CAST Highlight Reviews

Name: CAST Highlight
Brand: CAST
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)

Vendor: CAST

3.9 out of 5

5 reviews
100% willing to recommend

What is CAST Highlight?

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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CAST Highlight is the #13 ranked solution in top Software Composition Analysis (SCA) solutions. PeerSpot users give CAST Highlight an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. CAST Highlight is most commonly compared to SonarQube: CAST Highlight vs SonarQube. CAST Highlight is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 74% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 20% of all views.

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Kangkan Goswami

Advisor Solution Architect at DXC

We are a solution provider and we used CAST Highlight in a project, last year, for one of our clients. CAST Highlight is easy to use and has a good dashboard. This solution integrates well with Azure DevOps and you can import the dashboard into that environment. The level of abstraction is a…

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reviewer1997040

Consultant/Software Engineer at EY-Parthenon

We get some code insights from CAST. We get insights as to if this or that function has way too many comments or things like that. We would like to backtrace, and understand how dependent that is as per the application. For example, when you are writing code in C Sharp versus writing code in C++, obviously, C++ has more complexities within that. What CAST does is CAST aggregates for different languages, and if they could provide us inputs for each of these languages separately, then that'd be great. When they classify code between their own code and third-party code, they classify it based on the number of files, and not really the number of lines. I'm not sure how extensive of a change this is on their end; however, it would be nice if they could tell us the number of lines of code that are not theirs. There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset. We have come across bugs occasionally. Technical support could be better.

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Vishal-Goyal

Chief Architect at Peristent Systems

Its price should be better. It is a pretty costly tool. They have two products: CAST Highlight and CAST AIP. Both are licensed separately. As per CAST, Highlight is for RAPID prototyping and AIP is for in depth detailed analysis. But then there are areas which Highlights covers (Cloud Adoption) which AIP does not. Our experience in using AIP is that it also does not look at entire tech stack and does not provide the list of all technologies present in your application and then flag what is supported and what is not so that customer has clear view. Highlight probably does that. They need to simplify it for customers. I would expect CAST Highlight to have lighter version of the Health dashboard and the Engineering dashboards . 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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CAST Highlight mindshare

As of July 2024, the mindshare of CAST Highlight in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) category stands at 1.4%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features of CAST Highlight are automation and speed."
"It offers good performance."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"The ease of configuration and customization could be improved in CAST Highlight."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the outset."
"CAST Highlight could improve to allow us to comment and do a deep analysis by ourselves."

Pricing

"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution."
"CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions."
"It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it."

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

17%

Insurance Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

Retailer

Government

Educational Organization

Media Company

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Transportation Company

University

Construction Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Logistics Company

Hospitality Company

Outsourcing Company

Recruiting/Hr Firm

Non Profit

Consumer Goods Company

Performing Arts

Legal Firm

Pharma/Biotech Company

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Learn more about CAST Highlight

CAST is the softwareintelligence category leader. CAST technology can see inside customapplications with MRI-like precision, automatically generating intelligenceabout their inner workings - composition, architecture, transaction flows,cloud readiness, structural flaws, legal and security risks. It’s becomingessential for faster modernization for cloud, raising the speed and efficiencyof Software Engineering, better open source risk control, and accuratetechnical due diligence. CAST operates globally with offices in North America,Europe, India, China. Visit www.castsoftware.com.

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CAST Highlight customers

Wells Fargo, Bank of NY Mellon, Northern Trust, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, BMW, AT&T, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, John Hancock, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Volkswagen, Boston Consulting Group, London Stock Exchange, Telefonica, Saur France, Total Energies France, SNCF