAST’s industry research and benchmarks on the structural quality of IT. This benchmark report was developed from 1850 applications across 329 organizations and 8 countries. View research and benchmarks by development process (Agile Hybrid), geography, industry and by technology.

What You Will Learn: 7 examples of code smell How to smell your code The importance of smelling your code ...And Much More!

The 5 Insights You Should Consider In Order To Secure Your Bid And Facilitate A Seamless Post-Merger Transition.

CAST research provides benchmarks on the structural quality of ABAP security and resiliency.

We’ve analyzed more than 1 sourcing and confirmed that we are doing some things right – but we still have some things to improve.

This CAST report on global trends of structural quality of Insurance industry applications provides insight and benchmarks useful for IT executives. Detailed within are trends for five structural quality characteristics Security, Efficiency, Transferability and Changeability. The report includes industry insights on Insurance technology challenges and opportunities from CGI.

Industry analysis on the global trends in Financial Services market’s structural quality of software. This report highlights trends in five structural quality characteristics Efficiency geography and more.