CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten.
While my understanding is we pay per the number of scans, I can't speak to the exact pricing. We get a certain number of scans per year and then pay a fee for it. The price of the scan does not differ in terms of the size of the query. There are no hidden costs.
Direction Digital Workplace & Socles at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
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2022-05-17T15:18:49Z
May 17, 2022
CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions.
CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence product for performing rapid application portfolio analysis. It automatically analyzes source code of hundreds of applications in a week for Cloud Readiness, Software Composition Analysis (Open Source risks), Resiliency, and Technical Debt. Objective software insights from automated source code analysis combined with built-in qualitative surveys for business context enable more informed decision-making about application portfolios.
CAST is the...
CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight or nine out of ten.
While my understanding is we pay per the number of scans, I can't speak to the exact pricing. We get a certain number of scans per year and then pay a fee for it. The price of the scan does not differ in terms of the size of the query. There are no hidden costs.
CAST Highlight is an expensive solution. However, CAST Highlight is less expensive than the CAST AIP, but it remains too expensive and the professional services from CAST are also too expensive. The high price is part of the problem with the CAST solutions.
It is a pretty costly tool. A lot of customers are resistant to using it.
Basic support is included with the standard licensing fee but it can be upgraded for an additional cost.