CAST Releases Cloud-Based Software Analysis System

New York-based CAST, a provider of software analysis and measurement programs, has released CAST Highlight, a cloud-based system that scans enterprise applications for potential risks.

CAST Highlight is downloaded from a portal and quickly reads through software, providing feedback on software health that its flagship product, the Application Intelligence Platform, can follow up on with more granular analysis and measurement. The analyzer conducts the assessment locally and creates a text file to upload back to the portal, where project managers and CIOs can examine analytics regarding size and quality.

"This is a fast snapshot of an enterprise’s systems that provides IT managers with insight into the complexity, the technical debt and potential risk within their applications," Lev Lesokhin, CAST VP of worldwide marketing, says in a statement.

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