CAST is a company that provides software to measure and improve application software quality. Its Application Intelligence Platform analyzes source code to identify quality issues and provides guidance to fix problems. This helps customers achieve better business performance through increased productivity and lower IT costs. Over 650 leading global customers across industries rely on CAST.
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Cast Company Overview
1. A C H I E V E I N S I G H T. D E L I V E R E X C E L L E N C E .
CAST Company Overview
The Source of Business Performance
Our Mission
C O M PA N Y
To enable the worlds best enterprises to achieve significantly more business productivity from their
complex application software.
COMPANY HISTORY
Our Value Proposition
1990 - 1995 Better Business Performance at Lower Cost. The CAST Application Intelligence Platform is an
Company founded,
objective and repeatable way to measure and improve the Application Software Quality of
initial R&D efforts
mission-critical business applications.
1996
Launch software product version 1; Application Software Quality is more than high availability and low latency in the production
The Application Mining Suite
environment. It includes the speed with which the software can be modified to meet a pressing
1996 - 1997 business need, and the inherent strength of the software to repel security attacks. Application
Rapid, self-financed Software Quality goes beyond present-day performance to include a measure of future performance
and profitable growth
- how well an application can meet future business needs.
1999
IPO on Euronext (Paris, France)
2000 - 2002
The Benefits of Higher Application Software Quality
Global expansion, Europe and USA Unprecedented Management Visibility and Control. CAST measures the evolving quality of
a software system no matter how complex. By quantifying Application Software Quality in an
2003 - 2004 objective, repeatable way, and presenting these results via a set of audience-tailored dashboards,
Move from application mining suite
to enterprise solution CAST gives IT and business executives the management visibility and precise control over
software development, enhancement, or maintenance to significantly improve business
2005 - 2009 productivity and reduce IT costs.
The Application Intelligence era arrives
Launch of the current enterprise Flawless Application Performance at the Lowest TCO. CAST generates detailed quality
solution, the CAST Application metrics, pinpoints Application Software Quality problems precisely, and provides actionable
Intelligence Platform guidance for fixing these problems. This enables you to find and fix Application Software Quality
problems once and for all before they become production problems and drain large amounts of
cost and time.
Superior Team Performance. The ability to precisely locate the root causes of Application
Software Quality lapses during development is the best software training money can buy. The
ability to objectively quantify Application Software Quality provides an actionable path for
improving team performance.
2. CAST - The Leader in Application Software Quality
30.1 million, $44 million revenue, profitable
US Food & Drug Administration
35% revenue growth from 2006 to 2008
The CAST platform has allowed us to $6.5M R&D investment per year
create a set of software factories, Allianz group as a key long term shareholder
where we can see exactly how far we Europe locations: Paris, London, Munich, Milan, Madrid, Brussels
are from delivering our end product.
North America locations: New York, Washington DC, Chicago
650 customers worldwide, most belonging to Global 2000
Award-winning technology platform, generating recognition worldwide
Gartner Magic Quadrant leader for Legacy Understanding
CAST solutions have enabled us to
make a 10% productivity gain across
the whole of the project using the
same resources. Our Solution
Using highly-sophisticated language analyzers and almost a thousand industry-best-practice rules
for building software, CAST identifies quality lapses in an applications source code, and provides
precise guidance on how to fix the problems. The CAST Application Intelligence Platform reads,
analyzes, and semantically understands most kinds of source code, including scripting and interface
languages, 3GLs, 4GLs, Web and mainframe technologies, across all layers of an application (user
We rely on CAST to manage
interface, business logic and data layer). CAST is available for all the major programming languages,
our sophisticated CMM-certified
delivery processes and deliver databases and integration middleware used for enterprise application development. CAST is easy
a high-performance software product to install, completely automated, and requires very little ongoing administration.
to the business.
Our Customers
All over the world, more than 650 leading companies in all industry sectors - Financial Services,
Telecom, Transportation and Logistics, Manufacturing, and Aerospace, to name just a few - rely on
We have a new offer based on CAST CAST to mange the business performance of their IT systems and reduce hard IT costs. CAST
technology and CSCs methods
and processes for strategic, IT, enjoys one of the highest maintenance renewal rates in the market.
and business consulting. It meets the
strong demand from the market to
have greater visibility and control over
their existing applications to improve Our Key Partners
competitive advantage. CAST enables predictable, high-quality delivery and is at the heart of the services offered by the
world's leading IT service providers including Accenture, IBM, Capgemini, and CSC. These
established industry players are among the many IT service providers who use CAST to significantly
improve the value they provide their customers, building lasting relationships founded on objective
Application Software Quality data and increased business performance.
CAST is now a key component
in Capgeminis strategy and CAST
solutions are now systematically
integrated into our proposals.
Our People and Our Culture
CASTs Application Intelligence Platform is powered by the best software engineers from the most
prestigious institutions worldwide. With more than 15 years of product R&D, development, and
product releases, our engineers are dedicated to creating the best product in the software quality
market. Our Consultants, Customer Care, Sales and Marketing staff have only one aim - customer
satisfaction. We take pride in educating the market about application quality and its role in
Editors Choice Award: accelerating the process maturity of the software factory. Our mission requires a great deal of positive
A Top-10 Company to Watch. energy and perseverance. It requires truly unique people, who choose to work at a unique company.
www.castsoftware.com
CAST provides the market leading
solution for distributed environments.
Europe North America
3 rue Marcel All辿got 373 Park Avenue South
Questions? 92190 Meudon - France New York, NY 10016
Email us at contact@castsoftware.com Phone: +33 1 46 90 21 00 Phone:+1 212-871-8330
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