# CAST Imaging Reviews **Vendor:** CAST **Category:** [Software Intelligence Platforms Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/software-intelligence-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 34 ## About CAST Imaging CAST Imaging helps software architects and AI agents understand, change, and modernize applications. It automatically reverse-engineers all database structures, code components, and interdependencies in any custom-built applications. It provides interactive and accurate architecture blueprints, zoomable to the tiniest details. as well as data call graphs and end-to-end transaction views. All this in a lightweight web UI with the ability for teams to collaborate by adding their own knowledge and sharing insights. A built-in MCP server streams this precise application architectural context to AI agents which can generate consistent, accurate, and safe code changes. Businesses move faster using CAST technology to understand, improve, and transform their software. Through semantic analysis of source code, CAST produces 3D maps and dashboards to navigate inside individual applications and across entire portfolios. This intelligence empowers executives and technology leaders to steer, speed, and report on initiatives such as technical debt, GenAI, modernization, and cloud. As the pioneer of the software intelligence field, CAST is trusted by the world’s leading companies and governments, their consultancies and cloud providers. See it all at castsoftware.com. ## CAST Imaging Reviews ### 1. Easy to implement and very useful for visualizing integrations in detail **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2026 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Excellent product: it is easy to implement and really very useful. It allows us to visualize our application and all its integrations in much more detail, which makes it easier to better understand how everything is connected. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** The cost of the product is high; its price seems high to me. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** The types of codes used, the available integrations, the security aspects, and the software that is deprecated are detailed. ### 2. Comprehensive Relationship Mapping That Simplifies Debugging **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vidhayasagar D. | Senior Technical Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** It provides a complete view of the relationships between objects, which makes it much easier to navigate and understand how they are connected. This has saved me a lot of time when debugging. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Graph daigram become complex to navigate, it's should be smoother. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** During our migration project, it helped save time by making it easier to identify edge cases. ### 3. CAST Imaging is a great tool for visualization and analyzing software application. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Victor A. | Solution Assessment Technical Consultant - Microsoft | Apeiron Sumus, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Ease of use Comprehensive visualization Integration with CAST AIP Suite **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** I have not had any issues with the tool for now. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code quality assesment Dependency analysis Architecture understanding of your applications **Official Response from Luc Perard:** > Glad that you appreciate the value of CAST Imaging, Victor! Thank you for your review. In addition to the use cases you mentioned, CAST Imaging is also great at identifying and showing you in context the most critical structural flaws in your application, as per ISO 5055 standards (in terms of performance, reliability, security). All the best! Luc ### 4. capability to provide deeper software intelligence for complex and business-critical applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saritha R. | PMO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** For applications that are highly complex and business-critical, CAST Imaging is best liked for its capacity to offer a deeper dimension of software intelligence **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** The tool seems difficult to learn and use, particularly at the beginning. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** CAST Imaging tackles the challenge of comprehending complex software systems by automatically generating visual representations of application architecture, components, and dependencies. This capability enables organizations to expedite onboarding, impact analysis, and modernization efforts by providing a clear understanding of how applications function and identifying areas for improvement. ### 5. Deep Data Flow of an Application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dudekula S. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** The most helpful about the CAST Imaging is it automatically generates the the deatailed and visual maps of the software systems of the application and also it depicts the deep insights and the risk alerts and the modification alerts make the users to understand the code quality and robustness of their code.The best part i like in the imaging is that the visualiaing the data in the graph form, it helps us to celarly track how the application is working.The CAST Imaging supoports the all teh technologies as they are supported upto 150+ technologies and also i like the modifications that the imaging gives that are very useful to make changes in the databse also.I regularly use this CAST Imaging tool for my application data flow.It is also very easy to use by an new user also.The customer support the CAST are very helpful and they are available at any time i like the support and guidance that they are giving to their users. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Actually there no downsides or drawbacks of the CAST Imaging tool,but whoever using for first time the CAST Imaging they might feel some what confusion but as the CAST is also providing the Training so everyone can be able to learn how to use these tools.Apart from this i like the CAST Imaging tool very much for my application. