CAST Highlight pros and cons

Vendor: CAST

3.9 out of 5

7 reviews
85% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

CAST Highlight is user-friendly, delivering valuable insights into codebase cloud-readiness with seamless programming language integration. It offers automation and speed for enhanced performance, assesses environment quality, identifies blockers and boosters in cloud migration, yet lacks detailed reports. While pricing is high and dashboards are limited, it has a learning curve. There is room to improve deep analysis and commenting abilities, making it a versatile tool for tech buyers.

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PROS

CAST Highlight is easy to use and provides a good dashboard, offering a clear overview of the role portfolio.

It identifies codebases more or less ready for the cloud, providing valuable insights for cloud readiness.

CAST Highlight works seamlessly with most languages and offers good performance.

Automation and speed are key features, helping in making efficient assessments.

It provides agnostic blockers for platforms and containerization, assisting in cloud migration by identifying blockers and boosters.

CONS

Reports from CAST Highlight are abstract and issues should be described more clearly to users.

It is considered expensive and the price could be improved.

There is a significant learning curve initially.

The ease of configuration and customization needs enhancement in CAST Highlight.

Potential improvements or additional features could make CAST Highlight better.

CAST Highlight Pros review quotes

reviewer1997040

Consultant/Software Engineer at EY-Parthenon

Oct 20, 2022

It offers good performance.

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Vishal-Goyal

Chief Architect at Peristent Systems

Nov 15, 2022

The way it tells you which codebase is more ready for the cloud and which codebase is less ready is very valuable. It works seamlessly with most languages.

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Kangkan Goswami

Advisor Solution Architect at DXC

Mar 11, 2023

CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard.

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reviewer1696728

Direction Digital Workplace & Socles at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

May 17, 2022

The most valuable features of the CAST Highlight are the interface and there are three notations that are very simple to understand and communicate with.

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Jayanti Rode

Technical Associate Manager at Accenture

Jan 13, 2025

The solution provides agnostic blockers for platforms as well as for containerization.

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Chris Van Poele

Owner at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Jul 30, 2024

CAST Highlight provides a clear overview of the role portfolio and allows users to assess the overall quality of the environment. Users can see where improvements are needed and follow up on trends of the application.

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reviewer2315901

Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Nov 29, 2023

The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed.

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CAST Highlight Cons review quotes

reviewer1997040

Consultant/Software Engineer at EY-Parthenon

Oct 20, 2022

There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset.

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Vishal-Goyal

Chief Architect at Peristent Systems

Nov 15, 2022

Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. I would expect CAST Highlight to have the Help dashboard and the Engineering dashboard. These dashboards are currently a part of CAST AIP, and if these are made available in CAST Highlight, customers won't have to use two different products all the time.

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Kangkan Goswami

Advisor Solution Architect at DXC

Mar 11, 2023

The reports that describe the issues of concern are rather abstract and the issues should be more clearly described to the user.

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