CAST HIGHLIGHTSolution Presentation

About CAST and our ecosystem

Our mission

Application Portfolio Analysis, what for?

How does it work?

CAST Highlight at a glance

Questions & Answers

Agenda

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SERVICES POWERED BY CAST

CAST Ecosystem

Rapid Portfolio

Analysis

Rapid portfolio analysis

Assess the risk, complexity & cost for the

Application Portfolio with a code-level

analytics

SaaS, Cloud based., Secured

Software

Measurement &

Analytics

Continuous measurement of business

critical applications or ADM team / vendor

performance

Structural Health

Assessment

One time evaluation of application

health, risk, adaptability, scalability

Structural Testing

ID structural flaws leading to data

integrity issues, security breaches,

outages, performance degradation,

collapse

Industry

Benchmarks

Services

Over 3,000 apps and 1.5 billion LoC

Query by industry, technology and geos

CRASH Annual Report

CAST Research Labs

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Hi-level portfolio health assessment

Objective software analytics

Code-level analysis

Lightweight SaaS platform

Mitigate Software Risks

Reduce Application Costs

Optimize Resource Allocation

The IT Portfolio from 30,000 Feet

Fast & Secure Application Portfolio Analysis

Visibility through metrics

Production Risk

Adaptability Risk

Software Complexity

Technical Debt

Application Size

Business Value

Software Maintenance Effort

Code Analysis

Measures the likelihood of defects

occurring in production

Clearly understand the applications that are more likely to fail, break or disrupt

production and consequently impact the image of the IT department or even the

company. Mitigate the impacts on profitability, revenue, customer satisfaction and

experience

Measures the cost and effort to

maintain an application

Monitor the maintenance estimate to align with the budget. Anticipate the effort of

transferability and keep the overall agility of your application portfolio

Measures the technical complexity of

the application

Identify the underlying and inner complexity of the application portfolio that might

slow down the roadmap execution.

Leverage this objective knowledge to reduce your time to market and engage with

sound innovations

Measures the criticality and

importance of an application

Increase business value to engage teams and stakeholders in the transformation.

Highlight the most critical applications with the highest business value in order to

guarantee the best SLAs. Monitor the business and IT alignment and manage

resource prioritization

Measures the effort required to fix

coding and architectural violations

that remain in the code when an

application is released

Reduce both technical debt and maintenance estimates to record tangible savings

to be reinvested into innovation. Convey the consolidated technical debt to justify

new enterprise standards adoption within the IT roadmap

Make the invisible, visible!

Executive sponsorship

established through global

communication (i.e. email to all

project leads).

Init

iate

Sca

n &

Ass

ess App owners across the globe complete

an application survey and download

agent from Highlight portal to analyze

code stacks.

Analysis is performed in minutes, on

their network.

Step 1

Launch & Planning

Step 2

Distributed Analysis

Insi

ght

Insightful software analytics and portfolio-wide risk

heat map available online, includes: short-term vs.

long-term technical risk and cost; technology mix;

technical debt estimation and distribution, etc.

Enterprise-wide portfolio intelligence available on a

secure, private cloud.

Step 3

Results interpretation & Recommendations

Application Portfolio Analysis Process

Application Portfolio Analysis Helps

You Face Critical IT Challenges (Videos)

Digital Transformation

Make strategic decisions around

transformation and modernization with

application measurement

IT Rationalization

Identify the risk of the applications in

your portfolio to determine those assets

to invest in or retire

Technical Due Diligence

Know the health of the applications your

organization is acquiring or integrating

IT Health Check

Quickly diagnose areas to mitigate

risk and reduce cost

CIO Onboarding

Gain objective insight into the

health of the application you

have just inherited

Outsourcing Assessment

Assess the quality and effectiveness of your

outsourced software and offshore

partnerships

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Increasing Confidence & Value By Adding

Objective Metrics To Your Practices

PPM

Project Portfolio

Management

EA

Enterprise Architecture

APM

Application Portfolio

Management

APA MUST fit with complementary Disciplines

Project Portfolio

Management / PMO

Enterprise Architecture

Application Portfolio

Management

IT Service Management

CAST HIGHLIGHTDemonstration

Application Portfolio Analysis Helps

You Face Critical IT Challenges (Videos)

Digital Transformation

Make strategic decisions around

transformation and modernization with

application measurement

IT Rationalization

Identify the risk of the applications in

your portfolio to determine those assets

to invest in or retire

Technical Due Diligence

Know the health of the applications your

organization is acquiring or integrating

IT Health Check

Quickly diagnose areas to mitigate

risk and reduce cost

CIO Onboarding

Gain objective insight into the

health of the application you

have just inherited

Outsourcing Assessment

Assess the quality and effectiveness of your

outsourced software and offshore

partnerships

>> Watch the demo >> Watch the demo >> Watch the demo

>> Watch the demo >> Watch the demo >> Watch the demo

CAST HIGHLIGHTAppendix

Screenshots at the Portfolio Level

The following slides capture some key capabilities provided by CAST Highlight

at the Application Portfolio Level

Home Page

At a glance through the Highlight Home Page, you take advantage of the consolidated metrics related to the

Risk, the Technical Debt and the Sizing (FTE & LOC)

Quickly identify the latest Onboarded Apps

Monitor the campaign progression and notice

how many applications have not been scanned

yet (88/95)

At any time, use the filters to condition the

analytics depending on: the domains, the

technology or the campaigns

Business Value VS Risks

Insights:

Which applications are most critical to business operations?