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Problems that CAST Imaging helps the application owners to understand and manage complex software systems by the visual graph presentation and clear data flow of an application in the Imaging tool.This Imaging also helps a user in impact analysis and also the Risk Management, this reduces the risk of hte bugs in the code or causing the system failures.This also helps in the maintaining the code Qaulity. **Official Response from Luc Perard:** > Thank you, Dudekula, for your positive review! It's great to hear that CAST Imaging is helping you understand and manage complex software systems, perform impact analysis, and manage risk. We're committed to providing the best Software Intelligence platform out there that not only enables software engineers & architects understand their application's inner workings, but also helps them identify and address the structural flaws and risks, thus eradicate the "bad" technical debt. ### 6. CAST Imaging - Reverse Engineering and Impact Analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naveenkumar V. | Manager consulting Delivery, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Best approachable tool for performing Impact Analysis, Reverse Engineering, New Staff Ramp up. Breakdown of Architecture and impact analysis is the key feature. Any Member Partner can easily adopt to the deveolopment without prior knowledge. Tool is really user friendly to adopt and use. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Complex applications with Huge code involved observed to be little clutter view. If this can be integrated with IDE, again the selling rate would increase. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** I would say Few 1. Impact Analysis 2. Reverse Engineering 3. New Staff Ramp up 4. Architectural Breakdown object wise 5. Custom Aggregation 6. Dependency Call Graph ### 7. Mixed review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sekedoua K. | Architecte logiciel, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2025 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** - The ability to go into detail with the code and transactional management - The management of analysis repositories - The different views, navigation mode, graphs - Versioning management - The tracking of actions to be undertaken **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** The "portal" ealth /engineering is not really one. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysis at the transactional level. Facilitate dialogue with development teams by providing a working basis. ### 8. Packed with information on apps and supports OpenAI integrations, learning curve is worth it. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rafael M. | Platform Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** As a Java enthusiast, probably the Microservice or Service view where you can see how a modular application works and which parts it has. As the main undertaker of modernization/migrations efforts for third parties, the App with App dependency overview is also very useful to check and lets you review the network architecture and helps preserving it. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** It is not always easy to get the higher ups to approve the installation of foreign package such as those needed to scan the applications internally, also the learning curve for thi software suite is high. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Extended debugging and teaching us how older applications which have actual convoluted code work. Not every application had been developed with best practices by 2004, and design standards weren't established, which makes this software really useful when analyzing legacy code. We can liberate our older staff which isn't always available and reduce the cognitive load of the app reviewers. ### 9. Amazing application to prepare documentation. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** deepak m. | Technical Lead, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** We can make the project blue print quickly with CAST application such as various graphs for show relationship between objects, tables, classes. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** After making documentation such as views we cannot export in better options. We can download SVG but there is also a limit of zooming. So if there is anyway we can download Views(with readable texts) then we can show our clients documentation more easy and simple way. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped to make out project documentation fast, Helps us as developer to understand the impact of code changes, dependecies and hierarchy. **Official Response from Luc Perard:** > It's great to hear that CAST Imaging is helping you create visual project documentation quickly and understand code dependencies. We are committed to continuously improving our product to better serve your needs, so we appreciate your feedback about the limitations in exporting views. We'll definitely take this into consideration for future improvements to make the documentation more accessible for you and your clients. ### 10. CAST Imaging experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ganesh Babu K. | Delivery Services Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Nicely Collated platform with steps to follow on each step **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Interface can be little user friendly and ease to Integrate **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** user interface on front end to pull relevant information ### 11. That's a real x-ray for apps, I recommend to everyone that is migrating or modernizing apps! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alessandro M. | Systems Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** specially helpful for mainframe apps where we don't have visibility of code, old apps without vendor support anymore, its awesome! Implementation and integrations are super easy! **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** it provides what is really needed, not slow, very intuitive, excellent at all. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** extremely helpful for mainframe apps where we don't have visibility of code, old apps without vendor support anymore, its awesome! ### 12. Cast Imaging is a good tool for analysing a portfolio of applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** 1) The data gathering process is separate from the analysis to meet the security requirements of different customers I would engage with. 2) The Cloud readiness analysis of an application portfolio is particularly helpful. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Nothing really to dislike. My focus was Mainframe application analysis, so would have been good to have some examples with that Technology. