Case Study
Xebia is a global IT consulting and software engineering company that helps enterprises accelerate their digital transformation. It specializes in cloud, data, AI, and agile development to modernize systems and deliver scalable, high-performance solutions.
25
applications
spanning Java,
JavaScript, Groovy,
Kotlin, MySQL
20%
reduction
in application
maintenance
“Modernization starts with insights. With CAST Highlight, we built a data-driven roadmap that accelerated modernization and delivered measurable results, driving success through clarity, collaboration, and innovation.”
Preetpal Singh
Managing Director
CAST Highlight enabled Xebia to deliver actionable insights within a week, launch targeted refactoring and license remediation, and drive a projected 20% reduction in application maintenance.
Challenge
A fast-growing Netherlands-based fintech processing transactions daily across global merchants faced risk in its software estate. Business-critical applications carried heavy technical debt and maintenance costs.
Over 1,000 open-source vulnerabilities, including hundreds of critical and high-risk CVEs, plus license compliance issues across 15+ systems, and low cloud readiness scores were blocking PaaS and AWS migration, demanding a data-driven modernization strategy.
Solution
Xebia leveraged CAST Highlight to run non-intrusive scans across the client’s applications, surfacing insights on software health, open-source safety, and cloud readiness.
Teams could rank high-risk components and license issues, benchmark technical debt and maintenance effort against standards, and map dependencies. This aligned engineering, product, and compliance stakeholders and selected cloud-ready candidates for phased migration within a data-driven modernization strategy.
Results
With CAST Highlight, Xebia enabled the client to obtain actionable insights in a week, launching targeted refactoring and license remediation initiatives.
Maintenance effort is projected to drop by over 20% by aligning recorded versus recommended FTEs, while cloud readiness improved to match industry standards and accelerate cloud migration planning. Cross-functional visibility into software risks and modernization blockers increased, enhancing engineering productivity and business agility.
