Case Study: Cerved achieves faster, more accurate M&A technical due diligence with CAST (CAST Highlight)

Cerved boosts the speed and accuracy of M&A technical due diligence

Cerved, Italy’s market leader in credit risk analysis and independent credit management with the country’s largest financial data ecosystem, faced a growing challenge as it expanded through multiple startup acquisitions. Its original due‑diligence approach—relying on self‑assessments and manual documentation—proved too slow and shallow to deliver the accurate, confidential intelligence needed on technologies, architecture, compliance, security and technical debt to set purchase prices and integration costs.

To solve this, Cerved deployed CAST Highlight to automatically extract objective software intelligence without interviews, measuring resiliency, security, size, third‑party and IP risks, cloud readiness and technical debt. The result: target assessments in one to two weeks with no code transfer, deal pricing and contracts informed by facts, lower M&A risk, and improved transition planning (including automated cloud migration and optimization roadmaps).

Cerved

Antonello Mantuano

Sr. Director Solutions Delivery