NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- CAST (Paris:CAS) announced today the availability of version 6.0 of its market-leading Application Intelligence Platform. This version will augment customers' ability to drive quality into their most complex applications and manage team performance. A foundational release that will serve as basis for multiple planned innovations, AI Platform v6.0 adds features that enhance the user interface, enrich the out-of-box quality rules, extend technology coverage and further ease implementation.
CAST AI Platform inspects source code of entire business systems and identifies quality issues before they snowball into expensive project delays or significant production problems. CAST enables continual and objective assessment of the internal quality of applications being delivered to the business. Internal quality problems can degrade performance, drive up maintenance cost, and at worst bring down the production system. Completely automated, CAST audits the application at check-in against best-in-class practices and completes a subroutine-level mapping of the systems landscape.
The new capabilities available to customers with this release include:
-- Additional usability features. New navigation tools, search
capability, advanced metrics and module weighing capabilities
-- Enhanced implementation features. Enriched analyzer coverage of
dynamic coding; pre-defined profiles to speed configuration;
standardized API to the Knowledge Base
-- Expanded technology support. Enriched information in mainframe,
Forms, ABAP, C, C++; added native support of Hibernate and JSF
-- Enriched quality model. More specific rules for .NET, C++ and
COBOL applications; additional SQL and cross-technology rules
that contribute to all type of applications
"This new release of our platform is intended to help our customers get even more out of their critical applications," said Olivier Bonsignour, VP of Product Development. "Now that it's easier to implement our product and customize our dashboard, our customers will be able to leverage even more quickly the solid technical foundation that they have always trusted us with."
The CAST AI Platform is the only enterprise-grade software quality assessment and team performance measurement solution on the market today. CAST has developed its technology coverage over the past 16 years to include scripting and interface languages, .NET, J2EE, SQL variants, ABAP, EAI, Web and mainframe technologies. As a result, CAST can read, analyze and semantically understand almost any source code technology encountered in large complex IT systems today. By analyzing all tiers (UI, logic and data) of a complex application in a single take, CAST measures whole-system quality and adherence to architectural and coding standards, while providing visual specification models.
About CAST
CAST is the world leader and pioneer in Application Intelligence software, providing the metrics and information IT executives must have to measure, monitor and improve the quality of business applications and the performance of development teams around the globe. Founded in 1990, CAST has helped more than 600 organizations worldwide speed delivery to the business, mitigate risks in production, improve customer experience, and reduce the total cost of application ownership. CAST is listed on NYSE-Euronext (Euronext:CAS) and serves Global 2000 organizations worldwide with a global network of offices in the U.S. and Europe. For more information, visit www.castsoftware.com.