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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, multi-layer, multi-language business applications. These reports highlight trends in five structural quality characteristics, called Health Factors: Robustness, Security, Performance, Transferability and Changeability. This report focuses on quality levels that can be used as benchmarks in industry.

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Cloud migration 2.0: shifting priorities for application modernization

This report based on research and in-depth interviews with technology leaders from top banks, Insurers, Fin-tech & Telecom providers explore their initial approaches to cloud migration and lessons from the same. Armed with the battle scars of the past three to five years, software leaders are revisiting their near-term cloud migration plans.

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Software Intelligence Report On CIO Priorities in the Digital Age

CAST recently surveyed 500 IT leaders, including 150 CIOs, 125 software architects and 125 application owners, 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.

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Software Intelligence Report On Application Age

The Software Intelligence Report on Application Age looks at 2,067 applications, representing 733 million lines of code from 14 different technologies that are developed and maintained by more than 12,000 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.

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Software Intelligence Report

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, comparing them to each other and to enterprise IT. While it is good to take advantage of open source, we must ensure these foundations are Secure, Robust, Efficient and Maintainable.

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The CRASH 2017 Report Trend on Application Security

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

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The CRASH 2017 Report on Application Security - Executive Summary

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.

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CRASH Benchmark Report 2015 – SAP

CAST research provides benchmarks on the structural quality of ABAP, the language used for customizing applications developed in SAP. The report provides benchmarks by industry sectors and geography. The report analyzes the frequency of severe violations to better understand remediation strategies for improving ABAP / SAP structural quality, performance, security and resiliency.

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CRASH Report 2017 Executive Summary

We’ve analyzed more than 1,850 applications to better understand how application development and delivery practices impact IT and organizational performance.

We've looked at development methods, team maturity and size, sourcing and confirmed that we are doing some things right – but we still have some things to improve.

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The CRASH Report 2016 On Insurance

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, or health factors, including Robustness, Security, Efficiency, Transferability and Changeability. The report includes industry insights on Insurance technology challenges and opportunities from CGI.

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CRASH Report 2016 on Financial-Services - Summary of key findings

Industry analysis on the global trends in Financial Services market’s structural quality of software. This report highlights trends in five structural quality characteristics, or health factors - Robustness, Security, Efficiency, Transferability, and Changeability. Industry benchmark and trends analysis by technology, geography and more.

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