Research Lab

CAST Highlight for Software Composition Analysis (SCA) automatically creates SBOMs across all of your applications with speed and accuracy.

This is the fifth CRASH Report produced by CAST on global trends in the structural quality of business application software. The data are drawn from CAST’s Appmarq Repository which contains structural quality analyses of large called Health Factors: Robustness Transferability and Changeability. This report focuses on quality levels that can be used as benchmarks in industry.

This report based on research and in-depth interviews with technology leaders from top banks software leaders are revisiting their near-term cloud migration plans.

CAST recently surveyed 500 IT leaders at mid- to large-size organizations regarding their technology objectives and their ability to meet these goals based on the Software Intelligence they have around existing software portfolios. This research exposes key areas where IT leaders lack Software Intelligence and digs deeper into top challenges as they look to meet the digital imperative while trimming IT costs, improving security and enabling the adoption of emerging technologies.

The Software Intelligence Report on Application Age looks at 2000 people across multiple verticals. To conduct the analysis, these applications were anonymized and scanned by CAST Highlight. The report identifies two primary outcomes of application age: Older applications are far more likely to impact service continuity in the event of a production failure. The shift toward Agile development teams might not be helping organizations modernize as quickly as the industry anticipated.

Open source is part of almost every software capability we use today. This report reviews some of the most commonly used open source software projects Robust, Efficient and Maintainable.

This is first CRASH Report describing a distribution of security weaknesses from the Common Weakness Enumeration Repository across a global sample of business applications.

We’ve analyzed applications based on CWE standards for software security to better understand how secure applications are across industry, language, development methodology and more.

CAST’s industry research and benchmarks on the structural quality of IT. This benchmark report was developed from 1850 applications across 329 organizations and 8 countries. View research and benchmarks by development process (Agile Hybrid), geography, industry and by technology.

CAST research provides benchmarks on the structural quality of ABAP security and resiliency.

We’ve analyzed more than 1 sourcing and confirmed that we are doing some things right – but we still have some things to improve.

This CAST report on global trends of structural quality of Insurance industry applications provides insight and benchmarks useful for IT executives. Detailed within are trends for five structural quality characteristics Security, Efficiency, Transferability and Changeability. The report includes industry insights on Insurance technology challenges and opportunities from CGI.

Industry analysis on the global trends in Financial Services market’s structural quality of software. This report highlights trends in five structural quality characteristics Efficiency geography and more.