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CAST Application Intelligence Platform

The Source of Superior Business Performance
Are you trying to: Quickly assess where the hidden problems lie in a multi-tier, multi-platform, multi-site integration project? Reduce escalating maintenance costs without affecting service levels? Carve out a large part of an application portfolio to outsource development and/or maintenance? Rapidly generate an inventory of application assets that power your mission-critical systems? Reduce IT costs while simultaneously achieve significantly more business productivity from your complex IT software systems?

Improving the performance of software delivery

By creating a software development factory using CAST, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is able to deliver immediate development productivity gains, lasting improvements to system security, and reduced maintenance costs with better quality and standards enforcement. With CAST we can set clear standards on quality, complexity and architecture. In addition, CAST also provides a platform to measure development efficiency and to estimate the level and skill of work required for a project, another key element to our factory concept.

A C H I E V E I N S I G H T. D E L I V E R E X C E L L E N C E .

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Comprehensive Visibility and Control: Only CAST Can Provide It!
The CAST Application Intelligence Platform is an objective and repeatable way to measure and improve the Application Software Quality of multi-platform, multi-language, and multi-sourced applications. Application Software Quality is more than high availability and low latency. It includes the speed with which the software can be modified to meet a pressing business need, and the inherent strength of the software to repel security attacks. Application Software Quality goes beyond present-day performance to include a measure of future performance - how well an application can meet future business needs. CAST enables you to measure and improve Application Software Quality right from the very start of the development phase all the way through an applications useful life.

Enterprise Applications

Middleware

Web/Client Server Applications

ASP/JSP/VB/.NET Presentation Tier

Web Services
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Java, C++, Frameworks Struts MVC, Spring

Application Logic

Legacy Applications A
CICS Monitor (Cobol) Tuxedo Monitor (C)

CICS Connector

Business Logic Tier

Data Management Layer

EJB - Hibernate - Ibatis

COBOL

Batch Shell Scripts

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Data Tier

Files

Databases

Database

Modern Mission-Critical Software Systems are Multi-Platform, Multi-Language, and Multi-Sourced

Managing outsourcer performance

Deutsche Telekom has established a Quality Service Center based on the CAST Platform to improve the quality of its outsourcers delivery - before the applications are delivered - and reduce its outsourcing and quality management costs. The quality assurance and integration management department has been reduced by 50% from 170 people due to the new quality program, while the reliability and stability of application deliveries has increased very significantly.

CAST AIP Enabling the worlds best enterprises to achieve significantly more business productivity from their complex application software
The Benefits of Application Software Quality
Hard IT Cost Reductions
Higher Resource Productivity Increased Software Asset Efficiency Proactive Risk Avoidance

Hard Business Benefits

Higher Transaction Throughput Faster Speed to Market Improved Customer Satisfaction

Business Value at Risk

Portfolio Evolution Trends

Key Portfolio Attributes Internal Quality Drill Downs Root Causes of Business Disruptions

Visibility = Better Business Performance and Lower TCO

CAST is now a key component in Capgeminis strategy and CAST solutions are now systematically integrated into our proposals.

We have a new offer based on CAST technology and CSCs methods and processes in the field of strategic, IT and business consulting. It meets the strong demand from the market to have greater visibility and control over their existing applications to improve competitive advantage.

What CAST is Not

CAST is not about the what its about the how and the how well. CAST is not about the functional but about the non-functional requirements; it is about making sure the application has the ability to perform in a complex production environment to deliver the business benefits articulated in the business case. CAST is not a development tool its a data-driven operational management platform for IT and business executives. CAST optimizes the performance of the end-state design by ensuring that the source code the stuff out of which the entire application is built is written to maximize business end-user performance.

CAST is not a testing tool it goes well beyond any testing tool to illuminate the root causes of reliability, latency, and scalability problems, as the system is being built. The best performance tests can tell you how well your system will run today. CAST can tell you how well the system will run as the software, and the production environment in which it runs, evolve over time. CAST is not a source-code scanner its a structural assessment engine. In a complex software system, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Interactions between the system components are complex and cannot be analyzed in isolation. CAST captures a complete view of the engineering quality of the entire application across all its tiers to produce an accurate 360-degree view of Application Software Quality.

EASY To START
Minimal set up time Fully automated operation Audience-tailored dashboards with KPIs providing precise guidance for improving Application Software Quality

EASY To USE
Unprecedented Objectivity: Measure application quality and team productivity precisely. Unprecedented Scalability: Seamlessly expand coverage over your most complex systems. Unprecedented Performance: Find and fix performance bottlenecks before they cause repeated business disruption and escalate cost.

EASY To MANAGE
Make smarter decisions informed by objective measures of quality and productivity Significantly reduce risk of business disruption Simplify vendor management by managing to precisely-measurable objectives agreed upon by all parties

About CAST CASTs unique technology is the result of more than $70 million in R&D investment. Top engineering talent, dedicated to building the best technology for assessing the internal quality of mission-critical applications, has made CAST the leader in Automated Application Intelligence. CASTs mission is to enable the worlds best enterprises to achieve significantly more business productivity from their complex IT software systems. Founded in 1990, CAST has helped more than 650 organizations worldwide speed IT delivery to the business, mitigate risks in production, improve customer experience, and reduce the total cost of application ownership. CAST is listed on NYSEEuronext (Euronext: CAS) and serves Global 2000 organizations worldwide with a global network of locations in the US and Europe.

Editors Choice Award: A Top-10 Company to Watch.

CAST provides the market leading solution for distributed environments.

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