CAST Software India Pvt Ltd

CAST is a pioneer and world leader in Software Analysis and Measurement, with unique technology resulting from more than $90 million in R&D investment. CAST provides IT and business executives with precise analytics and automated software measurement to transform application development into a management discipline. More than 650 companies across all industry sectors and geographies rely on CAST to prevent business disruption while reducing hard IT costs. CAST is currently in operation at: Four of the five largest systems integrators worldwide, Six of the top 10 banks in Europe, Four of the top 10 telecoms operators worldwide, Five of the top 10 insurance carriers worldwide.

The CAST Application Intelligence Platform automatically generates the visibility for IT executives to control tradeoffs between business risk, time to market and accumulating maintenance cost. With CAST, IT managers always have objective, actionable measures of their application development and maintenance outcomes for transparent dialog with partners, vendors and development teams.

CAST Research Labs (CRL) was recently established to further the empirical study of custom software implementation in business technology. CRL collects metrics and structural characteristics from custom applications deployed by large, IT-intensive enterprises across North America, Europe and India. Based on rigorous analyses of software implementations, CRL provides practical advice and annual benchmarks to the global application development community, as well as interacting with the academic community and contributing to the scientific literature.

Each year CRL publishes a detailed study of software trends found in the industry repository. The 2010 study found over $1 million of hidden costs in a typical business application. The executive summary of the report can be downloaded free of charge from http://research.castsoftware.com