Case Study: Bain & Company achieves a fact-based modernization roadmap in days with CAST Highlight (CAST)

Bain & Company shaves 80% off portfolio analysis time with CAST Highlight

Bain & Company partnered with a 100-year-old financial institution whose application portfolio had become diverse, fragmented, and increasingly fragile after decades of incremental changes. The legacy landscape reduced agility and resiliency, and the client needed an objective way to rationalize the portfolio, identify disposition candidates, and prioritize modernization without wholesale replacement.

Bain used CAST Highlight to rapidly scan the source code of 26 core applications—measuring resiliency, agility, elegance, cloud readiness and performing software composition analysis—to produce an objective, prioritized modernization roadmap in days instead of weeks. The analysis identified which apps to modernize, consolidate, or retire, uncovered cloud-migration roadblocks and risky open‑source components, and enabled Bain to deliver actionable digital-transformation recommendations in under three weeks.

Bain & Company

Vishy Padmanabhan

Partner