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can analyse a customers portfolio of apps in a consistent and scientific manner. This allows me to develop application strategies which could be deployed across a number of customers. ### 13. Comprehensive Software Visualization for Optimized Architecture Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Policy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Clear visual insights into complex application architectures. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Initial setup can be complex and time-consuming **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simplifies understanding of app dependencies, speeding up analysis and troubleshooting ### 14. Love the architecture visualisations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal G. | Chief Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** The way it visualises the architecture and helps slice and dice this across different perimeters and prospectives. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Its complex to use, and every application takes its own time to onboard depending on technology stack. Someone needs to have strong technical know-how to understand the results correctly and make relevant business decisions. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us solve several issues 1. Review where the code is monolithic and how can we move this into microservices 2. Check impact analysis of making a change to any section of the code 3. Check unused tables and optimise the code base, especially during modernisation 4. Onboard developers faster by having them understand the current architecture **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hello Vishal. Thank you for your support and feedback. We are diligently working to help users onboard their applications more quickly. Additionally, end users now benefit from advisors who guide them in their change management and modernization efforts. For more information, please see the link. ### 15. Good tool for code assessment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajvardhan S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Insights , good and clear information, Ease of use, Very simple to implement, Excellent features like security vulnerabilities, cloud migration score. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** UI console can be made more user-friendly. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cloud migration assessment , Security enhancement, Application dependencies insights. **Official Response from Luc Perard:** > Thank you for highlighting the benefits of CAST Imaging, including its ease of use and valuable features for cloud migration assessment, security enhancement, and application dependencies insights. We understand your feedback about the UI console and will work on making it more user-friendly. ### 16. good tool for assessment and discovery **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** unmesh k. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** insights dashboards and ease of use to know the app **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** learning cure involved, too many things to learn **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** cloud migration analysis security vulnerabilities insights into app **Official Response from Luc Perard:** > We understand that the learning curve can be challenging, and we appreciate your feedback. We're continuously working to improve our onboarding process to make it easier for our users. ### 17. CAST Imaging is good to understand software, data flow, algorithms, and architecture. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** System development with CAST Imaging is a new way of application development. All systems architechts should know it. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** 1, Expensive. 2, Technical support (CAST Help) 3, CAST Product Quality, specially CAST CMS and Analysis unit for C/C++. 4, Limited Functionality. 5, Difficult to implement and analyze code. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** For refactoring, we need to understand; 1, Algorithm from the code 2, Specifications associated with the code 3, Architecture in terms of many different views 4, The people who create and use the code. **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hello, thank you for taking the time to review the product and provide your feedback. We are glad to hear it is supporting your architects to share knowledge about application architecture. Regarding your comments on what you dislike, CAST Imaging supports custom-built applications made of multiple layers and technologies, tens of thousands of objects, and created over the years by hundreds of developers who are no longer around to answer questions. That complexity can slow down responsiveness of teams to help in setting up the analyzers. Once done, CAST Imaging provides a unique value to architects and development teams, as you mention. CAST Management Studio (CMS) is a historical component used to analyze an application before we can visualize its architecture blueprints in CAST Imaging web-interface. We are simplifying the components of the analysis process with web-based interfaces and CMS issues will no longer exist. ### 18. CAST Imaging Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Provides Application Architecture Blueprints Shows any Architectural drifts Quick Impact Analysis across technologies, frameworks , layers Capability to find out quick root cause analysis on tickets Ability to provide aplication wide dependencies Useful for Transition projects **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Complex graphs to show relationship can take more time for understanding for new subscribers **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Useful for new member onboarding and helpful during transition of applications/products **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Joe, thanks for your feedback and for reviewing our product. We're very happy to hear that it helps you understand the inner workings of your applications more quickly. To enhance this experience, we're adding new features to the views and graphs, aimed at enabling users to navigate their application structure even more efficiently. ### 19. CAST Imaging - An accelerator for a quick transition & modernization plan of applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2024 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Imaging is a powerful tool ofr generating the application architecture blue print. This helps in faster transition. Generating these detailed object dependency for large application manually will consume lot of effort and budget. