What is CAST Highlight?
CAST Highlight is a Software Intelligence product for rapid application portfolio analysis. It performs automated source code analysis of 100s of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition, Resiliency, and Agility. Objective + qualitative data (auto-analysis + business context surveys) enable enterprise leaders to see what’s inside software, rationalize portfolios, accelerate cloud migration, de-risk technology due diligence and reduce Open Source risks. Available in SaaS. No hassle code collection, no deployment process or infrastructure needed. Just these 3 steps to get unprecedented insight into your application portfolio - today.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
96 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+96 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love CAST Highlight?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Emotional Footprint
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Feature Ratings
Automated Code Scanning
Software Intelligence
Code Performance Monitoring
Risk Analysis
Analytics and Reporting
Technical Health Assessment
ALM Integration
Inventory Control
Application Rationalization
Business Value Analysis
State Alternatives Analysis
Vendor Capability Ratings
Availability and Quality of Training
Breadth of Features
Business Value Created
Ease of Customization
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of IT Administration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Vendor Support
Ease of Implementation
CAST Highlight Reviews
Erik W.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2021
Great product for application portfolio management
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CAST Highlight from other similar products?
Highlight helps organizations manage application portfolio risk, cost, and quality in a number of key areas, offering a wide range of features and capabilities not normally available in a single product.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The speed by which it is possible to create a multi-faceted view of application quality, risk, and cost, and cloud readiness at the portfolio level.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The user interface is not consistent throughout the product, and some of the features are not as intuitive as they could be.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Consider Highlight as a way to rapidly launch an application portfolio assessment and get started with a continuous improvement program for your application portfolio. It serves well as part of an ecosystem of other tools to help automate and accelerate application portfolio management activities - key for any application transformation or migration program. Do not look to Highlight to do everything - the product integrates well with other products through a rich RESTful API, and can work alongside other tools which provide additional IT discovery, analysis, reporting, and transformation planning capabilities.
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Caring
- Respectful
Ruari J.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Jan 2021
An excellent product. rapid code insights.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates CAST Highlight from other similar products?
Cast Highlight provided fantastic code analytic insights rapidly which helps speed up and support decision making processes . Its Cloud readiness index for PaaS migration is a key differentiator and now with Containerization patterns being added its value add continues to grow.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
easy to integrate into DevOps tool chain. Cloud readiness assessment has helped with our cloud strategy and rationalization of our portfolio. The speed at which you get an incredible amount of insight as part of one code scan.
What do you dislike most about this product?
there is very little to dislike, the team at Highlight are constantly evolving the product.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The highlight team do have cater for trial access, give it a go on some of your apps to gauge the fit and insight it will bring. While the product is very easy to use , i would recommend attending Highlights training and certification to get the most out of the solution.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2021
Highly scalable and efficient data driven platform
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing