what can you learn from app portfolio analytics? a lot...cast highlight is available for cognizant...

CAST HIGHLIGHT is available for Cognizant engagements through an enterprise license model, please contact Kandarp.Nathvani@cognizant.com or Vijay.Anand2@cognizant.com for further clarifications.

What can you learn from App portfolio analytics?

...a lotIs your prospect/client involved in any of the following initiatives?

Mergers & Acquisitions Application PortfolioRationalization

Cloud Migration

Delivering Portfolio Insights on M&A Enabling Enterprise Transformation Prioritizing Applications for Cloud

Got $10K to spare? It can go a long way...How?

By using CAST HIGHLIGHT – A SaaS analytics platform

IT due diligence for Mergers & Acquisitions for an NA based Fintech property data leader

Cloud Readiness

Software Agility

Software Resiliency

Software Elegance

Is it easy for the development team to understand and maintain?

Can we move it to the Cloud?

Is the software bullet proof?

Does it deliver value with less code complexity?

70.2

80.4

58.2

59.5

Lines of Code analyzed No. of internal CAST rules checked

700+1.8M

Above CAST benchmark

Below CAST benchmark

No CAST benchmark

CAST Highlight helped in answering these important questions:

Is the acquisition worthy?

Are the applications resilient and ready for Cloud?

What is the effort required for Cloud Migration to PaaS platform (Pivotal)?

Use Case 2 :

For a leading global financial services company, we proposed an APR led Cloud Migration solution using CAST HIGHLIGHT platform for App analytics

CAST HIGHLIGHT APR through 4 R approach

Cloud Migration Foundry to migrate and monitor cloud movement

Ephemeral based measurement+

Application Inventory

Code Scan

Architecture Walkthrough

SoftwareAgility

Software Elegance

Cloud Readiness

SoftwareResiliency

Application Survey

Capture Insights

CAST HIGHLIGHT

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Technology HealthLow

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High

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Cloud Ready Score

CloudAssessment

Retain (As-Is)

Re-host (Lift and Shift)

Re-factor (To PaaS)

Re-write (To PaaS)

Replace (To SaaS)

Retire

Illustrative output enabling quick decision making

Candidates for Reprioritization

Candidates for replacement, merge or retirement

Carry on Investing

Candidates for replacement or retirement

Business Impact Vs Software Resiliency Business Impact Vs Software Resiliency (zoom)

Size: Lines of Code Size: Number of FTE + Pareto (top 20%)

How CAST Highlight can help?

CAST Highlight provides an objective view of application portfolio that measures the software health, risks,

complexity and the cost associated with it through the following parameters:

Software AgilityTo know the cost and effort to maintain an application

Software Resiliency

To learn if the application is more likely to fail, break or disrupt business

Cloud ReadinessTo spot the roadblocks and increase speed to PaaS migration

Software Elegance

To understand the technical complexity and the underlying debts