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** There are still some part of syntax/languages that are still not suppoted by the tool. For that portion, we have to do manual work. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick understanding of complex applications and faster transition. **Official Response from Luc Perard:** > Thank you for sharing your experience with CAST Imaging! We're glad to hear that it accelerates transition and help you plan modernization activities. Understanding the inner workings of custom-built systems is indeed the critical first step before touching/changing them. ### 20. It was a great experience using CAST Imaging software, it speed up the time to modernize a large app **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2023 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** provides a complete visualization of the application architecture and components. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** when you have to many nodes in the same view is a little bit slow. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** I didn't have to make the analysis by my own, because automatically analyze the whole code, providing insights and recommendation about relevant details **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hi Christopher, thank you for taking the time to review and share your feedback about CAST Imaging. We are constantly working on improving the performance of CAST Imaging. We're making it easier to read complex application internals by automatically regrouping objects. Thank you again. ### 21. CAST Imaging helps maximize value from portfolio and applications' analysis for modernization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karpagam S. | Principal Technology Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** CAST Imaging leverages the core data produced by the CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP). Its ability to support almost all technologies including most of the mainframe technologies and the trending ones like Spring Boot, Spring Batch, mobile and cloud makes it unique among all application analysis platforms. The parser is very efficient and stores metadata which can be leveraged for developing our add-ons for customized analysis. We are redesigning and developing both the core apps on the IBM mainframe and client-facing applications, as part of a large transformation initiative. AIP with Imaging greatly helps structure this analysis and also produces an execution plan for our transformation. It seamlessly identifies interdependencies across all inter-platform components, helping us derive insights into the sequence in which applications' capabilities can be rebuilt and rewired. One of the frequently used use cases is that for each UI screen, we could gather all, directly and indirectly, related java services and mainframe stored procedures. CAST Imaging complements it further by helping the analysts annotate and maintain the history of these processes accelerating analysis and reverse engineering. This helps new analysts' onboarding, structured knowledge retention and transition too. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** I don't dislike any feature of CAST Imaging. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application Transformation through Reverse Engineering, Portfolio analysis and process rationalization **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hi Karpagam, thank you for taking the time to review and share feedback about CAST Imaging. We are glad that it helps you speed up your modernization initiatives. Thank you again. ### 22. Imaging provides insights to the implemented architecture **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emil H. | Management Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Imaging provides a large varity of views for the implemented architecture, which is so valuable for systems without documentation, or systems with documentation of processes but no technical documentation. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** It takes quite some effort to learn to scope and set up Imaging, but CAST can support with this. After installation and scope, the system is ready to use, and has a huge knowledge base (online training, help videos etc). **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Imaging is the google maps for software systems, so if you know a starting point, and would like to identify all transactions to and from that starting point, Imagining solves this. For a large scale application, Imaging can save you weeks of work, to understand the implemented architecture. **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hi Emil. Thank you for reviewing and sharing how CAST Imaging is helping you in documenting and understanding the inner-working of applications. ### 23. CAST Imaging - blueprints of your applications **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark P. | Operations & Improvement Group | MMC Technology | Application Management Services (AMS), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** CAST Imaging is a compelling and innovative product from CAST. If Organization implements it and methodically trains teams in a controlled environment for daily tasks, it may have a tremendously positive effect for the particular application team and the Organization in general if used by the majority of the applications teams. Main idea of CAST Imaging is to provide visualization blueprints for applications developed and maintained in Organization. Repository of the code, including definition of the schema of the database (not data!) should be provided for the scanning engine. Scanning results are uploaded on the CAST Imaging dedicated internal servers and transferred to the visualization GraphDB (Neo4j technology part). Visual blueprint representation is reflected on the CAST Imaging web application provided to the team members. CAST Imaging does not change your code or database. As processing is conducted on internal servers, there is no risk of intellectual capital exposure. Both scanned code and digest of the results remain in the organization. Your repositories remain the “master records.” A new scan will bring all new and modified objects and relationships between the objects, which will reflect the recent release. As such, you will have up to date architectural blueprint of the application, being updated as the application evolves along with new releases. