We’re very proud to announce the next major release of CAST Highlight, the software intelligence product that enables you to take command of your software portfolio. This version introduces new innovations including: Application Briefings, Scan Assistant, Domain Surveys and many other new capabilities.
Application Briefings
Get personalized explanations by clicking the robot icon next to any application name or the “Brief Me” button on the application overview screen. Briefings include a functional & business overview, technical overview, AI service recommendations, and suggested next steps.
Scan Assistant
Improve scan result accuracy by getting useful guidance from our AI-powered Scan Assistant, integrated directly within the Code Reader user interface.
Domain Surveys
Make more informed decisions by adding greater context to your Portfolio Advisor dashboards with domain surveys. You can now create and answer surveys at the domain level and reuse answers in your custom segmentations.
OSS Dependency-only Mode
Improve SCA result accuracy by optionally selecting the dependency-only mode for detecting OSS components. This optional mode detects OSS components that are explicitly declared in your applications.
OSS Dependency Map for .Net
Reduce OSS risks by understanding the complete map of component transitive dependencies for .Net applications including all component metadata such as vulnerabilities, licenses, weaknesses, and more.
Green Insights for Ruby and Scala
Reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption for Ruby and Scala applications with 10 new Ruby and 11 new Scala deficiency patterns.
Many other feature improvements
The product team also took the opportunity with this new release to introduce many additional enhancements such as: Application Grouping improvements, support of local Git repository scans, OSS scores available in the Continuous Improvement Tracker, and much more.