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What is CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP), a result of over $130M in R&D investment over two decades, is an enterprise-grade software measurement and quality analysis solution designed to analyze multi-tiered, multi-technology applications for technical vulnerabilities and adherence to architectural and coding standards and then provide business relevant information to the IT organization through various dashboards and products built with end users in mind.

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CAST Application Intelligence Platform is the #3 ranked solution in top Software Development Analytics solutions. PeerSpot users give CAST Application Intelligence Platform an average rating of 7.0 out of 10. CAST Application Intelligence Platform is most commonly compared to SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube): CAST Application Intelligence Platform vs SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube). CAST Application Intelligence Platform is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 79% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 31% of all views.
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CAST Application Intelligence Platform mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of CAST Application Intelligence Platform in the Software Development Analytics category stands at 9.8%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Valuable Features

  • "CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform."
  • "The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out."
  • "Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients."

Room for Improvement

CAST Application Intelligence Platform needs improvement in integrating the service and enhancing technical support for complex environments. Users express the need for wider rule coverage, as not all 2022 CWE or NIST rules are supported. They also desire functionality to display developer and contributor information on code segments. Additionally, support for analyzing more than 50 application configurations at once is suggested.
  • "Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering issues."
  • "The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules.An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code."
  • "The integration of this solution could be improved."

Pricing

  • "I do know how the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is licensed, but I'm not able to give the cost because the price is not listed. My company works with individual vendors, so pricing is on a case-to-case basis, but the vendors give specialized pricing because of the enterprise deployment, though my team is aware of product pricing based on lines of code, based on the number of applications, etc., I'm unable to give the exact licensing costs of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform.My company doesn't have to pay extra for some features or services because all are included as part of the enterprise license.On a scale of one to five, with five being very cheap and one being very expensive, I would rate the CAST Application Intelligence Platform as three out of five."

Popular Use Cases

CAST Application Intelligence Platform is used for static code analysis on varied schedules to manage technical debt and code quality. Organizations utilize it for assessing code health in scalability, reliability, efficiency, and performance. It supports security checks against ISO 5055 and OWASP Top 10 guidelines. Using health and security dashboards, users detect code issues. CAST AIP also aids in software architecture detection and facilitates improvements, while CAST Highlight assists in cloud migration by addressing blockers.
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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
31%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
8%
Retailer
4%
Government
4%
Healthcare Company
3%
Energy/Utilities Company
3%
University
3%
Construction Company
3%
Consumer Goods Company
2%
Educational Organization
2%
Hospitality Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Media Company
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Real Estate/Law Firm
1%
Recruiting/Hr Firm
1%
Non Profit
1%
Wholesaler/Distributor
1%
Comms Service Provider
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%

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Learn more about CAST Application Intelligence Platform

  • Application Analytics Dashboard (CAST AAD): Provides IT executives with accurate business relevant analytics to drive their organization
  • Application Engineering Dashboard (CAST AED): Provides engineering and QA teams with powerful code and system level structural flaw insight and remediation guidance
  • Enlighten: Delivers to developers a powerful deep understanding of their application’s structure
  • Architecture Checker: Gives architects a reliable, automated solution to enforce architectures that deliver stability and performance of their critical applications

CAST’s underlying system-level analysis technology assesses both the health of an application, as measured through numerous health factors, as well as specific structural and system-level defects that drive performance and stability issues providing true system level analysis.

CAST Application Intelligence Platform was previously known as CAST AIP.

CAST Application Intelligence Platform customers

Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini

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CAST Application Intelligence Platform reviews

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Chief Architect at Peristent Systems
Verified user of CAST Application Intelligence Platform
Sep 4, 2022
Has a security dashboard that's helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out."

Cons

"The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code."

What is our primary use case?

We use CAST Application Intelligence Platform for multiple purposes. One of its use cases is understanding the code health in terms of scalability, reliability, efficiency, and performance. These are some of the metrics the solution measures which could be found in the health and engineering dashboard. We also use the CAST Application Intelligence Platform for doing a deep dive into security related issues in our source code, so if we want to understand if our application code is secure as per ISO 5055 guidelines or as per OWASP Top 10 guidelines, that's what when we use the security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform to do end-to-end analysis. These are some of the most important use cases of the solution.

What is most valuable?

The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out.

*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Verified user of CAST Application Intelligence Platform
Apr 17, 2024
Helps identify and correct software flaws effectively

Pros

"CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform. "

Cons

"Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering issues. "

What is our primary use case?

CAST AIP is a valuable solution for quality metrics and application security. It is beneficial for software architecture detection.

What is most valuable?

CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform.

*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Technical Associate Manager at Accenture
Verified user of CAST Application Intelligence Platform
Apr 27, 2022
Application Intelligence Platform that offers useful insights into violations and improvements

Pros

"Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients. "

Cons

"The integration of this solution could be improved. "

What is our primary use case?

There are different products of the CAST solution that we use for different reasons. For quality improvement, we use CAST AIP which is an Application Intelligence Platform. We have a health dashboard where we can view improvements and violations that have been fixed. 

Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients. 

What needs improvement?

The integration of this solution could be improved. 

*Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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Technical Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of CAST Application Intelligence Platform
Feb 28, 2018
Source code has to be fed. Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality.

Pros

"Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality."

Cons

"It has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed."

What is our primary use case?

Hourly, daily, and monthly static code analysis before making a project live. Therefore, controlling the technical debt and code quality.

How has it helped my organization?

Clean code writing with the help of issues. However, it has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed.

*Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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