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Key to the success and maximal effect if you want to get the most from the product is control and encouraging the actual usage of CAST Imaging in Organization, starting from the very top. It implies SDLC process culture adjustments on the Organization level to integrate CAST Imaging for regular use. **Recommendations to others considering CAST Imaging:** Organizations with dozens or even hundreds of applications will benefit the most. Medium-Large-Huge Applications, legacy Applications with complicated code, applications candidates for the re-write, or partial upgrades will benefit the most. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** The application team can use it for a wide variety of purposes: • As permanent self-updating architecture documentation of the application. • Explore relationships and dependencies between different application layers and objects. • Teach new developers, or brush up knowledge for existing developers switching to the new application areas. • Analyze and predict effect and LOE for new development areas. • Analyze replacement of particular modules and components and identify candidates for micro-services. • Trace data flow from the screens to tables, identifying more efficient and optimal data management methods. • To search components by the name of technology types and create custom views or export inventory of the objects related to the search parameters for further analysis or discussions with the team. • To export visual architectural applications diagrams for sharing and discussions. • To predict and plan accurate regression testing when there are changed business objects or fields in the database that can affect multiple screens. • To plan modernization or component version upgrades, assessing the volume of work on the application level accurately. • Document comment or intended actions directly on the CAST Imaging screen. • It is even possible now to reflect found Possible Vulnerabilities on Open Source components in CAST HL and export this information to CAST Imaging to begin actual analysis for upgrade or replacement. **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Mark, thank you for your review. We really appreciate you taking to time to share your experience and feedback. You are right, encouraging the usage of the product to get the most out of it is key:having a passionate person with an expert knowledge of CAST Imaging helps tremendously. ### 24. Imaging bring confidence in modernization by converting a black box to white box **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kavitha S. | Director Consulting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** I like the insights obtained from imaging such as 1.inventory of all the components that are part of the application 2.Visibility into the interdependency between the components 3.Call flow analysis 4.Collaboration platform for developers **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** I am interested in integration of imaging with jira to track the stories under development **Recommendations to others considering CAST Imaging:** I would prefer imaging for the technology coverage, scalability and repeatability **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1.Driving roadmap for modernization and tracking the modernization journey 2.Drive productivity improvement of developers by reducing application discovery efforts 3.Strengthen the test efficiency with transparent on precise details of what has changed in the code **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Kavitha, thank you for your review and feedback. We really appreciate your input on the product. Regarding integration with such tools, we are working on such integration. Thanks again. ### 25. Best Analyzer for software architecture **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pratiksha K. | Associate Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** It's best for analyzing and navigating the software structure and applications architecture especially for modernizing it. It's the best tool for analyzing and visualizing software architecture. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** As of now it was all good ,and I didn't found anything that hurdles with the best outcome of CAST imaging.Earlier issues are solved with new updates.So it's best tool to use which can result from complex to simplest. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Develop and Migrate applications and data to cloud ,and the micro services part is the best . **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Pratiksha, thank you for your review and feedback. We are glad that CAST Imaging is helping you to modernize and move to cloud your applications faster. Thank you again. ### 26. One stop tool for the Discovery of heterogenous applications! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** The best thing we felt about CAST Imaging is its breadth of Technology coverage itself - Mainframe, Distributed, Mobile, and so on. A single product that can help analyze heterogeneous solutions. Next comes the interactive browser-based drill-down capabilities, providing a seamless Top-Down discovery experience. Another commendable feature of CAST Imaging is its ability to automatically discover Transactions and Data flows, which accelerates the Discovery phases significantly. The ability to set up and customize Pattern-based linkage between components complements the automated Discovery capability. Documentation and Reporting capabilities are only getting better with newer versions of CAST Imaging. Pretty happy with the Product so far! **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Overall we are happy with the Imaging product. However, we want CAST to improve the browser performance when the number of objects in the view gets bigger. As we understand, it is in the Imaging roadmap. We are so looking forward to it. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are primarily leveraging CAST Imaging for the accelerated Discovery of complex legacy applications. The product has been helping us accelerate the Legacy Modernization goals. **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hello, thank you for your review. We really appreciate your input on the product and are glad to hear the latest version capacities are satisfying you. We are working on improving visualization capacities with large numbers of objects, which is often the case with business critical applications. ### 27. Best software architecture visualizer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakhar G. