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CAST Highlight

7.8 / 10
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CAST Highlight
7.8 / 10

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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CAST Highlight Ratings

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


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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?

0% Negative
0% Neutral
100% Positive

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 87

Automated Code Scanning

100

Software Intelligence

94

Code Performance Monitoring

93

Risk Analysis

92

Analytics and Reporting

92

Technical Health Assessment

92

ALM Integration

88

Inventory Control

86

Application Rationalization

86

Business Value Analysis

84

State Alternatives Analysis

81

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 89

Availability and Quality of Training

100

Breadth of Features

100

Business Value Created

100

Ease of Customization

100

Ease of Data Integration

100

Ease of IT Administration

100

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

100

Quality of Features

100

Usability and Intuitiveness

100

Vendor Support

100

Ease of Implementation

86

CAST Highlight Reviews

Erik W.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2021

Great product for application portfolio management

Likeliness to Recommend

9 / 10

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
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2021

An excellent product. rapid code insights.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 / 10

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
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2021

Highly scalable and efficient data driven platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 / 10

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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