We’re very proud to announce the next major release of CAST Highlight, the software intelligence product that acts as a control tower for your application portfolio. This version introduces new innovations including: Role-based Dashboards, Monthly Digest Emails, Portfolio Advisor for VMware Departure,
and many other new capabilities.
Role-based Dashboards
Get the intelligence that matters most to you instantly. Choose a pre-designed view for CIOs, Security Leaders, Cloud Architects and others and decide if you want to use it as your default home screen.
Monthly Digest Emails
Subscribe to a monthly email that automatically lands the latest insights about your application portfolio in your inbox on new vulnerabilities, updated scores, milestone progress and more. Click through to instantly view the details in CAST Highlight.
Portfolio Advisor for VMware Departure
Automatically build a roadmap for migrating applications from VMware virtual machines to the ideal cloud-based alternative with recommendations including Cloud-based VM, Containerize, Rearchitect, Rebuild, or Retire.
New Mainframe Technology Support
Get enhanced insights for Mainframe applications with new detection and sizing support for CLIST, Easytrieve, EGL, RPG3, and RPG4.
Improved UI Navigation
Find the insights that matter to you most even faster with the new and improved menu system in the user interface.
Code Reader direct upload
Generate application insights faster by now being able to create an application and upload scan results directly from the CAST Highlight Code Reader user interface.
Go support for Green InsightsÂ
Get enhanced insights for Go applications with new support for Green Impact and CO2 Emission Estimates.
Portfolio Advisor for Containerization Priorities
Automatically identify applications that have ideal characteristics for containers based on multiple factors such as containerization blockers, code-level blockers, framework-level blockers, architecture-level blockers, and more with the new free extension.
New Package Manager Support
Get enhanced SCA insights with new package manager support for CMakeList (C/C++) and Conan (C++/Python).
Many other feature improvements
The product team also took the opportunity with this new release to introduce many additional enhancements such as: detection of Dockerfile as a Cloud Maturity booster, filter link sharing, bulk editing for Proprietary Component Governance, and much more.