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** The best thing about cast Imaging is that Precise, deep analysis of application architecture, Easy team collaboration, migrate custom applications to the cloud faster. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** As of now, there is nothing on a level that I can say that I don't like about cast Imaging **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically I have used to visualize the software architecture and to reduce the number of code defects on the architecture level. **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Prakhar, thank you for your review and for taking the time to share your inputs on CAST Imaging. We are glad that it helps you in discovering the architecture of your application to speed-up their modernization and move to the cloud. Thank you again. ### 28. Good Tool More automation Needed **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav Y. | Senior Big Data Developer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** The product is good it allows to find esily problems in the code. the only problem in the lack of plugin for an easy integration with the developing pipeline **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** lack of plugin for integration in the pipeline **Recommendations to others considering CAST Imaging:** need to check how our pipeline works before purchasing **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** The dashboards and the possibility to see the problems in the code with suggestion on how to solve them. **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hi Gaurav, thank you for the review and feedback. We are glad to see that CAST is helping you in resolving trouble in your applications. We are working to provide more integration and automation with existing tools and processes among our clients. Thank you again. ### 29. great product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun S. | Data Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Simple to use interface and solution provided is concise. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** nothing as such, but the UI can be a little better **Recommendations to others considering CAST Imaging:** Give it some time and understand the product **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Learning transfer among the team. Easy to replicate existing code. **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Anubhav, thank you very much for your review and feedback. We really appreciate you take the time to give your input on the product. We are working to simplify the User Interface to make it more self-explainable. Thanks again. ### 30. CAST Imaging enables architects to see how legacy code needs to transform. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shubhankit P. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Faster Modernization. Modernize or migrate custom applications to Cloud 2x faster. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** As of now none. I like everything of cast imaging **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in Making critical decisions and manage your software portfolio based on facts **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Shubhankit, thank you very much for your review and feedback. We really appreciate you take the time to give your input on the product. We are glad CAST Imaging is helping you to make critical decisions about your applications. ### 31. Easy to use tool and handy in legacy data transformation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wholesale | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Migration of applications and data to cloud is very smooth and fast. Also, love the micro-services part. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** The product's price seems to be a bit on the higher end. Other than that it is great. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** * For Migration purposes to cloud * Impact Analysis **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hello! Thank you for your review. We are glad that CAST Imaging helps you on migrating and adapting applications to the cloud. ### 32. Easy to use and effective. Have received positive comments about its handy adaptability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Relatability, scalable and library. Leveraging in project is quite seamless **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** Nothing as such but I would suggest if you can improve documents with example **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better than any other competitors which comes in higher cost **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hello, thank you for your review. We really appreciate you take time to share your experience with CAST Imaging. We are glad it has been integrated seamlessly into your projects. Thank you for your suggestion about documents. ### 33. Intelligent software to understand the internal Structure of the software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Clear vision on the Software architecture. API graphs are well and good. Perfect monitering. Micro-Services. Internal Structure visibility. **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** The cost of the software is expensive Complexity is high **Recommendations to others considering CAST Imaging:** Improve the usability of the software. **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal Structure visualisation and understanding of the softwares **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hello, thank you for your review. We really appreciate you take the time to share your experience with the product and are glad to hear you could understand the internal structure of your software with CAST Imaging visualization capabilities. We are working to add automatic capabilities to discover the inner working of applications and thus reduce the usage complexity. Thank you again. ### 34. CAST imaging **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about CAST Imaging?** Enabled and helped Architects to see how legacy codes needs a transform **What do you dislike about CAST Imaging?** I didnt find any its the best of the ones I explored **What problems is CAST Imaging solving and how is that benefiting you?** Google maps like navigation **Official Response from Damien Ponthier:** > Hello, thank you for your review. 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