Case Study: Auto Tech Firm achieves 5x faster cloud readiness assessments and containerizes 40 apps with CAST Highlight (CAST)

Auto tech firm assesses cloud readiness of apps 5x faster with CAST Highlight

A global leader in data and software services for the automotive industry — processing over 300 million digital transactions annually for 200,000 partners — set an aggressive goal to retire 54 data centers in nine months. With a portfolio of more than 3,000 apps, many built on legacy stacks with resiliency, security and cost issues and running on aging hardware, the CIO realized a manual refactor-first migration approach would not meet the timeline and sought a faster way to assess cloud readiness.

Using CAST Highlight’s automated code analysis, the firm assessed 134 apps in under two days — five times faster than manual reviews and with comparable accuracy — and received detailed cloud-readiness scores, code-level blockers and migration recommendations. Those insights enabled the team to containerize 40 apps within five weeks and build a prioritized roadmap to migrate the remainder, accelerating the move to cloud while reducing risk.