We are end-users. I'm not too sure which version of the solution we're using. I'm pretty certain that we are using the latest version. We do get an agent that we send to the targets. They install it locally within the system. The agent is run locally, and the agent gives some CSV outputs, and those outputs are uploaded to the SaaS portal. From there, we get the insights. They have their own training academy, where you could learn how to use CAST Highlight. I would really recommend to new users that they go through the training academy to understand the product. CAST has a certain way of working, which might not be the most obvious if you look at it from the outside. There is a little learning curve that people should be aware of. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Direction Digital Workplace & Socles at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
Real User
2022-05-17T15:18:49Z
May 17, 2022
Before using CAST Highlight I would recommend others to have a clear view, and overview of the quality of code on which they can communicate with other industries or with customers. I rate CAST Highlight a seven out of ten.
I would advise others to really do their homework and understand the use case and how CAST Highlight is going to help them. Otherwise, they will only be spending money, and they may not really see its value. It is a pretty strong engineering tool, but unless you are really clear about the use case and the outcomes, you will not get a value out of it. If you do not know the outcomes and what do you want to do with the tool, you will get the dashboards or output, but you won't be able to consume and benefit from it. For example, a fantastic use case is when you know for sure that a customer is looking to migrate ten applications from on-prem to cloud and wants to know how much code is ready for moving to the cloud versus how much refactoring they need to do. If you're looking for a code change estimate from on-prem to on-prem or some other application, CAST Highlight may not be a good tool for such a use case. I would rate CAST Highlight an eight out of ten.
In general, this solution is easy to set up, easy to get started, easy to use, and easy to integrate, but the usability is not as high as that of Veracode. It would be great if it were more developer-friendly and it provided more information on how to resolve the problems that it discovers. I have seen other tools that do a better job of providing reports and guidance to the developers. I would rate this solution a six out of ten.
CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.
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I am working with the latest version of CAST Highlight. Overall, I rate CAST Highlight an eight out of ten.
We are end-users. I'm not too sure which version of the solution we're using. I'm pretty certain that we are using the latest version. We do get an agent that we send to the targets. They install it locally within the system. The agent is run locally, and the agent gives some CSV outputs, and those outputs are uploaded to the SaaS portal. From there, we get the insights. They have their own training academy, where you could learn how to use CAST Highlight. I would really recommend to new users that they go through the training academy to understand the product. CAST has a certain way of working, which might not be the most obvious if you look at it from the outside. There is a little learning curve that people should be aware of. I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
Before using CAST Highlight I would recommend others to have a clear view, and overview of the quality of code on which they can communicate with other industries or with customers. I rate CAST Highlight a seven out of ten.
I would advise others to really do their homework and understand the use case and how CAST Highlight is going to help them. Otherwise, they will only be spending money, and they may not really see its value. It is a pretty strong engineering tool, but unless you are really clear about the use case and the outcomes, you will not get a value out of it. If you do not know the outcomes and what do you want to do with the tool, you will get the dashboards or output, but you won't be able to consume and benefit from it. For example, a fantastic use case is when you know for sure that a customer is looking to migrate ten applications from on-prem to cloud and wants to know how much code is ready for moving to the cloud versus how much refactoring they need to do. If you're looking for a code change estimate from on-prem to on-prem or some other application, CAST Highlight may not be a good tool for such a use case. I would rate CAST Highlight an eight out of ten.
In general, this solution is easy to set up, easy to get started, easy to use, and easy to integrate, but the usability is not as high as that of Veracode. It would be great if it were more developer-friendly and it provided more information on how to resolve the problems that it discovers. I have seen other tools that do a better job of providing reports and guidance to the developers. I would rate this solution a six out of ten.