Case Study

FTI Consulting expedites Technical Due Diligence with speed, precision, and efficiency
FTI Consulting

FTI Consulting is a global advisory firm helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk, and solve challenges with expertise in finance, restructuring, investigations, and communications, offering tailored solutions for financial, legal, and reputational issues.

5.5 million

lines of code across 7 applications automatically analyzed

3 days

to deliver comprehensive insights on all applications

FTI Consulting expedites Technical Due Diligence with speed, precision, and efficiency​

“Working with CAST provides thorough source code analysis without impacting the target, a critical step for informed investment decisions, minimizing risk, and maximizing returns.”

Allan Koivo

Managing Director

CAST used CAST Highlight to deliver a fact-based report on two key systems – spanning seven custom-built applications and more than 5.5 million lines of code, with no installation or code export required.

Challenge

FTI Consulting’s client, a global provider of vehicle safety and recreation solutions, expanded rapidly through acquisitions.

As part of the target company’s software assets, two key systems – spanning seven custom-built applications and more than 5.5 million lines of code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Java, C#, ASP.NET, Delphi, Oracle, and MySQL – required swift technical due diligence. Constrained by tight deadlines, FTI Consulting needed a quick and accurate assessment.

Solution

FTI Consulting engaged CAST’s Professional Services team for a rapid and full risk assessment using CAST Highlight automated code analysis, eliminating interviews, source code sampling, and code relocation.

The resulting report covered:

  • Third-party legal risks, exposures, and component obsolescence risks.
  • Resiliency, efficiency, security, changeability, and complexity.
  • Ease and cost of cloud migration.
  • Green impact.
Results

In just three days, CAST used CAST Highlight to deliver a fact-based report on both systems—no installation or code export required. This streamlined approach significantly expedited analysis by eliminating unnecessary steps.

The report scored each system in key areas, identified prioritized fixes, and estimated person-days needed. Armed with this roadmap, FTI Consulting accurately gauged costs and gained extra time to focus on other due diligence tasks.