Leverage the Business Value VS Risk Profile mapping to trigger sound recommendations:

e.g. To be Retired, Replaced, Restructured, Reprioritized, Relocated or Reinvigorated

Interchange the X axis with Production Risk,

Adaptability Risk and Software Complexity Risk

Modify the bubble size parameter to highlight:

the code size, Files, Backfired FPs or the total

FTE

Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it

into a deliverable

Insights:

Which applications are most critical to business operations?

Leverage the Business Value VS Technical Debt mapping to figure out:

What applications do carry the biggest technical debt?

How the overall technical debt is spitted among High VS Low Business Value applications?

Business Value VS Technical Debt

Interchange the X axis with the Technical Debt

and the Technical Debt per Lines of Code

Modify the bubble size parameter to highlight:

the code size, Files, Backfired FPs or the total

FTE

Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it

into a deliverable

Insights:

Sort the applications according to the risk level that they own

Take advantage of the cross analysis to determine how many FTEs look after your risky applications

Quickly visualize your asset positioning through the benchmark

Risk Distribution

Switch the inventory according to whether the

Production, Adaptability or Software Complexity

Risk

Reach quickly the application your are looking

for thanks to the search function

Tag the applications you want to follow-up into

your Watch List

Software Maintenance

Select the tab “Application Details” to assess

the software maintenance per application

Select one dashboard bar to reach the related

applications list

Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it

into a deliverable

Insights:

Identify the applications that require the greatest number of FTEs

Make sure that the business critical applications rely on enough FTEs

Challenge your FTE allocation against the COCOMO II Standard

Insights:

Understand how your technical debt is distributed among your applications

Monitor the applications with the largest technical debt

Follow the technical debt trend for any single application

Technical Debt

Select the tab “Trends” to monitor the technical

debt evolution across the time

Select one dashboard bar to reach the related

applications list

Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it

into a deliverable

Insights:

Understand your technology mix and the consolidated risk per programming language

Display the number of applications at risk per technology and identify them

Leverage this type of chart for any survey questions (including the custom ones)

Portfolio Demographics

Select the type of risk you want to highlight

though the three buttons/tabs

Click on the chart to focus on a selected area

and condition the display of the lists

Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it

into a deliverable

Insights:

How do your risks evolve across the time?

What are the applications that have drastically increased their sizing these last 6 months?

What are the effects of your latest initiatives upon the technical debt trend?

Trends

Select the type of Trend you want to follow and

use the buttons/tabs to condition the display

Pick the applications to display as well as the

graphical representation (trend or variation)

Export the dashboard into PNG file to insert it

into a deliverable

Insights:

What are the top risky applications within your portfolio?

Identify the applications with the lowest Business Value

Interject the fact based metrics into PPM, EA, APM or any other 3rd party tools

Application Results

Sort your applications thanks to various metrics

and criteria

Search for specific applications among the

entire portfolio

Export the applications details in CSV or XML

format to interject objective measures into third

party tools

Screenshots at the Application Level

The following slides capture some key capabilities provided by CAST Highlight

at the Application Level

At a glance through the Highlight Application ID Card, you take advantage of the dedicated metrics related

to the Risk, the Technical Debt and the Sizing (FTE & LOC)

Application ID Card

Add the application into your Watch List

Get the rankings for your application among your

entire portfolio

Understand the trends per dimension

Insights:

What proportion of your lines of code are considered at risk?

Understand which technology carries the risk for a given application

Quickly scope and estimate the efforts to improve the situation

Application – Risk Distribution

Add the application into your Watch List

The risk indicators highlight how important is the

risk

Get the full picture of the lines of code

percentage at risk

Insights:

Understand the context of the application through the survey answers

Reach additional information that cannot be captured through a code based analysis

Take advantage of the Highlight campaigns to capture additional customized information

Application - Survey

Reach the questions & answers by typology

Expand the list to consult all the questions for a

given typology

Access to the user-defined questions through

the custom section

Insights:

Understand how many applications have higher and lower Risk score

What is the application positioning among your entire portfolio?

What is the application positioning among the entire benchmark?

What’s your ranking on such or such technology compared to your industry peers?

Application - Benchmark

Modify the benchmark dimension through the

drop down list

Visualize the number of applications that are

part of the benchmark

Change the bubble chart display by switching

on/off the scope of the benchmark (internal,

external or both)

Insights:

Visualize the percentage of lines of code that are at risk

Get the list of the code alerts per type of risk

Identify the most frequent alerts for the Production, Adaptability and Software Complexity Risks.

Application – Code Alerts

Display the Code Alerts according to the type of

risk thanks to the three buttons/tabs

Count the number of Lines of Code that are

considered at risk

Sort the alerts to highlight the most frequent

ones