70% to 90%*
of M&A deals fail
of M&A deals fail
Often because of blind spots during Technology Due Diligence
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* Harvard Business Review
CAST DealInsight™ is a technology due diligence solution from CAST, the category leader in Software Intelligence. It performs rapid application assessment automatically by analyzing application source code (see technology coverage). All scanning happens locally without the source code needing to leave the premises and is completed in just a few minutes for each application. Intuitive dashboards and reports are generated automatically from the scan results delivering metrics on the software health, cloud readiness, and open source risk.
CAST DealInsight™ calculates objective software health metrics based on recognized industry standard coding best practices by analyzing the actual source code of applications including Resiliency (reliability), Agility (maintainability), and Elegance (complexity) to accurately understand the current state of a software asset.
CAST DealInsight™ automatically scans the source code of a software application accurately detecting every programming language in use and calculates software health measures by technology.
CAST DealInsight™ automatically benchmarks your application against thousands of other applications enabling you to compare metrics with industry peers. Code-level improvement opportunities are automatically identified to improve an application's reliability, maintainability, and complexity.
Automatically perform Software Composition Analysis (SCA) to detect all open source components in use throughout the application and the associated risks. Identify security vulnerabilities, open source licensing risks, or obsolete components that will need to be addressed or upgraded in minutes versus the weeks it would take using manual code reviews.
Automatically identify cloud migration Blockers (e.g., Persistent File Usage, COM Components, etc.) and Boosters (e.g., use of a web configuration file, MySQL, etc.). Get accurate guidance on exactly where each of the roadblocks occur within the code of an application and learn how to remediate these roadblocks instead of using subjective estimates to estimate the effort to modernize an application on the cloud.
This document shows examples of the reporting that CAST DealInsight™ provides in both the online dashboards and the downloadable report.
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Powered by CAST Highlight and supporting 40+ technologies, CAST DealInsight™ delivers rapid and accurate visibility into the state of software applications enabling more Intelligent Technology Due Diligence. Where an architect could spend weeks to assess the state of a single application, CAST DealInsight™ makes it possible in hours, using objective data to ensure a more accurate valuation of software assets.
An inventory of all the programming languages detected in a software application along with the size of each in terms of lines of code.
Programming practices that make software more robust and reliable.
Programming practices that make software easier to maintain and upgrade .
Programming practices that make software less complex.
Use of open source and 3rd party components that reduces security vulnerability, IP licensing, and obsolescence risks.
A count of the Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures (CVEs) found in all of the open source components in use categorized by severity.
Use of open source components that include riskier licenses.
Use of open source components that are out of date or no longer supported.
Code patterns that make a migration of software to the cloud harder or impossible.
Code patterns that represent good practices for making the software more ready to migrate to Cloud in a PaaS state.
A comparison of an application to a benchmark of applications in similar industries and using similar technologies.
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CAST DealInsight™ is built on top of CAST Highlight's secure platforms that are ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified for Information Security, Data Privacy and Security in the Cloud. The app scan happens locally without any portion of the app's source code being uploaded to the platform. CAST is trusted by major advisory consulting firms, most of the global systems integrators, and 500+ enterprise clients.
Supported programming languages Video Tutorial: How to scan your app
CAST is the pioneer and category leader in Software Intelligence, providing insight into the structural condition of software assets. CAST technology is renowned as the most accurate "MRI for Software", which delivers actionable insights into software composition, architectures, database structures, critical flaws, quality grades, cloud readiness levels and work effort metrics. It is used globally by thousands of forward-looking digital leaders to make objective decisions, accelerate modernization and raise the security and resiliency of mission critical software.
