CAST Imaging
The MRI for software
See inside your applications
like you never could before
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Deep insights into your
application's inner workings
Learn | Document | Analyze | Change | Modernize
How CAST Imaging works
Artifact ingest
150+ languages, frameworks,
database engines
Sematic analysis
Reverse-engineered
system logic
Visualization
Interactive map of all code elements,
all data objects, all their relationships
I can see in minutes what took three months to find before
David Ruggiero, Modernization & Cloud Advisory Leader, 
Faster ramp-up of
newcomer developers
New teammates can quickly learn the application make up, navigate the internal structures, understand the e2e transactions, and literally see all dependencies, without relying on experts or figuring it out on their own. Becoming fully productive much faster.
Less time spent
making changes
Developers can quickly determine the impact and effort required to make changes or add new functionality, without extraneous consultation or research. They can easily share with others working from anywhere, raising the speed and efficiency of delivering changes.
Safer and faster
application modernization
Architects can quickly delve into legacy applications, understand existing and to-be architectures, visualize data access and API call graphs, find objects affected by database or framework replacement and candidates for decoupling or microservices. Avoiding dead-ends and wrong turns.
Assess and improve your software structural
resiliency, security, efficiency
With the Structural Risk Extension, managers can quickly understand the reliability, security, maintainability, of your critical applications per ISO 5055, and engineers can pinpoint severe structural flaws, internal and external safety threats, as well as best ways to tackle technical debt.
Key Capabilities
Any mix of 150+ technologies · Any size application · Knowledge persistence · Exports · APIs
Auto-discovery
- All technologies used
- All data objects and structures
- All code objects and properties
- All frameworks used
- All explicit and implicit dependencies between data, code, frameworks, across all technologies
Navigation
- Zooming in and out, down to the line of code
- Five layers of abstraction
- Logical groupings
- End-to-end transactions
- Intra-application dependencies
- App-to-app dependencies
- Fine-grain, single search across the entire application
- Explanation of algorithms inside objects via ChatGPT
Analysis
- Data access and API call graphs
- Data flows between objects
- Calls between objects
- Indirect paths between objects
- Impact of changes
- Framework dependencies
- Database dependencies
- Candidates for decoupling
- Candidates for microservices
- Architecture design adherence
- Cloud optimization blockers
- OSS risks and structural flaws
Collaboration
- Tag objects against business function
- Annotate and group objects
- Place documents in context
- Create, annotate and share custom views and functional maps
Operational choices
On Cloud
SaaS offering; application analysis runs on-prem or via GitHub Actions.
Typical use of
CAST Imaging on Cloud Beta
JEE | Spring | Apache | C# | ASP.NET
HTML | JavaScript | TypeScript | React | Node.js
COBOL | JCL | CICS | IMS
SQL RDBMS | NoSQL
Cloud Services | AWS | Azure | GCP
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Internal architecture
discovery -
Documentation and
knowledge transition -
Change impact
analysis -
Application
improvement
We’ve anchored all our applications on to CAST Imaging. We were able to cut down our transition time by almost 50%
Nachiket Deshpande
COO
What our clients experienced
I can see in minutes what took three months to find before
David Ruggiero
Modernization & Cloud
Advisory Leader
CAST Imaging minimizes upgrade and testing efforts.
Alan Capper
Global Leader Application
Modernization
A far better productivity of 10 to 15% additional on top of what we are getting today.
Naresh Choudhary
Associate Vice President
Infosys
